Matt Ingalls
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Matt Ingalls is an American composer, clarinetist, concert producer, and computer music programmer. He is mostly associated with the San Francisco Bay Area Improv Scene
, sfSound, the San Francisco Tape Music Festival, and the computer music program Csound
.
s. Ingalls has worked with a diverse range of composers such as Mark Applebaum
, Anthony Braxton
, John Butcher
, Helmut Lachenmann
, George Lewis
, Miya Masaoka
, Meredith Monk
, Hyo-shin Na, Pauline Oliveros
, Stefano Scodanibbio, Chinary Ung
, and numerous Bay Area composers.
(Categorie Humor - Puy). The following year, Ingalls was awarded the very first ASCAP/SEAMUS
Student Commission Prize. Ingalls has also received New Langton Art's "Bay Area Award", two California Artist Honorary Fellowship Residencies at the Djerassi Artist Program, two A.H. Miller prizes, and numerous Meet The Composer
Fund/Creative Connections Grants.
Theater in the Mission District of San Francisco. In 2008, sfSound received an "ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming" from Chamber Music America. sfSound is the umbrella organization of the San Francisco Tape Music Collective/Festival.
, Arboretum, and MuscleFish. He is also the developer of MacCsound a real-time Macintosh version of the classic music synthesis program, Csound
. MacCsound won a 2004 "Editor's Choice" Award from Electronic Musician
Magazine. He is also the creator of the Soundflower Mac OS X utility for routing audio among multiple applications. From 2005-2009, Ingalls was the lead programmer for GVOX
, primarily developing the Encore
music notation program.
. He studied with George Lewis
, Alvin Curran
, Chris Brown, Russell Pinkston
, Dan Welcher
, and Karl Korte
. Ingalls has taught music courses at The University of San Francisco and Dartmouth College
.
Bay Area Improv Scene
The Bay Area Improv Scene is a commonly used name for a loose association of musicians and composers centered in the San Francisco Bay Area who create a style of music that evolved largely from avant-garde jazz and modern classical music, with influences from other areas such as Electronic art...
, sfSound, the San Francisco Tape Music Festival, and the computer music program Csound
Csound
Csound is a computer programming language for dealing with sound, also known as a sound compiler or an audio programming language, or more precisely, a C-based audio DSL. It is called Csound because it is written in C, as opposed to some of its predecessors...
.
Performance
Ingalls is most active as a clarinetist, specializing in contemporary and experimental music. He is a prominent figure in the San Francisco Bay Area Improv Scene, and is known for his "composerly" solo improvisations that explore extended techniques on his instrument that interact with the acoustic space, often as combination toneCombination tone
A combination tone, also called a sum tone or a difference tone , can be any of at least three similar psychoacoustic phenomena. When two tones are played simultaneously, a listener can sometimes perceive an additional tone whose frequency is a sum or difference of the two frequencies...
s. Ingalls has worked with a diverse range of composers such as Mark Applebaum
Mark Applebaum
Mark Applebaum is an American composer and professor teaching at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in composition from the University of California at San Diego where he studied with Brian Ferneyhough, Joji Yuasa, Rand Steiger, and Roger Reynolds...
, Anthony Braxton
Anthony Braxton
Anthony Braxton is an American composer, saxophonist, clarinettist, flautist, pianist, and philosopher. Braxton has released well over 100 albums since the 1960s...
, John Butcher
John Butcher (musician)
John Butcher is an English tenor and soprano saxophone player who has lived in London since the late 1970s. He began playing at the University of Surrey where he was studying physics...
, Helmut Lachenmann
Helmut Lachenmann
Helmut Lachenmann is a German composer associated with musique concrète instrumentale.-Life and works:...
, George Lewis
George Lewis (trombonist)
George E. Lewis is a trombone player, composer, and scholar in the fields of jazz and experimental music. He has been a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians since 1971, and is a pioneer of computer music.- Biography :Lewis graduated from Yale University with a...
