MATT HECKERT KIAMI LOUISSAINT MATT HECKERT WHO IS

MATT HECKERT KIAMI LOUISSAINT

MATT HECKERT

WHO IS HE? • Matt Heckert is an American sound, performance, and installation artist • Born in 1957 • He graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1979 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts • Joined amachine performance art group “Survival Research Laboratories”.

HIS CRAFT

SURVIVAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES Heckert began playing with sound machines while working with the San Francisco mechanical art collective Survival Research Laboratories (SRL), commonly credited as the initiator of contemporary machine art. In addition to fabricating parts, Heckert assisted SRL by producing soundtracks intended to communicate the personalities and emotional states of various machines used in performances. In 1990, Heckert left SRL to take his own sound machines on the road, performing across North America and Europe with his Mechanical Sound Orchestra.

KNOWN WORKS

"Resonator“ installed in the Parochialkirche for "SONAMBIENTE- Festival for Eyes and Ears" Sound arts festival celebrating the 300 th anniversary of the Berlin Academie der Kunst Berlin, Germany August 1996 photo: Kay-Uwe Rosseburg "MECHANICAL SOUND ORCHESTRA" INSTALLATION AT UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM/PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE

"OSCILATING RINGS" AT PALAIS XTRA, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND PHOTO: DANIEL GERBER "Automatic String Rack" at the University Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive UC Berkeley

"Rythm Hammer" (foreground) and "Rings of Saturn" at Palais Xtra in Zurich, Switzerland photo: Daniel Gerber

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