1/2/2006 - Carl Faïa -> biography

Carl Faia
Composer and Live-Electronic-Designer

Carl Faia studied composition with Edward Applebaum and Peter Racine Fricker at the University of California in Santa Barbara. He received a Fulbright grant for composition studies with Per Norgaard and Karl Aage Rasmussen in Denmark and later studied privately with Tristan Murail in Paris. His music, though mostly acoustically based, is inspired by computer music research. The other side of his work since 1995 has been centered around developing the activities of the emerging profession of the "musical assistant" (a catch-all title covering a wide range of activity including sound design, and the conception, realization, teaching and performance of technology based music creation). He has worked at IRCAM in Paris, the CIRM in Nice where he was also the studio manager, as well as in a number of festivals and studios throughout Europe. He is co-founder and director of Lieu, a non-profit organization for the research, creation and production of contemporary technology based music.
Live-Electronic Designer at Forum Neues Musiktheater in 2004 for Voyeur by Jörg Mainka and Last Desire by Lucia Ronchetti, in 2005, Die Süße unserer traurigen Kindheit by Hans Tutschku.

19/3/2006 - carl faia