Mattin

Musician and theorist born in Bilbao in 1977 who works with noise, free improvisation, and the politics of social dissonance. His practice uses performative estrangement to confront structural alienation, pursued through concerts, writing, and pedagogy. He completed a PhD at the University of the Basque Country under philosopher Ray Brassier in 2017 and has taught at CalArts, Bard, Princeton, and Goldsmiths. With Anthony Iles he co-edited Noise and Capitalism (Arteleku, 2009), and in 2022 Urbanomic published his book Social Dissonance. He is a member of the bands Billy Bao and Regler and has released more than a hundred recordings on labels across Europe, the US, and Japan.