Tucker Martine

Tucker Martine (b. January 14, 1972) is an American, Grammy nominated record producer, musician and composer who has worked with artists such as My Morning Jacket, Mudhoney, Bill Frisell, The Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens, R.E.M., Laura Veirs, Spoon, and Tift Merritt. In 2010, Paste Magazine included Martine in their list of the 10 Best Producers of the Decade [1].

Early life

Tucker Martine, the son of singer and songwriter Layng Martine, Jr., grew up in Nashville, Tennessee where he played in bands and tinkered with recording devices before moving to Boulder, Colorado upon graduating from high school. In Colorado, Martine was a DJ at a public radio station (KGNU). He would frequently play 2 or more records at once on the air. Martine also took courses at the Naropa Institute where he studied sound collage and befriended Harry Smith - the ethnomusicologist, artist, and Kabbalist - who made a large impression on Martine.

Career

In 1993, Martine moved to Seattle, Washington where he began to combine his skills and interests. He joined Wayne Horvitz's chamber group The 4 Plus 1 Ensemble where Martine's instrument was a series of looping and sound manipulating devices which were fed by the groups otherwise acoustic instruments. Martine received a Grammy nomination in 2007 in the "best engineered album" category for the Floratone album with Bill Frisell on Blue Note. He has also released several albums of his field recordings. As a composer and musician Martine has released 2 albums under the recording pseudonym Mount Analog as well as Mylab (a collaboration with keyboardist Wayne Horvitz) and Orchestra Dim Bridges (with violist Eyvind Kang). Additionally, Microsoft called upon Martine's creativity when they asked him to help compose the startup and branding sounds for Microsoft's new operating system Vista. Today Martine lives in Portland and continues to make records in his own studio, Flora Recording & Playback.

Personal

Martine and his wife Laura Veirs had their first child, Tennessee Veirs Martine in April 2010.

Artists he has worked with

• Danny Barnes
• Marco Benevento
• Clare Burson
• The Decemberists
• Bill Frisell
• Laura Gibson
• Heather Greene
• Grace Hearn and Michael Savage
• Eyvind Kang
• Johanna Kunin
• L.A.K.E.
• The Long Winters
• Erin McKeown
• Mudhoney
• Musée Mécanique
• My Morning Jacket
• Thao Nguyen and The Get Down Stay Down
• R.E.M.
• Sufjan Stevens
• Jesse Sykes
• Tracker
• Transmissionary Six
• Laura Veirs
• Abigail Washburn
• Jim White
• Zeke

Discography

As Tucker Martine

• Eat the Dream: Moroccan Reveries (1994)
• Broken Hearted Dragonflies: Insect Electronica from Southeast Asia (2005)
• Bush Taxi Mali (1998)
• Orchestra Dim Bridges with Eyvind Kang (2004)

As Floratone

• Floratone (2007)

With Wayne Horvitz

• 4+1 Ensemble (Intution, 1996 [1998])
• From a Window (Avant, 2000)
• Mylab (2004)

As Mount Analog

• Mount Analog (1997)
• New Skin (2004)

External links

• Flora Recording and Playback
• Mount Analog
• NPR Tucker Martine Guest DJ [2]
• Feature on Martine in HARP magazine