Bio:
Clint McCallum was born at the feet of the Rocky Mountains at Saint Jacobs Hospital in Denver Colorado 1980. He thought himself a novelist until, at the age of thirteen, he taught himself how to play the guitar so that he could be in punk bands. Soon he was playing in jazz bands. Then he went to music conservatory at Oberlin (in Ohio) where he studied composition with Randy Coleman and Lewis Nielson. In repect to those two influential teachers Clint has said: "Mr. Coleman taught me to love the hippy side of Stockhausen and was the first person to show me Fluxus scores. Mr. Nielson showed me that I could still maintain a physical relationship to instruments and sound, even though I was drawing on paper." After graduating from Oberlin Clint played in the two bands STEXX (a black metal influenced industrial band that used computer processing and large formal schemes to pummel peoples skeletal structures) and Cockdeath (a computer-grind band that combined short song structures into longer concept pieces to drill peoples eardrums). During this time Clint collaborated with the Ohio Ballet and choreographer Ashley Bowman on a for violin, tape, and dancers that was a nostalgic-adolescent fantasy. The bands eventually disbanded in silent-glorious-flashes. So Clint went to pursue another degree or two at the University of California San Diego. That's where he is right now, collaborating with technologist Kevin Larke, tubist John Piper, saxophonist Eliot Gatttegno, and several other fantastic musicians at this malversiforous mecca. His current work seeks to investigate the limits of the human body through exhausting performance techniques, high volume levels, and invented technology. It incorporates influences from the western musical avant garde, 1970's american performance art, underground noise music, horror films, and J.S. Bach among others.