, Miya Masaoka
Miya Masaoka
Miya Masaoka is an American musician and composer who performs on the 17-string Japanese koto zither, often augmenting it with string preparations and electronic triggers...
, Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk
Meredith Jane Monk is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. Since the 1960s, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which combine music, theatre, and dance, recording extensively for ECM Records.-Life and work:Meredith Monk is primarily known for her...
, Hyo-shin Na, Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros is an American accordionist and composer who is a central figure in the development of post-war electronic art music....
, Stefano Scodanibbio, Chinary Ung
Chinary Ung
Chinary Ung is a composer now living in the United States. After arriving in the United States in 1964 to study the clarinet, Ung studied composition with Chou Wen-chung and Mario Davidovsky. Ung is noted for combining traditional Cambodian musical elements with western instrumentation...
, and numerous Bay Area composers.
Composition
Ingalls has written compositions for acoustic instruments, voices, computer generated tape, interactive electronics, dance, theater, and freely improvising big band. His compositions have been recorded and performed in the United States and abroad, receiving many awards and recognitions. In 1994, he received 1st Finalist in the Bourges Concours International de Musique Electronique ElectroacousticElectroacoustic music
Electroacoustic music originated in Western art music during its modern era following the incorporation of electric sound production into compositional practice. The initial developments in electroacoustic music composition during the mid-20th century are associated with the activities of composers...
(Categorie Humor - Puy). The following year, Ingalls was awarded the very first ASCAP/SEAMUS
Seamus
Séamus , is a male first name of Celtic origin. It is the Gaelic equivalent of the name James. The name James is the English New Testament variant for the Hebrew name Jacob...
Student Commission Prize. Ingalls has also received New Langton Art's "Bay Area Award", two California Artist Honorary Fellowship Residencies at the Djerassi Artist Program, two A.H. Miller prizes, and numerous Meet The Composer
Meet the Composer
Meet the Composer is an American organization founded in 1974 by the composer John Duffy as a project of the New York State Council on the Arts. It seeks to assist composers in making a living through writing music by sponsoring commissioning, residency, education, and audience interaction...
Fund/Creative Connections Grants.
sfSound
Ingalls is the founder and co-director of sfSound, a new music series, ensemble, and internet radio station devoted to new ideas and traditions of experimental music, performance art, live electronic music, Bay Area composition, and the various facets of contemporary improvisation. sfSound produces an average of ten concerts a year, mostly taking place at the ODCODC/Dance
ODC/Dance is a contemporary dance company founded in 1971 by artistic director Brenda Way. ODC relocated to San Francisco in 1976 and was the first dance company in America to build its own home facility in 1979 from which it still operates...
Theater in the Mission District of San Francisco. In 2008, sfSound received an "ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming" from Chamber Music America. sfSound is the umbrella organization of the San Francisco Tape Music Collective/Festival.
Computer Music
As a computer programmer, Ingalls has worked for Bay Area computer music companies such as Cycling 74, BiasBias
Bias is an inclination to present or hold a partial perspective at the expense of alternatives. Bias can come in many forms.-In judgement and decision making:...
, Arboretum, and MuscleFish. He is also the developer of MacCsound a real-time Macintosh version of the classic music synthesis program, Csound
Csound
Csound is a computer programming language for dealing with sound, also known as a sound compiler or an audio programming language, or more precisely, a C-based audio DSL. It is called Csound because it is written in C, as opposed to some of its predecessors...
. MacCsound won a 2004 "Editor's Choice" Award from Electronic Musician
Electronic Musician
Electronic Musician is a monthly magazine published by Penton Media featuring articles on synthesizers, music production and electronic musicians....
Magazine. He is also the creator of the Soundflower Mac OS X utility for routing audio among multiple applications. From 2005-2009, Ingalls was the lead programmer for GVOX
GVOX
Gvox is a music-software company best known for notation software. During its long and turbulent history, it developed and acquired ground-breaking products. Typically, these programs are designed by musicians for musicians.- History:...
