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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 Electronic music is a Music genre, genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or electronics, circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromech ...
genre, he is credited as a pioneer of the
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and
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styles that paved the way for
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,Tyler Gray
"Would You Want to Hear This New Circa News Sound Whenever News Breaks?"
''
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'', October 3, 2013.
and for "stretching electronic music to its technical breaking point." In 2010, he was nominated for a
Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album The Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards — a ceremony that was established in 1958 — to recording artists for quality albums in the dance music and electronica genres. Honors in several categ ...
for ''
These Hopeful Machines ''These Hopeful Machines'' is the sixth studio album by American electronic musician BT. Released on February 1, 2010, the album sees collaborations with the likes of JES, Rob Dickinson, Christian Burns and Kirsty Hawkshaw, also featuring a c ...
''.BT
"First-Time Nominee: BT (Part One),"
Grammy.com, January 18, 2011.
He creates music within a myriad of styles, such as classical, film composition, and bass music. BT holds multiple patents for pioneering the technique he calls stutter editing.Clayton Perry
"Interview: Brian Transeau – Singer, Songwriter and Producer,"
''
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'', April 26, 2011.
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.Cosmin Lukacs
"Interview With BT aka Brian Transeau,"
Trance Sound, September 10, 2010.
BT was entered into the ''
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'' for his song " Somnambulist (Simply Being Loved)", recognized as using the largest number of vocal edits in a song (6,178 edits).DJ Ron Slomowicz
"21 Records That Made Me Happy to Be a DJ,"
About.com. Accessed August 3, 2014.
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. BT has produced, collaborated, and written with a variety of artists, including
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, Howard Jones,
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,
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, Madonna,
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,
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, Sting,
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,
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,
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, Blake Lewis,
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,
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,
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, and
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. He has composed original scores for films such as '' Go'', '' The Fast and the Furious'', and ''
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'', and his scores and compositions have appeared on television series such as ''
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'', '' Six Feet Under'', and ''
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''.Damon Fonooni
"Embracing BT,"
''Lunar'', 2002.
Steph Evans
"Earmilk Interview: BT,"
Earmilk, August 20, 2013.
He was commissioned to compose a four-hour, 256 channel installation composition for the Tomorrowland-themed area at Shanghai Disneyland, which opened in 2016.


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 4Tim Bomba
"Home is where the art is,"
''
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'', November 14, 2006.
and started playing classical piano at an early age, utilizing the
Suzuki method The Suzuki method is a music curriculum and teaching philosophy dating from the mid-20th century, created by Japanese violinist and pedagogue Shinichi Suzuki (1898–1998). The method aims to create an environment for learning music which para ...
.Richard Buskin
"Brian Transeau: Emotional Experience,"
Sound on Sound ''Sound on Sound'' is an independently owned monthly music technology magazine published by SOS Publications Group, based in Cambridge, United Kingdom. The magazine includes product tests of electronic musical performance and recording devices, ...
, December 2001.
By the age of eight he was studying composition and theory at the Washington Conservatory of Music."BT Wears His Lab Coat for These Hopeful Machines,"
'' Keyboard'', February 26, 2010.
Mark Small
"Berklee Today,"
Berklee.edu. Retrieved August 3, 2014.
He was introduced to electronic music through the
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culture and the
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score for the film ''
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'', which led him to discover influential electronic music artists such as
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,
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, New Order and
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. 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 Berklee College of Music is a private music college in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known for the study of jazz and modern American music, it also offers college-level cou ...
in Boston, Massachusetts, where he studied jazz and enjoyed experimenting, such as running keyboards through old guitar pedals.


Career

BT is a multi-instrumentalist, playing piano, guitar, bass, keyboards, synths, sequencers, the
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, drum machines and instruments he has modified himself. His process for creating songs typically starts with composition on basic instruments, like the piano or an acoustic guitar.


1989–1994: Early career

In 1989, after dropping out of
Berklee Berklee College of Music is a private music college in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known for the study of jazz and modern American music, it also offers college-level cour ...
, BT moved to Los Angeles, where he tried, unsuccessfully, to get signed as a singer-songwriter. Realizing he should focus on the electronic music he was more passionate about, he moved back to Maryland in 1990 and began collaborating with friends Ali " Dubfire" Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi of Deep Dish. Together they started Deep Dish Records. Early in his career, BT worked under a variety of musical aliases, including Prana, Elastic Chakra, Elastic Reality, Libra, Dharma, Kaistar and GTB.


