July 2025 by Martin Hackett

Martin Hackett Korg MS-10, Finhol spring reverb, Frostwave Sonic Alienator [02], field recordings [02, 05, 08], palette knife to a ball bearing on a contact mic attached magnetically to the body of the MS-10 and fed into the External Signal input [07]

Recordings of solo improvisations on Korg MS-10; listened to maybe once, or unheard; left for months, even years; eventually to become found materials for these new collaged pieces. Haphazard double-tracking reveals unsuspected relationships, sometimes asking for little or no modification [01], at others initiating a game of shifting and mixing, occasionally layering against field recordings, themselves subject to sometimes drastic manipulation [02]. Improvisation files and field recordings taken from a ZoomH2n recorder and assembled using Audacity.

Martin Hackett plays with a diverse group of musicians mainly in Oxford and London; in the London Improvisers Orchestra; as a member of the Muzzix collective in Lille, and the on-line group Blank Canvas Octet. He has been instrumental in the development of Phil Morton's 50:50 project for group improvisation. Exploration of the possibilities of the Korg MS-10 has been at the centre of his practice for many years, and he also plays melodica, objects and small instruments in a variety of contexts.

since 1994

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