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Herbert may refer to:

• a Germanic name, see Herbert (name)
• a surname, see Herbert (surname)

Places

• Herbert, California
• Herbert, California, former name of Knowles Junction, California
• Herbert, New Zealand
• Herbert, Saskatchewan
• Herbert Island, Alaska
• Herbert River, Australia
• Herbert Road, St. Albert, Canada
• Herbert Sound, Antarctica

Fiction

• Herbert (Family Guy), a fictional character in the television series Family Guy
• Herbert Garrison, a fictional character in the television series South Park
• Herbert West, a fictional character in H. P. Lovecraft's story "Herbert West: Reanimator" and the films based on it
• Herbert (film), a Bengali film directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay, based on the novel of the same name by Nabarun Bhattacharya
• 'Erbert, a fictional short-sighted schoolboy from the Bash St. Kids

Other uses

• Herbert (grape), a hybrid grape variety
• Baron Herbert, a title in the British peerage
• Division of Herbert, Australian electoral district
• USS Herbert (DD-160)
• Herbert Art Gallery and Museum

See also[link]

• All pages beginning with Herbert
• Herbie (disambiguation)

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Matthew Herbert
Herbert at Moers Festival 2006, Germany
Background information
Birth name	Matthew Herbert
Also known as	Herbert, Doctor Rockit, Radio Boy, Wishmountain
Born	1972
Origin	United Kingdom
Genres	Electronic music Microhouse Techno Jazz Classical
Occupations	DJ, Producer, Composer
Instruments	Sampler
Years active	1995 to present
Labels	Accidental Records
Website	http://www.matthewherbert.com

Matthew Herbert (born 1972), also known as Herbert, Doctor Rockit, Radio Boy, Mr. Vertigo, Transformer, and Wishmountain, is a British electronic musician. He has pioneered the use of so-called 'real', 'ordinary' or 'found' sounds in modern electronic music.^[1]

Career[link]

Herbert began experimenting with aleatoric processes while studying drama at Exeter University in the early 1990s. He gave his first professional public performance in 1995 as Wishmountain, reportedly using a bag of crisps as an instrument. Two years of performing under this name followed before he retired Wishmountain in favor of Radio Boy. In addition to creating rhythmic musique concrete as Radio Boy, however, Herbert worked on more traditional, yet relatively experimental dance music.

In the mid 90s he traveled to San Francisco, where he met jazz singer Dani Siciliano. In 1998, Herbert issued Around the House, which successfully mixed dance beats, sounds generated by everyday kitchen objects, and Siciliano's wry vocals. By the late Nineties, Herbert was remixing tracks for dance artists like Moloko, Motorbass, Alter Ego, and others. (Many of these were later collected on Secondhand Sounds: Herbert Remixes.) He also recorded singles, EPs, and albums under a variety of aliases (Doctor Rockit, Radio Boy, Mr. Vertigo, and Transformer) as well as his own name.

In 2001, Herbert issued Bodily Functions. Similar in structure to Around the House, it culled sounds generated by manipulating human hair and skin as well as internal bodily organs. Less severe than Matmos' work, its light and sinuous dance sound augured the rise of microhouse. Bodily Functions benefited from a deal Herbert signed with electronic imprint Studio !K7, making it his first full-length to receive worldwide distribution.

Goodbye Swingtime, a 2003 album issued as the Matthew Herbert Big Band, combined the political commentary of Radio Boy with the song structure of his Herbert albums. Recorded with sixteen musicians from the British jazz world, including saxophonists Dave O'Higgins and Nigel Hitchcock, pianist Phil Parnell, and bassist Dave Green, the band is complemented on stage by Siciliano, Arto Lindsay, Warp recording artist Jamie Lidell, and Mara Carlyle.

In 2005, he released a record entitled Plat Du Jour, a record made entirely from objects and situations in the food chain. He recorded beneath the sewers of Fleet Street, with Vietnamese coffee beans, inside industrial chicken farms, drove a tank over a recreation of the dinner that Nigella Lawson cooked for George Bush and Tony Blair, and recorded 3500 people biting an apple at the same time. The track entitled The Final Meal of Stacey Lawton was made in collaboration renowned chef Heston Blumenthal

On May 30, 2006, Herbert issued Scale, his most successful album to date. In the U.S., it reached number 20 on Billboard's electronic music album chart. Entertainment Weekly remarked, "Herbert sneakily subverts Scale's apocalyptic thematic thread into something warm and danceable."^[2] Online magazine Pitchfork Media noted, "Sophisticated and whimsical, joyful and yet tinged with sadness, Scale is one of this year's great albums."^[3]

In October 2008 Matthew Herbert released the second album by his Matthew Herbert Big Band project, entitled 'There's Me And There's You', fronted by vocalist Eska. On the record he recorded inside the houses of parliament, at a landfill site, and in the lobby of the British Museum with 70 volunteers.

