WCA #119 with Tucker Martine
b'Working Class Audio Session #119 with Tucker Martine!!!\\n Tucker Martine\\xa0is a record producer, musician and composer and the son of singer and songwriter Layng Martine, Jr.,\\xa0\\xa0Tucker grew up in Nashville, Tennessee where he played in bands and tinkered with recording devices before moving to Boulder, Colorado\\xa0after 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 to experiment with creating new sounds. 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.\\n 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\\xa0nomination 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 and a 3rd one is on the way. 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.\\xa0Today Martine lives in Portland, Oregon with his\\xa0wife, singer songwriter\\xa0Laura Veirs and continues to make records in his own studio, Flora Recording & Playback.\\n Tucker\\xa0has 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, Grandaddy, Mavis Staples, Iron And Wine, The Jayhawks, Karl Blau, Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros, Blind Pilot, Camera Obscura, Stephen Malkmus, k.d. lang, She and Him, M Ward, Case/lang/veirs, Jesse Sykes and Laura Veirs.'