[ M A T T G L A S S M E Y E R
composes and improvises often using the Wurlitzer electric piano, acoustic piano, reedless and standard tenor saxophones, percussion, contra-alto clarinet and voice. Current groups include Hompulon (Tom Spiker, Jon Goldberger, Tim Keiper, Dana Lyn, Brian Drye), Slow Accordion (Oliver Wood, Mark Raudabaugh, Ted Pecchio), Glassmeyer's Live Band (Ethan Jodzievicz, Mark Raudabaugh, JP Ruiggieri), duo with Ben Garnett, Rix Glassmeyer with Jano Rix, Meadownoise (solo studio tracks), and Global Abacus Supply Matt is the inventor of the shuitar and the reedless saxophone (buzzaphone). He is known for the use of the Wurlitzer interior for percussion and new timbres. He is the developer of the reed-amplified contra-alto clarinet and various percussion concepts.
Photo ©2024 by Zach Gresham
DISCOGRAPHY. Available on streaming services unless noted.
[ solo / leader
Rix Glassmeyer, Tuesday at The Parlor Bar (post production, 2025) Wurlitzer and mallet kit
Glassmeyer's Live Band (JP Ruggieri, Mark Raudabaugh, Ethan Jodzievicz) forthcoming January 2025, electric and acoustic pianos
Meadownoise, The Foam Alone (YK Records, special offline release | see contact page), all instruments / production
Meadownoise, Threeve (Veinmelter, Shawn Coleman, Seth West, Tye Bellar, Adam Bednarik, YK Records / Pets Musical Park, 2021), all instruments
Meadownoise, Cliff House Kids EP (with Adam Bednarik, producer + Coupler remix, YK Records, 2021) all instruments
Meadownoise, Dark Digest (Pets Musical Park, 2014), all instruments / production
Meadownoise, It's 4:00 (Pets Musical Park, 2013), all instruments / production
The Matt Glassmeyer Marching Band, Broadway Lafayette (Jacob Garchik, Brian Drye, Michael McGinnis, 2003, NCM East Records), reedless tenor (aka buzzaphone) and standard tenor saxophones
Glassmeyer's Live Band (JP Ruggieri, Mark Raudabaugh, Ethan Jodzievicz) forthcoming January 2025, electric and acoustic pianos
Meadownoise, The Foam Alone (YK Records, special offline release | see contact page), all instruments / production
Meadownoise, Threeve (Veinmelter, Shawn Coleman, Seth West, Tye Bellar, Adam Bednarik, YK Records / Pets Musical Park, 2021), all instruments
Meadownoise, Cliff House Kids EP (with Adam Bednarik, producer + Coupler remix, YK Records, 2021) all instruments
Meadownoise, Dark Digest (Pets Musical Park, 2014), all instruments / production
Meadownoise, It's 4:00 (Pets Musical Park, 2013), all instruments / production
The Matt Glassmeyer Marching Band, Broadway Lafayette (Jacob Garchik, Brian Drye, Michael McGinnis, 2003, NCM East Records), reedless tenor (aka buzzaphone) and standard tenor saxophones
[ co-leader / composer
Slow Accordion (Oliver Wood, Mark Raudabaugh, Ted Pecchio), forthcoming, 2025
Tom Spiker and Matt Glassmeyer, Hompulon (2025, forthcoming), pianos, horns, shuitar, mallet kit, strings, voice
Matt Glassmeyer and Ben Garnett, Speed of Wood (Visual Album, 2024), piano, reedless tenor
Church of Cleanliness, The Dirt is Near (with Matty Zarth, 2008), producer, drums, percussion, bass, background vocals, brass, winds, guitar
The Four Bags, Pins/Needles from Live at Barbes (Jacob Garchik, Brian Drye, Sean Moran, Michael McGinnis, 2006), composer
Rix Glassmeyer, 24,200 miles (with Jano Rix, NCM East Records, 2005), bass, guitar, reedless tenor, tenor, synths, shuitar, vocals
The Morpholinos, [For Background Use Only], (Brian Drye, Lori Bingel + Garchik, Hess, Hermanson, Ferber, Endsley, more, 2003 NCM East), shuitar
Bift (Sean Moran, Jason Wildman, 2003, NCM East), reedless and standard tenor saxophone, percussion, samples
Twelve 20 Six (with Greg Joseph, Brian Drye, Sean Moran, Lori Bingel, and Dan Fabricatore, 2002, NCM East), tenor saxophone, samples, percussion
Tom Spiker and Matt Glassmeyer, Hompulon (2025, forthcoming), pianos, horns, shuitar, mallet kit, strings, voice
Matt Glassmeyer and Ben Garnett, Speed of Wood (Visual Album, 2024), piano, reedless tenor
