Conspirator
Scott Hampton
Trumpeter, guitarist and composer who performs as Exaltron. He named Reflections, Vol. 1 and plays its last track.
From the creditsScott Hampton on Ukelele. Exaltron on Trumpet. I Just Believe in Christmas, Catfish Calhoun and Friends, 2015.
Scott Hampton, who performs and releases as Exaltron, is a New York trumpeter, guitarist, music technologist and composer. He combines live instruments, looping and live remixing with custom Max for Live patches, has played The Knitting Factory, Nublu and The Delancey, toured nationally with Moldover, and in 2016 built a mobile sound system to take his looping rig into subway stations and parks. As a film and television composer he has scored features including The Wayward Sun (2013), Batman & Jesus (2017) and Black Wake (2018), and he teaches at Garnish Music Production School.
A name, a track, and a gralbum
He gave Reflections, Vol. 1 its subtitle, A Noise Akin to a Flight of Deranged Swallows in Combat, lifted from a review of a Metal Machine Trio show, and Exaltron plays the last track: trumpet, guitar, guitar-bass and live looping. For The Gralbum Collective he wrote two of the three songs of Train O’ Thoughts with Tom Hart, launched at the New York Transit Museum on April 1, 2015; the third, “Hope is a state of Mind,” is mine. He plays ukulele and, as Exaltron, trumpet on “I Just Believe in Christmas.”
The creditScott Hampton (Exaltron) and Sarth Calhoun: Reflections, Vol. 1 (2015; Hampton named it and plays the last track), Train O’ Thoughts (The Gralbum Collective, 2015; music by Exaltron and Calhoun), and “I Just Believe in Christmas” (2015; ukulele and trumpet).
My thoughts
The profile is from public sources, linked where they appear. What we made is the record on this site and the sources cited above.