Matt Heckert is an American sound artist, born in 1957. He was involved in

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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 Survival Research Laboratories (SRL) is an American performance art group that pioneered the genre of large-scale machine performance. Founded in 1978 by Mark Pauline, the group is known in particular for their performances where custom-built mac ...

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

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1997 for Digital Musics.Stocker, Gerfried; Schöpf, Christine (1997). ''FleshFactor: Informationsmaschine Mensch'', Springer Wien. The collection of sound machines has toured the US and Europe extensively.

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