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California Institute of the Arts

Clay Chaplin

Pronouns: The Herb Alpert School of Music

Technical Director, Computer Music/Experimental Media Studios: Composition and Experimental Sound Practices

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Email address: clay@calarts.edu
Phone number: (661) 554-9316 x6413
Office address:
B306
California Institute of the Arts
24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, California 91355
Degrees:
Personal website: Website

Clay Chaplin is a composer, improviser, video artist, and audio engineer from Los Angeles who explores the realms of audio-visual improvisation, sound synthesis, field recording, electronics, and computer processing for creative sonic expression. 

Clay has worked on many projects involving experimental music, video, audio recording, and interactive computer systems. Clay’s works have been performed internationally including performances at the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, the Bent Festival, the EarZoom Sonic Arts Festival, the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Elektroakustiche Musik (DEGEM) studios, the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM), the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) conferences, the Ear Zoom Sonic Arts festival, the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College (CCM), the Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Festival, and many others. 

He is currently the Director of the computer music and experimental media studios at the School of Music at CalArts where he teaches in the Experimental Sound Practices program.