Upcoming Events

January 2008

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
Saturday, January 26
8 pm
CNMAT
Guillermo Galindo
Concert
$10 general admission, $5 students and seniors
Xp1ora7ion
An evening with composer / electronic musician Guillermo Galindo and experimental violist Charlotte Hug.

Guillermo Galindo’s artistic work spans a wide spectrum of expression from symphonic composition to the domains of musical and visual computer interaction, electro-acoustic music, opera, film music, instrument building, three dimensional installation, live performance and sound design. His music has been performed and presented at major festivals and art exhibits throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia.

 

December 2007

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
Tuesday, December 4
8 pm
CNMAT
Almut Kühne,
Georg Graewe, David Wessel, Nils Bultman
Concert
$12 general admission, $6 students and seniors
Georg Graewe

solo works for piano
songs and variations for voice and piano
improvisations for voice, piano and live electronics

Almut Kühne - soprano
Georg Graewe - piano
David Wessel - live electronics
Nils Bultman - viola

Wednesday, December 5
3:15 lecture, 8 pm concert
CNMAT
Eric Lyon
Lecture/Concert

Lecture is free.

Concert: $12 general admission, $6 students and seniors

3:15 pm --The Talk: Computer Chamber Music
Lyon will discuss recent compositions integrating laptop performance to the classical chamber music practice, with a compositional focus. This will lead to a dialog on performance practices developed at CNMAT and how they may relate to my ideas on computer chamber music.

8:00 pm - The Concert: Recent octaphonic music and live laptop works.

Eric Lyon is a composer and developer of computer music software. He is a co-developer of FFTease, and his LyonPotpourri externals have also found favor in the MaxMSP world. His recent compositional output includes works for the Smith Quartet, NeXT Ens., Kathleen Supové, and most recently, a Trio for flute, clarinet and computer that was premiered by Elizabeth McNutt, Esther Lamneck and the composer. The work was commissioned for the opening of the MANTIS Studios at the University of Manchester. Lyon’s current compositional work focuses on computer chamber music, spatial orchestration, and organized noise.

Lyon has taught computer music at Keio University, The International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), Dartmouth College, and the University of Manchester, before joining the School of Music and Sonic Art at Queen’s University Belfast.

Monday, December 10
8 pm
CNMAT
Gratkowski/Melford/Wessel/Bultman
Concert
$12 general admission, $6 students and seniors

Frank Gratkowski - alto saxophone and clarinets
Myra Melford - piano
David Wessel - live electronics
Nils Bultman - viola

 

November 2007

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
Sunday, November 4
8 PM
CNMAT
India Cooke , Pauline Oliveros, Karolyn Van Putten
Concert
$12 general $6 students and seniors
The Circle Trio: India Cooke (violin) , Pauline Oliveros (accordion), Karolyn Van Putten (voice).
Saturday, November 10
8 PM
CNMAT
Thomas Buckner , George Marsh, Pauline Oliveros, David Wessel, Jennifer Wilsey
Concert
Saturday, November 10 - 8 PM The Timeless Pulse Quintet: Thomas Buckner (voice), George Marsh (percussion), Pauline Oliveros (accordion), David Wessel (electronics), Jennifer Wilsey (percussion).
Thursday, Nov 8
11 am
CNMAT
Ronald Smith and David Tannenbaum
Talk
Free

Composer Ronald Bruce Smith and guitarist David Tannenbaum present Smith's new compostiion:

Five Pieces for Guitar and Live Electronics

This new work, which has its U.S. premiere on 11/10 at the 2007 Festival of New American Music in Sacramento, was commissioned under a UC Discovery grant from the University of California Industry-University Cooperative Research Program (IUCRP) and Gibson Guitar Corporation. It was made possible through the support of the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), Department of Music, University of California, Berkeley.

Friday, November 16
3:15 pm
CNMAT
Liza Lim
Talk
Free
Internationally acclaimed composer Liza Lim combines the intelligence of modernism with visceral energy and vibrant colour. A recurring thematic thread in her music is the exploration of the idea of crossing cultural boundaries and of ecstatic transformation. Her compositions explore a range of resources from opera and the orchestra to visual arts installations, often including non-Western instruments and have been performed by some of the world’s most eminent ensembles. Notably, she was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic to write the large orchestral work, Ecstatic Architecture to celebrate the inaugural season of the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2004.
Tuesday, November 20
3-5 pm
Matin Matalon
Talk
Free

CNMAT and the Department of Music presents Regent's Lecturer and composer, Martin Matalon: TRACES, recent works for solo instruments and live electronics.  

