Carla Scaletti
Encyclopedia
Carla Scaletti is an American
harpist, composer and music technologist.
, New York
. She graduated from the public schools in Albuquerque, New Mexico
, then completed a bachelor's of music from the University of New Mexico
, a masters of music from Texas Tech University
, a masters of computer science from the University of Illinois and a doctorate in music composition from the same school. In the 1970s, she worked as principal harpist in the New Mexico and Lubbock Symphony Orchestras and composed for acoustic instruments, but later she developed an interest in computer generated music. After completing her education, she worked as a researcher at the CERL Sound 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 the Symbolic Sound Corporation
.
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. She also works as a lecturer at the Center for the Creation of Music Iannis Xenakis (CCMIX) in Paris
.
Scaletti is a member of the executive committee for the IEEE Task Force on Computer Music, a member of the advisory board for the Electronic Music Foundation, and is 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.
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.
Scaletti's works have been issued on CD, including:
Kyma language has been used to prepare the soundtracks of films including:
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harpist, composer and music technologist.
Biography
Carla Scaletti was born in IthacaIthaca
Ithaca or Ithaka is an island located in the Ionian Sea, in Greece, with an area of and a little more than three thousand inhabitants. It is also a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit. It lies off the northeast coast of Kefalonia and...
, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
. She graduated from the public schools in Albuquerque, New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...
, then completed a bachelor's of music from the University of New Mexico
University of New Mexico
The University of New Mexico at Albuquerque is a public research university located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the United States. It is the state's flagship research institution...
, a masters of music from Texas Tech University
Texas Tech University
Texas Tech University, often referred to as Texas Tech or TTU, is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas, United States. Established on February 10, 1923, and originally known as Texas Technological College, it is the leading institution of the Texas Tech University System and has the...
, a masters of computer science from the University of Illinois and a doctorate in music composition from the same school. In the 1970s, she worked as principal harpist in the New Mexico and Lubbock Symphony Orchestras and composed for acoustic instruments, but later she developed an interest in computer generated music. After completing her education, she worked as a researcher at the CERL Sound 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 the Symbolic Sound Corporation
Symbolic Sound Corporation
Symbolic Sound Corporation was founded by Carla Scaletti and Kurt J. Hebel in 1989 as a spinoff of the CERL Sound Group at the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Originally named Kymatics, the company was incorporated as Symbolic Sound...
.
Scaletti designed the Kyma
Kyma (sound design language)
Kyma is a visual programming language for sound design used by musicians, researchers, and sound designers. In Kyma, a user programs a multiprocessor DSP by graphically connecting modules on the screen of a Macintosh or Windows computer.-Background:...
sound generation computer language and co-founded Symbolic Sound Corporation
Symbolic Sound Corporation
Symbolic Sound Corporation was founded by Carla Scaletti and Kurt J. Hebel in 1989 as a spinoff of the CERL Sound Group at the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Originally named Kymatics, the company was incorporated as Symbolic Sound...
with Kurt J. Hebel in 1989 as a spinoff of the CERL Sound Group. She also works as a lecturer at the Center for the Creation of Music Iannis Xenakis (CCMIX) in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
.
Scaletti is a member of the executive committee for the IEEE Task Force on Computer Music, a member of the advisory board for the Electronic Music Foundation, and is 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.
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.
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 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)
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:
- Wall-EWALL-EWALL-E, promoted with an interpunct as WALL•E, is a 2008 American computer-animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by Andrew Stanton. The story follows a robot named WALL-E, who is designed to clean up a waste-covered Earth far in the future...
- War of the Worlds
- Revenge of the Sith
- Finding NemoFinding NemoFinding Nemo is a 2003 American comi-drama animated film written by Andrew Stanton, directed by Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich and produced by Pixar. It tells the story of the overly protective clownfish Marlin who, along with a regal tang called Dory , searches for his abducted son Nemo...
- Attack of the Clones