AES Section Meeting Reports

Kerry Haps and Scott Wyatt

Meeting Topic: Electronic and Computer Music at the Experimental Music Studios of the University of Illinois — the oldest and one of the largest electroacoustic music facilities in the western hemisphere.

Moderator Name: Kerry Haps

Speaker Name: Scott Wyatt - (Director - University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios; Professor Emeritus of Composition, School of Music)

Meeting Location: chicago

Summary

About the presentation:
Scott Wyatt, director of the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios for the past 39 years and professor emeritus of music composition at the UIUC School of Music, will present a video tour of the world renown facilities discussing the equipment, instruments, installations, and history, and will also offer examples of some the creative works realized within the facilities

About the speaker:
Scott Wyatt serves as the director of the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios. As a mastering audio engineer/producer he has mastered more than 70 commercial discs. As a professor of music composition at the University of Illinois, Wyatt was awarded the prestigious University Scholar Award in 1985, a research faculty associate position at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in 1992, the Outstanding UIUC College of Fine and Applied Arts faculty Award in 1997, an Associate position in the Center for Advanced Study in 1998, and awarded the College of Fine and Applied Arts Creative Research Award in 2008.

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