Scott Alan Wyatt

Scott Alan Wyatt (born 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), composing music as Scott A. Wyatt, is a composer of electroacoustic music. He is currently professor emeritus of Music Composition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, having served as Director of the university’s Experimental Music Studios for 40 years. Wyatt’s compositions include purely electroacoustic music, as well as live performance compositions for instruments with electroacoustic accompaniment. His compositions for live instrument performance with electroacoustic accompaniment are published by Cimarron Music Press (Tuba Euphonium Press) and Media Press Music. Music Composer Ben Johnston, in his liner notes to Wyatt’s album Collections I: Electronic Music with and without Instruments, referred to Wyatt as belonging to “the third generation of electronic music composers,” being less concerned with experimentation for experimentation’s sake and choosing to focus more on the potential of incorporating electronically generated and processed sounds in serious composition. Wyatt describes his own compositional approach as “gestural”, in that he constructs linear sonic events that allow “the listener a desir