Matteus
Matteus was born in Athens, GR in 1982. He started playing the piano at the… Read Full Bio ↴Matteus was born in Athens, GR in 1982. He started playing the piano at the age of 5 then started to experiment with analogue keyboards equipments and the harpsichord.
At the age of 10 the first record he bought was Laurie Anderson’s “Big Science” which later on was proved a big influence sonically and visually.
Matteus early works range from avant-garde vocal experimentations to noise / ambient soundscapes. His first full length work “Silent Radiowaves” was first presented live at the Athens Small Music Theatre in 2005, after finishing a collaboration with Stina Nordenstam (SWE) on a scrapbook of texts and photography for her 2004 album "The World Is Saved". “Silent Radiowaves” was a collection of songs dealing with matters such as war, surveillance, alien life forms, science and surrealism accompanied by a visual installation for each.
During the following years, Matteus started the “Waiting for the Sunset to Drown” tour; a collection of songs written for piano and voice, specially designed only to be performed live in the most unusual places (forests, beaches, a cloister and abandoned buildings).
2008 proved out to be a productive year after a series of live performances, Matteus started working on his next project “Ugly Doll’s Stories” an ode to non-communication between human beings and the way people are taken advantage by others.
Imagine yourself entering a toy shop shop and every doll has its own story to tell about how it got there or how it ended up there. The buying of a doll and the few minutes in the shop are transformed into a long journey with voices and stories ending up into a narration from each doll’s point of view dealing with matters such as love, emotional breakdowns, separation, solitude and happiness.
"Maybe for all these reasons it took me so long to finish this record... The need to fully understand these stories and the roles that those characters were playing inside my head. This need pushed me to search for solutions and possibilities all the way to Iceland. Stuck to record in a chappel Northwest of Iceland for quite some time, actually helped to capture all these voices that i was hearing. This record is the Morse signal that i tried to fully decode."
While heading back to Greece, director and filmmaker of the "Take-Away Shows" / Les Concerts à Emporter & La Blogothèque's, Vincent Moon invites Matteus to participate in his music documentary "A Temporary Area in Athens", podcasted and screened a year later, at the Athens International Film Festival.
On 2010, Matteus starts working on his next album entitled "SUB_______", recording in cathedrals, museums and cemetaries in Poland's Warsaw & Gdańsk as well as in Stockholm's Musikmuseet.
"This record is all about human perception. And since a lot of things pass right before our very eyes and ears, all those things end up remaining hidden. Underground. Beneath. Under piles of mumbling.
I figured out that the prefix “sub” can hold all these sorts of things. So, it’s up to the listener to name this record according to his personal way of perceiving those things that are unseen and unheard, by adding the appropriate word for him after this prefix."
At the age of 10 the first record he bought was Laurie Anderson’s “Big Science” which later on was proved a big influence sonically and visually.
Matteus early works range from avant-garde vocal experimentations to noise / ambient soundscapes. His first full length work “Silent Radiowaves” was first presented live at the Athens Small Music Theatre in 2005, after finishing a collaboration with Stina Nordenstam (SWE) on a scrapbook of texts and photography for her 2004 album "The World Is Saved". “Silent Radiowaves” was a collection of songs dealing with matters such as war, surveillance, alien life forms, science and surrealism accompanied by a visual installation for each.
During the following years, Matteus started the “Waiting for the Sunset to Drown” tour; a collection of songs written for piano and voice, specially designed only to be performed live in the most unusual places (forests, beaches, a cloister and abandoned buildings).
2008 proved out to be a productive year after a series of live performances, Matteus started working on his next project “Ugly Doll’s Stories” an ode to non-communication between human beings and the way people are taken advantage by others.
Imagine yourself entering a toy shop shop and every doll has its own story to tell about how it got there or how it ended up there. The buying of a doll and the few minutes in the shop are transformed into a long journey with voices and stories ending up into a narration from each doll’s point of view dealing with matters such as love, emotional breakdowns, separation, solitude and happiness.
"Maybe for all these reasons it took me so long to finish this record... The need to fully understand these stories and the roles that those characters were playing inside my head. This need pushed me to search for solutions and possibilities all the way to Iceland. Stuck to record in a chappel Northwest of Iceland for quite some time, actually helped to capture all these voices that i was hearing. This record is the Morse signal that i tried to fully decode."
While heading back to Greece, director and filmmaker of the "Take-Away Shows" / Les Concerts à Emporter & La Blogothèque's, Vincent Moon invites Matteus to participate in his music documentary "A Temporary Area in Athens", podcasted and screened a year later, at the Athens International Film Festival.
On 2010, Matteus starts working on his next album entitled "SUB_______", recording in cathedrals, museums and cemetaries in Poland's Warsaw & Gdańsk as well as in Stockholm's Musikmuseet.
"This record is all about human perception. And since a lot of things pass right before our very eyes and ears, all those things end up remaining hidden. Underground. Beneath. Under piles of mumbling.
I figured out that the prefix “sub” can hold all these sorts of things. So, it’s up to the listener to name this record according to his personal way of perceiving those things that are unseen and unheard, by adding the appropriate word for him after this prefix."
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