Matt Heckert
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.
A Scenic Harvest from the Kingdom of Pain
as uncreditedDocumentation of three Survival Research Laboratories events, 1983-1984. Meet Stu, the SRL...
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The Will To Provoke: An Account Of Fantastic Schemes For Initiating Social Improvements
as uncreditedThe 1988 European tour of Survival Research Laboratories, with shows in Amsterdam and...
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A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief
as uncreditedLiving in a fictional world all their own, the machines of Survival Research Laboratories act...
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Maimed Artist
as uncreditedDocumentary that profiles Mark Pauline, the machine performance artist of Survival Research...
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Virtues Of Negative Fascination
as uncreditedFive mechanized performances of Survival Research Laboratories, 1985-1986. 70 min. of endless...
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Survival Research Laboratories - Ten Years Of Robotic Mayhem
as Self1 A Bitter Message Of Hopeless Grief 2 The Will To Provoke 3 The Delusions Of Expediency ...
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