Faculty/Staff Directory
Owen Vallis
Faculty: Music Technology (MTIID)
Website: http://www.flipmu.com/
Website: http://mtiid.calarts.edu
E-Mail:
Phone: 661.253.7816
Room: B322
As an artist and co-founder of FlipMu, Owen Vallis is fascinated by the intersection of sound and technology. This curiosity has driven Owen to explore a diverse range of projects including producing other musicians, composing his own music, building various analog and digital audio processors, and designing new hardware interfaces for musical expression and interaction. Moving from Toronto, Canada to San Francisco to Nashville to Los Angeles and now Wellington, New Zealand, Owen has been able to develop a broad and interesting cross section of musical ideologies and aesthetics. This diverse background helps to create context from which new works can be created and explored.
Education and Current Work
In 2008, Owen graduated from the MTIID program at California Institute of the Arts, and is now currently pursuing his PhD in Sonic Arts at the New Zealand School of Music, Victoria University of Wellington.
Over the past 10 years, Owen has worked as an engineer in studios around Nashville Tennessee and Los Angeles, built a recording facility from the ground up, produced and mixed several notable bands from the Los Angeles area, had production work featured in major motion films, and worked for leading ribbon microphone manufacturer Royer Labs.
Owen’s work has been featured in Wired, Future Music, Pitchfork and XLR8R magazine, on Processing.org, and shown at events such as NASA’s Yuri’s Night, Google I/O and the Berlin Open conference in 2009.
