Stuart Hyatt is a Grammy-nominated artist and musician. He creates interdisciplinary creative projects about our complicated relationship with the natural world. Hyatt is the producer of Field Works, the collaborative series in which experimental musicians transform audio field recordings into music. Each album follows a rigorous conceptual framework - incorporating scientific data and site-based field work - but emerges as a simple, emotionally evocative musical story. This body of work is released via the Brooklyn-based record label Temporary Residence and published by the Dutch imprint Jap Sam Books.
As a National Geographic Explorer, Hyatt is expanding this music into new frequencies: producing records using the ultrasonic echolocations of endangered bats and the infrasonic rumblings of seismic activity. The resulting albums, books, exhibitions, and live performances bring new audiences into uncharted sonic territories, encouraging a closer listen and more thoughtful attention to the voice of a fragile planet.
His work has been printed in The Wire, The New York Times, Tape Op, Electronic Sound, Fader, Atlas Obscura, Indianapolis Monthly, Uncut, and featured on NPR, the BBC, Bandcamp, Treble Zine, Perfect Sound Forever, Glasstire, Tiny Mix Tapes, CLOT Magazine, A Closer Listen, Stereogum, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Tinnitist, Loud and Quiet, Gizmodo, Aquarium Drunkard, Consequence of Sound, and many others.
Hyatt is also a songwriter and producer of left field pop and folk music, creating work with amateur community participants. These albums are created under the umbrella of TEAM Records and are released on innova and DFA. He is a member of M12 Studio, the arts collective known for projects that explore public space, rural cultures and landscapes. He works independently via commission as Stuart Hyatt Studio, LLC. He lives in Indianapolis with his family.
Email: stuart@teamrecords.org
Instagram: @stuarthyatt
photo by Anna Powell Denton