In 2010 Matthew Herbert released two of a three part trilogy of albums. The first: One One, was entirely written and performed by Herbert alone, the seconds : One Club was made exclusively out of sounds recorded at the Robert Johnson nightclub in Offenbach in Germany on one night.

That same year he also released a reworking of Mahler's tenth symphony for the Deutsche Grammophon's Recomposed series. Much of the recording was made inside Mahler's composing hut in Toblach, by his graveside and in a crematorium.

In late 2011, the final part of the trilogy "One Pig" was be released. Herbert recorded the life cycle of a farmed pig from birth to the dinner plate. The animal rights organisation PETA condemned the album when it was announced without hearing it.^[1] Herbert, who is not a vegetarian, responded that their complaints were "utterly asburd" and that he wanted his music to encourage people to "listen to the world a little more carefully."^[1]

Theories and politics[link]

In 2000, Herbert wrote a manifesto titled "Personal Contract for the Composition of Music (Incorporating the Manifest of Mistakes)",^[4] which served as a theoretical guide for much of his ensuing work. Often referred to as PCCOM, some of its eleven goals includes a personal ban on using drum machines and pre-existing samples, and ensuring that anything created in the studio can be replicated in live performance.

Many of his less dance-oriented projects (chiefly those not recorded under the name Herbert) take on sundry political concerns, using specific objects to create a conceptual piece. His 2001 project as Radio Boy, The Mechanics of Destruction sampled objects from McDonald's & The Gap merchandise as a protest against corporate globalism. It was made available as a free MP3 download, via concerts and could be acquired by sending an addressed envelope to accidental records. It is still available to download for free.

In 2005 Herbert released the album Plat du Jour under his proper name, Matthew Herbert. The disc addresses commercial food production and marketing.

In February 2006, Herbert helped form the virtual community Country X.^[5] In an introduction posted on the website, he writes, "Why not start a country? only this time, a virtual one. free from the necessity to defend its borders physically, we can reduce the violence of exclusion. a new description of resistance."

Herbert shared some of his thoughts on the future in an article for UK music magazine, 'Clash', writing "we are facing a perfect storm of shit: global financial meltdown, massive climatic shifts and the end of oil."^[6]

Accidental Records[link]

By 2000 Herbert assembled several microlabels he initiated, including Soundslike (for his Herbert alias) and Lifelike (originally called Lowlife, begun in 1998 for his Doctor Rockit alias), under the umbrella Accidental Records. In addition to documenting Herbert's sundry projects, these imprints issued works from The Soft Pink Truth, Mara Carlyle, Mugison and Beckett & Taylor among others. Between 2008 and 2009, the label released 'Butterflies' by Finn Peters, the sophomore record of Matthew Herbert Big Band named 'There's Me And There's You', The Invisible's debut album, Setsubun Bean Unit, and Micachu's debut named 'Jewellery'.

2010/2011 sees the release of a trilogy concept album by Herbert, beginning with 'One One', followed by 'One Club' and 'One Pig'.

Additional projects[link]

Matthew Herbert has produced remixes for numerous artists, including Moloko, Ennio Morricone, Quincy Jones, Björk, R.E.M., Perry Farrell, Serge Gainsbourg, Yoko Ono, John Cale, The Avalanches and Cornelius. He programmed three tracks on Björk's Vespertine, and produced The Invisible's debut album, along with Moloko singer Róisín Murphy's album Ruby Blue'. He has also produced albums for Micachu, Merz and Finn Peters

He has contributed music to several films, including Human Traffic and Dogme 95 director Kristian Levring's The Intended, Agathe Clery, Le Defi, HBO's A Number, as well as UK television, theatrical and concert dance productions.

Herbert also wrote music for the YouTube documentary film Life in a Day along with prominent composer Harry Gregson-Williams.

