Seth Cluett (born 1976, Troy, New York) is a composer and visual artist whose work includes photography, drawing, video, sound installation, concert music, and performance. His pieces are an exploration of the role of sound in everyday life, engaging the boundary between the auditory and the other senses as an active field of experience for the audience.His compositions and installations are characterized by their minimal use of sine tones and drones as an auditory canvas to create a space within which other sound elements might operate. His work frequently includes unaltered field recordings as well as homemade analog electronics. Some of his work could be described as saturating and immersive, while other pieces exhibit a careful placement of sonic objects in a manner much closer to musique concrete. All of his work is marked by a close attention to perception specifically regarding the role that sound plays in the flexible experience of time and space.
His work has been shown/performed at the 10th Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Palais de Tokyo Museum, Theatre sur le Pave, and GRM in Paris; the ICA, Mobius Artist Space, MassArt/nonpod in Boston; WPS1/MoMA, The Kitchen, Diapason, Engine 27, Tonic, and The Knitting Factory in New York; the Betty Rymer Gallery at the Art Institute of Chicago, Heaven, Artemisia, and Deadtech Galleries in Chicago; as well as the Deep Listening Space in Kingston, NY amongst others. Seth's work is documented on Errant Bodies Press, Sedimental, Crank Satori, BoxMedia, and Wavelet Records. For more information see http://www.onelonelypixel.org
Composer, electric bass player and musician who has developed his work in the no man's land between "academic" composition (orchestra, ensembles, opera) and electronic "new music" or "noise music".
Has won several prizes and distinctions ; 1st prize for orchestral composition at the Besancon Festival, 1st prize at the "Opera autrement/Acanthes" competition, Villa MŽdicis Hors les Murs (New York), grant Leonardo da Vinci (San Francisco) , Villa Kujoyama (Kyoto), DAAD (Berlin).
Got numerous commissions from the French Governement, the radio and from electronic studios such as Ircam, GRM , GMEM, CRFMW, EMS..
Works with experimental or unclassifiable musicians such as Zbigniew Karkowski, Tetsuo Furudate, Dror Feiler, Art Zoyd, Eliane Radigue, Phill Niblock, John Duncan, others.
Directs his own ensemble which does not have a name, and is made up of musicians who have the same musical preoccupations - rupture.
Has definitively integrated the computer into the very heart of his work, as a tool of thought and composition, and as a live instrument, hybridising more traditional instruments if necessary, or working on the sheer electronic noise.
Multidisciplinary artist/professor living and working in Hamilton, NJ.
--1/4 Wzt Hearts
--1/2 Backbreakerneckbrace
--1/8 New No York/New No York Soundsystem (RIP)
Has exhibited audio and visual work at:
Maryland Institute College of Art (Brown Hall) Baltimore, Maryland,
E-Werk Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany,
Transmissions Festival 003 (2001) Chicago, Illinois,
Whitney ISP Exhibit @ CUNY Graduate Center, NYC NY (as part of New No York)
+ many other galleries, festivals, bars, clubs, etc, etc.
MH will be touring early next year in a trio with Keith Rowe, and Rick Reed and as a duo with Scott Smallwood. Also runs Raw Special Effects: Zbigniew Karkowski: Elasticity of Time (CD) out now!, PITA: live in Detroit (tape) very soon!, Evol TBA soon!, WZT Hearts (CD).......
Wzt Hearts:
http://www.myspace.com/wztheartssss
Collaboration w/ Dion Workman
http://antiopic.com/allegorical/june2003.html