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Charles Céleste Hutchins was born in San Jose, California in 1976. He attended Mills College in Oakland, California, where he studied with Maggi Payne. There he acquired a love for the sound of analog electronics. He graduated with a B.A. in 1998. In 2005, he graduated from the MA program at Wesleyan University where he studied with Ron Kuivila and Anthony Braxton. Following that, he did the CCMIX course in France and then the Sonology course at the Royal Conservatory of The Netherlands. He then completed a PhD at the University of Birmingham, England. He has taught at the Goldsmiths College and the University of Kent. He has gigged at venues and festivals around North America and Europe and has been played on European and American radio.