Carla Scaletti
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Carla Scaletti | |
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harpist, music technologist | |
Years active | 1974–present |
Website | carlascaletti.com |
Carla Scaletti (born April 28, 1956) is an American
Biography
Carla Scaletti was born in
Scaletti designed the Kyma sound generation computer language and co-founded Symbolic Sound Corporation with Kurt J. Hebel in 1989 as a spinoff of the CERL Sound Group.
Scaletti has published professional articles in the Computer Music Journal, proceedings of the OOPSLA and SPIE conferences, 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 the Center for the Creation of Music Iannis Xenakis (CCMIX) in Paris.
Scaletti was a member of the executive committee for the
In 2017, she was awarded the SEAMUS Award.[4]
Works
Scaletti composes computer-generated music. Selected works include:
- Motet for mezzo-soprano, narrator, harp, and bass clarinet (1977)
- Yes for mezzo-soprano and electronic sound (1981)
- Lysogeny for harp and computer-generated sound (1983)
- X bar for piano and live electronics (1986)
- Levulose for bass and computer-generated sound (1986)
- SunSurgeAutomata computer-generated sound (1987)
- Trinity for voice and interactive electronics (1989)
- Mitochondria[5] computer-generated sound (1994)
- Public Organ interactive electronics (1995)
- Lament for voice and interactive electronics (1999)
- Tangled Timelines for harp and interactive electronics (1999)
- Frog Pool Farm computer-generated sound (2002)
- SlipStick for Continuum fingerboard controlling interactive electronics (2008)
- Cyclonic computer-generated sound (2008)
- Autocatalysis for audience and interactive electronics (2010)
- Spider Galaxies contemporary dance piece by Gilles Jobin (2011) co-composed with Cristian Vogel[6]
- QUANTUM contemporary dance piece by Gilles Jobin (2013)
- Conductus for organ, 3 singers and interactive electronics (2014)
Scaletti's works have been issued on CD, including:
- CDCM Computer Music Series Vol. 3 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Audio CD (November 3, 1993) Centaur. ASIN: B0000057SZ
Kyma language 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
Kyma language has been used to prepare the soundtracks of video games including:
References
- ^ "Carla Scaletti". symbolicsound.com. Retrieved November 5, 2010.
- ^ "Carla Scaletti". LinkedIn. Retrieved November 5, 2010.
- ^ "k y m a • t w e a k y". Retrieved November 5, 2010.
- ^ "SEAMUS award". Retrieved November 29, 2017.
- ISBN 978-90-5702-145-9. Retrieved November 5, 2010.
- ^ "Gilles Jobin – Spider Galaxies (2011)". Gillesjobin.com. March 15, 2011. Archived from the original on April 26, 2012. Retrieved December 7, 2011.