BT (musician)

BT
Background information
Birth name	Brian Wayne Transeau
Also known as	Prana Elastic Chakra Elastic Reality Libra Dharma Kaistar GTB
Born	(1970-10-04) October 4, 1970 (age 46) Rockville, Maryland
Genres	EDM trance trip hop IDM house ambient breakbeat big beat glitch orchestral
Occupation(s)	Music producer composer technologist audio technician multi-instrumentalist singer songwriter
Instruments	Computer piano bass guitar keyboards synthesizer drum machine
Years active	1989–present
Labels	Warner Bros. Perfecto Reprise Vandit Headspace Nettwerk DTS 405 Black Hole New State Armada Enhanced Binary Acoustics
Associated acts	Tori Amos Paul van Dyk Jan Johnston Kirsty Hawkshaw Billie Ray Martin Tiësto Armin van Buuren JES Christian Burns Celldweller Super8 & Tab Savant Peter Gabriel Ilan Bluestone Stef Lang All Hail the Silence
Website	btmusic.com

Brian Wayne Transeau (born October 4, 1970), better known by his stage name BT, is an American music producer, composer, technologist, audio technician, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter. An artist in the electronica 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." He also creates music within many other styles, such as classical, film composition and bass music.

BT is also known for pioneering the stutter edit. This production technique consists of taking a small fragment of sound and repeating it rhythmically. 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 the live audio and visual remix app called Sonifi.

In 2010, BT was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album for These Hopeful Machines. He has produced, remixed, written for, and collaborated with a variety of artists, including Paul van Dyk, Peter Gabriel, Tori Amos, Depeche Mode, NSYNC, Sting, Blake Lewis, The Roots, Guru, Madonna, Britney Spears and Tiësto, and composed original scores for films such as Go, The Fast and the Furious and Monster.

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