Director, Computer/Experimental Music Studios

Experimental Sound Practices

Multi-focus Music Technologies

Composition

http://music.calarts.edu/~cchaplin

Clay Chaplin is a composer, improviser, and video artist from Los Angeles who explores audio-visual improvisation with computer instruments and networked systems. He uses computers and custom electronics as musical and visual instruments that can capture, process, playback, or generate sounds and images in real-time. Clay is continuing development of his wireless, interactive instrument named 'Stupid Thing' which, through a connection with the body provides mobility and physicality to Clay’s performances.

During his career, Clay has worked on many projects involving experimental music, video, choreography, interactive software, and related technology. His works have been performed internationally including performances at the NIME 2004 conference, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College, the Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Festival, the Line Space Line concert series, the Detritus concert series, the Sonic Circuits Festivals, the Piano Spheres concert series, the Santa Fe Electronic Music Festival, UCSB's Cultural Turn Conference, UCSD’s Time-Forms Media Festival, the Ex-Static Concerts in Sydney, the Korean Electro-Acoustic Society concerts in Seoul, the Fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists in Toronto, the Olympia Experimental Music Festival, the International Computer Music Conference in Hong Kong, the Baltimore Composers Forum concerts, the CEAIT Electronic Music Festivals, and the Electronic Music Threshold concerts.

Clay has been composer in residence at STEIM in Amsterdam and the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College in San Francisco. He has given talks on new media for the American Composer’s Forum, the Baltimore Composer’s Forum, the Center for Research in the Computing Arts (CRCA) at UCSD, and the Sonic Circuits Festival. Clay's latest CD, Satellite Stutter, is available on the Artifact Recording label.

http://www.artifact.com/