Carla Scaletti
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Carla Scaletti | |
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 Scaletti in Albuquerque, 2011 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | April 28, 1956 Ithaca, New York |
| Genres | experimental music |
| Occupation(s) | Composer,harpist,music technologist |
| Years active | 1974–present |
| Website | carlascaletti.com |
Carla Scaletti(born April 28, 1956) is an Americanharpist,composer, music technologist and the inventor of the Kyma Sound Design Environment as well as president of Symbolic Sound.
Biography
[edit]Carla Scaletti was born inIthaca, New York.She graduated from the public schools inAlbuquerque, New Mexico,then completed a Bachelor of Music from theUniversity of New Mexico,a Master of Music fromTexas Tech University,a master's in computer science from theUniversity of Illinoisand a doctorate in music composition from the same school. In the 1970s, she worked as principal harpist in theNew Mexico Symphony OrchestraandLubbock Symphony Orchestra,and composed for acoustic instruments, but later she developed an interest in computer generated music.[1]After completing her education, she worked as a researcher at theCERLSound Group, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and later as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Illinois before leaving the university to launch theSymbolic Sound Corporation.[2]
Scaletti designed theKymasound generation computer language and co-foundedSymbolic Sound CorporationwithKurt J. Hebelin 1989 as a spinoff of the CERL Sound Group.
Scaletti has published professional articles in theComputer Music Journal,proceedings of theOOPSLAandSPIEconferences,Perspectives of New Music,and as book chapters. In 2003 she received the Distinguished Alumnae Award for contributions in the field of music from Texas Tech University.[3]From 2000 to 2007, she lectured at theCenter for the Creation of Music Iannis Xenakis(CCMIX) in Paris.
Scaletti was a member of the executive committee for theIEEETask Force on Computer Music, a member of the advisory board for the Electronic Music Foundation, and the founder and chair of SIGSound, a special interest group within the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Scaletti also serves as the president of the Salvatore Martirano Foundation.
In 2017, she was awarded the SEAMUS Award.[4]
Works
[edit]Scaletti composes computer-generated music. Selected works include:
- Motetfor mezzo-soprano, narrator, harp, and bass clarinet (1977)
- Yesfor mezzo-soprano and electronic sound (1981)
- Lysogenyfor harp and computer-generated sound (1983)
- X barfor piano and live electronics (1986)
- Levulosefor bass and computer-generated sound (1986)
- SunSurgeAutomatacomputer-generated sound (1987)
- Trinityfor voice and interactive electronics (1989)
- Mitochondria[5]computer-generated sound (1994)
- Public Organinteractive electronics (1995)
- Lamentfor voice and interactive electronics (1999)
- Tangled Timelinesfor harp and interactive electronics (1999)
- Frog Pool Farmcomputer-generated sound (2002)
- SlipStickfor Continuum fingerboard controlling interactive electronics (2008)
- Cycloniccomputer-generated sound (2008)
- Autocatalysisfor audience and interactive electronics (2010)
- Spider Galaxiescontemporary dance piece byGilles Jobin(2011) co-composed withCristian Vogel[6]
- QUANTUMcontemporary dance piece byGilles Jobin(2013)
- Conductusfor organ, 3 singers and interactive electronics (2014)
Scaletti's works have been issued on CD, including:
- CDCM Computer Music Series Vol. 3University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Audio CD (November 3, 1993) Centaur. ASIN: B0000057SZ
Kymalanguage has been used to prepare the soundtracks of films including:
- War of the Worlds
- Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
- Finding Nemo
- Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
- WALL-E
- The Dark Knight
- Master and Commander
Kymalanguage has been used to prepare the soundtracks of video games including:
References
[edit]- ^"Carla Scaletti".symbolicsound.com.RetrievedNovember 5,2010.
- ^"Carla Scaletti".LinkedIn.RetrievedNovember 5,2010.
- ^"k y m a • t w e a k y".RetrievedNovember 5,2010.
- ^"SEAMUS award".RetrievedNovember 29,2017.
- ^Pendle, Karin (1993).American Women Composers, Volume 16, Parts 1–2.Psychology Press.ISBN978-90-5702-145-9.RetrievedNovember 5,2010.
- ^"Gilles Jobin – Spider Galaxies (2011)".Gillesjobin.com. March 15, 2011. Archived fromthe originalon April 26, 2012.RetrievedDecember 7,2011.
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- 1956 births
- 20th-century classical composers
- American women classical composers
- American classical composers
- American music educators
- American women music educators
- Computer-based Education Research Laboratory
- Experimental Music Studios alumni
- Living people
- American women in electronic music
- 20th-century American composers
- 20th-century American women composers
- 21st-century American women