Matt Evans is a Brooklyn based drummer and producer creating electro-acoustic music that considers the interconnectedness of landscapes, both real and imagined. His compositions draw inspiration from millennial esoterica, natural phenomena, and science fiction, resulting in hypnotic soundscapes and surreal sonic worlds. Combining a meticulous drum-driven approach with imaginatively processed keyboards and samples, Matt crafts a rhythmic, post-ambient music that’s been described as "hyperreal and phantasmal" (Wire Magazine), and "a form of chill complexity" (New York Times). Matt has presented solo projects at the Guggenheim, The Kitchen, Roulette, and 2220 Art+Archives and has released records with Moon Glyph, Whatever’s Clever, Dinzu Artefacts, NNA Tapes, Deathbomb Arc, New Amsterdam, Cantaloupe, Perfect Wave, and Thrill Jockey.
Matt has performed solo at acclaimed venues such as the Guggenheim, The Kitchen, and Roulette; held residencies at Antenna Cloud Farm, Pioneer Works, Exploring the Metropolis, and The Shell House; given talks at Wesleyan University and Dartmouth College; and released solo records with Whatever’s Clever and Moon Glyph (forthcoming). Matt has toured with projects Neti-Neti, Tigue, piano trio Bearthoven, Deerhoof, and others. He’s performed music by composers Lea Bertucci, Steve Reich, Sarah Hennies, Michael Gordon, Scott Wollschleger, and others. Past festival appearances have included Le Guess Who? in Utrecht, Netherlands, Big Ears in Tennessee, US, and the Summer Nostros Festival in Athens, Greece. He’s toured throughout the United States and Europe, including shows in Latvia, Poland, Germany, France, Belgium, the UK, Iceland and the Netherlands. Matt has released records with NNA, New Amsterdam, Whatever’s Clever, Cantaloupe, Perfect Wave, Thrill Jockey, Dinzu Artefacts, and Moon Glyph.
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Selected Press
Best Experimental music on Bandcamp: January 2023 — “Soft Science”
Best Ambient music on Bandcamp: June 2021 — “touchless”
“There’s a spirit of joy on Matt Evans’s latest tape Soft Science. The percussionist surrounds his multisyllabic beats and chopped up rhythms with colorful sounds, creating a kind of circus of bright, looping music. Evans is much too thoughtful a composer to paint everything in one shade, though, so there’s also a lot of complexity, nuance, and even darkness in the eight pieces here.”
— Marc Masters, Bandcamp — “Soft Science”
“… unbound by specific musical lineages and amplified through Evans’ own impressionistic perspectives and personal associations, Soft Science is erratic, graceful, and beamed in from distant solar system.
— Joshua Pickard, Beats Per Minute— “Soft Science”
“Suffused with bizarrely tuned percussion and synths, Evans’s uniquely strange and beautiful tracks thrust the listener into hyperreal yet phantasmal realms.”
— Dave Segal, Wire Magazine — “New Topographics”
“a form of chill complexity”
— Seth Colter Walls, New York Times — “New Topographics”
“touchless fizzes with so much light and beauty, despite its conceptual undercurrents, is a stunning liminal monument to an artist, by an artist.” — Obladada John, Obladada — “Touchless”