In 2012 he is relaunching the museum of sound at www.museumofsound.com

Discography[link]

As Herbert[link]

• 100 lbs (1996)
• Parts One Two and Three (1996)
• Parts Remixed (1996)
• Around the House (1998)
• Bodily Functions (2001)
• Secondhand Sounds: Herbert Remixes (2002)
• Scale (2006)

As Matthew Herbert[link]

• Letsallmakemistakes (Globus Mix Vol. 5) (1995)
• Plat du Jour (2005)
• Score (2006)
• Recomposed: Mahler symphony X (2010)
• One One (2010)
• One Club (2010)
• One Pig (2011) ^[7]

As Doctor Rockit[link]

• The Music of Sound (1996)
• Indoor Fireworks (2000)
• Veselka's Diner (2003)
• The Unnecessary History of Doctor Rockit (2004)

As The Matthew Herbert Big Band[link]

• Goodbye Swingtime (2003)
• There's Me and There's You (2008)

As Radio Boy[link]

• Wishmountain Is Dead, Long Live Radio Boy (1997)
• The Mechanics of Destruction (2001)

As Wishmountain[link]

• Wishmountain (1998)
• Wishmountain is Dead (1998)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Matthew Herbert's own website
• The Matthew Herbert Big Band website
• 100lbs website
• Scale website
• The Mechanics of Destruction (site expired)
• Accidental Records website
• Matthew Herbert's PCCOM manifesto
• Matthew Herbert at Discogs
• Plat du Jour website
• Matthew Herbert and Accidental Records activity
• Cool Hunting Video on Herbert released jan. 2007

Herbert Nitsch
Born	(1970-04-20) 20 April 1970 (age 42) Austria
Occupation	Free-diver, pilot

Herbert Nitsch (born 20 April 1970) is an Austrian free-diver who has held world records in all of the eight apnea free-diving disciplines recognised by AIDA International. He is the current freediving world record champion and “the deepest man on earth”. This title was given to him, when he set the current world record in No Limits discipline at the depth of 214 meters (~702 feet). To date, he has achieved 31 official World Records (see Table below).

Nitsch, who works part time as a pilot for Tyrolean Airways, holds the No-Limits record, the prestigious title of "Deepest man on Earth" in which the diver can make use of a weighted sled to descend as far as possible and uses an air-filled balloon to return to the surface. Nitsch set the world record in Spetses, Greece [1] in June 2007 when he descended to 214 m, beating his own record of 183 m set the previous year. He also held the world record in the Constant Weight event, which is considered by many to be the classic free-diving discipline: the diver descends next to a line, not using the line and unaided by a sled, and must maintain a constant weight, meaning that no weight can be dropped for the return to the surface. Nitsch exceeded the then world record in 2006 when he dived to a depth of 110 m, but failure to complete the strict surfacing protocols within the allotted time meant that the dive was disqualified. After this he took on Marcus Greatwood as his coach (until December 2007). In Hurghada, Egypt, in December 2006 he did a Constant Weight World Record dive of 111 m, adding 2 m on top of Guillaume Néry's previous record.

Nitsch worked hard in 2007 and on 14 June 2007 he achieved 214 m (702 ft) in Spetses, Greece on a revolutionary sled. Building on his fitness for the No Limits Herbert set the Constant weight (No Fins) record during The Triple Depth in Dahab, Egypt, and went on to push the Constant record to 112m during the World Championships in Sharm. Herbert also won the AIDA Individual World Championships.

Of the other five AIDA recognised events, Nitsch has been the world record holder in four: Static Apnea, Dynamic Apnea, Free Immersion and Dynamic Apnea without fins. He set a time of 9 mins 4 secs for the world Static Apnea record in December 2006 when he held his breath underwater in a swimming pool in Hurgada, a time that was beaten by 4 secs in 2007 by Tom Sietas of Germany. His record of 66 m for Constant Weight without fins, set in 2004, was beaten by 14 m in 2005 by Czech free-diver, Martin Štěpánek, who is also the holder of the Free Immersion record of 106 m; Nitsch recorded 100 m in September 2003, but his record was bettered by a dive of 101 m by Carlos Coste of Venezuela in October the same year and then twice improved upon by Štěpánek. Nitsch's Dynamic Apnea record, 183 m set in 2002, has been beaten by 40 m by Tom Sietas and women's champion, Natalia Molchanova of Russia, has also swum further than 200 m. Sietas also holds the Dynamic Apnea without fins record at 183 m, beating Nitsch's 2001 distance of 134 m by almost 50 m.

During the 2009 Vertical Blue competition at the Dean's Blue Hole in Bahamas, he broke the Free Immersion world record at 109 m. On the last day of the competition, he performed a world record dive in Constant Weight at 120 m, beating by 6 m the previous record that he had set a few days earlier. He used his arms only in the last 40 m of this ascent, with a total dive time of 3:58.

