January 2008 |
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Saturday, January 26 |
8 pm |
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 |
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Date | Time | Location | Who | What | Cost | Details |
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Tuesday, December 4 |
8 pm |
Almut Kühne, Georg Graewe, David Wessel, Nils Bultman |
Concert |
$12 general admission, $6 students and seniors |
Georg Graewe
solo works for piano Almut Kühne - soprano |
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Wednesday, December 5 |
3:15 lecture, 8 pm concert |
Eric Lyon |
Lecture/Concert |
Lecture is free. Concert: $12 general admission, $6 students and seniors |
3:15 pm --The Talk: 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. |
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Monday, December 10 |
8 pm |
Gratkowski/Melford/Wessel/Bultman |
Concert |
$12 general admission, $6 students and seniors |
Frank Gratkowski - alto saxophone and clarinets |
November 2007 |
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Sunday, November 4 |
8 PM |
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). |
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Saturday, November 10 |
8 PM |
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). |
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Thursday, Nov 8 |
11 am |
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. |
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Friday, November 16 |
3:15 pm |
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. |
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Tuesday, November 20 |
3-5 pm
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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. |
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Tuesday, November 27 |
3-6 pm |
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). |
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Wednesday, November 28 |
3-5 pm |
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. |
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Thursday, November 29 |
3-6 pm |
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). |
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Friday, November 30 |
3:15 pm |
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 |
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October 1-5 |
TBA
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FRANCOIS PARIS |
TBA |
Free |
FRANCOIS PARIS IN RESIDENCE FORM October 1 to October 5 (mainly meeting students privately in rear studio) |
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October 4 |
3-5 pm |
Andrea Menafra |
Talk |
Free |
Andrea Menafra, Electric guitarist, guest in MUSIC 207, October 4, 3-5 p.m. |
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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 |
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” “Fragments of Extinction – portraits of acoustic bio-diversity from equatorial primary rainforest” Concert program: |
July 2007 |
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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)
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July 23-27 |
11 AM -4 PM |
Adrian Freed |
Workshop |
$700 |
Sensor Workshop for Performers and Artists |
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July 23-27 |
6-9 PM |
Ali Momeni |
Workshop |
$400 |
Max/MSP Night School (intermediate to advanced users) |
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July 28-30 |
6-9 PM |
Andrew Benson |
Workshop |
$200 |
Jitter Night School |
April 2007 |
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Monday, April 2 |
8:00 PM
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Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley
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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.
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BERKELEY CONTEMPORARY CHAMBER PLAYERS Featured performers: |
Friday, April 6 | 8:00 pm | Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley |
Concert |
Free |
CNMAT and the UC Berkeley Regent's Lecturer program present contrabass soloist and composer Stefano Scodanibbio. |
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Tuesday, April 10 |
1:30-3:30 pm |
Talk |
Free |
"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. |
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Friday, April 13 |
3-4:30 pm |
125 Morrison |
Colloquium |
Free |
Regents Lecturer Stefano Scodanibbio discusses his music |
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Wednesday, April 18 |
4:00 pm |
Keynote+ |
Seminar |
Free |
Keynote+ Seminar Presentation at CNMAT: |
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Wednesday, April 18 |
8:00 pm | Keynote+ Kate Ryder and Jane Chapman |
Concert |
$5 - $10 suggested donation |
Keynote+Kate Ryder and Jane ChapmanKeynote+ Harpsichord, prepared piano, electronics, video: Music by: David Coll, Simon Emmerson, Evelyn Ficarra, Jeremy Hunt, Jason |
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Saturday, April 21 |
Noon to 4 pm |
Cal Day at CNMAT |
Open house |
Free |
Cal Day at CNMAT |
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Wednesday, April 25 |
8 pm |
duo pantoMorf Palle Dahlstedt and Per Anders Nilsson, electronics |
Concert |
$10 general admission $5 students and seniors |
duo pantoMorf 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? |
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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 |
Concert |
$27 General/$22 Seniors/$10 Students Call 415.978.ARTS |
The San Francisco Contemporary Music Players presents: |
March 2007 |
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Tuesday, March 20 |
8:00 PM
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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 Second set: DUO Frank Gratkowski & David Wessel |
February 2007 |
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Saturday, February 10 |
8:00 PM
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Yasutaka Hemmi, violin |
Recital |
$5 suggested donation |
Yasutaka Hemmi, violin 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 |
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Tuesday, January 23 |
3-5
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Professor Philippe Manoury (UCSD) |
Talk |
Free |
Professor Philippe Manoury (UCSD) |
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Sunday, January 28 |
2 pm |
Composer Alvin Curran |
Symposium | Free | Composer Alvin Curran |
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Monday January 29 |
11 am |
Eric Lindemann |
Talk |
Free |
Eric Lindemann, founder of Synful Music Synthesis with Reconstructive Phrase Modeling |
December 2006 |
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Friday December 1 |
3-4:30
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Room 117 Morrison
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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 |
Thursday, December 7 |
2-5 PM |
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 |
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Friday, November 3 |
3-4:30 |
Room 117 Morrison |
Talk |
Free |
UC Berkeley Department of Music Colloquia in Composition: Pianist Jay Gottlieb About his SFCMP concert |
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Friday, November 3 | 8 pm |
Concert |
$10 general, $5 students and seniors. |
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Wednesday, November 15 |
8 pm |
Lauren Newton, Joelle Leandre, David Wessel |
Concert |
$10 general, $5 students and seniors. |
Lauren Newton, voice Joelle Leandre, bass David Wessel, live electronics |
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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 |
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.
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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, |
October 2006 |
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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 Friday, October 6A program of highly edited, nonlinear artworks blending electronic music and experimental images.Anthony Discenza and Michael Zbyszynski 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 |
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Saturday, September 9 |
2-5 pm |
CNMAT |
Workshop | Free |
Bring the family for a free workshop! |
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Thursday, September 14 | 7:00 PMGrace Cathedral 1100 California St. (at Taylor St.), San Francisco Edmund Campion, $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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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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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.