Metamono

Metamono is a UK electronic group formed in 2009. It begins as a collaboration between two musicians and a fine artist, with a strict working manifesto designed to limit their choices and push them towards new methods. The group builds, modifies, recycles and reconstructs instruments as part of that approach, and makes analogue electronic music within those rules.

Members

The group consists of Jono Podmore, who also works as Kumo, Paul Conboy and Mark Hill. Podmore is active in electronic music as a composer, producer, programmer, engineer and arranger, with work connected to Irmin Schmidt and the wider Can family, as well as experience in London’s dance music scene and in film and television. Conboy also works under names including APE, CorkerConboy and Soul Circuit, and has made electronic music and film and television scores for more than 15 years; he also writes and performs with Bomb The Bass and works on solo material. Hill is a fine artist known for interior projects including the recycled house, and he plays a Korg MS-20 after contemplating it for 25 years.

Activity and context

The group is based in the United Kingdom and remains active. Its name is associated with a deliberately constrained method of making music, where the rules are agreed before any sound is created. That framework shapes both the instruments used and the way the music is assembled.