Official World Records by Herbert Nitsch[link]

72m = AIDA Lake Record; after 2001-12-31 AIDA International no longer separated the records achieved in a lake from those in the sea.

References[link]

• "Herbert Nitsch". 2007. http://www.herbertnitsch.com/. Retrieved 30 January 2007. 
• "AIDA International". 2007. http://www.aida-international.org/. Retrieved 30 January 2007. 
• Current Freediving World Records
• "Apnea Mania". 2007. http://www.apneamania.com/code/index.asp. Retrieved 30 January 2007. 
• "Freedive Central". 2008. http://www.freedivecentral.com/. Retrieved 30 January 2008. 

This article is about the British racing driver. For other people of the same name, see John Herbert.

Johnny Herbert Herbert as Sporting Relations Manager of MF1 Racing in 2006. Born (1964-06-25) 25 June 1964 (age 48) Formula One World Championship career Nationality British Active years 1989–2000 Teams Benetton, Tyrrell, Lotus, Ligier, Sauber, Stewart, Jaguar Races 165 (161 starts) Championships 0 Wins 3 Podiums 7 Career points 98 Pole positions 0 Fastest laps 0 First race 1989 Brazilian Grand Prix First win 1995 British Grand Prix Last win 1999 European Grand Prix Last race 2000 Malaysian Grand Prix 24 Hours of Le Mans career Participating years 1990 - 1992, 2002 - 2004, 2007 Teams Mazdaspeed/Oreca, Champion Racing, Audi Sport North America, Team Bentley, Audi Sport UK Team Veloqx, Aston Martin Racing Best finish 1st (1991) Class wins 1 (1991)

John Paul Herbert (born 25 June 1964 in Brentwood, Essex, England) is a British racing driver from England. He competed in Formula One, winning three races, and also in sports cars winning the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1991 driving a Mazda 787B. He enjoyed much success in lower-level motor racing but never managed to achieve the same level of performance at the top level of motorsport.

Career[link]

Early career and entry to Formula One[link]

During the mid-1980s, Johnny Herbert was widely regarded as a coming man of motor racing, comparable to the Scot Jim Clark. Winning the Formula Ford Festival at Brands Hatch in 1985, Herbert caught Eddie Jordan's attention, and together they won the 1987 British Formula Three title. Disaster struck in 1988, though, as Herbert, then a championship hopeful in International Formula 3000 was caught up in a major accident at Brands Hatch, badly breaking his legs in a fearsome impact with the barriers. It was an act of huge bravery that saw him back in a racing car at the beginning of 1989, despite the fact he could barely walk. Even more remarkably, he was now in Formula 1, scoring points on his debut in Brazil driving for the Benetton team, then managed by his long time mentor and friend Peter Collins.

Herbert driving for Lotus at the 1994 British Grand Prix. He finished eleventh.

However, Herbert's performances could not keep up that standard, and with the Benetton team under new management, he was dropped after failing to qualify for the Canadian Grand Prix. Herbert returned to Formula 3000, this time in the highly regarded Japanese series. It wasn't long before he received another call from Grand Prix racing, this time Tyrrell. From 1990 to 2000, Herbert was a fixture in Formula One, switching to the dwindling Lotus team, now managed by Peter Collins.

During 1991, he also drove two rounds of the Fuji Long Distance Sports Car Series, co-driving a Mazda 787B, finishing fourth both times.^[1] His decision, at the July round, to stop his car and aid a fellow competitor, who had suffered a puncture at high speed, would earn him the Sportsman Award at the 1991 Autosport Awards.

Ligier and return to Benetton (1994-1995)[link]

Herbert moved to Benetton for 1995 and took his first Formula One victory at the 1995 British Grand Prix.

After 3 years of frustration, Herbert left Lotus in mid 1994, joining Ligier and then Benetton for the last few races of the season. Although he failed to score any points in 1994, he was retained as Michael Schumacher's team-mate for 1995. At the British Grand Prix, he inherited a hugely popular Grand Prix win after Michael Schumacher collided with Damon Hill. He followed this in similar circumstances at Monza, finishing 4th in the championship.

Sauber, Stewart and Jaguar (1996-2000)[link]

Herbert driving for Stewart at the 1999 Canadian Grand Prix. He brought the car home in a respectable fifth.