1995–1996: ''Ima''

In the early years of BT's career, he became a pioneering artist in the trance genre, this despite the fact that he does not consider himself a DJ, since he infrequently spins records and comes from an eclectic music background. When he started out, such common elements as a build, breakdown and drop were unclassified. BT's was a unique interpretation of what electronic music could be.Rafael De La Torre
"EDM Interview: Magnetic Catches Up With BT To Discuss New Album,"
''Magnetic'', June 14, 2013.
His first recordings, "A Moment of Truth" and "Relativity", became hits in dance clubs in the UK. His productions were not yet popular in the US, and he was initially unaware that he had become popular across the Atlantic, where UK DJs like
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were regularly spinning his music for crowds. Sasha bought BT a ticket to London, where BT witnessed his own success in the clubs, with several thousand clubbers responding dramatically when Sasha played BT's song. He also met
Paul Oakenfold Paul Mark Oakenfold (born 30 August 1963), formerly known mononymously as Oakenfold, is an English record producer, remixer and trance DJ. He has provided over 100 remixes for over 100 artists including U2, Moby, Madonna, Britney Spears, Mas ...
, playing him tracks that would make up his first album. He was quickly signed to Oakenfold's record label, a subsidiary of
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. BT's 1995 debut album '' Ima'', released on Oakenfold's label, was a progressive house effort. The opening track, "Nocturnal Transmission", was featured in '' The Fast and the Furious''. The album also featured a song called ' Loving You More' with Vincent Covello. Blending house beats with sweeping New Age sounds, ''Ima'' helped to create the trance sound.Geoff Boucher
"He's Breaking the Spell of Trance Music,"
''
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'', August 20, 2000.
"Ima (今)" is the Japanese word for "now". BT has stated that it also means many other things and that the intention of the album is to have a different effect for everyone. Following the release of ''Ima'', BT began traveling to England regularly. It was during this time that he met
Tori Amos Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She is a classically trained musician with a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Having already begun composing instrumental pieces on piano, Amos won a full ...
. They would collaborate on his song "Blue Skies", which reached the number one spot on ''
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'' magazine's Dance Club Songs chart in January 1997. This track helped expand BT's notability beyond Europe, into North America. He soon began to remix songs for well-known artists such as Sting, Madonna, Seal,
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,
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,
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,
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and
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.Ravi Baskaran, "Beatific," ''Broward/Palm Beach New Times'', July 13, 2000.


1997–1998: ''ESCM''

BT's second album, '' ESCM'' (acronym for ''Electric Sky Church Music''), released in 1997, features more complex melodies and traditional harmonies along with a heavier use of vocals. The tone of the album is darker and less whimsical than ''Ima''. The album, as a whole, is much more diverse than BT's debut, expanding into drum and bass, breakbeat, hip-hop, rock and vocally-based tracks. The biggest hit from ''ESCM'' was "Flaming June," a modern trance collaboration with German DJ
Paul van Dyk Matthias Paul (; born 16 December 1971), known professionally as Paul van Dyk () is a German DJ, record producer and musician. One of the first true renowned DJs, van Dyk was the first artist to receive a Grammy Award nomination in the newly a ...
. Van Dyk and BT would go on to collaborate on a number of works, including "Namistai" (found on the later album ''
Movement in Still Life ''Movement in Still Life'' is the third studio album by American electronica artist BT. It was released in the United Kingdom on October 8, 1999, and a different version released in the United States in 2000. A transition towards hip hop, it i ...
''), as well as van Dyk's remix of BT's "Blue Skies" and "Remember". "Remember" featured Jan Johnston on vocals, and reached #1 on the ''Billboard'' Dance Club Songs chart. BT and Van Dyk also remixed the van Dyk classic "Forbidden Fruit" as well as Dina Carroll's "Run to You", and BT collaborated with
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on "Firewater" and "Remember."


