Scott A. Wyatt

Scott A. Wyatt in Studio D of the Experimental Music Studios at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 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 desired opportunity to discover the interplay and development of molded sonic events without the interference of pitch as the primary factor." He asserts that clarity in motivic gestures and their evolutionary development enhances the drive, direction, and drama of a piece.

Notable is his attention to spatialization within his works. Wyatt opts for a manual approach to achieve effective, convincing translations—"the perceived movement of the location of a sound source"—across a multichannel field, finding it easier to emphasize such movement than by using multichannel panner utilities. To this end, Wyatt devised the D-8, or Discrete Eight, System, consisting of three stereo pairs of speakers (front, side, and back) with front and back center speakers. This setup allows for the accurate reproduction and longitudinal rolling of stereo images while still allowing for effective translations of sounds in a circular fashion. Wyatt was quickly hired on as a lecturer the following year, teaching music theory, aural skills, and an electronic music course. He also served that year as co-director of the Experimental Music Studios alongside faculty member James Beauchamp, assuming sole directorship in 1976. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: ...and nature is alone. 2012. Music from SEAMUS volume 21. SEAMUS Records EAM-2010 Includes Scott A. Wyatt: ComLinks. 2009. SEAMUS DVD ONE. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: All at Risk. 2008. In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios. University of Illinois EMS-2008 Includes Scott A. Wyatt: of gray twilight. 2008. Music from SEAMUS volume 17. SEAMUS Records EAM-2008. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: A Road Beyond. 2006. Radial Matrix, multi-dimensional electroacoustic music by James Dashow, Richard Karpen, and Scott A. Wyatt. Capstone Records CPS-8769. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: In the Arms of Peril. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: Time Mark. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: On a Roll. 2005. Music from SEAMUS volume 14. SEAMUS Records EAM-2005. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: On a Roll. 2003. Music from SEAMUS volume 12. SEAMUS Records EAM-2003. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: Night Visitors. 2002. Music from SEAMUS volume 11. SEAMUS Records EAM-2002. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: In the Arms of Peril. 2001. IMEB (Groupe International Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges) Electronic Culture Recording Series volume 15. IMEB LCD-278074/75. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: All for One. Tom Siwe, percussion. 1999. Music from SEAMUS volume 8. SEAMUS Records EAM-9901. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: Private Play. 1998. Perantoni Plays Perantoni. Mark Records MCD-2433. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: Three for One. Daniel Perantoni, tuba. 1997. Music from SEAMUS volume 7. SEAMUS Records EAM-9701. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: A Time of Being. University of Illinois Concert Choir. Chester L. Alwes, conductor. Elaine Gary, percussion. 1996. Light of Sothis by Debra Richtmeyer. Mark Records MCD-1806. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: Counterpoints. Debra Richtmeyer, soprano saxophone. 1994. Music from SEAMUS volume 3. SEAMUS Records EAM-9402. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: Counterpoints. Debra Richtmeyer, soprano saxophone. 1994. Music from SEAMUS volume 2. SEAMUS Records EAM-9401. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: Time Mark. Glenn Schaft, percussion. 1987. Collections II Chamber Music with electronics. VERIATZ Records V-892. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: Soundets. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: Real Illusion. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: Four For Flute. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: Vignettes. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: Time Mark. 1987. Beyond the Lines, crossings without drums by Scott A. Wyatt. OFFICE Records FIL-300. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: Circulation. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: Garden Music. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: Inquiry. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: Distant Fields. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: Poems. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: Solace Affair. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: Time Between Seconds. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: Catwalk. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: Until.... 1986. CDCM Computer Music Series volume 3. CENTAUR Records CRC-2045. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: Still Hidden Laughs. 1985. Chamber Music. VERIATZA Records V-861. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: Trans. 1981. Tuba N' Spice. Mark Records MRS-37879. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: Three for One. Daniel Perantoni, tuba. 1978. Collections I. UBRES Records CS-303. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: Four For Flute. John Fonville, flute. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: Menagerie. Includes Scott A. Wyatt: Two plus Two. Tom Siwe and Don Baker, percussion.

Articles Wyatt, Scott A. "Investigative Studies on Sound Diffusion/Projection", eContact! 2.4 (September 1999). . Retrieved 2017-12-12. Wyatt, Scott A. "Gestural Composition", eContactI 1.2 (March 1998). Retrieved 2017-12-12. Wyatt, Scott A. "Challenge of the New", Computer and Music Educator Journal, vol. 1, no. 3 (March 1990): 7–8. Wyatt, Scott A. "Electro-Acoustic Music: Giving Voice to New Sounds", Mechanical Engineering Magazine, vol. 108, no. 9 (September 1986): 58–62.