Acting
Matt Heckert
EN cinema · 7 credits
Also known as Matthew 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.
Known for
Filmography
Survival Research Laboratories - Ten Years Of Robotic Mayhem
as Self, Art Direction
The Will To Provoke: An Account Of Fantastic Schemes For Initiating Social Improvements
Actor, Art Direction
A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief
Actor, Art Direction
Radio World
Special Effects