Matt Ingalls (born 1970) is an American composer, clarinetist, concert producer, and computer music programmer. He is mostly associated with the San Francisco

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, sfSound, the San Francisco Tape Music Festival, and the computer music program

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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

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s. Ingalls has worked with a diverse range of composers such as

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, John Butcher,

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, Hyo-shin Na,

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, Stefano Scodanibbio,

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, 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 Electroacoustic (Categorie Humor - Puy). The following year, Ingalls was awarded the very first

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Student Commission Prize. Ingalls has also received New Langton Art's "Bay Area Award", two California Artist Honorary Fellowship Residencies at the

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, two A.H. Miller prizes, and numerous

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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 ODC 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

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, Arboretum, and MuscleFish. He is also the developer of MacCsound a real-time Macintosh version of the classic music synthesis program,

. MacCsound won a 2004 "Editor's Choice" Award from

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Magazine. He is also the creator of the Soundflower Mac OS X utility for routing audio among multiple applications.SoundFlower for OSX - MacMusic
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music notation program.

Academia

Ingalls holds degrees in composition from

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and

Mills College Mills College at Northeastern University is a private college in Oakland, California and part of Northeastern University's global university system. Mills College was founded as the Young Ladies Seminary in 1852 in Benicia, California; it was ...

. He studied with

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, Russell Pinkston,

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, and

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. Ingalls has taught music courses at

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and

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Discography

*sfSound - collected works , collective work (sfsound records) *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 - i.e. (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 988-91(self release)

References

External links

Matt Ingalls official website

sfSound

MacCsound
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