An Artist Talks with Matthew Weiss, 14.04.2011, Tacheles, Berlin

Matthew Weiss is a wonderful violin player. He learnt to play as a child and his father played as well. He used to listen to him play folk and developed at taste for this type of music and combines them with  a classical repertoire in his own compositions.

He loves to improvise and follows the energy of other artists  and the spaces he performs in, to generate new sounds and melodies.

He has left the music school, he was working in for 10 years. 

Now he spends most of his time improsiving his own musical projects and will take part in a theater play this summer in Hamburg. He is most of the time still in Berlin and has composed for the dancer Jadi Carboni artist from the Neukoelimports. He played a part recently in the Musical "House of Dreams" a production from the Kunsthaus Tacheles.

He records also for groups and you can hear his violin on many tracks from the group Egypt77, for example on the soundcloud. He follows his inspiration and has changed the way he thinks music and his role as a musician. He does not like the term of artist and likes to be just someone and connect with his environment.

He has become more mystical in the way he makes his choices and frees himself from any stategy of success or social recognition. He does not play for these reasons, he likes to share moments and live new experiences with people.