Max Mathews died yesterday, 02.21.2011. His enthusiasm and bright star energy will inspire me through the rest of my life. The world misses you already, Max. You reminded me that technology & technique are merely expressive vesicles. Your supportiveness reminded me that I make music to move people.
Picture: Max + Marj with my installation String TV (2009): he was so enthralled by my strange creation.
Here is a recording of us in 2008, performing a Jon Appleton piece called Precita Eyes, he on Radio Baton, me on violin as a duo.
Here is Schubert’s quintet, a particularly memorable performance in Max and Marj’s parlor. Ok not exactly how we sounded, but equally as passionately performed!
Lastly, the final recording we made together in February 2011. It was to be just a test recording, a little snippet of violin improvisation he could try out a few different settings of his Phaser Filter program, we would always record more…. He was so happy with how his Phaser Filter program was finally sounding and behaving- he said it was finally getting musical. I agree, over the 3 years he’d been working on it, refining it into a performable program that could transform a piece of music into something completely new and captivating.
He couldn’t decide which of the four chord set of filters was more beautiful, so he sent me all 4. He tuned his filters to: the minor 1/3’s chord, the risset major-minor chord, the harmonic chord, and the risset major-minor 1/4tone chord.
Here they are.
maxmarifilters