Keith Fullerton Whitman

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Keith Fullerton Whitman
KFW at Home in the Reckankomplex MathLab
Background information
Also known as	Hrvatski
Born	May 29, 1973
Origin	Somerville, MA, USA
Genre(s)	Electronic music ambient music experimental music
Instrument(s)	computer, analog modular synthesizers, guitars
Years active	1994 to Present
Label(s)	Kranky, Planet Mu
Website	Official Site

Keith Fullerton Whitman is an American electronic musician who has recorded albums influenced by many genres, including ambient music, drill and bass, and krautrock. He records and performs using many aliases, of which the most familiar is Hrvatski (the Croatian word for Croatian). His works under the Hrvatski moniker hew closet to the drill and bass facet of IDM and were his primary musical outlet in the mid- to late-1990s. Other solo aliases include ASCIII and Anonymous. Keith has been in many bands in the 1990s, including El-Ron, The Liver Saddness, Sheket/Trabant, The Finger Lakes and Gai/Jin. Keith Fullerton Whitman started recording using his own name in 2001, and most of his work recorded today is under that name.

Whitman studied computer music at Berklee College of Music, where he was exposed to modern electronic music composition and synthesis. His moniker ASCIII has released music distributed with the prestigious Computer Music Journal. His studio and live setup usually consists of a PowerBook running Max/MSP or Logic Pro, and other analogue instruments, such as guitars, ouds and synthesizers.

Whitman has released albums on labels such as Planet Mu, Kranky, Carpark Records as well on his own Entschuldigen and (now defunct) Reckankreuzungsklankewerkzeuge labels.