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's main work in the group centered on the acoustic and musical parts of performance.
He left the group in 1988[1] 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.