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Matt Baber

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One of our good friends and a wonderful musician, Matt has assisted and conspired on a number of Polyethylene Pet projects. Notably, he’s appeared on several +1 albums as a musician and also makes occasional commentary as the Indian of the group.

Matt’s work is always a huge inspiration to us.

Here are some of our favourite works from Matt with his colleague Joff Winks and the most excellent Antique Seeking Nuns (now Sanguine Hum).

Matt also provided the piece “Evenings Fade” for the opening of our program tonight.

Brian Woodbury

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There is only one word for this fine composer and songwriter. And that word is “Pony”.

He’s an old friend who was very important in the development of the Polyethylene Pet project. One of the only humans alive to hear the dynamic 15 minute tape piece “Meonoon” (released on the first PP album “Smile”). He actually spent an evening listening to it multiple times in a row. Once we got a thumbs up from him, we decided it was worthy to release.

Here is some of the music he’s recorded which has inspired and made us happy.

Erling Wold

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Our old and dear friend Erling Wold, a composer of some note, has been a stalwart supporter of the Polyethylene Pet project since the beginning. He was an influential part of our thinking about abstraction, musical complexity and taste. His avant-punk attitude matched perfectly with our own and his ongoing friendship and musicality continue to be a source of great inspiration for us.

Splendrix

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Back in the late 70s, i met the ever charming Erling Wold and Brian Woodbury, among other brilliant people, in a house in Berkeley. We became fast friends and they went on to advise and support the nascent Polyethylene Pet. Erling helped me master the first Pet album “Smile” to cassette for release. They let me use their home to produce the recording and even played on a track or two.

However, what inspired me to meet them was their unique corporation/performance art piece called “Splendrix”.

I had been renting a house in Mendocino CA from Brian’s mom. She gave us a tape and, immediately, i fell in love with the Splendrix way of doing business. Later i went down, met them and, in a joint merger, co-produced their first and only album.

Splendrix was pure genius.