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Metamono is a musical trio formed in 2010 by Jono Podmore, Mark Hill and Paul Conboy to create analogue electronic music without using
digital sound Digital audio is a representation of sound recorded in, or converted into, digital form. In digital audio, the sound wave of the audio signal is typically encoded as numerical samples in a continuous sequence. For example, in CD audio, samp ...
generation and processing,
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or
microphones A microphone, colloquially called a mic (), or mike, is a transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal. Microphones are used in many applications such as telephones, hearing aids, public address systems for concert halls and publi ...
. Their improvised compositions are created using pre-used, borrowed and handbuilt vintage analogue synths and ring modulators, enhanced by the sounds of a
theremin The theremin (; originally known as the ætherphone, etherphone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox) is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the performer (who is known as a thereminist). It is named aft ...
, a siren and a
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radio. Much of Metamono's equipment has been built or adapted by Paul Conboy (
Bomb the Bass Bomb the Bass is an electronic music alias of English musician and producer Timothy Simenon (born June 1967). As a name, Bomb the Bass came from Simenon's approach to collaging and mixing sounds whilst DJing in the mid- to late 1980s; he says ...
). In 2013 Metamono released the album ''With the Compliments of Nuclear Physics'' on vinyl. Metamono also released a six-song cassette-only EP entitled ''Band Theory''"Vintage Voltage"
''Blue Fat'' Interview 2011


Discography

* ''C15H14O6'': Limited Edition cassette 2010 * ''The Enemy Above'': Limited Edition cassette 2010 * ''Band Theory EP'': Limited Edition cassette 2010 * ''Bambino Lives'': Limited Edition cassette 2010 * ''Tape EP'': HoHum Records HOMUM017 2011 * ''Parcel Post EP'': Instrumentarium Records 10" vinyl IMT001 2012 * ''Warszawa/Shafty'': Instrumentarium Records 7" IMT003 2013 * ''With The Compliments of Nuclear Physics'': Instrumentarium Records LP IMT004 2013 * ''The Acrobatic Fly''
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via Bandcamp 2015 * ''Bad Bird''
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via Bandcamp 2016 * ''Creative Listening'' Instrumentarium Records LP IMT005 2016 * ''Europe Endless''
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via Bandcamp 2016


References


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External links

* {{official website, http://www.metamono.co.uk
Metamono Facebook page

Metamono YouTube Channel

BBC Artist Page



www.conboymusic.com

www.psychomat.com

The Recycled House


See also

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Kumo (musician) Kumo is a British musician and composer, the pseudonym of Jono Podmore who was born in 1965. Biography Kumo came into existence in 1994 when composer, producer, engineer and arranger Jono Podmore began work at Watershed Studios, London and with ...
Kumo/Jono Podmore British experimental musical groups