Matheny has started burying his releases in the ground and asking fans to go out and find them.
Matheny is recording himself on a handheld tape recorder. It’s a song that might never be heard again. Two things would prevent you from ever hearing it: The first is that, when he’s done, Matheny is going to bury the tape in the ground; the second is that no one may ever find it.
In a few weeks, Matheny will post the tape’s GPS coordinates to his website, and then hope that someone will go dig it up. Whoever finds it gets to keep the tape, which also comes with a secret code that will unlock more music on his website for the rest of the world to hear. He says that these recordings are mostly half-formed song ideas — it’s his music in its earliest stage.
