Person
Matt Heckert
Acting
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.
Known for
Radio World
Special Effects
A Scenic Harvest from the Kingdom of Pain
1984
Maimed Artist
1984
Virtues Of Negative Fascination
1986
Survival Research Laboratories - Ten Years Of Robotic Mayhem
Self
A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief
1988
The Will To Provoke: An Account Of Fantastic Schemes For Initiating Social Improvements
1989
Filmography
- 2004Survival Research Laboratories - Ten Years Of Robotic MayhemSelf
- 1989The Will To Provoke: An Account Of Fantastic Schemes For Initiating Social Improvements
- 1988A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief
- 1986Virtues Of Negative Fascination
- 1984Maimed Artist
- 1984A Scenic Harvest from the Kingdom of Pain
- 1983Radio WorldSpecial Effects
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