Carl Faia

Carl Faia ( born August 19, 1962 in Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, United States) is a composer and live electronics designer.

He studied composition studies with Edward Applebaum and Peter Racine Fricker at the University of California in Santa Barbara. He received a Fulbright Fellowship at Per Norgaard and Karl Aage Rasmussen in Denmark and graduated with Tristan Murail in Paris. Since 1995, he has mainly worked as a live-electronics designer. As such, he worked at IRCAM in Paris and at the CIRM in Nice, where he was also Head of Studio.

Since 2002 he has live electronics designer and artistic collaborator of Art Zoyd. In addition, he was responsible in numerous productions of Europe-wide festivals and studios for live electronics design. He worked with composers like Harrison Birtwistle, Jonathan Harvey, James Dillon, Alejandro Viñao, Luca Francesconi and others. He was also responsible for the live electronics in many contemporary musical theater productions by international institutions such as the New Music Theatre Forum in Stuttgart. As an expert in the live audio and video software Max / MSP, he is regularly invited to participate in workshops and conferences. He is co-founder and Artistic Director of Lieu, an institution for the development and production of contemporary music using technology in Nice, where he now lives.