Tucker Martine

Tucker Martine (born January 14, 1972) is an American record producer, musician and composer. 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.,^[2] 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 two 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.^[3] Today Martine lives in Portland and continues to make records in his own studio, Flora Recording & Playback.

Martine has worked with artists such as The Decemberists, R.E.M., My Morning Jacket, Modest Mouse, Beth Orton, Neko Case, Mudhoney, Bill Frisell, Sufjan Stevens, Spoon, Camera Obscura, Jesse Sykes and Laura Veirs.

Discography

As Tucker Martine

• Eat the Dream: Moroccan Reveries (1994)
• Bush Taxi Mali (1998)
• Orchestra Dim Bridges with Eyvind Kang (2004)
• Broken Hearted Dragonflies: Insect Electronica from Southeast Asia (2005)

With Floratone^[4]

• Floratone (2007)
• Floratone II 2012

With Wayne Horvitz

• 4+1 Ensemble (Intuition, 1996 [1998])
• From a Window (Avant, 2000)
• Mylab (2004)

As Mount Analog

• Mount Analog (1997)
• New Skin (2004)

Selected discography

References

External links

• All Music Guide entry for Tucker
• NPR Tucker Martine Guest DJ
• Management Contact
• Feature on Martine in HARP magazine