Tuesday, November 27
3-6 pm
CNMAT
Matin Matalon
Talk
Free
CNMAT and the Department of Music presents Regent's Lecturer, composer, Martin Matalon. Music for Fritz Lang's, Metropolis (3-4 p.m. lecture, 4-6 p.m. film showing).
Wednesday, November 28
3-5 pm
CNMAT
Matin Matalon
Talk
Free
CNMAT main room, 3-5 p.m.. CNMAT and the Department of Music presents Regent's Lecturer Martin Matalon: Recent orchestral music. 
Thursday, November 29
3-6 pm
CNMAT
Matin Matalon
Talk
Free
CNMAT and the Department of Music presents Regent's Lecturer, composer, Martin Matalon. Music for the silent films of Luis Buñuel (3-4 p.m. lecture, 4-6 p.m. film showing).
Friday, November 30
3:15 pm
CNMAT
Michal Rataj
Talk
Free
Michal Rataj is a composer and radio producer based in Prague, Czech Republic. Currently he is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at CNMAT, UC Berkeley.

As a composer, Rataj is mainly interested in composing electroacoustic music (both acousmatic and performative), as well as music inspired by the phenomenon of Gregorian chant as a musical medium of liturgy. Rataj is assistant professor at the Academy of Performing Arts, Prague.

As a radio producer, Rataj works for Czech Radio (national public broadcaster). In 2003 he founded and has been in charge of producing specialized program slots for radioart featuring newly commissioned works as well as cross-borders pieces from soundscapes through a concrete-poetry-based works. He is a member of the Ars Acustica Group of the European Broadcasting Union

Michal Rataj will present some of his recent works as well as a short introduction to the world of contemporary European radio art.

 

October 2007

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
October 1-5
TBA
FRANCOIS PARIS
TBA
Free

FRANCOIS PARIS IN RESIDENCE FORM October 1 to October 5 (mainly meeting students privately in rear studio)

October 4
3-5 pm
CNMAT
Andrea Menafra
Talk
Free
Andrea Menafra, Electric guitarist, guest in MUSIC 207, October 4, 3-5 p.m.
October 8
8 pm
Yerba Buena Center, S.F.
SFCMP/CAMPION/LEROUX
Concert
$27/22/10
SFCMP/CAMPION/LEROUX concerts October 8 with plenty of rehearsals scheduled for main room
Friday, October 19
8 pm
Peter J. Sharp Theater at the Juilliard School
The Juilliard Percussion Ensemble
Concert
Free tickets available beginning 10/5 at the Juilliard Box Office
The Juilliard Percussion Ensemble, led by Daniel Druckman, presents "Three Rivers, Three Roads" featuring works by Edmund Campion, Alejandro Vinao, and Kaija Saariaho on Friday, October 19 at 8 PM in The Peter Jay Sharp Theater
October 26
3 pm, 8 pm
CNMAT
DAVID MONACCHI AND BERNIE KRAUSE
Talk
Free
Field Recording and Eco-Acoustic Composition

A colloquium + concert with Bernie Krause and David Monacchi

“Soundscapes: new perspectives on the original source of music and culture”
Naturalist and bio-acoustician Bernie Krause will explain reasons and principles at the base of forty years of field recordings of the world natural soundscape.

“Fragments of Extinction – portraits of acoustic bio-diversity from equatorial primary rainforest”
Sound artist and composer David Monacchi will introduce his field recording and compositional work.

Concert program:
1. Echoes of a Sonic Habitat (D.M. - 2004) 11.24
For re-contextualized natural soundscapes - 8ch audio
2. Interlude - Biophony V (B.K.) 5.00
3. States of Water (D.M. - 2006) 16.56
For processed field recordings – 8ch audio
4. Interlude - Biophony VI (B.K.) 5.00
5. Nightingale-Study I (D.M. - 1999) 11.35
For processed field recordings, live medieval traverse flute,
and real time video

 

July 2007

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
July 16-20
11 AM -4 PM
Michael Zbyszynski and other experienced Max/MSP teachers
Workshop
$500
Max/MSP Day School (beginners to intermediate users)
July 23-27
11 AM -4 PM
CNMAT
Adrian Freed
Workshop
$700

