Carl Faia

Carl Faia (born 1962 at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma) is an American composer and live electronics designer and performer.

He has collaborated with numerous composers including James Dillon,[1][2] Jonathan Harvey,[3] Harrison Birtwistle, Fausto Romitelli, Luca Francesconi, Alejandro Viñao,[4] Philippe Leroux,[5] as well as the National Jazz Orchestra of France.

He has collaborated with artists to present new works with computer 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 Música (Porto, Spain) and Lille 2004 and Queen Elizabeth Hall (London).

[9] He has 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.

[11][12] As a teacher he has worked since 2005 with André Serre-Milan in the studios of Art Zoyd to develop a unique pedagogical approach to electroacoustic composition culminating each year in the multimedia spectacle Sonoscopie.