# Matt Bauder

Matt Bauder (born 1976) is an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and composer. He is the bandleader of the jazz trio Hearing Things, the jazz quintet Day in Pictures, and the modern doo-wop group White Blue Yellow & Clouds. He is a member of the long-form improvisation trio Memorize the Sky, jazz collective Ghost Train Orchestra, and was formerly a member of the touring lineups for Arcade Fire and Iron & Wine.

## Early life and education

Bauder was born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He attended the University of North Texas in Denton, and earned a bachelor of fine arts in jazz and contemporary improvisation at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He lived in Chicago from 1999 to 2001, where he was a part of the city's modern jazz and improvised music scene, and then attended graduate school at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. There he studied under Anthony Braxton and received a master's degree in composition. He lived in Berlin for a year, and moved to New York City in 2005.

## Career

In 2003, Bauder released his debut album, Weary Already of the Way, on 482 Music [de]. He followed that up in 2007 with the first album from his long-form improvisational jazz trio Memorize the Sky, featuring Bauder on saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet and percussion, Zach Wallace on bass, vibraphone and percussion, and Aaron Siegel on drums and percussion. Bauder released two more albums with Memorize the Sky, in 2008 and 2010.
Bauder is the bandleader and plays saxophone and guitar in the jazz trio Hearing Things, with JP Schlegelmilch on organ and Vinnie Sperrazza on drums.
In 2001, Bauder formed the doo-wop jazz group White Blue Yellow & Clouds. He plays saxophone and guitar in the group, and also sings lead vocals on some of the songs. They released Introducing White Blue Yellow & Clouds in 2007. The album features trumpeter Peter Evans, bassist Jason Ajemian, Fred Thomas (of Saturday Looks Good to Me) and sound artist Dan St. Clair. On the album, the band mashes up '50s doo-wop, '60s soul and California pop music with avant-garde flourishes, and includes covers of "God Only Knows" by The Beach Boys, "Lovers Never Say Goodbye" by The Flamingos and "Hushabye" by The Mystics.
Bauder has released two albums with his Brooklyn-based jazz quintet Day in Pictures on Clean Feed Records, the 2010 self-titled debut and 2014's Nightshades, with trumpeter Nate Wooley, pianist Kris Davis, bassist Jason Ajemian and drummer Tomas Fujiwara. Bauder played tenor saxophone and composed the songs on both albums.
In 2014, he joined the Arcade Fire's touring lineup, remaining with the band until 2016. He played saxophone and clarinet on two tracks on Arcade Fire member Will Butler's 2015 debut album Policy. He has also toured with Iron & Wine, played in the Broadway production of Fela! and collaborated on numerous projects with performance artist Aki Sasamoto, including the 2012 installation Centripetal Run, for which Bauder played saxophone, drums and guitar, sometimes simultaneously. Bauder regularly performs with Harris Eisenstadt's quintet Canada Day, and has also appeared on recordings by the Exploding Star Orchestra, Taylor Ho Bynum, Anthony Braxton, Rob Mazurek and Harris Eisenstadt.

## Discography
### Albums

| Year | Title |
| 2003 | Weary Already of the Way By: Matt Bauder Released: October 28, 2003 Label: 482 Music Formats: CD, digital download |
| 2007 | Memorize the Sky By: Memorize the Sky Released: May 8, 2007 Label: 482 Music Formats: CD, digital download |
| 2007 | Introducing White Blue Yellow & Clouds By: White Blue Yellow & Clouds Released: November 6, 2007 Label: I and Ear Records Formats: CD |
| 2008 | In Former Times By: Memorize the Sky Released: November 11, 2008 Label: Clean Feed Records Formats: CD, digital download |
| 2010 | Paper Gardens By: Matt Bauder Released: May 18, 2010 Label: Porter Records Formats: CD, digital download |
| 2010 | Day in Pictures By: Matt Bauder and Day in Pictures Released: November 8, 2010 Label: Clean Feed Records Formats: CD, digital download |
| 2010 | Creeks By: Memorize the Sky Released: December 4, 2010 Label: Broken Research Formats: LP, CD, digital download |
| 2014 | Nightshades By: Matt Bauder and Day in Pictures Released: January 21, 2014 Label: Clean Feed Records Formats: CD, digital download |

