Polynomial
cock
About Polynomial
Polynomial is an English electronica group comprising of two people Matthew Daughton and Karl Richard. Matthew is originally from Street, just outside Glastonbury town in Somerset, while Karl is from Tunbridge Wells in Kent. From what I can gather from their website (see below for details) they met back in 1999 through a mutual friend of theirs while visiting Street, in Somerset to acquire some tickets for Glastonbury Festival. Some time in 2001 both Matthew and Karl got small studios together at their homes and started to work on ideas they had, continually swaping Mini Discs and tapes between eachother for inspiration. After a while working with several outboard synths (mainly an Arp 2600 and a Wasp) for their sound sources, they started working heavily with Kyma and Max/MSP, and began to learn the art of building patches for rhythmic and melodic pattern generations... After a while they started experimenting building loops with field recordings they acquired from their daily travels. From this symbiosis they composed their first track together, built from the sounds of broken glass. Further along the way, while working up in Rollover Studios in London, they became heavily influenced by fractals and other forms of patterns found in nature and maths. After incorporating some of these ideas based on iterative sequences i.e. self similar evolving patterns that generate fractal landscapes, they started composing breakbeat tracks with heavily effected beats and rhythms that undulate and ripple in time, much like fractal landscapes. Having realised that most of nature can be expressed via mathematical formulae i.e. polynomial density patterns in particular, they decided to form the group Polynomial in 2004, while both down in Cornwall, where having seen a nautilus shell, they wanted to "make breakbeats that sound like it looks." While not being formally trained musicians, they are self taught and play various instruments between them. However from what I can gather from an interview, they both prefer to use computer synthesis patches for their live performances rather thanuse live instruments... To date they have nothing released, but I am told they have 3 mini EPs on the way which will feature a selection of their most clicked, glitched and raw data rolls. Called the "Algorhythmetic EPs" each of these three EPs will be available as 500 limited editions prints on 3" Mini CDs. You can visit their official webpage at http://www.theorangehutstudio.co.uk/
Taken from Last.fm
833 listeners · 2,463 plays via Last.fm