After being dropped by Benetton, Herbert drove for Swiss outfit Sauber in 1996-1998, scoring two podium places. Moving to Stewart Grand Prix in 1999, he was routinely outqualified by his younger team mate Rubens Barrichello but scored his third and final Grand Prix win in a remarkable wet/dry European Grand Prix. Staying at Stewart after the team was purchased by Ford and became Jaguar, Herbert endured another frustrating and pointless season, ending the year being stretchered off at Malaysia after a suspension failure caused him to crash heavily.

After Formula One[link]

Herbert driving for Audi in the 2004 Petit Le Mans. He came second, partnered with Pierre Kaffer.

Since retiring from Grand Prix racing, Herbert has concentrated on Sports Cars, trying to repeat his Le Mans 24 Hours overall win of 1991. Recent years have seen him as one of the front runners in the American Le Mans Series (ALMS), where he won several events and was a challenger for the 2003 crown.

In 2004, Herbert, along with Jamie Davies won the Le Mans Series championship at the wheel of an Audi R8 winning the races at Monza and Spa along the way.

In 2005, Herbert was appointed to the post of Sporting Relations Manager at Jordan Grand Prix, which was then renamed Midland F1 for the 2006 World Championship. However, in September of that year Spyker Cars bought the team, and renamed it Spyker MF1. Another of the new owners' decisions was to not renew Herbert's contract.

In 2007, Herbert entered the Le Mans 24 Hours driving for the factory Aston Martin team at the wheel of the Aston Martin DBR9 in the GT1 class. Herbert, along with Peter Kox and Tomáš Enge drove the 007 numbered car to a 9th placed overall finish and 4th in the GT1 class.

In 2008, Herbert won the first season of the Speedcar Series.

In 2009, Herbert made his debut in the British Touring Car Championship for Team Dynamics at the wheel of a Honda Civic at round eight of the championship, Silverstone. He qualified 17th for the first race, and after moving up the order, finished in 13th. In the second race, he finished inside the points in eighth place, scoring three points. In the final race of the day, a reverse starting grid is operated. The first six, seven, eight, nine or ten cars to finish race two, start race three in reverse order. This is decided by the winner of race two drawing a number between six and ten out of a hat. For the final race of the day, the top 9 finishers were reversed, meaning Herbert started from second. He was running well, and was holding 4th, but was forced to retire on lap 13, after contact with Jason Plato. Herbert went on to compete in the final two rounds of the season.

Sky Sports F1 HD[link]

Herbert is a regular contributor to the new Sky Sports F1 HD channel co-hosting the 2012 Chinese Grand Prix alongside Martin Brundle. He regularly offers post-race analysis for the channel and also often appears on the channel's dedicated F1 show.

Racing record[link]

Complete International Formula 3000 results[link]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete Formula One results[link]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

^† Driver did not finish the Grand Prix, but was classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.

24 Hours of Le Mans results[link]

Year	Class	No	Tyres	Car	Team	Co-Drivers	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1990	GTP	201	D	Mazda 787 Mazda R26B 2.6L 4-Rotor	Mazdaspeed Co. Ltd.	Volker Weidler Bertrand Gachot	148	DNF	DNF
1991	C2	55	D	Mazda 787B Mazda R26B 2.6L 4-Rotor	Mazdaspeed Co. Ltd.	Volker Weidler Bertrand Gachot	362	1st	1st
1992	C1	5	M	Mazda MXR-01 Mazda (Judd) MV10 3.5L V10	Mazdaspeed Co. Ltd. Oreca	Volker Weidler Bertrand Gachot Maurizio Sandro Sala	336	4th	4th
2001	LMP900	3	M	Audi R8 Audi 3.6L Turbo V8	Champion Racing	Didier Theys Ralf Kelleners	81	DNF	DNF
2002	LMP900	2	M	Audi R8 Audi 3.6L Turbo V8	Audi Sport North America	Christian Pescatori Rinaldo Capello	374	2nd	2nd
2003	LMGTP	8	M	Bentley Speed 8 Bentley 4.0L Turbo V8	Team Bentley	Mark Blundell David Brabham	375	2nd	2nd
2004	LMP1	88	M	Audi R8 Audi 3.6L Turbo V8	Audi Sport UK Team Veloqx	Jamie Davies Guy Smith	379	2nd	2nd
2007	GT1	007	M	Aston Martin DBR9 Aston Martin 6.0L V12	Aston Martin Racing	Peter Kox Tomáš Enge	337	9th	4th

Complete British Touring Car Championship results[link]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position - 1 point awarded just in first race) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap - 1 point awarded all races) (* signifies that driver lead race for at least one lap - 1 point given all races)

Complete American Le Mans Series results[link]