Marble Lounge: Electro-acoustic sound designers Matmos get wired for DIA late night party

This week's Marble Lounge, that wonderful late-night every third Thursday of the month showcase of the wild and weird hosted by the Detroit Institute of Arts, is devoted to one thing: the strange audio/visual universe occupied by the duo known as Matmos.

The entire four-hour program will be filled up with as much of the group's loopy electronic fuzz as you can stand. Check out a bit of you can expect in this video interview.

But it doesn't touch on a few other strange details, like Matmos' microscopic abuse of source material as varied as electric guitars, freshly cut hair, the amplified neural activity of crayfish, and the human voice. Both M. C. (Martin) Schmidt and Drew Daniel's musical pasts are littered with strange associations; Schmidt was a founding member of avant-garde electronic group X/I and worked with San Francisco-based experimental music collective IAO Core alongside current members of groups such as Amber Asylum and Tipsy.

Daniel and Schmidt, who recently moved from San Francisco to Baltimore (where Daniels took a teaching position at Johns Hopkins University) took their music in a "cosmic pop" electronic direction for 2008's The Supreme Balloon, which was made entirely using vintage synthesizers.

Marble Lounge is for those 18 and over. Tickets are $10 at the door. Enter off of John R Street. Cocktails and food will be available.

Image: Matmos in Prague, photo by M. Hudak