Matthew
Hettich (A.K.A. Wake) has been making computer
music for almost 4 years. A violinist since 1994,
Hettich studied classical music performance throughout
his childhood and into his late teens. Having
listened to experimental electronic musicians
such as Aphex Twin and DJ Shadow since 1996, an
excited Hettich discovered MOD tracking at a Merck
Records party on July 4th, 2003, while watching
a live set by glitch-hop artist, Machine Drum.
Soon after, Hettich quit serious study of the
violin and began devoting his attention to the
computer as a
musical instrument and serious tool for composition.
Previously
a student of Psychology and Music at New College
of Florida, Hettich now studies Music Technology
& Computer Music Composition at California
Institute of the Arts, where he takes classes
with James Tenney (the microtonal composer &
early electronic musicain) and Mark Trayle (of
"The Hub", the L.A. based Improvisational
Computer Music Band featured in "The Computer
Music Tutorial", by Curtis Roads) . Hettich
recently was featured on the Merck
Records Machine Drum Remix Compilation, "Mergerz
& Acquisitionz" along side Kid 606,
Nautilis, Acid Wolf, Machine Drum, and a plethora
of talented electronic musicians (compilation
reviewed here
& here).
He also was the assistant producer for "The
Eleisha Eagle EP" by Eleisha
Eagle and is currently working with his poet
father, Michael
Hettich, on what promises to be a new media
song cycle of Poetry set to Electronic Music.
Hettich has played shows with Cylob (Rephlex),
The Flashbulb (Sublight, Rephlex, etc.), Machine
Drum (Merck, Sublight, NormRex), Dino Felipe (Schematic,
Sublight, etc.), Hearts of Darknesses (Schematic),
Danny L (Shadetek), & Hydroplane (Experimedia,
LacedMilk). Hettich currently divides his time
between school (Valencia/L.A.) and his parents
house (Miami) where he is (so far) unsuccessfully
looking for a job (preferrably one he will enjoy).
