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Source material, artistic continuations and shared methods are different kinds of connection. Each link here says how the works meet.
Concert organizing, WFNP jazz programming, exhibitions and experimental-music activity while studying at SUNY New Paltz.
Organizing, listening and performance continue in the music collaboration.
Community radio returns as a setting for cultural organizing in Newburgh.
Keyboards and drums with Kevin Shea. More than two decades of improvisation, composition, recordings and international touring.
With Kevin Shea
The band becomes Moers’s two Improvisers in Residence in 2021.
The physical work of touring feeds the exhibition’s fictional eighteenth-century touring life.
The broader composition and ensemble practice appears across the 2024 residency.
An ISSUE Project Room residency begins an extended investigation of archival photographs through music, performance and intermedia work.
Scanning Syeus’s negatives becomes an ongoing artistic and archival practice.
The 2010 experiments precede the 2018 public image shiva.
Direction, digitization and activation of Syeus Mottel’s photographs, recordings and documents. The archive becomes material for exhibitions, films and other people’s work.
Syeus’s CHARAS photographs inform the historical research and dome work.
The photographic archive becomes a compositional source for the public image shiva.
The CHARAS photographic material enters a museum collection; this is an archive milestone, not Matt’s exhibition.
Syeus’s photographs, CHARAS / El Bohío, oral histories and contemporary dome building enter a continuing public conversation.
With Syeus Mottel archive / Carlos “Chino” Garcia / Sal Becker
The historical photographs are a starting point for the research.
The research develops into portable performance architecture.
Temporary architecture and collective building also appear in PAG; the projects have distinct histories.
An intermedia installation and public programme: photographs, assemblages, dome construction, sound, video and conversations.
The 2018 exhibition is a chapter within the continuing CHARAS research.
The dome continues as a structure other artists can use.
The dome and performance work continues at Salisbury in 2020.
Fourteen days of public archiving and performance. Each projected photograph becomes an invitation to respond.
Syeus’s photographs provide the material for new compositions and responses.
The 2010 residency is an earlier setting for the archive experiments.
The project takes another performance form at Roulette in 2021.
Students take up the source material from their own positions.
The archive and performance project is presented at Mumei Art Space.
The Tokyo presentation follows the 2018 public archiving project.
The archive returns in a different performance setting in Brooklyn.
Sounding objects, instruments and public actions test the distance between an object, its location and what it plays.
Instrument research and the Mozart persona return in the Vienna exhibition.
Sound systems and sculptural structures become conditions for performance.
A portable dome and distributed sound system make a concert venue that other people can use.
CHARAS’s dome-building experiments inform the performance architecture.
Collective construction and public programmes enter the park.
PAG uses a dome as a setting for mark-making and collective music.
With Yuko Otomo, tracing Steve Dalachinsky’s daily routes through artists, venues, poems, collages and recordings.
With Yuko Otomo
The audiovisual collaboration returns as a projected redux in 2023.
Both projects invite artists to activate archival material; their source archives are distinct.
The downtown experimental-music community is part of the wider collaborative practice.
Dome building, an artist lecture and live performance in the context of HABITAT at Salisbury University Art Galleries.
The dome work continues from the Loisaida exhibition and public project.
Building a space and playing inside it belong to the same investigation.
Matt Mottel and Kevin Shea as the festival’s two Improvisers in Residence: rehearsals, broadcasts, recordings and visiting musicians.
With Kevin Shea
The residency is a year in the life of the long-running band.
The Vienna exhibition takes up touring, instruments and collaboration in the same year.
The ensemble practice takes another form in the 2024 residency.
In fall 2021, high-school students in Moers placed their artworks in and around a four-meter geodesic dome.
The keytar, the work of touring, and a gallery assembled as a band. An invented eighteenth-century touring story sits alongside instrument research.
With Nicole Lattuca / Ken Butler / Andrew Dreyer / Florian Pilz / J Ballard / Sander / Frank Merks
International touring and collaborative music connect these parallel 2021 projects.
The contemporary band’s road experience feeds the exhibition’s fictional touring analogy.
Experimental instruments and the Mozart persona connect the Salzburg and Vienna work.
