M. Sage

Matthew Sage is a musician, intermedia artist, recording engineer and producer, publisher, teacher, partner, and parent. Since the early 2010s, between Colorado and Chicago, he’s rendered projects with playful, nuanced velocity and a completist sensibility, assembling an idiosyncratic catalog of experimental studio music that sprawls in various directions.

While releasing solo music as M. Sage, he also, and often, engages in collaborations, namely his recent contributions to the improvisatory ambient jazz quartet, Fuubutsushi.

His 2023 debut for RVNG Intl. Paradise Crick was designed patiently over five years. A winding system of trails and paths, it is shaped by time, a pastoral fantasy that envisions the natural and fabricated worlds as one.

Born and raised in Colorado, Sage grew up playing drums, guitar, and any instrument he could find, joining bands throughout jr. high and high school before discovering the nascent DIY music culture on the internet. He founded the tape label Patient Sounds in 2009, releasing music from over one hundred artists as well as his own work during its ten-year run.

In 2014, Sage moved to Chicago to attend graduate school at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he studied writing and intermedia arts.

In 2020 Sage launched Cached.Media, an imprint for collaborative musical projects, print objects, and other publishing experiments.

After eight years there, Sage and his family left Chicago and now live in rural Colorado.