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Charles Céleste Hutchins was born in San Jose, California in 1976, and makes his home in Berkeley, CA. He is a member of the board of directors of Other Minds, an organization that produces an annual festival in San Francisco.

Hutchins attended Mills College in Oakland, California, where he studied with Maggi Payne and acquired a love for the sound of analog electronics. In 1998 he graduated with a dual B.A. in music and computer science. In 2005, Charles graduated from the M.A. program at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, where he studied computer music and Supercollider with Ron Kuivila and improvisation with Anthony Braxton. Following that, he attended the year long course at CCMIX in France and then the Sonology course at the Royal Conservatory of the Netherlands. He is currently a PhD student at the University of Birmingham in England.

He has performed in North America – in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Canada and Connecticut – and in Europe- in England, France, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria. His music has been played on European and American radio.

He is exploring using his computer to do things that his analog synthesizer cannot do, including just intonation and granular synthesis. His most recent work involves text sound pieces with found material. He believes progressive politics and experimental music are natural allies.

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Charles Céleste Hutchins was born in San Jose, California in 1976. He went to Mills College in Oakland, California, where he studied with Maggi Payne. There he acquired a love for the sound of analog electronics. He graduated with a B.A. in 1998. In 2005, he graduated from the MA program at Wesleyan University where he studied with Ron Kuivila and Anthony Braxton. Following that, he did the CCMIX course in France and then the Sonology course at the Royal Conservatory of The Netherlands. He has played at venues and festivals around North America and Europe. His music has been played on European and American radio. Hutchins is currently enrolled in the PhD program at the University of Birmingham, England.

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Charles Céleste Hutchins was born in San Jose, California in 1976. In 1998, he graduated from Mills College in Oakland, California, where he studied electronic music with Maggi Payne. In 2005, he graduated with an MA from Wesleyan University, where he studied with Ron Kuivila and Anthony Braxton. He has played at venues and festivals around North America and Europe. His music has been played on European and American radio. Hutchins is currently enrolled in the PhD program at the University of Birmingham, England.

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Charles Céleste Hutchins was born in California in 1976. He went to Mills College in Oakland, California and graduated with a B.A. in 1998 and from Wesleyan University with an MA in 2005. He has played at several concerts, appeared on a CD put out by Ibol Records and has had radio and internet play. Hutchins is currently enrolled at the PhD program at the University of Birmingham, England.

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Charles Céleste Hutchins is a Californian abroad, testing Philip K Dick’s theory that once you become a Berkeley radical, you can never leave. He explores issues of regional identity, plays music, goes to school and has telepathic conversations with an alien satellite orbiting the earth.