{{Use American English|date=May 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox biography | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1949|3|18}} | birth_place = Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S. | occupation = {{flatlist| * Composer * pianist }} | awards = Guggenheim Fellowship (2006) | alma_mater = {{ublist| * University of Minnesota * Northwestern University }} | module = {{Infobox musical artist | embed = yes | genre = Computer music<ref name="Baker"/> }} }} '''Janis Mattox''' (born March 18, 1949) is an American composer and pianist. An early creator of computer music, she is a 2006 Guggenheim Fellow. ==Biography== Janis Mattox was born on March 18, 1949 in Saint Paul, Minnesota.<ref name="Baker" /> She obtained her BA at the University of Minnesota in 1972 and her MA at Northwestern University in 1974.<ref name="Baker" />
Mattox moved to the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), where she started using computer technology to create her work in 1978.<ref name="Baker" /> She composed several pieces featuring computerized music;<ref name="Baker" /> one of these pieces, "Shaman", was sampled in the 1983 album ''The Digital Domain: A Demonstration''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Farmer |first=Roscoe |date=1985 |title=Review of The Digital Domain: A Demonstration |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3679630 |journal=Computer Music Journal |volume=9 |issue=4 |pages=72–73 |doi=10.2307/3679630 |jstor=3679630 |issn=0148-9267|url-access=subscription }}</ref> She performed a hymn on Naut Humon's album ''Swarm of Doves'', which Paul Verna of ''Billboard'' called one of the album's highlights.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Verna |first=Paul |date=1996-01-20 |title=Albums -- Swarm Of Doves by various artists |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/227099258 |magazine=Billboard |page=69 |volume=108 |issue=3|id={{ProQuest|227099258}} }}</ref> In 2002, she created the hour-long electronic piece ''Solombra'', inspired by poet Cecília Meireles.<ref name="Hinkle-Turner 2006" /> In 2006, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Janis Mattox |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/janis-mattox/ |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=Guggenheim Fellowship}}</ref> She is also a Silicon Valley Fellow.<ref name="SV">{{Cite news |title=Janis Mattox |url=http://www.svlaureates.org/artist/janis-mattox/ |access-date=2025-04-30}}</ref> Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner said that some of Mattox's pieces "reflect her interest in combining live performers with computer-generated and processed sounds in an all-encompassing aural and visual experience".<ref name="Hinkle-Turner 2006" />
She also does video art, with one of them being the 1992 piece ''Book of Shadows'', which won several film festival awards throughout the United States.<ref name="Hinkle-Turner 2006">{{Cite book |last=Hinkle-Turner |first=Elizabeth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FBydHQwZwWkC |title=Women Composers and Music Technology in the United States |date=2006 |publisher=Ashgate |isbn=9780754604617 |location=Aldershot |page=100 |oclc=60393911}}</ref> She has also performed as a pianist, particularly for the Good Sound Band.<ref name="Baker" /> She has also worked as a teacher, including in computer music at CCRMA<ref name="Baker" /> or in piano.<ref name="Hinkle-Turner 2006" /> She also worked for the Good Sound Foundation as a project consultant.<ref name="Baker" />
Her husband Loren Rush is a composer.<ref name="Baker">{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Mattox, Janis |encyclopedia=Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/mattox-janis |access-date=2025-04-30 |last1=Slonimsky |first1=Nicolas |last2=Kuhn |first2=Laura |last3=McIntire |first3=Dennis |via=Encyclopedia.com}}</ref> She is based in Woodside, California.<ref name="SV" /> == References == {{reflist}}
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