Matt Heckert
Actor
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.
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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
A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief
June 7, 1988
Virtues Of Negative Fascination
February 27, 1986
Survival Research Laboratories - Ten Years Of Robotic Mayhem
May 25, 2004
Maimed Artist
August 27, 1984
A Scenic Harvest from the Kingdom of Pain
June 6, 1984
The Will To Provoke: An Account Of Fantastic Schemes For Initiating Social Improvements
February 27, 1989
Acting6
Behind the camera4
- 2004Survival Research Laboratories - Ten Years Of Robotic Mayhem Art Direction
- 1989The Will To Provoke: An Account Of Fantastic Schemes For Initiating Social Improvements Art Direction
- 1988