BIO
Matt Marble (b. 1979, Mississippi) is an artist, writer, and audio producer currently living in Greensboro, NC. Working across genres, Matt's music and visual art are informed by symbolic geometry, divination methods, and ongoing dreamwork practice. His graphic scores have been exhibited in journals, galleries, and the Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona. Recent recordings include Wondering Stars, a pair of geometric meditations for guitars, harmonicas, synths, and percussion, and The Seraphic Mirror, seven dream emanations for electric guitar. In the summer of 2021 Matt held hist first solo art exhibition, Wondering Stars, at Greensboro Project Space (NC).
Matt's writing and research focus on marginalized American artists who find creative agency through esoteric traditions. His doctoral dissertation, Buddhist Bubblegum (NYT, "groundbreaking work"), focuses on the role of esoteric Buddhism in the creative process of NYC "Downtown" composer Arthur Russell. Coolgrove Press will be publishing Buddhist Bubblegum in the Winter of 2021. Related writings have been published in Abraxas Journal, Ear|Wave|Event, and Desert Suprematism. More recently, Matt's podcast, Secret Sound, features the spiritual biographies of America's most forgotten musical visionaries.
PhD, music composition • Princeton University
BA, speech & hearing sciences • Portland State University
