Carl Faia, American-French composer, Computer Music Designer and performer, was born 1962 at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma. After studies in composition at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Florida State University and the Royal Academy of Music in Denmark on a Fulbright grant, he moved to France and has never left. Some of his past teachers include Edward Applebaum, Peter Racine Fricker, Per Nørgård and Karl Aage Rasmussen. Later, he participated in masterclasses with Tristan Murail, Philippe Manoury and Harrison Birtwistle.
Since 1995 he has been active as a live electronics designer working at IRCAM in Paris, at the CIRM in Nice where he has also been studio manager and a freelancer. He has collaborated with numerous composers including James Dillon, Jonathan Harvey, Harrison Birtwistle, Fausto Romitelli, Luca Francesconi, Alejandro Viñao, Philippe Leroux, as well as the National Jazz Orchestra of France and the London Sinfonietta in the UK. He has collaborated with artists to present new works with computer music electronics in various festivals throughout Europe including Ars Musica (Brussels), Holland Festival (Amsterdam), Musica (Strasbourg), Agora (Paris), Gaida (Vilnius), MaerzMusik (Berlin), Lille 2004 as well as the Casa da Musica (Porto) and Queen Elizabeth Hall (London). With Max (from cycling74) he has ported several pieces from the analog world to the digital, including Luigi Nono’s Pour Pierre and Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Nr. 19 Solo. He has also performed with computers, Theremin, various sensors and guitar with Art Zoyd and Thomas Köner.
He worked regularly with Studio Art Zoyd (France) and the Forum Neues Musiktheater der Staatsoper Stuttgart (Germany) as a live electronics designer with invited composers for music theatre, opera, concerts and multimedia projects. In 2002, he founded the non-profit association, Lieu, based in Nice, France to promote the creation and diffusion of contemporary music using technology. Lieu has realized several projects in the development of new tools for sound creation and has been present in the production of new works using technology. In 2004 he confounded synArt. As a teacher he worked for over a decade with André Serre-Milan in the studios of Art Zoyd to develop a unique pedagogical approach to electro-acoustic composition culminating each year in the multimedia spectacle Sonoscopie. Since 2009 he is also a Lecturer in Sonic Arts at Brunel University London.
Carl Faia, American-French composer, Computer Music Designer and performer, was born 1962 at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma. After studies in composition at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Florida State University and the Royal Academy of Music in Denmark on a Fulbright grant, he moved to France and has never left. Some of his past teachers include Edward Applebaum, Peter Racine Fricker, Per Nørgård and Karl Aage Rasmussen. Later, he participated in masterclasses with Tristan Murail, Philippe Manoury and Harrison Birtwistle.
Since 1995 he has been active as a live electronics designer working at IRCAM in Paris, at the CIRM in Nice where he has also been studio manager and a freelancer. He has collaborated with numerous composers including James Dillon, Jonathan Harvey, Harrison Birtwistle, Fausto Romitelli, Luca Francesconi, Alejandro Viñao, Philippe Leroux, as well as the National Jazz Orchestra of France and the London Sinfonietta in the UK. He has collaborated with artists to present new works with computer music electronics in various festivals throughout Europe including Ars Musica (Brussels), Holland Festival (Amsterdam), Musica (Strasbourg), Agora (Paris), Gaida (Vilnius), MaerzMusik (Berlin), Lille 2004 as well as the Casa da Musica (Porto) and Queen Elizabeth Hall (London). With Max (from cycling74) he has ported several pieces from the analog world to the digital, including Luigi Nono’s Pour Pierre and Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Nr. 19 Solo. He has also performed with computers, Theremin, various sensors and guitar with Art Zoyd and Thomas Köner.
He worked regularly with Studio Art Zoyd (France) and the Forum Neues Musiktheater der Staatsoper Stuttgart (Germany) as a live electronics designer with invited composers for music theatre, opera, concerts and multimedia projects. In 2002, he founded the non-profit association, Lieu, based in Nice, France to promote the creation and diffusion of contemporary music using technology. Lieu has realized several projects in the development of new tools for sound creation and has been present in the production of new works using technology. In 2004 he confounded synArt. As a teacher he worked for over a decade with André Serre-Milan in the studios of Art Zoyd to develop a unique pedagogical approach to electro-acoustic composition culminating each year in the multimedia spectacle Sonoscopie. Since 2009 he is also a Lecturer in Sonic Arts at Brunel University London.