Sensor Workshop for Performers and Artists

July 23-27
6-9 PM
CNMAT
Ali Momeni
Workshop
$400

Max/MSP Night School (intermediate to advanced users)

July 28-30
6-9 PM
CNMAT
Andrew Benson
Workshop
$200
Jitter Night School

 

April 2007

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
Monday, April 2
8:00 PM
Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley

BERKELEY CONTEMPORARY CHAMBER PLAYERS

BERKELEY NEW MUSIC PROJECT

David Milnes, music director
Concert

Tickets: $12 general, $8 discounts, $4 special UCB student tickets Available in advance, in person at Zellerbach Hall ticket office, online: http://tickets.berkeley.edu, or by phone (510) 642-9988. Tickets are also available, at the Hertz Hall box office, beginning one hour prior to the performance. This concert is free for all UCB graduate students.

 

BERKELEY CONTEMPORARY CHAMBER PLAYERS
BERKELEY NEW MUSIC PROJECT
David Milnes, music director Program:
Loretta Notareschi : From the Inside for oboe, 4 violins, and cello (A. Opening - B. Breaking Open)
Aaron Einbond , Temper for bass clarinet and live electronics
Gael Tissot , Instants de marche for solo viola and tape
[Gael Tissot is in residence at UC Berkeley for the Spring 2007 semester thanks to a grant from the French-American Fund for University Partnerships].
Robert Yamasato , Silewhet for string quartet
Jason Levis , …tendue for contrabass and electronics
David Coll , 1956-1958 for violin, cello and percussion
Heather Frasch , to wrest unknown vibrations
John MacCallum , ...frozen into shards of ice... for electronics

Featured performers:
Florian Conzetti , percussion
Leighton Fong , cello
Erik Ulman , violin
Peter Josheff , bass clarinet
John Sackett , bass clarinet
Toyoji Tomita , trombone
Karen Shinozaki , violin
Cynthia Mei , violin
David Ryther , violin
Rita Lee , violin
Darcy Rindt , viola
Sarath Rathke , oboe
Lisa Mezzacappa , bass

Friday, April 6 8:00 pm
Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley
Stefano Scodanibbio
Concert
Free
CNMAT and the UC Berkeley Regent's Lecturer program present contrabass soloist and composer Stefano Scodanibbio.
Tuesday, April 10
1:30-3:30 pm
CNMAT
Edward Large
Talk
Free
Edward Large

"Gamma-band activity reflects the metric structure of rhythmic tone sequences"

This talk will begin with our recent finding of human brain activity that anticipates events in rhythms such as those found in music and speech. In musical rhythms, for example, people usually hear a beat, or pulse. Until recently, the brain processes underlying such perceptions were poorly understood. We observed that peaks in the power of cortical brain activity predict both the timing and intensity of events such as notes (in music) and syllables (in speech). Moreover, we can unexpectedly leave out some events, and the timing and power of cortical activity remains unchanged, as though the event had actually occurred. These features of brain activity closely match what is known about the perception of auditory rhythms, including the perception of pulse in music. This is, as far as we are aware, the first direct observation of neural expectations for future stimulus events in rhythmic auditory sequences. I will discuss a model of neural oscillation that explains important features of such responses, and I will show preliminary results from an fMRI experiment that explicitly manipulated attention to rhythmic sequences.

Friday, April 13
3-4:30 pm
125 Morrison
Stefano Scodanibbio
Colloquium
Free
Regents Lecturer Stefano Scodanibbio discusses his music
Wednesday, April 18
4:00 pm
CNMAT
Keynote+
Seminar
Free

Keynote+ Seminar Presentation at CNMAT:
A workshop of interactive performance featuring improvised elements, live algorithms and MAX/MSP. New directions and classic work from British studios will include pieces by Simon Emmerson, Sohrab Uduman and Michael Young.
ALL WELCOME.