Keyboards, electronics, video and Syeus’s photographic archive become material for new composition.
The 2018 image shiva develops into another performance form.
Archival composition continues at ISSUE in 2026.
Nicole Lattuca and Matt Mottel make work with children and parents. Drawings become scores; the people making them can play alongside the musicians.
With Nicole Lattuca
The April 20 PAG performance belongs within Matt’s wider 2024 music residency.
The Social Practice CUNY fellowship is part of the broader participatory practice.
Temporary architecture and collective building connect distinct bodies of work.
Intergenerational workshops continue at The Watermill Center in 2026.
Fellowship connecting public art, collaborative performance, teaching and cultural organizing.
Intergenerational participation develops within the wider social-practice work.
Student authorship activates historical material from another position; the presentation dates are tracked separately.
A projected return to the collaboration with Yuko Otomo and the materials connected to Steve Dalachinsky.
With Yuko Otomo
The 2020 location-based series is reworked for projection.
ISSUE remains a setting for the ongoing relation between archives and performance.
An Awesome Newburgh-supported, three-day low-power FM and public recording studio in a vacant Broadway storefront.
The temporary broadcast studio is an early prototype for Safe Harbors Radio.
Community radio and experimental-music organizing recur in a new city and context.
A four-night music residency: original composition, ensemble improvisation, collaborative performance and a PAG / Scribble Scores programme.
With Matt Mottel / Loren Connors / Suzanne Langille / Yuko Otomo / Daniel Carter / Peter Gordon / Ernie Brooks / Tony Cenicola / Nicole Davis / Smoota / Aquiles Navarro / Angel Lau / Carter Thornton / Cooper-Moore / Jean Carla Rodea / Nicole Lattuca / Genevieve HK / Daniel Fishkin / Tcheser Holmes / Matt Nelson / Jessica Cook / Moppa Elliott / Justin Frye / Jessica Paps
PAG performs on April 20; the full residency also includes other ensembles.
The residency belongs to the wider composition and improvisation practice.
Different settings for sustained collaborative and ensemble music.
Co-founder and public-programme / media-studio lead. A former theater box office becomes a community radio and podcast platform.
The 2023 pop-up broadcast studio precedes the ongoing platform.
Radio and local cultural organizing recur across the career.
Weekly Scribble Scores sessions: loud and quiet, melody and dissonance, musical maps, earth, rain and wind.
With Nicole Lattuca
A repeated workshop setting within the collaborative practice.
Children’s mark-making becomes material for shared interpretation in another setting.
Participants take up source material and make their own decisions.
Geodesic dome building and public programmes with Chapman Steamer Arts / Arts in the Park.
With Nicole Lattuca
The public dome and Scribble Scores belong to PAG’s Newburgh work.
The portable structure makes a place to gather and play.
The dome and participatory score-making also meet in Beacon.
A dome, natural pigments, drawings and an all-ages ensemble. Space music born from the crayon galaxy.
With Nicole Lattuca
A festival setting within the collaborative practice.
The dome becomes a temporary space for drawing and music.
Collective construction and performance recur in Newburgh.
Three audiovisual compositions bring archival recordings, photography, live performance, sound and digital media into dialogue.
The archive investigations return to the institution that hosted the 2010 residency.
The archive continues as a source for audiovisual composition.
Student participants take up the source material as a related strand of the archive practice.
Students take up historical source material and produce work from their own positions.
The source archive becomes an invitation for other people’s work.
The fellowship and student work share a participatory method, without assuming they occurred in the same year.
Shared scores and instruments in conversation with Upside Down Zebra and the Rhoda Kellogg child-art collection.
With Nicole Lattuca
A workshop setting within Nicole and Matt’s collaborative practice.
The people, materials and score-making enter a different institutional setting.
Repeated encounters with children’s marks become material to interpret together.
CCAM Fest: Fluxus. Paper on the floor; marks, instruments and a room of people deciding how to play.
With Nicole Lattuca
Scribble Scores is a working method within the collaborative practice.
Two 2026 settings for children’s mark-making and shared musical interpretation.
Drawing and listening accumulate through repeated sessions.
Dates keep different kinds of time: a single performance, a residency, a collaboration that is still going.