JEFF HUNT is an artist, producer, designer and writer, best known as the founder of independent recording label Table of the Elements (lauded by Pitchfork Media as “a national treasure"). Since 1992, he has documented some of the most prominent figures in experimental sound, electroacoustic music, free-improvised performance, sonic sculpture, microtonality, and field documentation.

He and Tony Conrad — the profoundly influential composer, musician, artist and filmmaker — maintained a prolific and durable relationship until the latter's passing in 2016. From their partnership flowed releases both archival and contemporary, documents that dramatically rewrote the history of American minimalism. These also divulged previously unheard recordings by Conrad’s peers from the early 1960s, including the protean filmmaker and artist Jack Smith and Velvet Underground co-founder John Cale.

Hunt was a prime mover in the career resurgence of America primitive John Fahey, producing several new titles before the guitarist’s death in 2001; he also collaborated with Fahey and Dean Blackwood on their Revenant recording label. His partnerships with multiple Grammy award-winning graphic artist Susan Archie and acclaimed filmmaker Tyler Hubby span decades, and he enjoys an ongoing alliance with pan-media craftsman Bradly Brown.

As a creative director and consultant, Hunt has contributed to more than 170 audio titles, often with long-time partner Archie. Examples of their unusual approach to raw materials and reductive design have been acknowledged in print media sources including Print, I.D., Artforum, Time, and Rolling Stone. He has left inventive fingerprints on works featuring Mike Kelley, Cecil Taylor, Woody Guthrie, Captain Beefheart, Thurston Moore, Robert Longo, Hank Williams, Albert Ayler and Christian Marclay.

In 2000, he served as art director for Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 4, the alchemical sibling to the 1952 Smithsonian Folkways classic, and a convulsive rebirth of an Old, Weird America. In 2001 he contributed to the epic Grammy winner, Screamin’ and Hollerin’ the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton.

Among his audio productions is the first complete version of Harmonices Mundi (2002) by computer composer Laurie Spiegel. The work was originally commissioned in 1975 by Dr. Carl Sagan for inclusion on the "Golden Record" that accompanies the Voyager II spacecraft. It is now far beyond the orbit of Pluto in the vastness of interstellar space., inviting extraterrestrial ears.

As a curator, Hunt has hosted film screenings and multiple-day music festivals. His associated acts have performed in venues including: All Tomorrows Parties (UK); Marquee Club (London); Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh); Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Broad & The Theatre at ACE Hotel (Los Angeles); National Gallery of Art (Washington DC); TATE Modern (London); CBGB (NYC); Lincoln Center Plaza (NYC); Nippon Budokan (Tokyo); Whitney Museum of Art (NYC); and La Basilique du Sacré Cœur de Montmartre (Paris), in which the “orchestra” was comprised of 400 electric guitars.

He coordinated in 1994 with the U.S. Department of the Interior to present an all-night event featuring artists from three continents. These performances took place 20 miles from the nearest electric light, in Desolation Canyon, Death Valley National Park, CA.

As a writer, Hunt has covered subjects within and beyond the realm of sound, such as experimental film, art history, current affairs, Vaudeville comedy, and the general conundrum of Southern identity; he has worked at length for Amoeba Music in Hollywood. He also makes several appearances in Tyler Hubby’s award-winning documentary feature, Tony Conrad: Completely In the Present.

He lives in Austin, Texas.