Matt Pacey
Matt Pacey
Genres: Canadian, Grunge, Ottawa, ontario, cancon
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About Matt Pacey
Matt Pacey is an alternative music enthusiast and self-described musician currently residing in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Matt Pacey, aka Forkimified, aka Overcaffeinated Lad was born in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada on May 13th, 1984. Matt spent the first three years of his life living in Espanola, Ontario, and during these early years was influenced by the music his dad would listen to on vinyl, cassette, and the radio, such as The Beatles and Led Zeppelin. Matt's parents moved to Lively, Ontario when he was four years old, where he attended George Vanier Public School, and later Lively District Secondary School. It was in Lively that Matt began playing guitar, smashing his first ukulele to pieces as a toddler, before he'd even heard of the destructive antics of Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, or Keith Moon. His dad owned many guitars, but it wasn't until he met Aaron Goedhard (who, along with his cousin Lacey, first turned him on to Nirvana and '90s alternative) that he began learning the instrument. Aaron dubbed his copy of Nevermind onto one side of a 90-minute tape, and Matt would listen to this over and over again on his boom box and Walkman.The guitar first riff he learned from Aaron was Nirvana's 'Come as you Are,' and he later picked up Marilyn Manson's version of 'Sweet Dreams.' Listening to Aaron's CDs after school and at lunch hour, the songs of bands like Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day, and Silverchair were burned into his brain. Matt's family moved to Carleton Place, Ontario during the summer before he entered grade eleven. It was during the following school year that he met long-time creative partner Joel D'Amour, who, on the occasion of their first meeting, briefly put a ballpoint pen in their art class microwave. Although originally forced together by the lack of available seating in the classroom, the two are still actively collaborating artistically to this day. They recorded countless cassettes of rough demos throughout their years at Carleton Place High School, usually using the name Resin for their two-man band, although they toyed with other options such as Strangulated Hernia (One of their first songs was a cover of Bob Dylan's Blowin' in the Wind which Matt attributed to the band Produce). Matt would provide guitar or bass backing behind Joel's lyrics, poetry, spoken word, and verbal improvisations, and later taught Joel his first riff, Nirvana's 'Come as You Are.' During highschool, Matt was introduced to the wonderful world of blackmetal through the wonders of the internet, discovering such influential bands as Darkthrone, Mayhem, Immortal, and Emperor. During this period, Matt also created many electronic tracks using tools such as Fruity Loops under the name Overcaffeinated Lad, and recorded as the Flying Tortellini Brothers with his brother and the extremely talented Mark Gauthier of Mark and the Gist, Ahiro, Art or Sex, Tattoo, DJ Gist, No Refunds, and The Termight. At some point, he recorded a rediculous acoustic metal / noise album with his cousins Danielle and Nadia Pacey as the Nihilistic Death Hell Satans (Matt was inspired to pursue more improvisational and spontaneous forms of musical creation when he saw a documentary on the Nihilist Spasm Band on Canadian arts TV station Bravo, as well as by being exposed to groups such as Boredoms). NDHS toyed with various experimental lyric writing techniques (including drawing lines from a hat), while most of their instrumental parts were spontaneously conceived. After high school, he attended Algonquin College's television broadcasting course in Ottawa, where he formed the one-time improvised band, The Terminators as part of a class video production, as well as playing one Joel D'amour song, Freezer Burn, with drummer Kevin Kowbel as PaceKow (Freezer Burn was later also recorded by Matt under the name Forkimified). During the college years, Matt found several albums by Sonic Youth for a dollar each at Value Village. Having heard they were somehow connected to Nirvana the no wave bands (who he'd learned of through the internets), Matt decided to give a listen to a group that had somehow passed him by in his youth, and was instantly hooked. Here was a band combining melody, noise, and unconventional use of instruments together in a pop-punk / rock format, and Matt saw them as a near-perfect synthesis of everything he'd listened to previously, and helped him by letting him know that he could create the music he wanted to listen to, and that other people might find it interesting also! Continuing his education in Algonquin's interactive multimedia program, Matt met future collaborators Zara Ansar and Niklas Leroux. After college, the three of them started recording music as Electric Autopsy, sometimes using Joel's lyrics (such as on the track Nellie's Lunch). Matt mainly contributes guitar and vocal parts to this band, Zara providing keyboards and vocals, with Nik as recording engineer, editor, mixer, beat programmer, and general fixer-upper. Songwriting in Electric Autopsy is generally a collaborative effort, with lyrics and musical parts provided by all. Matt and Joel have only met infrequently in person in recent years, but have had a couple of impromptu recording sessions as Growing Panes and as Jason, Matt, and Joel (with Hawk Man drummer Jason Fawcett). Matt's guitar playing skills have improved somewhat over the years since those first riffs were forever etched into his muscular memory, and he hopes to keep contributing to the world of musical expression in more and more refined ways as time goes on.
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