, primarily developing the Encore
Encore (software)
Encore is a scorewriter program for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh, originally created in the 1990s by the US company Passport. Presently Encore is distributed and developed by GVOX.MusicTime Deluxe is the 'essentials' version of Encore.- Ease of use :...
music notation program.
Academia
Ingalls holds degrees in composition from The University of Texas at Austin and Mills CollegeMills College
Mills College is an independent liberal arts women's college founded in 1852 that offers bachelor's degrees to women and graduate degrees and certificates to women and men. Located in Oakland, California, Mills was the first women's college west of the Rockies. The institution was initially founded...
. He studied with George Lewis
George Lewis (trombonist)
George E. Lewis is a trombone player, composer, and scholar in the fields of jazz and experimental music. He has been a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians since 1971, and is a pioneer of computer music.- Biography :Lewis graduated from Yale University with a...
, Alvin Curran
Alvin Curran
Composer Alvin Curran , is the co-founder, with Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum, of Musica Elettronica Viva, and a former student of Elliott Carter. Curran's music often makes use of electronics and environmental found sounds....
, Chris Brown, Russell Pinkston
Russell Pinkston
Russell Pinkston is Professor of Composition and Director of the Electronic music Studios at the University of Texas at Austin School of Music.Pinkston is both an active composer and a researcher in the field Computer Music...
, Dan Welcher
Dan Welcher
Dan Welcher is an American composer, conductor, and music educator.- Biography :Welcher was born in Rochester, New York and earned degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the Manhattan School of Music, studying bassoon, piano, and composition...
, and Karl Korte
Karl Korte
Karl Korte is an American composer of contemporary classical music.He grew up in Englewood, New Jersey. He attended the Juilliard School, where he studied with Peter Mennin, William Bergsma, and Vincent Persichetti...
. Ingalls has taught music courses at The University of San Francisco and Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
.
Discography
- Anthony Braxton - Nine Compositions (rastascan records)
- Grosse Abfahrt - Vanity (emanem records)
- Grosse Abfahrt - everything that disappears (emanem records)
- Grosse Abfahrt - erstes Luftschiff zu Kalifornien (creative sources recordings)
- Gino Robair - I, Norton (rastascan records)
- Mark Applebaum - The Metaphysics of Notation (innova records)
- Mark Applebaum - Sock Monkey (innova records)
- 541 - Music from Stanford (innova records)
- Joseph Anderson - Epiphanie Sequence (sargasso records)
- Cultures - Puys internationnaux de musique electroacoustique Bourges 1993-1994 (imeb/unesco/cime)
- Music from SEAMUS - Volume 6 & Volume 7 (seamus records)
- From Transparent Tape Music Festival (new san francisco tape music center)
- Signs of Life (spring garden records)
- The Skronktet West - EL (spool records)
- Spezza Rotto - Tedeci Canzoni (limited sedition records)
- John Shiurba - Triplicate (spool records)
- John Shiurba - 5x5 (limited sedition records)
- Praeface (praemedia records)
- Scott Rosenberg - are (super J records)
- Scott Rosenberg - ie (barely auditable records)
- lectures, oratorios, conjecture and invective - volume one (barely auditable records)
- Toad in the Hole (limited sedition records)
- The Matthew Sperry Trio (limited sedition records)
- P.I.S.S. (limited sedition records)
- Music from the 2nd annual no idea festival (coincident records)
- New Music Works - Night of the Living Composers (new music works records)
- Moe! Staiano - Two Forms of Multitudes: Conducted Improvisations (edgetone/pax records)
- Moe! Staiano - The Lateness of Yearly Presentations (amanita, dephine knormal music)
- Ghost Machine - Live from KFJC (kfjc records)
- Live at KZSU 1998 (kzsu records)
- Donkey - SHOW (accretions records)
- Wobbly - Live 99>01 (wobbly records)
- Cheryl E. Leonard - Nether (apraxia records)
- Out Fishing (Guberman/Ingalls Duo) (rusted blade)
- Matt Ingalls - Clarinet Shit (self release)
- Matt Ingalls - Algorithmic Music [1988-91] (self release)