Matmos is M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel, aided and abetted by many others. Currently based in Baltimore, the duo formed in San Francisco in the mid 1990s, and self-released their debut album in 1997. Marrying the conceptual tactics and noisy textures of object-based musique concrete to a rhythmic matrix rooted in electronic pop music, the two quickly became known for their highly unusual sound sources: amplified crayfish nerve tissue, the pages of bibles turning, water hitting copper plates, liposuction surgery, cameras and VCRs, chin implant surgery, contact microphones on human hair, rat cages, tanks of helium, a cow uterus, ...

David Easlick is a drummer, improviser and lifelong noise maker currently playing in jomf and along side local drag/performance artist "carl with records."  He is intimately acquainted with the grand theater (having done extensive work on the premises) and will be amplifying and playing unseen parts of the building, mostly above the ceiling to be broadcast into the theater below.  Joining him will be local legend John Benson of "A Minor Forest", "halezukas" and "the bus" fame.

Darrin Martin engages the synesthetic qualities of perception by exploring tactile, audible, and visual phenomena through video, performance, sculpture, and print-based installations. Influenced by his own experiences with hearing loss, his current projects consider notions of accessibility through the use of tactility, sonic analogies, and audio descriptions. His works have screened at the Museum of Modern Art (NY); Pacific Film Archive (CA); Impakt Festival (Netherlands); European Media Art Festival (Germany), and many others.  His installations have exhibited at venues including The Kitchen (NY), University of Toronto (Canada), Grand Central Art Center (CA), and, most recently, at The Moscow State Museum ...