Janis Mattox
Musical artist
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Janis Mattox (born March 18, 1949) is an American composer and pianist. An early creator of computer music, she is a 2006 Guggenheim Fellow.
- Composer
- pianist
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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] |
Biography
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 Solombra, 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]