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Matt Heckert
Biography
Matt Heckert is an American sound artist, born in 1957. He was involved in Survival Research laboratories in the 1980s before becoming a machine musical artist. Matt Heckert graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1979 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and joined the machine performance art group Survival Research Laboratories in 1980. Matt Heckert's main work in the group centered on the acoustic and musical parts of performance. He left the group in 1988 to follow his musical interests, developing the Mechanical Sound Orchestra (MSO). The MSO was awarded the Golden Nica at the Ars Electronica 1997 for Digital Musics. The collection of sound machines has toured the US and Europe extensively.
Filmography (10)
A Scenic Harvest from the Kingdom of Pain
actor1984
Virtues Of Negative Fascination
actor1986
The Will To Provoke: An Account Of Fantastic Schemes For Initiating Social Improvements
actor1989
A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief
actor1988
Maimed Artist
actor1984
Survival Research Laboratories - Ten Years Of Robotic Mayhem
Role: Self2004
The Will To Provoke: An Account Of Fantastic Schemes For Initiating Social Improvements
art direction1989
Radio World
special effects1983
A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief
art direction1988
Survival Research Laboratories - Ten Years Of Robotic Mayhem
art direction2004