Matt Mars Jones Binaural sounds installation

 TIME MACHINE

 Imagine being in an environment and immersing yourself in the sounds around you - the sound of people passing by, the sounds of personal/corporate music, machines or traffic, passers-by talking, perhaps even someone addressing you. Now imagine hearing an exact time-print of that ambience a few seconds later and, shutting your eyes, being taken back into that immediately expired history of that particular place at that particular time.  A simple, but devastating effect!  Still listening, you open your eyes ... and your brain has to try to correlate audio from 3 minutes ago to the vision of the present.  A mundane sync problem? Or time-travel to a Real Virtuality that you are re-experiencing in the present?

 «Matt Mars» is at the forefront of guitar talent combining traditional virtuosity with digital technology.  Not just a funk metal jazz player he is also a serious studio producer who programs breakbeat and drum+bass soundscapes round his riff driven guitars. In live performance Matt triggers sounds from his sampler through a midi pickup on his guitar in combination with playing through the guitar’s conventional pickups.
 «Planet Mars» is the studio where Matt works himself and collaborates with other artists such as «State of Bengal» the UK DJ who, together with Matt wrote and produced the first 5 tracks of the debut State of Bengal album «Visual Audio» including the club hit «Flight IC408 to Calcutta» which has been released in 36 territories around the world.
 At Planet Mars Matt has also re-mixed tracks by international artists such as «Bjork» «Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan» with State of Bengal.
 In his music nothing is too pure.  The world is too big a place to limit yourself to just this or just that.  Influences are wide open, from 70’s Disco to Bengali Folk to Indian Rag to Photek.  For Matt the key factor is the feel of any track.  They have to swing hard but also give you an image of what they are about, whether they are vocal or instrumental.

 real virtuality

 Matt is a collector of the sounds which we are all bombarded with every day of our lives, but which most of us never really hear.  There is music everywhere.  We just have to listen.  There are symphonies to be heard in the way a rain shower breaks and subsides, silencing birds and starting various patterns of sound made by the water draining from a roof gutter.  Or in the subway at night. Everywhere.
 Recording these sounds automatically frames them for repeated inspection and analysis - just like the framing of a painting in a gallery.  Matt has developed a technique which is more than a reference to the original experience.  It is an identical copy of any particular soundscape, where all movement and distance is preserved.  He has developed an installation/performance piece to share this powerful experience with other people.