1999–2002: ''Movement in Still Life''

In 1999, BT released his third album, ''
Movement in Still Life ''Movement in Still Life'' is the third studio album by American electronica artist BT. It was released in the United Kingdom on October 8, 1999, and a different version released in the United States in 2000. A transition towards hip hop, it i ...
'', and continued his previous experimentation outside of the trance genre. The album features a strong element of nu skool breaks, a genre he helped define with "Hip-Hop Phenomenon" in collaboration with Tsunami One aka Adam Freeland and Kevin Beber. Along with trance collaborations with Paul van Dyk and DJ Rap, ''Movement'' includes pop ("Never Gonna Come Back Down" with M. Doughty on vocals), progressive house ("Dreaming" with Kirsty Hawkshaw on vocals) and hip hop-influenced tracks ("Madskill – Mic Chekka", which samples
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's " The Message", and "Smartbomb", a mix of funky, heavy riffs from both synthesizers and guitars woven over a hip-hop break). "Shame" and "Satellite" lean toward an alt-rock sound, while "Godspeed" and "Dreaming" fall into classic trance ranks. "Running Down the Way Up", a collaboration with fellow electronic act
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, features sultry vocals and acoustic guitars heavily edited into a progressive breakbeat track. "Dreaming" and "Godspeed" reached number 5 and number 10 on the ''Billboard'' Dance Club Songs chart, respectively, "Never Gonna Come Back Down" reached #9 the ''Billboard'' Dance Club Songs chart and number 16 on ''Billboards Alternative Songs chart, and the album reached number 166 on the ''Billboard'' 200 album charts. Long interested in branching out into film scoring, BT got the opportunity when director
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asked him to score '' Go'', a 1999 film about dance music culture. Shortly after creating the score, BT moved to
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in order to further pursue film scoring. He also began writing music for string quartets to prove his capabilities beyond electronic music. He was then hired to score the film '' Under Suspicion'' with a 60-piece string section. For ''The Fast and the Furious'', BT's score featured a 70-piece ensemble, along with polyrhythmic tribal sounds produced by orchestral percussionists banging on car
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. In 1999, BT collaborated with
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on the album ''
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'', the soundtrack to the Millennium Dome Show in London. In 2001, he produced
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's hit single "
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", which won a 2001 Teen Choice Award for Choice Single, won four
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, and reached number 19 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and number 9 on the UK Singles chart. In 2002, BT released the compilation album '' 10 Years in the Life'', a two-disc collection of rarities and remixes, including "The Moment of Truth", the first track he ever recorded.


2003–2005: ''Emotional Technology''

BT's fourth studio album, released on August 5, 2003, featured more vocal tracks than his previous fare, including six with vocals by BT himself. '' Emotional Technology'' was his most experimental album to date, exploring a range of genres; many consider it the "poppiest" of all his work. ''Emotional Technology'' spent 25 weeks on the ''Billboard'' Dance/Electronic Albums chart, reaching the top spot, and it reached number 138 on the ''Billboard'' 200 charts. The biggest single from the album, " Somnambulist (Simply Being Loved)", draws heavily from the breakbeats and new wave dance of New Order and Depeche Mode, whom BT has cited as major influences. "Somnambulist" holds the
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for the largest number of vocal edits in a single track, with 6,178. It reached number 5 on the ''Billboard'' Dance Club Songs chart and number 98 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. BT ventured into television production for '' Tommy Lee Goes to College'' for
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in 2005. It starred
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drummer
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. He executive-produced the reality television series, the idea for which he developed and sold to NBC. BT worked with Sting on his album '' Sacred Love'', co-producing the track "Never Coming Home".


2006–2009: ''This Binary Universe''

BT's fifth studio album, ''
This Binary Universe ''This Binary Universe'' is the fifth studio album by the composer and electronica artist BT. It was released on August 29, 2006. The album was a significant about-face for Transeau, largely abandoning the progressive trance music he was known f ...
'', released on August 29, 2006, is his second album released in
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surround sound, the first being the soundtrack to the 2003 film ''
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''. The double album highlights a mix of genres, including jazz, breakbeats and classical. Three songs feature a full 110-piece orchestra. Unlike his previous two albums, which featured vocals on almost every track, this album is entirely instrumental. The tracks change genres constantly. For example, "The Antikythera Mechanism" starts off almost lullaby-like, complete with a piano, acoustic guitars and reversed beats; halfway through the track, it explodes with a 110-piece orchestra, followed by a section of breakbeats and ending with the de-construction of the orchestra. Animated videos created by visual effects artist Scott Pagano to accompany each song were included in a DVD packaged along with the CD. ''This Binary Universe'' reached number 4 on the ''Billboard'' Dance/Electronic Albums chart. BT's company, Sonik Architects, built the drum machine (the first in surround sound) used on the album. '' Keyboard'' magazine said of the album, "In a hundred years, it could well be studied as the first major electronic work of the new millennium."Stephen Fortner, "The Mind Of BT," '' Keyboard'', December 2005. ''
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'' called it an "innovative masterpiece."Curtis Silver
"BT Talks These Hopeful Machines, Math and Inspiration,"
''Wired'', February 2, 2010.
In November and December 2006, BT toured the album with
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opening. The concert featured a live slideshow of images from
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as a backdrop. All the shows were done in 5.1 surround sound, with BT playing piano, bass and other instruments live, and also singing on a cover of " Mad World" by
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. Earlier in 2006, BT performed with an orchestra and conductor and visuals for an audience of 11,000 at the
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concert at the
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in Los Angeles.


