Auto Italia is an old car showroom which has been repurposed as an artists’ space. It is, essentially, a big, grey, metal shed. Any character would have to be provided by the artists using it, which was never going to be a problem with Matmos in town. The duo of MC Schmidt and Drew Daniel have long been known for their colourful live performances – I wasn’t at the show which featured Schmidt sampling the sound of him slapping Daniel’s bare buttocks, although I have seen them using the sounds of dice games, jugs of liquid, plates of crockery and, on occasion, even actual instruments to create their pop concrète. For this latest London appearance, they were joined in this vast space by LA’s John Wiese and the London/Berlin duo Birds Of Delay. Read the reso of this post at The Liminal.
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