Janis Mattox
Janis Mattox | |
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| Born | March 18, 1949 Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S. |
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| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2006) |
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| Genres | Computer music[1] |
Janis Mattox (born March 18, 1949) is an American composer and pianist. An early creator of computer music, she is a 2006 Guggenheim Fellow.
Biography
[edit]Janis Mattox was born on March 18, 1949 in Saint Paul, Minnesota.[1] She obtained her BA at the University of Minnesota in 1972 and her MA at Northwestern University in 1974.[1]
Mattox moved to the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), where she started using computer technology to create her work in 1978.[1] She composed several pieces featuring computerized music;[1] one of these pieces, "Shaman", was sampled in the 1983 album The Digital Domain: A Demonstration.[2] She performed a hymn on Naut Humon's album Swarm of Doves, which Paul Verna of Billboard called one of the album's highlights.[3] In 2002, she created the hour-long electronic piece Solumbra, inspired by poet Cecília Meireles.[4] In 2006, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[5] She is also a Silicon Valley Fellow.[6] Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner said that some of Mattox's pieces "reflect her interest in combining live performers with computer-generated and processed sounds in an all-encompassing aural and visual experience".[4]
She also does video art, with one of them being the 1992 piece Book of Shadows, which won several film festival awards throughout the United States.[4] She has also performed as a pianist, particularly for the Good Sound Band.[1] She has also worked as a teacher, including in computer music at CCRMA[1] or in piano.[4] She also worked for the Good Sound Foundation as a project consultant.[1]
Her husband Loren Rush is a composer.[1] She is based in Woodside, California.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i Slonimsky, Nicolas; Kuhn, Laura; McIntire, Dennis. "Mattox, Janis". Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. Retrieved April 30, 2025 – via Encyclopedia.com.
- ^ Farmer, Roscoe (1985). "Review of The Digital Domain: A Demonstration". Computer Music Journal. 9 (4): 72–73. doi:10.2307/3679630. ISSN 0148-9267. JSTOR 3679630.
- ^ Verna, Paul (January 20, 1996). "Albums -- Swarm Of Doves by various artists". Billboard. Vol. 108, no. 3. p. 69. ProQuest 227099258.
- ^ a b c d Hinkle-Turner, Elizabeth (2006). Women Composers and Music Technology in the United States. Aldershot: Ashgate. p. 100. ISBN 9780754604617. OCLC 60393911.
- ^ "Janis Mattox". Guggenheim Fellowship. Retrieved April 29, 2025.
- ^ a b "Janis Mattox". Retrieved April 30, 2025.
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- 1949 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American composers
- 20th-century American women composers
- 21st-century American composers
- 21st-century American women composers
- Electronic composers
- Musicians from Saint Paul, Minnesota
- American women pianists
- University of Minnesota alumni
- Northwestern University alumni
- Princeton University faculty