2010–2011: ''These Hopeful Machines''

BT's sixth studio album, ''
These Hopeful Machines ''These Hopeful Machines'' is the sixth studio album by American electronic musician BT. Released on February 1, 2010, the album sees collaborations with the likes of JES, Rob Dickinson, Christian Burns and Kirsty Hawkshaw, also featuring a c ...
'', was released on February 2, 2010. The double album features dance-pop, trance, house, breaks, soundscapes, orchestral interludes, acoustic guitar and stutter edits. With BT spending several years perfecting the album, mathematically placing edits and loops to create "an album of ultimate depth and movement," each of the songs went through a lengthy recording process. BT has estimated that each song on the album took over 100 sessions to record, adding that "
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" took 2 months to write and record, working 14 to 20 hours a day, 7 days a week. ''These Hopeful Machines'' was nominated for a 2011
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. The album features guest appearances from and collaborations with
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of
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,
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("A Million Stars"), JES ("Every Other Way" and "The Light in Things"), Rob Dickinson ("Always" and "The Unbreakable"), Christian Burns ("Suddenly", "Emergency" and "Forget Me") and Andrew Bayer ("The Emergency"). It contains the most singles released from any BT album, with 8 of the 12 tracks released as singles. Official remixes were made by
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and
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. It reached number 6 on the ''Billboard'' Dance/Electronic Albums chart and number 154 on the ''Billboard'' 200 album charts. The singles "Emergency" and "Rose of Jericho" reached numbers 3 and 5 on the ''Billboard'' Dance Club Songs chart, respectively. A remix album, titled '' These Re-Imagined Machines'' was released in 2011. '' These Humble Machines'', an un-mixed album featuring shorter "radio edit" versions of the tracks (similar to the US version of ''Movement in Still Life'') was also released in 2011.Danny Turner, "Interview: BT," ''Future Music'', September 2010.


2012: ''If the Stars Are Eternal So Are You and I'' and ''Morceau Subrosa''

On June 19, 2012, BT released ''
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'', along with ''
Morceau Subrosa ''Morceau Subrosa'' (also known, in full, as ''SUPPLEMENTO NUOVO MORCEAU SUBROSA ymphonie elektronik') is the eighth studio album by composer and electronica artist BT, and was released on June 19, 2012, in tandem with ''If the Stars are Eter ...
'', his seventh and eighth studio albums. ''If the Stars Are Eternal So Are You and I'' was an about-face from BT's previous album ''These Hopeful Machines'', utilizing minimal beats, ambient soundscapes, and glitch music, as opposed to the electronic music style of ''These Hopeful Machines''. ''Morceau Subrosa'' is very different in style compared to most of BT's previous works, favoring ambient soundscapes and minimal beats.


2013–2014: ''A Song Across Wires'' and radio shows

BT's ninth studio album, '' A Song Across Wires'', was released worldwide on August 16, 2013. Blending elements of trance, progressive house and electro, the club music-oriented album reached number 5 on the ''Billboard'' Dance/Electronic Albums chart, and features four
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No. 1 trance singles: "Tomahawk" (with Adam K), "Must Be the Love" (with Arty and Nadia Ali), "Skylarking" and "Surrounded" (with
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and Aqualung). On the album, BT also collaborates with Senadee, Andrew Bayer, Tania Zygar, Emma Hewitt, JES, Fractal, tyDi and
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singer
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. In 2012, he released the mix collection ''Laptop Symphony'', based on his laptop performances on his
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radio show, which range from dubstep to drumstep to progressive to trance.Gary Graff
"BT's Busy 2012: Mix Set, 'Quiet' EP & a Follow-Up to 'Machines',"
''Billboard'', March 1, 2012.
In 2013, he started a new Sirius XM radio program, ''Skylarking'', on the Electric Area channel.


