Instruments Guitar
keyboard
vocals Albums Western Teleport | Years active 1998 – present | |
Origin Jacksonville, Florida, United States Genres Alternative
noise pop
noise rock
lo-fi
folk
indie folk Labels Bar/None Records
Discos Mariscos
Snowglobe Records
Bakery Outlet Records
Burnt Toast Vinyl
Plan-It-X Records
Tiny Engines Associated acts The Cadets
Applied Communications
Beatcancel
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Chad R. Matheny, known professionally as Emperor X, is an American singer and songwriter.
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Early life and career
Matheny got his start in music when he was given a Casio SK-1 by his grandparents at age 9, and managed to record his first album on a Tascam four-track before the age of 20.
Matheny tours across the United States regularly and performs around the world as well, including tours in Mexico, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the European Union.
In a self-described attempt to "address the diminishing utility of physical copies of music and the expanding role of marketing in the experience of art", Matheny often hides or buries one-off physical copies and associated visual artwork of b-sides at GPS coordinates and posts them online as a part of a geocaching game to unlock MP3 copies of the audio. For the release of the 2011 Emperor X album Western Teleport, 41 "translucent purple audio cassettes" were buried across North America, many of which remain undiscovered. This received a feature on NPR's "Weekend Edition" program.
Personal life
Matheny was a former high school science teacher, and in 2004 he stopped his pursuit of a master's degree in physics in order to dedicate his career to music.
Matheny is a testicular cancer survivor.
Full-length albums
EPs and singles
Tour-only releases
Songs
Erica Western TeleportWestern Teleport · 2011
Compressor RepairWestern Teleport · 2011
Allahu AkbarWestern Teleport · 2011