Wednesday, April 18
8:00 pm
CNMAT

Keynote+

Kate Ryder and Jane Chapman

Concert
$5 - $10 suggested donation

Keynote+Kate Ryder and Jane ChapmanKeynote+ Harpsichord, prepared piano, electronics, video:
Keynote+ is a unique multi-keyboard project, exploring the interface between early and modern instruments and cutting edge new music. Two highly original and engaging performers combine forces with some of
today's most creative transatlantic musical voices, to generate a vibrant new language. A fascinating concert exposes the subtle sonorities o
prepared piano, harpsichord and electronics with visual imagery.Kate Ryder - 'Virtuosic playing ...the dusky timbres of the prepared piano worked a spell.' The Times
Jane Chapman (harpsichord) - " A fearless contemporary music performer...... you have to respect Chapman's virtuosity and guts" The Guardian

Music by: David Coll, Simon Emmerson, Evelyn Ficarra, Jeremy Hunt, Jason
Levis, Roger Redgate and others; video by Ian Winters.

Saturday, April 21
Noon to 4 pm
CNMAT
Cal Day at CNMAT
Open house
Free
Cal Day at CNMAT
Wednesday, April 25
8 pm
CNMAT
duo pantoMorf
Palle Dahlstedt and Per Anders Nilsson, electronics
Concert
$10 general admission $5 students and seniors

duo pantoMorf
Palle Dahlstedt and Per Anders Nilsson, electronics

duo pantoMorf play electronic free improv. That is, we perform improvised electronic music as musicians, NOT looking like we check our email on stage. Our main rule is: if we take our hands away, the instruments go quiet. We use no fancy sensors or esoteric gestural controllers, but very basic stuff that we know well how to play. But we develop new ways of playing them, and - most important - new ways of mapping them to sound, using carefully designed sound engines that allows fingertip control, while retaining a vast sonic potential. Every sound relates to and comes directly from a physical gesture by the player, which makes a huge difference for the audience. There are no ongoing pre-programmed processes, and all is free improvisation, mostly non-beat based. If there is a beat, it is played by us. The main question is: How can we explore and control complex electronic sound spaces in improvisation, retaining the millisecond interaction that is taken for granted in acoustic improvisation, but has somehow got lost in electronic music?

Monday, April 30
8 pm, Pre-concert talk begins at 7:15 pm
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts – Forum

701 Mission St. at 3rd St., San Francisco, CA

The San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
Concert

$27 General/$22 Seniors/$10 Students

Call 415.978.ARTS

The San Francisco Contemporary Music Players presents:
Personal Encounters

Edmund Campion, Losing Touch (1994)
Manolis Manousakis, Sickert (2005) (U.S. Premiere)
Iannis Xenakis, Okho (1989)
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Vibra-Elufa (2003)
Dai Fujikura, Okeanos Breeze (2005) (U.S. Premiere)

Christopher Froh, percussion
Rufus Olivier, bassoon
William Winant, percussion

The solo still offers the most direct, intimate, and intense connection a contemporary musician can have with an audience. Virtuoso players Christopher Froh, Rufus Olivier, and William Winant are featured in an evening of provocative music comprised of solos and small ensemble pieces. This varied concert rediscovers Xenakis’ explosive percussion trio for African hand drums and introduces new music by Stockhausen and Dai Fujikura, the latter supplying an ethereal reminiscence for Japanese and western instruments. 

 

March 2007

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
Tuesday, March 20
8:00 PM
FPR TRIO & DUO Frank Gratkowski & David Wessel
Concert
$10 general admission $5 students and seniors

First set: FPR TRIOThe FPR Trio features Koln saxophonist Frank Gratkowski, Evander Music founder and saxophonist Phillip Greenlief, and ROVA Saxophone Quartet founding member Jon Raskin. These three musicians bring a wealth of experience to their wind trio. Their performances present a variety of composition techniques and improvisation strategies. The music veers recklessly from densely colored sound collage to minute lower case sound explorations to ecstatic free jazz energy-driven music. The compositions can call upon carefully-notated, tightly assembled melodic lines or loosely structured suggestions for free improvisation. Regardless of the process, this is one of the finer wind trios working today - a claim
that is supported by the fact that audiences have continued to come again and again over the past six years to find out what the trio's next move might be.

Second set: DUO Frank Gratkowski & David Wessel

 

February 2007

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
Saturday, February 10
8:00 PM
Yasutaka Hemmi, violin
Recital
$5 suggested donation

Yasutaka Hemmi, violin

Works by Bach, Berio, Ferneyhough, Nishimura and a new work by Kristian Ireland.