2015–2019: ''Electronic Opus'', All Hail the Silence, _ and ''‡''

On November 10, 2014, BT announced a
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project with
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to produce '' Electronic Opus'', an electronic symphonic album with re-imagined, orchestral versions of BT's songs. The project reached its crowd-funding goal of $200,000. A live orchestra played during Video Games Live on March 29, 2015, while the album was released on October 12, 2015. On March 7, 2012, it was announced that BT and Christian Burns had formed a band called All Hail the Silence, with encouragement from
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. They released their first unofficial single, "Looking Glass", online in 2012. On July 21, 2014, Transeau and Burns announced that their band would be touring with
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in the fall of 2014 for the album '' The Violet Flame''. On August 24, 2016, the band announced that they would release a limited edition colored 12"
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collectible
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entitled ''
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'' with
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on September 19, 2016. On September 28, 2018, the band released their first official single, "Diamonds in the Snow", along with its accompanying music video. They released the music video for "Temptation" in December 2018. The band's first album, ''
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'' (stylized as ''‡''), was released on January 18, 2019. On December 14, 2015, BT disclosed news to ''
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'' about a new album to come by early 2016. Similar to ''This Binary Universe'', BT explained that "the entire record is recorded in a way
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never recorded anything before," and that it has a "modular, ambient aesthetic". The album, '' _'', was released digitally on October 14, 2016, and physically on December 2, 2016, via Black Hole Recordings, along with an accompanying film. Due to the restrictions of most music sites, which forbid blank album titles, BT chose to name the album the underscore character "_". BT has admitted that this title has resulted in complaints from fans about difficulties in finding the album on popular services due to the inability of most search engines to handle the "_" character. On January 17, 2017, BT released ''_+'', an extended version of ''_''. On October 10, 2019, BT announced on
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that two new albums were slated for release in the Fall of 2019: ''Between Here and You'', an ambient album consisting of ten tracks, and '' Everything You're Searching for Is on the Other Side of Fear'', a 17-track album with sounds akin to those from ''This Binary Universe'' and ''_''. ''Between Here and You'' was released on October 18, 2019 and reached the number 1 spot on the Electronic Albums Chart on iTunes. ''Everything You're Searching for Is on the Other Side of Fear'' was released on December 13, 2019.


2020–present: ''The Lost Art of Longing'', Genesis.json and ''Metaversal''

On June 19, 2020, BT released the single "1AM in Paris / The War", which featured singer Iraina Mancini and DJ Matt Fax. On July 17, 2020, another single, "No Warning Lights" was released, featuring Emma Hewitt on vocals. It was later announced that '' The Lost Art of Longing'' would be his thirteenth album, released on August 14, 2020. In May 2021, Transeau entered into the world of
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s by composing music for a digital artwork piece entitled "DUNESCAPE XXI", and soon afterwards auctioning off a digital artwork piece entitled "Genesis.json", which includes 24 hours worth of original music that contains an Indian
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and 15,000 hand-sequenced audio and visual moments. The artwork is programmed to give a special message on the owner's birthday and is the "only work of art that puts itself to sleep" on a certain time. In September 2021, BT announced his 14th album ''Metaversal'', which was created and programmed entirely on a
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for release on September 29. The album was released publicly on November 19.


Film, TV and video game scores

BT began scoring films in 1999 with '' Go''. Since then he has scored over a dozen films, including '' The Fast and the Furious'', ''
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'', '' Gone in 60 Seconds'', '' Lara Croft: Tomb Raider'' and ''
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''. His soundtrack for ''
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'' featured the song "She Can Do That", with lead vocals from
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. BT produced the score for the 2001 film ''
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'', but had his name removed from the project. His tracks for the film were finished by composer
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. BT also composed music for the
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animated short film '' Partysaurus Rex'', released in 2012 alongside the 3D release of ''
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''. He has scored the video games '' Die Hard Trilogy 2: Viva Las Vegas'' (2000), '' Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions'' (2002), '' FIFA Football 2002'' (2002), '' Need for Speed: Underground'' (2003), Burnout Revenge (2005), Need For Speed: Most Wanted (2005) and '' Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005'' (2004). He made the official second-long alert tone for the Circa News app. In 2013, he scored ''
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'', a 13-episode drama on ABC. In 2014, BT was selected by
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executives to score the music for the Tomorrowland-themed area at Shanghai Disneyland, which opened in 2016. He spent more than two years on the project, writing more than four hours of music that are played out of more than 200 speakers spread throughout Tomorrowland. BT called the undertaking "one of the most thrilling experiences of my life."


