{{short description|American musician and computer programmer}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = Kit Clayton | honorific_suffix = | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | landscape = <!-- yes, if wide image, otherwise leave blank --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pronunciation = | birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living people supply only the year with {{Birth year and age|YYYY}} unless the exact date is already widely published, as per WP:DOB. 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The parameter |office=may be used as an alternative when the label is better rendered as "Office" (e.g. public office or appointments) --> | term = | predecessor = | party = | movement = | opponents = | boards = | criminal_charge = <!-- Criminality parameters should be supported with citations from reliable sources --> | criminal_penalty = | criminal_status = | spouse = <!-- Use article title or common name --> | partner = <!-- (unmarried long-term partner) --> | children = | parents = <!-- overrides mother and father parameters --> | mother = <!-- may be used (optionally with father parameter) in place of parents parameter (displays "Parent(s)" as label) --> | father = <!-- may be used (optionally with mother parameter) in place of parents parameter (displays "Parent(s)" as label) --> | relatives = | family = | callsign = | awards = | website = [http://www.musork.com/o_jkc.html Kit Clayton's personal site] | module = | module2 = | module3 = | module4 = | module5 = | module6 = | signature = | signature_size = | signature_alt = | footnotes = }} '''Joshua Kit Clayton''', better known by his stage name '''Kit Clayton''', is a San Francisco-based electronic and digital musician and computer programmer. He is a developer at San Francisco software company Cycling '74, helping create the Max/MSP MIDI/audio programming environment.<ref name="uci">{{cite web|url=http://music.arts.uci.edu/dobrian/gemseries04-05.htm|title=Gassmann Electronic Music Series - 2004-2005|publisher=music.arts.uci.edu|accessdate=2016-07-24}}</ref><ref name="freememes">{{cite web|url=http://www.freememes.com/space/Kit+Clayton|title=Freememes: Kit Clayton|publisher=freememes.com|accessdate=2016-07-24}}</ref> He is also a significant contributor to Jitter, the multi-dimensional data set processing and visualizing architecture for audio, video, and 3D graphics (part of the Max multimedia package).<ref name="ucsb">{{cite web|url=http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~wakefield/amv/jitter.htm|title=art music video|publisher=mat.ucsb.edu|accessdate=2016-07-24|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303172239/http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~wakefield/amv/jitter.htm|archivedate=2016-03-03}}</ref> Clayton uses Max, MSP, and Jitter extensively in his own abstract musical compositions, which have been described as including aspects of ambient computer music and glitch.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.epitonic.com/artists/kitclayton.html |title=Kit Clayton - Epitonic.com: Hi Quality Free and Legal MP3 Music |accessdate=2010-08-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100906070041/http://www.epitonic.com/artists/kitclayton.html |archivedate=2010-09-06 }}</ref>
In 2000 Clayton founded and operated his own label, Orthlorng Musork.<ref name="boomkat">{{cite web|url=http://boomkat.com/vinyl/2265-kit-clayton-latke|title=Boomkat: Independent Music Specialist selling Vinyl, CD's, Cassettes and Downloads worldwide|publisher=boomkat.com|accessdate=2016-07-24}}</ref> Musork released seminal works by AGF, Akira Rabelais, Alejandra and Aeron, Kevin Blechdom, Blevin Blectum, Blectum from Blechdom, Eight Frozen Modules, Gold Chains, Secret Mommy, Stephan Mathieu, Sutekh, Timeblind, and others, until closing in 2004. Musork announced its final release and the closing of label operations with the following statement:
"Why do we stop? The simple and honest truth is that we want to devote our time to other creative things. We still love music and we will still be active and supportive of the scene. We aren't in financial ruin, we don't think p2p networks have destroyed the music industry, we don't only want to listen to country western, we just want to take on other projects with as much love and intensity as we did this one."<ref name="musork">{{cite web|url=http://musork.com/news.html|title=orthlorng musork: news|publisher=musork.com|accessdate=2016-07-24}}</ref>
He continues to compose, perform and develop Max/MSP, and Jitter.<ref name="share">{{cite web|url=http://share.dj/share/press_wired1.php|title=Share NYC ] press - wired|publisher=share.dj|accessdate=2016-07-24|archive-date=2016-08-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808144705/http://share.dj/share/press_wired1.php|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="discogs">{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/Kit+Clayton|title=Kit Clayton Discography at Discogs|publisher=discogs.com|accessdate=2016-07-24}}</ref>
Clayton graduated from Wesleyan University, where he studied electronic music and computer science.<ref name="uci"/>
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==External links== * [http://www.musork.com/o_jkc.html Kit Clayton's personal site] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080510121737/http://mp3osa.net/artist19524/Kit-Clayton/ Live Kit Clayton Reviews]
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