"I thought it would be fun to set up a situation of cause and effect, where a concept is causing a musical outcome," says Drew Daniel, one half of experimental duo Matmos. Along with his other half -- both professionally and personally -- MC Schmidt, he has been making music for more than 20 years. Their latest project is split across an EP and album -- both conceived by a version of the ganzfeld experiment, a sensory-deprivation test used in lab studies of extra-sensory perception.
For four years, the pair have been conducting telepathic experiments in which Daniel attempts to transmit a concept to a subject. The opening riff and the title of their Large Green Triangles EP came from one test.
By: Ailbhe Malone, Edited by: David Cornish
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/01/play/musical-telepathic-mashup
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