About
Biography
María Dolores A. Matienzo (b. 1979) a composer, poet, and archivist living on unceded Coast Salish lands in so-called Seattle, Washington. Her works explore ritual, sensory experience, immaterial labor, and memory and memorialization. She has written and performed experimental music for over 20 years under her own name, as well as Black Tent and numerous other monikers. In addition to her own imprint, Imprecision Art, her work has also been published in or released by Abundant Number, American Tapes, Travesties?! A Queer Journal of Uncanny Arts, Sockets Records, erato Literary Magazine, Fantômes, and as part of the Black Metal Rainbows compilation for the homonymous book published by PMPress in 2022.
Her recent works for electronics, percussion, tape, and violin are intended to envelop the listener in their own sense memories, inside jokes, and reflective praactices. In his review of Matienzo’s 2022 EP Managed Retreat in Vital Weekly, Frans de Waard has described her music as “active listening … ambient on edge, spacious and down to earth. Ritual music (bells included) for an urban environment.” In describing her own aesthetic approach, she says that “people tend to think of new music as rather staid or overly serious.” Instead, she believes her artistic practice focuses on providing greater relatability for a wide audience. “My goal is providing an accessible container for anyone to experience … internally and externally reflective vulnerability. I’d rather everyone be able to laugh in the process.”
About Imprecision
Imprecision/Imprecision Art (ASCAP) is the record label, publisher, and imprint for the works of María Dolores A. Matienzo. It began operation in 2018 and releases physical and digital media.
While Imprecision may occasionally release material from a collaborator, it is not intended to be a generalized record label and thus doesn’t have a demo policy. Potential collaborators are encouraged to make contact.
Contact Information
PO Box 80831
Seattle, WA 98108 USA
Email: contact@imprecision.art
+1 206 299-2120 x2291
SIP: sip:2291@sip.sdf.org