Matt Shoemaker

Matt Shoemaker (died 2017) was an American experimental composer and painter based in Seattle. He built dense, slowly unfolding electroacoustic pieces from field recordings, analogue synthesis and home-built signal chains, sometimes stacking dozens of tracks. Months spent in Indonesia shaped his work, and he played with Seattle's Gamelan Pacifica. Matt Shoemaker's first albums, Groundless (2000) and Warung Elusion (2002), came out on Trente Oiseaux.