Violin virtuoso Yasutaka Hemmi is a noted interpreter of contemporary and traditional violin repertoire, and has performed internationally at festivals such as Ars Musica (Belgium), Belfort (France), Akiyoshidai (Japan), and in Melbourne and Brisbane (Australia). He was a member of the Belgian ensemble Champ d’Action from 2001-03, and has worked with composers such as Brian Ferneyhough and Helmut Lachenmann. Hemmi has given many premieres and has invented his own particular techniques to play pieces that would be unperformable using only conventional techniques.

 

January 2007

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
Tuesday, January 23
3-5
Professor Philippe Manoury (UCSD)
Talk
Free

Professor Philippe Manoury (UCSD)
speaking on recent compositions

Sunday, January 28

2 pm
3:45 pm
6 pm

CNMAT
Composer Alvin Curran
Symposium Free

Composer Alvin Curran
A one day symposium on his music and music composition
2-3:30 p.m. (Curran session 1)
3:45-5 p.m. (Curran session 2/Master Class)
6-7:30 p.m. (Curran mini concert)

Monday January 29
11 am
CNMAT
Eric Lindemann
Talk
Free

Eric Lindemann, founder of Synful

Music Synthesis with Reconstructive Phrase Modeling

 

December 2006

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
Friday December 1
3-4:30
Room 117 Morrison
Ross Bauer
Talk
Free
UC Berkeley Department of Music Colloquia in Composition:
Composer Ross Bauer, Davis
About his work
Saturday, December 2
8 pm
Recombinant Media Labs
763 Brannan Street at 7th Street
San Francisco, California
Ed Campion and other artists/composers/media artists/performers
Party
Advance ticket $20 / $25 at the door (cash only)

Party • Multi Media Performance
At Recombinant Media Labs

Live music, electronics, video and photography in the audio-visual surround
Food, drinks and the presentation of NEXMAP’s new initiatives.
Come meet artists from the Bay Area, Vancouver and Montreal.
Artist/composers/media artists/performers are: Ed Campion , Jen Cohen, Louis Dufort , Guillermo Galindo, Daniel Hayes, John Oliver, Kristin Tieche, Linda Bouchard and François Houle on clarinet, Ellen Ruth Rose on viola, video of ODC Dance company in the Water Project.

Thursday, December 7
2-5 PM
CNMAT
Dan Trueman
Talk
Free

Dan Trueman will speak in Professor Campion's Music 207 seminar (Advanced Projects in Computer Music) on December 7 from 2-4 p.m. The talk is open to the public.

Dan is a composing performer on both the 6-string electric violin and the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle. His duo Trollstilt released its first CD of original tunes in 2000 and has performed widely at both contemporary music festivals and folk music festivals. He also plays and teaches traditional Hardanger fiddle music.

 

November 2006

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
Friday, November 3
3-4:30
Room 117 Morrison
Jay Gottlieb
Talk
Free
UC Berkeley Department of Music Colloquia in Composition:
Pianist Jay Gottlieb
About his SFCMP concert
Friday, November 3
8 pm
CNMAT
Eliot Gattegno
Concert
$10 general, $5 students and seniors.
Eliot Gattegno
Wednesday, November 15
8 pm
CNMAT
Lauren Newton,
Joelle Leandre,
David Wessel
Concert
$10 general, $5 students and seniors.
Lauren Newton, voice
Joelle Leandre, bass
David Wessel, live electronics
Friday, November 17
3-4:30
Room 117 Morrison
Cindy Cox
Talk
Free
UC Berkeley Department of Music Colloquia in Composition:
Composer Cindy Cox, Berkeley
About her work
Friday, November 17
8 pm
CNMAT
Respectable Citizen
Concert
Free
Respectable Citizen plays both electronic and acoustic sets at the CNMAT, with Bruce Bennett playing piano and synthesizers, Byron Diel playing dumbek and electronic percussion, and Michael Zbyszynski playing flutes, saxophones, and wind synthesizer.
Saturday, November 18
8:30 pm
Nice, France
Edmund Campion
Concert
See their web site

MANCA Festival 2006

CONCERT DE CLÔTURE avec le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne de Montréal,
direction Lorraine Vaillancourt
SOIREE CANADIENNE
Au Théâtre Francis Gag (Nice)- Au programme : Jonathan Harvey "Lotuses" (1992), Claude Vivier "Paramirabo" (1978), Edmund J. Campion "Domus Aurea" (1999-2000), Gérard Grisey "Vortex temporum" (1994-1996), Inouk Demers "Lo que vendrá" (2000) et Franco Donatoni "Arpège" (1986). Intermèdes cinématographiques composés de films d‚animation canadiens de Norman McLaren. En partenariat avec la Mission Cinéma de l‚Espace Magnan.

