Birth name: Brian Wayne Transeau Also known as: BT Born: October 4, 1971 (1971-10-04),Rockville, Maryland, U.S. Genres: Electronica, Film score, New Classical Occupations: Producer, Composer, Singer Instruments: computer, piano Years active: Early 1990s - Present Labels: Perfecto Records, Vandit, Reprise Records, Headspace Recordings, Nettwerk, DTS Entertainment, 405 Recordings, Black Hole Recordings, New State Recordings Website: www.btmusic.com www.sonikarchitects.com *Brian Wayne Transeau (born October 4, 1971) is an American music producer, composer, audio technician, singer and songwriter better known by his stage name, BT. He is an artist in the electronic genre. BT has produced and written for artists such as Paul Van Dyk, Peter Gabriel, `N Sync, Sting, Blake Lewis, Tori Amos and Tiesto. As a film composer he has worked on films such as The Fast and the Furious and Monster. BT is known for using a production technique he calls the stutter edit. This technique consists of taking a small fragments of sound and then repeating it rhythmically. BT was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records for his song Somnambulist (Simply Being Loved). This song was recognized as using the largest number of vocal edits in a song (6,178 edits.) In 2009, he launched his software company Sonik Architects with the company`s first product for iPhone, named Sonifi. In 2010, BT was nominated for a Grammy Award for his studio album, These Hopeful Machines under the category "Best Electronic/Dance Album". In January 2011, BT and iZotope, Inc. released the audio plug-in, "Stutter Edit" based on his patented technique of editing digital audio in realtime.