Matt Heckert Trailers

Survival Research Laboratories - Ten Years Of Robotic Mayhem TrailerThe Will To Provoke: An Account Of Fantastic Schemes For Initiating Social Improvements TrailerA Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief Trailer

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.

Most Popular Matt Heckert Trailers

Total trailers found: 7

Survival Research Laboratories - Ten Years Of Robotic Mayhem Trailer (2004)

25 May 2004

1 A Bitter Message Of Hopeless Grief 2 The Will To Provoke 3 The Delusions Of Expediency 4 Ths

Radio World Trailer (1983)

01 January 1983

In the not-so-distant future of a devolved high tech society, a group of displaced suburbanites take refuge in a ruined factory, attempting to fend off the sadistic X-police.

A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief Trailer (1988)

07 June 1988

Living in a fictional world all their own, the machines of Survival Research Laboratories act out scn

The Will To Provoke: An Account Of Fantastic Schemes For Initiating Social Improvements Trailer (1989)

27 February 1989

The 1988 European tour of Survival Research Laboratories, with shows in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. SRL ferrets out and gleefully satirizes assorted icons of cultural pride in two of Europes more allegedly libertarian democracies.

A Scenic Harvest from the Kingdom of Pain Trailer (1984)

06 June 1984

Documentation of three Survival Research Laboratories events, 1983-1984. Meet Stu, the SRL guinea pig, and see him training to operate the 4-legged Walking Machine, see 10-barrel shotguns, hear the "Stairway to Hell".

Maimed Artist Trailer (1984)

27 August 1984

Documentary that profiles Mark Pauline, the machine performance artist of Survival Research Laboratories.

Virtues Of Negative Fascination Trailer (1986)

27 February 1986

Five mechanized performances of Survival Research Laboratories, 1985-1986. 70 min. of endless pursuits, unavoidable captures, and merciless punishments.