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, Beth Orton, Neko Case, Mudhoney, Bill Frisell, The Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens, R.E.M., Laura Veirs, Spoon, and Camera Obscura. 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. , Artists he has worked with: Danny Barnes, Marco Benevento, Clare Burson, The Decemberists, Farmer Not So John, Bill Frisell, Laura Gibson, Camera Obscura, Neko Case, Heather Greene, Eyvind Kang, Johanna Kunin, L.A.K.E., Lau, The Long Winters, Erin McKeown, Mudhoney, Musée Mécanique, My Morning Jacket, Thao Nguyen and The Get Down Stay Down, Beth Orton, R.E.M., Sufjan Stevens, Jesse Sykes, Tracker, Transmissionary Six, United Schach Corporation, Laura Veirs, Abigail Washburn, Jim White, Zeke, The Scallywags

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