 

October 2006

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
Friday, October 6
7:30 p.m.
Getty Center, Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Los Angeles
Anthony Discenza and Michael Zbyszynski
Performance
$5. Call (310) 440-7300 for tickets.
Friday Nights at the Getty
Distributed Memory: Live Music and Projected Images (performance)

Date: Friday and Saturday, October 6 and 7, 2006
This special two-night installment of Friday Nights at the Getty curated by Julie Lazar features commissioned pieces supported, in part, by the Montalvo Arts Center, with existing short films, media projections, and musical compositions that explore the creation of art through the recomposition of found and new materials.

Friday, October 6A program of highly edited, nonlinear artworks blending electronic music and experimental images.Anthony Discenza and Michael Zbyszynski
Media artist Anthony Discenza and composer Michael Zbyszynski present their work-in-progress News Cycle #2 (Excerpts from a Long Day) (15 min.), a collaborative digital artwork consisting of reprocessed, interwoven excerpts from three 24-hour cable news networks. Zbyszynski uses a customized digitizing tablet to "draw" a score for the digital images provided by Discenza.

Discenza also presents a new audio work, Viewing no. 1 (2006, 8 min.), and Zbyszynski performs his composition "Alone in a Crowded Room" (2005, 12 min.) for alto flute with live electronics.

Friday October 6 3-4:30 Room 117 Morrison Paul Dresher Talk Free UC Berkeley Department of Music Colloquia in Composition:
Composer Paul Dresher, San Francisco
About his work
Friday October 20 3-4:30 Room 117 Morrison John MacCallum Talk Free UC Berkeley Department of Music Colloquia in Composition:
Composer John MacCallum, Berkeley
About his work

 

September 2006

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
Saturday, September 9
2-5 pm
CNMAT
Workshop
Free

New Music in an Old Cathedral

Bring the family for a free workshop!
Join us for a special workshop on the festival's music at CNMAT on Saturday, September 9 from 2:00-5:00 pm. A number of the artists will be on hand for an in-depth view of their work.

Thursday, September 14 7:00 PMGrace Cathedral
1100 California St.
(at Taylor St.),
San Francisco

Edmund Campion,
Earl Howard,
François Houle,
Joëlle Léandre,
Frank Gratkowski,
Thomas Buckner,
David Wessel

Concert$25 Preferred (Front Orchestra seating)
$20 General
$10 Student, Senior, Friend (Subscriber to SF Contemporary Music Players or Berkeley Symphony)

New Music in an Old CathedralGrace Cathedral welcomes ten world-renowned new music vocalists, instrumentalists, and composers as they perform groundbreaking work over two evenings, a festival produced by UC Berkeley’s Center for New Music and Audio Technology (CNMAT).

Supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Friday, September 15 7:00 PMGrace Cathedral
1100 California St.
(at Taylor St.),
San FranciscoJohn Chowning,
Maureen Chowning, Wadada Leo Smith, Joëlle Léandre, Frances-Marie Uitti, Wadada Leo Smith, David WesselConcert$25 Preferred (Front Orchestra seating)
$20 General
$10 Student, Senior, Friend (Subscriber to SF Contemporary Music Players or Berkeley Symphony)

New Music in an Old CathedralGrace Cathedral welcomes ten world-renowned new music vocalists, instrumentalists, and composers as they perform groundbreaking work over two evenings, a festival produced by UC Berkeley’s Center for New Music and Audio Technology (CNMAT).

Supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Links To Other Calendars

The U.C. Berkeley Music Department has a calendar of musical performances, mostly at U.C. Berkeley's Hertz Hall.Just down the street from CNMAT, the Psychology Department sponsors a weekly colloquium in the hearing sciences, affectionately known as the ear club. They meet Monday afternoons at 4:00.The Mills College Music Department Calendar of EventsCCRMA, Stanford University's computer music center, has an events homepage. Also, Klub Karma is a "space for semi-sporadic gatherings for those interested in sharing new music." They often present new music on Thursday evenings.The Electronic Music Foundation has lots of listings of upcoming events, plus other lists that their subscribers pay to have their events in.