Tucker Martine

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. Inspired by experimental production techniques, 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.

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 alongside Reggie Watts 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 Windows Vista.^[3]

• 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)
• "Fireworks - First Aid Kit" (2017)

Source:^[4]

• Floratone (2007)
• Floratone II 2012

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

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