Matt Robidoux - Music For Aluminum Corn

June 11, 2023

Matt Robidoux - Music For Aluminum Corn

Somewhere between the beeps and buzzes of the 1950's NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas and the poetic sounds escaping from the long ago Anxious Asp on 528 Green Street in San Fransisco, Music For Aluminum Corn holds court. The first component is an instrument called the Kinetically Operated Randomness Network, acronym KORN, touch controlled synthesizer shaped like two ears of aluminum corn. The second component are all the people working together to make the sounds from the aluminum corn breath compositional beauty. Headed by the talented Matt Robidoux, he enlists the help of a bevy of like minded artists for different approaches to sound on all tracks. The Del Sol Quartet (Sam Weiser, Benjamin Kreith, Charlton Lee, Kathryn Bates), Carrie Ford DeCunzo, Cole Pulice, José Fernando Solares, Mitch Stahlmann, Michelle Lee, and Jordan Glenn. The complete of instrumentation and tracks worked on is in the bandcamp informational read, but wanted to mention the entire group to help understand how much has gone into Music For Aluminum Corn.

As mentioned in the opening NASA control room and the floor of a beatnik poetry club, how does it relate? The KORN synthesizer is technology moving in a specific path. Much like the space program, these sounds are from a place very few if any have been before. The artists bringing this sonic world to listening pleasure are the vanguard of music being created today. Much like poetry and music from 1950's clubs in San Fransisco, the players on Music For Aluminum Corn are pushing at something totally new. We hear strings, horn, drums and bass, all core instruments in the jazz world. This time their is a new voice. Sonic poetry in wordless form from two ears of aluminum corn. Sounds kinda of funny, but this composition is a serious endeavor. Both in creating and listening.

Eleven tracks in total. Matt Robidoux encourages rhythm and melody through playful phantasms and mysterious depths. The clarity and patience from this creative ensemble allow imagination to breath and drift. Each electronic breath of the KORN synthesizer holding unheard energy from power surging through circuitry. Sometimes these passages are left to find their own way, but the love all involved keep Music For Aluminum Corn an album built for many experiences.

Music For Aluminum Corn will be released on cassette by Crash Symbols around June 23rd. Physical copies seem to be all ready sold out. Not sure if there will be cassettes available at the time of release or if Crash Symbols will have another run. The digital will always be ready.