Pieter Snapper (born 1967 in Berkeley, California) is a mastering engineer, producer, and composer of contemporary classical and

electronic music Electronic music is a Music genre, genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or electronics, circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromech ...

, living in

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. His works have been played in the U.S., Europe, and Asia by groups such as

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in Stockholm, and Klangforum in Vienna. He has received awards from BMI, ASCAP, UC Berkeley, the Union League Foundation, and commissions from the

Fromm Foundation Paul Fromm (September 28, 1906 – July 4, 1987) was a Jewish Chicago wine merchant and performing arts patron through the Fromm Music Foundation. The ''Organum for Paul Fromm'' was composed by John Harbison in his honor. Early life Born in Kitz ...

at Harvard University, Yamaha Corporation of America, the ensemble Eighth Blackbird, and the

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. His principal composition teachers included

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and Edwin Dugger at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

, and

Ralph Shapey Ralph Shapey (12 March 1921 – 13 June 2002) was an American composer and conductor. Biography Shapey was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is known for his work as a composition professor at the University of Chicago, where he taught ...

and

Howard Sandroff Howard Sandroff (born October 28, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American composer, sound artist, sculptor, and music educator. Sandroff studied at the Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University and the Massachusetts Institute of Te ...

at the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ...

. In addition to composing, he has performed and toured extensively as a player of live and interactive computer music. His music is available on the Gasparo record label. After teaching composition and electronic music at the

Oberlin College Conservatory of Music The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is a private music conservatory in Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. It was founded in 1865 and is the second oldest conservatory and oldest continually operating conservatory in the United States. It is one of ...

, in 1999 Snapper moved to Istanbul to establish the composition and sound engineering programs at the

Istanbul Technical University Istanbul Technical University ( tr, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, commonly referred to as ITU or The Technical University) is an international technical university located in Istanbul, Turkey. It is the world's third-oldest technical universit ...

Center for Advanced Studies in Music (MIAM - Müzik Ileri Arastirmalar Merkezi). He also founded and developed the MIAM Studios in Turkey. In 2003 he co-organized an international conference at ITU on spectral music, the first of its kind, culminating in an edited volume with two audio CDs, published in 2008. Working with digital art collective NOMAD, Snapper helped to organize ctrl_alt_del, the first international sound art festival in Turkey, held in 2003 and 2005. In 2004 =e appeared as a musical judge on the Turkish television series Akademi Türkiye. In 2006 he launched Soqrmom, a club-oriented intermedia music project incorporating live music and video, performed solo and in collaboration with Reuben de Lautour.Music: MIAM
at ''Time Out Istanbul'', by Alexandra Ivanoff, 2008 He has also written for and collaborated with his sister, vocal artist Juliana Snapper, including sound design/live processing for the European premier of her underwater operatic performance "Five Fathoms Deep My Father Lies," at the Aksioma Center for Contemporary Art in Ljubljana, Slovenia in June, 2008. Later that year he premiered "insan/damat", his first work directly integrating Turkish musical elements, at the Kreutzstanbul II festival in Berlin. In 2009 he co-founded Babajim Istanbul Studios & Mastering, a recording, mixing and mastering facility designed by studio architect Roger D'Arcy that opened in April 2010. He has recorded several hundred of albums in musical styles from pop, rock, arabesque, experimental, jazz, metal, hip-hop and classical. Among his clients are Turkish and international artists, including

Stewart Copeland Stewart Armstrong Copeland (born July 16, 1952) is a Scottish-American musician and composer. He is best known for his work as the drummer of the English rock band the Police from 1977 to 1986, and again from 2007 to 2008. Before playing with th ...

, Smadj, Lyric Opera of Chicago,

Talvin Singh Talvin Singh OBE (born 1970) is an English musician, producer, and composer. A tabla player, he is known for creating an innovative fusion of Indian classical music and drum and bass. Singh is generally considered involved with an electronica s ...

, the

National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO; previously known as RTÉ Symphony Orchestra and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra) is the largest professional orchestra in Ireland. Housed at the National Concert Hall, Dublin, since January 2022, it used ...

, and

Erik Truffaz Erik Truffaz (born 3 April 1960 in Chêne-Bougeries, Switzerland) is a French jazz trumpeter, infusing elements of hip hop, rock and roll and dance music into his compositions. Early life Truffaz was introduced to music by his father, a saxoph ...

Selected compositions

* Chamber Symphony (1989) * Planes of Lamentation and Light (Violin Solo, 1990) * Diatribes (Flute Solo, 1991) * Rapture (Piano, 1991) * Dans l'oblique du froid (Soprano and piano, 1992) * Sburator (Mandolin and Tape, 1992) * Veins of Aether (Soprano, electronics, chamber orchestra, 1995) * how we fall... (vln, vc, fl, cl, pno, 1996) * The Madeleine in the Mercury (Clarinet and Live Electronics, 1998) * Lament for a Lost Diva (String quartet, 1999) * Eulogy for Verna Van Solkema (Tape, 1999) * Zil (orchestra and live electronics, 1999) * Malifornia (stereo soundtracks, 2001) * Gradus ad Parnassum (surround soundtracks, 2003) * Wrong (stereo soundtracks, 2003) * Hyperv (stereo soundtracks, 2005) * Whisky Tango (as Soqrmom, live electronics, 2006) * Diva Tango (as Soqrmom, live electronics, 2007) * No, you can't have a pony (as Soqrmom, live electronics, 2007) * Mutate (as Soqrmom, live electronics, 2007) * Ape-Listening Monkey (live electronics, 2008) * Bone to Breeze Continuum (live electronics, 2008) * insan/damat (live electronics, 2008) * Forgetting (for Necil Kazim Akses, live electronics, 2009)

References

External links

Babjim Studios

by Bob Gluck {{DEFAULTSORT:Snapper, Pieter American male composers 21st-century American composers University of California, Berkeley alumni University of Chicago alumni 1967 births Living people Musicians from Berkeley, California American expatriates in Turkey 21st-century American male musicians