Help us record music and make a film documenting our month long travel and adventures as artists in residence at Sichuan University.
From the above video, you can clearly see:
(Edit: WOAH! We made it! See update #4 for celebration/jubilation/explication. This is just to let you know that any money we get on Kickstarter from here on out will go toward: 1. Shipping stuff. We honestly thought we'd be delivering chopsticks and albums by bike, we had no idea we'd be shipping around the country, let alone internationally! 2. Paying Tiger in a Jar some more money, which means more/longer videos. And 3. Possibly, if the next six days are anything like the last two, buying another Chinese instrument or two to add to the repertoire. THANK YOU!!!!!)
a) Beautiful things can happen at the intersection of China and Americana.
b) We are more than a little uncomfortable talking in front of a camera.
c) Julie and Matt are fabulous videographers. Imagine what they will do when we're playing here...
With that said, welcome to our kickstarter project! We're happy you're here. If you've never heard of us...
We decided to start this whole thing because, with support from the University of Utah Confucius Institute, we have the opportunity to be artists in residence for the month of June at Sichuan University, studying guzheng, matouqin, erhu, and liuqin. We are, needless to say but we’ll say it anyways, very very excited. It's been a little rough finding teachers of said instruments here in the Salt Lake Valley.
We recognize what a unique opportunity this is and decided it must be documented in a visual as well as auditory way. Auditory: write and record an E.P the month we are there. We can handle that. But. Visual? We couldn’t find anyone who’s videography style matched what we wanted, let alone someone also available and crazy enough to agree to such an unusual proposal. Enter tiger in a jar. The day we had all but lost hope of finding someone, Brinn’s brother left a note on her door--on the back of their business card. We looked them up. Within, oh, five seconds of starting their first movie, we knew they were the ones. Coincidence? We think not.
Thankfully, they agreed.
Through the sale of our self recorded and self funded first album plus money made playing shows (along with guzheng cases full of tips from the farmers' market) we have enough to get the four of us and our 8 month old over to Sichuan. And no more. We need your help to do the following:
- Flying tiger in a jar over the ocean, then over the length of China to the west where the pandas reside--aka Sichuan
- Renting a van with driver (turns out an international driver's license is NOT accepted in China) to take six adults, one baby, and our large instruments around to film music videos and play concerts
- Recording, mixing, mastering and printing the Sichuan E.P.
- Post production costs for editing and producing the footage captured (amounting to many guzheng case fulls)
- Rental of instruments for the month
This is where Kickstarter and you can come together to make this happen and get something (pretty awesome if you ask us) out of it for yourself.
By pre-buying (backing in kickstarter jargon) the album or selecting from among any of the other products and services on your right ----------------> we end up with enough funding to make it happen, and you end up with some pretty neat stuff in return. Brilliant.
The catch: If we don't meet our goal, you don't get anything and neither do we. So please spread the word, share the Matteo love.
We will be blogging about it along the way and are already excited to share with you the finished products. We really can't make it all happen without you. So thank you thank you for your support and helping us fund in advance.
love,
Matteo
questions? email us musicofmatteo@gmail.com
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Cool pair of Chinese chopsticks+ pre-release access to The Sichuan Short Film + a physical copy of our album The Morning Market + a physical copy of the E.P. + a personalized post card sent to you with love from MATTEO in China
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Ladies! Your choice of a date with Luke Williams or Jordan Riley (Be it known, this was not proposed by Luke and Jordan, but they clean up real nice) + pre-release access to The Sichuan Short Film + a physical copy of our album The Morning Market OR a physical copy of The Sichuan E.P. + a personalized post card sent to you with love from MATTEO in China
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Exclusive access to cutting room floor footage + cool pair of Chinese chopsticks+ a one-of-a-kind handcrafted Matteo shirt + pre-release access to The Sichuan Short Film + a physical copy of our album The Morning Market OR a physical copy of The Sichuan E.P. + a personalized post card sent to you with love from MATTEO in China.
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Your choice of a song for MATTEO to cover ( and we mean any song) which will then be dedicated and sung to you in a youtube video posted for the world to see + pre-release access to The Sichuan Short Film + physical copy of the Sichuan E.P. or The Morning Market + a personalized postcard sent to you with love from MATTEO in China + 1 group hug
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A beautiful calendar of 12 images from the incredible places on our trek through Sichuan + pre-release access to The Sichuan Short Film + physical copy of the Sichuan E.P. or The Morning Market + a personalized postcard sent to you with love from MATTEO in China
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1 month of weekly lessons (in home or skype) on your choice of: Chinese (language), guitar (any genre including classical), violin, bass, accordion + pre-release access to The Sichuan Short Film + a physical copy of our album The Morning Market OR a physical copy of the E.P. + a personalized post card sent to you with love from MATTEO in China
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A personalized hand-painted calligraphy scroll from a Chinese street market master + a physical copy of our album The Morning Market + a physical copy of the E.P. + pre-release access to The Sichuan Short Film + a personalized post card sent to you with love from MATTEO in China
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2 months of weekly lessons (in home or skype) on your choice of: Chinese (language), guitar (any genre including classical), violin, bass, accordion + pre-release access to The Sichuan Short Film + a physical copy of our album The Morning Market + a physical copy of the E.P. + a personalized post card sent to you with love from MATTEO in China
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3 months of weekly lessons (in home or skype) on your choice of: Chinese (language), guitar (any genre including classical), violin, bass, accordion + pre-release access to The Sichuan Short Film + a physical copy of our album The Morning Market + a physical copy of the E.P. + a personalized post card sent to you with love from MATTEO in China
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Song written for you (or a friend/lover/goldfish etc.) which we'll post to youtube + pre-release access to The Sichuan Short Film + a physical copy of our album The Morning Market or the E.P. + a personalized post card sent to you with love from MATTEO in China
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We will come play a show at your event/house show/wedding/quinciñera/rave/corporate function + pre-release access to The Sichuan Short Film + 5 copies of either The Morning Market or the Sichuan E.P. (great for presents or 5 disc changers!) + a postcard sent to you with love from MATTEO in China
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A framed print of an image captured on our journey of your choosing + pre-release access to The Sichuan Short Film + 5 copies of either The Morning Market or the Sichuan E.P. (great for presents or 5 disc changers!) + A postcard sent to you with love and from MATTEO in China.
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Really?!! Wow. Thank you thank you thank you. We will come play a show at your event/house show/wedding/quinciñera/rave/corporate function+ a framed print of an image captured on our journey + pre-release access to The Sichuan Short Film + 5 copies of either The Morning Market AND Sichuan E.P. (still great for presents!) +breakfast in bed--if you feel comfortable with that--or else a chinese dinner prepared for you by us+ a one page letter sent to you with so much love we might burst from MATTEO in China
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