### Extended plays

| Year | Title |
| 2003 | Object 3 By: Matt Bauder Released: August 19, 2003 Label: Locust Formats: CD |

### Singles

| Year | Title |
| 2015 | "Stalefish / Transit of Venus" By: Hearing Things Released: March 1, 2015 Label: Hawks Records Formats: 7-inch |

### Appears on

| Year | Album | Artist | Credits |
| 1999 | Explosion: Cerebral | Explosion: Cerebral | Saxophone, composer |
| 2000 | Childish Delusions | Bill Brovoid | Saxophone |
| 2001 | Tramps, Traitors and Little Devils | Drag City Supersession | Strings, reeds |
| 2001 | H.O.M.E.S., Vol. 1 | The Original Brothers and Sisters of Love | Clarinet, saxophone |
| 2002 | When Flowers Covered the Earth | Warren Defever | Saxophone |
| 2002 | The Big Bang | King Kong | Saxophone |
| 2002 | Last Night | His Name Is Alive | Saxophone |
| 2003 | The Howling Hex | Neil Michael Hagerty | Saxophone |
| 2003 | All Your Summer Songs | Saturday Looks Good to Me | Saxophone |
| 2005 | 2 + 2 Compositions | Anthony Braxton | Clarinet, saxophone, composer |
| 2006 | Fugitive Pieces | Reuben Radding | Clarinet, saxophone |
| 2006 | Continuum | Reminder | Clarinet |
| 2007 | We Are All From Somewhere Else | Exploding Star Orchestra | Clarinet, saxophone |
| 2007 | The Middle Picture | Taylor Ho Bynum | Clarinet, saxophone |
| 2008 | Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra | Bill Dixon, Exploding Star Orchestra | Clarinet, saxophone |
| 2008 | Six Lines of Transformation; Music for Eight Bamboo Flutes | Andrew Raffo Dewar | Clarinet |
| 2009 | Running With the Wasters | The Takeover UK | Saxophone |
| 2009 | Luminosity | Matthew Welch | Clarinet |
| 2009 | Garabatos Volume One | Positive Catastrophe | Clarinet, saxophone |
| 2009 | Canada Day | Harris Eisenstadt | Saxophone |
| 2009 | Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths | Taylor Ho Bynum | Clarinet, saxophone |
| 2010 | Stars Have Shapes | Exploding Star Orchestra | Clarinet, saxophone |
| 2010 | Ashcan Rantings | Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra | Saxophone |
| 2011 | The House of Friendly Ghosts, Vol. I | The Sway Machinery | Saxophone |
| 2011 | Hothouse Stomp | Ghost Train Orchestra | Saxophone |
| 2011 | Staring at the X | Forest Fire | Saxophone |
| 2011 | People Change | Nat Baldwin | Clarinet |
| Canada Day II | Harris Eisenstadt | Saxophone |
| 2012 | Dibrujo, Dibrujo, Dibrujo… | Positive Catastrophe | Saxophone |
| 2013 | Dome Branches: The MVP Demos | Nat Baldwin | Clarinet |
| 2013 | True Hallucinations | Ex Cops | Saxophone |
| 2013 | B-Room | Dr. Dog | Saxophone |
| 2014 | Live in Ljubljana | Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra | Saxophone |
| 2015 | The Gravity of Our Commitment | Never Enough Hope | Saxophone |
| 2015 | Policy | Will Butler | Clarinet, saxophone |
| 2015 | How You Look When You're Falling Down | Birthmark | Clarinet, saxophone |
| 2015 | Canada Day IV | Harris Eisenstadt | Saxophone |
| 2016 | Sorrow: A Reimagining of Gorecki's 3rd Symphony | Colin Stetson | Saxophone |
| 2016 | Life's a Real Dream | Lard Dog & The Band of Shy | Saxophone, vocals |
| 2016 | Matter Anti-Matter | Exploding Star Orchestra | Saxophone |
| 2016 | Enter the Plustet | Taylor Ho Bynum | Saxophone |
| 2017 | On Parade in Parede | Harris Eisenstadt | Saxophone |