Software


Sonik Architects

During the production of ''This Binary Universe'', Transeau wanted to program drums in surround sound, and found that software tools to accomplish this weren't readily available. He decided to develop his own, forming his own software company, Sonik Architects, to create a line of sound design tools for the studio and another line of tools and plug-ins designed for live performance. The company's first release was the drum machine surround sound sequencer BreakTweaker, a PC plug-in. In 2009, Sonik Architects released Sonifi, a product for the iPhone,
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and
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that enables musicians to replicate BT's stutter edit effect live.Mark Milian
"Sonifi iPhone app lets your fingers remix music,"
''Los Angeles Times'', November 17, 2009.
BT himself has used it during live shows. In December 2010, Sonik Architects was acquired by software and music production company iZotope, and at the Winter
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in January 2011, the Stutter Edit plug-in, based on BT's patented technique of real-time manipulation of digital audio, was released by iZotope and BT. In 2020, Transeau released an upgraded version of his Stutter Edit plug-in with iZotope, called Stutter Edit 2. This version includes more sound effects, more presets, and new features such as Auto Mode and the Curve editor.


Other software

In his early career, BT used Voyetra Sequencer Plus Gold to create music. Transeau is a user of digital audio workstation
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and he was included in the Power Users section on Image-Line's site in 2013. In 2014, BT collaborated with Boulanger Labs in creating the Leap Motion app Muse, a device that allows users to compose their own ambient sounds using gestural control. He also developed a standalone plugin synthesizer called BT Phobos for the music software company Spitfire Audio, which was released on April 6, 2017. BT created presets for the synth plugin Parallels, released by Softube in 2019. He also created analog synth tone patches for the synthesized Omnisphere 2, created by ILIO. In 2022, BT released the
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Tails with Unfiltered Audio and the synth plugin Polaris with Spitfire.


Personal life

BT lives with his daughter in Maryland. In 2008, he was involved in dispute about his daughter's custody with the child's mother, Ashley Duffy. He is an avid
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, and supports the preservation of sharks. In February 2014, BT partnered with EDM lifestyle brand Electric Family to produce a collaboration bracelet for which 100% of the proceeds are donated to the
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. On October 19, 2014, BT was married to Lacy Transeau (née Bean).


Awards and nominations


Grammy Awards


International Dance Music Awards

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Beatport Music Awards

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''Computer Music'' Awards

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BMI Film & TV Awards


Discography

Studio albums * '' Ima'' (1995) * '' ESCM'' (1997) * ''
Movement in Still Life ''Movement in Still Life'' is the third studio album by American electronica artist BT. It was released in the United Kingdom on October 8, 1999, and a different version released in the United States in 2000. A transition towards hip hop, it i ...
'' (1999) * '' Emotional Technology'' (2003) * ''
This Binary Universe ''This Binary Universe'' is the fifth studio album by the composer and electronica artist BT. It was released on August 29, 2006. The album was a significant about-face for Transeau, largely abandoning the progressive trance music he was known f ...
'' (2006) * ''
These Hopeful Machines ''These Hopeful Machines'' is the sixth studio album by American electronic musician BT. Released on February 1, 2010, the album sees collaborations with the likes of JES, Rob Dickinson, Christian Burns and Kirsty Hawkshaw, also featuring a c ...
'' (2010) * ''
If the Stars Are Eternal So Are You and I ''If the Stars are Eternal So are You and I'' is the seventh studio album by composer and electronica artist BT, and was released on June 19, 2012, in tandem with ''Morceau Subrosa'', BT's eighth studio album. Development First announced in Marc ...
'' (2012) * ''
Morceau Subrosa ''Morceau Subrosa'' (also known, in full, as ''SUPPLEMENTO NUOVO MORCEAU SUBROSA ymphonie elektronik') is the eighth studio album by composer and electronica artist BT, and was released on June 19, 2012, in tandem with ''If the Stars are Eter ...
'' (2012) * '' A Song Across Wires'' (2013) * '' _'' (2016) * '' Between Here and You'' (2019) * '' Everything You're Searching for Is on the Other Side of Fear'' (2019) * '' The Lost Art of Longing'' (2020) * ''Metaversal'' (2021) With All Hail the Silence * ''
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'' (2019)


See also

* List of Number 1 Dance Hits (United States) * List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart * Granular synthesis * Stutter edit


References


External links

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