Church of Cleanliness, The Dirt is Near (with Matty Zarth, 2008), producer, drums, percussion, bass, background vocals, brass, winds, guitar
The Four Bags, Pins/Needles from Live at Barbes (Jacob Garchik, Brian Drye, Sean Moran, Michael McGinnis, 2006), composer
Rix Glassmeyer, 24,200 miles (with Jano Rix, NCM East Records, 2005), bass, guitar, reedless tenor, tenor, synths, shuitar, vocals
The Morpholinos, [For Background Use Only], (Brian Drye, Lori Bingel + Garchik, Hess, Hermanson, Ferber, Endsley, more, 2003 NCM East), shuitar
Bift (Sean Moran, Jason Wildman, 2003, NCM East), reedless and standard tenor saxophone, percussion, samples
Twelve 20 Six (with Greg Joseph, Brian Drye, Sean Moran, Lori Bingel, and Dan Fabricatore, 2002, NCM East), tenor saxophone, samples, percussion
[ tracks / contributions
- Ben Garnett, A Space for the In Between (with Britney Haas, Ethan Jodzievicz, in production, Padiddle Records, 2024), piano
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force theme, Season 13 (with Schoolly D and Shawn Coleman, 2024), saxophones, euphonium, cornet
- Mind Traveler Soundtrack (Greg Mallozzi, in production) electric and acoustic pianos, reedless tenor, baritone saxophone, percussion
- Drye Hastings, Ocean State II (NCM East Records, 2024), bass, reedless tenor, baritone saxophone, percussion
- The Jack Silverman Quartet, Prince of Shadows (w Brook Sutton, Rob Crawford, John Mailander, Roger Moutenot, 2024, Centripetal Force Records), pianos, reedless tenor, bari sax
- Sugar Skulls, Honeycomb (YK Records, 2024) solo accordion and vocals
- Oliver Wood, Always Smilin' (Jano Rix, Ted Pecchio, Roy Agee, 2021), tenor and baritone saxophones, cornet, euphonium
- Drye Hastings, Ocean State I (with Jonathan Goldberger, 2021), bass, reedless tenor, baritone saxophone, percussion
- Coupler, Blown Glass (YK Records, 2021), reedless tenor, strings
- Cody Uhler, Purple Barreling remix (YK Records, 2021), production, percussion
- Coupler, Forgotten Openness of a Closed World (YK Records, 2020), reedless and standard tenor saxophones
- Coupler, Gifts from the Ebb Tide (YK Records, 2017), contra-alto clarinet, reedless tenor, tenor, clarinet, voice
- The Dockworker's Dream (Soundtrack. Directed by Bill Morrison, 2016), contra-alto clarinet, clarinet
- Lambchop, FLOTUS (Merge Records, 2016), clarinet, contra-alto clarinet, cornet, horn arrangements, tenor saxophone
- Coupler, Blue Room Sessions (Third Man Records, 2016), electric piano, euphonium
- Hands Off Cuba, Volumes of Sobering Liquids (2016), shuitar, contra-alto clarinet, samples, percussion
- HECTA, The Diet (Merge Records, 2015) contra-alto clarinet
- Coupler, Sunless (YK Records, 2013) horns
- Collective Acoustics, Art in the Age of Progress (Eric Hastings, George and Geoff Hazelrigg, Tom Spiker, Randy Kapralick, 2011), tenor saxophone
- Cortney Tidwell, Boys (City Slang, 2009) samples, shuitar, amplified pencil on paper
- Delphian Jazz Orchestra (Justin Mullens, Chris Cheek, Dan Weiss, Jacob Garchik, Judith Berkson, Masa Yamaguchi, Dave Smith, etc, Fresh Sounds New Talent, 2004), tenor, soprano saxophones
- Federico Ughi Options, South of Brooklyn (with Sean Moran, Dan Fabricatore, and Nathan Hanson, 577 Records, 2003), reedless and standard tenor
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Piano improvisation, reedless tenor, voice, live video
[ gigs
Matt Glassmeyer appears on albums and live with The Wood Brothers, Kenny Rogers, The Mavericks, Lambchop, Charlie Worsham, JP Ruiggieri, Seth Walker, Ian Saint Pe, The Magic School Bus show, Blues Clues, Shamekia Copeland, and others. Matt has also performed live with Aretha Franklin, The Four Tops, The New World, Nashville, and Atlanta symphonies, on Later with Jools Holland, at Bonnaroo, and The Royal Albert Hall. He has played shuitar in his Central American porch band, on The Tonight Show, Marty Stuart's Late Night Jam at the Ryman Auditorium.
