matt ingalls - a clarinetist, composer, improviser, and computer musician from Oakland, California, "is of the most accomplished, most creative clarinetists on the bay area scene." [Doom - KZSU Stanford Radio]

Perhaps known more for his dynamic yet "composerly" free improvisations, he is equally active in more traditionally notated new music. In addition to being an award-winning, internationally recognized composer, matt has premiered over 50 works by other composers - many of which are unaccompanied solo pieces written specifically for his unique sound and performance style.

Just what is this unique sound? No doubt it is influenced by matt's heavy involvement in computer music, both as a composer and as a music software programmer. The sounds and textures he is able to produce on the clarinet are often brittlely "electronic," but most striking about his performances is how he often structures rhythmic and formal elements in a way that clearly resembles computer music. For example, matt's solo improvisations often contain "glitches" and interruptions, or they will offer a number of simultaneous musical ideas that are then cut up, rearranged, or "windowed" just like granular synthesis or phase vocoding algorithms.

matt actively collaborates with bay area musicians such as Morgan Guberman, Scott Looney, Gino Robair, Tim Perkis, John Shiurba, and Matthew Sperry. He has also performed with Eddie Prevost, George Lewis, Peter Van Bergen, Jack Wright, Toshi Makihara, Sean Meehan, Andrew Voigt, John Raskin, Marco Eneidi, Chris Brown, Myles Boisen, Bob Marsh, William Winant, John Rose, Greg Kelley, Bhob Rainey, Tom Nunn, Phil Gelb, Ben Goldberg, Paul Hoskin, Carla Kihlstedt, Scott Rosenberg, and C.L.A.I.R.E. (matt's own "virtual" improviser).

Some of matt's recent performances have included: The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, The 4th Annual CEAIT Electronic Music Festival at CalArts, Baltimore's High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music, The Big Sur Experimental Music Festival, Opus415 New Music Marathon, The Seattle Improvised Music Festival, The Monterey Rock and Art Festival, New Music Under the Stars at Stanford University, The F.U.N. (Festival of Ugly New Music) in Urbana, Illinois, and Oakland's East Bay Creative Music Festival.