Bio:
Clint McCallum was born at the feet of the Rocky Mountains 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 respect 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 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). 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 Jonathan Piper, saxophonist Eliot Gattegno, and several other fantastic musicians. 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.


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