FEATURED ARTIST
BT
Brian Wayne Transeau (born October 4, 1971), known by his initials as BT, is an American musician, DJ, singer, songwriter, composer and audio engineer. An artist in the electronic music genre, he is credited as a pioneer of the trance and intelligent dance music styles that paved the way for EDM, and for «stretching electronic music to its technical breaking point. In 2010, he was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album for These Hopeful Machines. He creates music within a myriad of styles, such as classical, film composition, and bass music.
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BT: The audio production wizard
BT holds multiple patents for pioneering the technique he calls stutter editing. This production technique consists of taking a small fragment of sound and repeating it rhythmically, often at audio rate values while processing the resultant stream using advanced digital processing techniques.[6] BT was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records for his song «Somnambulist (Simply Being Loved)», recognized as using the largest number of vocal edits in a song (6,178 edits). BT’s work with stutter edit techniques led to the formation of software development company Sonik Architects, developer of the sound-processing software plug-ins Stutter Edit and BreakTweaker, and Phobos with Spitfire Audio.
Learn more about BT's "stutter" effect
Early life and education
BT was born in Rockville, Maryland on October 4, 1971. His father was an FBI and DEA agent, and his mother a psychiatrist. BT started listening to classical music at the age of 4 and started playing classical piano at an early age, utilizing the Suzuki method. By the age of eight he was studying composition and theory at the Washington Conservatory of Music. He was introduced to electronic music through the breakdancing culture and the Vangelis score for the film Blade Runner, which led him to discover influential electronic music artists such as Afrika Bambaataa, Kraftwerk, New Order and Depeche Mode. In high school, he played drums in one band, bass in a ska band and guitar in a punk group. At 15, he was accepted to the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, where he studied jazz and enjoyed experimenting, such as running keyboards through old guitar pedals.
BT DISCOGRAPHY
check Ima (1995)
check ESCM (1997)
check Movement in Still Life (1999)
check Emotional Technology (2003)
check This Binary Universe (2006)
check These Hopeful Machines (2010)
check If the Stars Are Eternal So Are You and I (2012)
check Morceau Subrosa (2012)
check A Song Across Wires (2013)
check Between Here and You (2019)
check Everything You're Searching for Is on the Other Side of Fear (2019)
check The Lost Art of Longing (2020)[102]
check Metaversal (2021)[77][78]
