CNMAT Calendar Events from 2000

December 2000
Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
 Sunday, December 4 4:00 PM   CNMAT  Shira Kammen (violin), Allaudin Mathieu (piano), and Devi Mathieu (voice)  Concert  $15, $5 students  "The Way the Sun Would Sing", Song settings of poems by Mary Oliver. Limited Seating. For more information email Shira Kammen or Devi Mathieu.

November 2000
Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
 Monday, November 6  8:00 PM  Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley Campus  Steve Reich  Lecture/Demonstration  Free

 LECTURE DEMONSTRATION

Speaker: STEVE REICH

Writings on MUSIC/NAGOYA GUITARS

 Wednesday, November 8  8:00 PM  Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley Campus  BERKELEY CONTEMPORARY CHAMBER PLAYERS  Concert

 Tickets: $8/6/2

Contact the Hertz Hall ticket office

 BERKELEY CONTEMPORARY CHAMBER PLAYERS

STEVE REICH, Guest Artist

AN ALL REICH PROGRAM: Piano Phase, Music for Pieces of Wood, Nagoya Guitars, Electric Counterpoint, Four Organs

 Friday, November 10  8:00 PM  Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley Campus  Berkeley Symphony  Concert  Contact the Berkeley Symphony ticket office

Maestro Kent Nagano opens the Berkeley Symphony's 2000-01 season with a program that continues the Symphony's commitment to presenting works by contemporary composers. Alongside the music of Beethoven, the program includes the West Coast premiere of Elliott Carter's one-act opera What Next?, in a concert version, and the world premiere of Ronald Bruce Smith's Constellation for orchestra and live electronics.

Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 8
Elliott Carter, What Next?
Ronald Bruce Smith, Constellation for orchestra and live electronics

October 2000
Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
Friday, October 6 8:00 PM  CNMAT Vijay Iyer (piano), J.D. Parran (reeds), and David Wessel (live electronics) Concert  $10 general, $5 students Special guest artists are likely to sit in the second set, including George Marsh and Steve Coleman.
 Saturday, October 7  8:00 PM  Hertz Hall Douglas-Scott Goheen and Christopher Dobrian  Concert  Free  Microepiphanies
A Digital Opera
by
Douglas-Scott Goheen and Christopher Dobrian
 Wednesday October 11  12 noon  Hertz Hall  Music of Edmund Campion  Concert  Free

Russell Greenberg, Percussion

Edmund Campion: Losing Touch
for vibraphone and tape

Also music by Stockhausen, Donatoni, and Xenakis

 Thursday, October 26  8:00 PM  Merkin Concert Hall
67th Street west of Broadway, New York City

 J.D. Parran, David Wessel, Vijay Iyer

Reggie Nicholson Brass Concept

 Concert

$10 or $7 / TDF/V  

Box Office (212) 501-3330
Info/Charges (212) 545-7536

Interpretations
World Music Institute & Thomas Buckner present

J.D. Parran, David Wessel, Vijay Iyer
computer-driven, woodwind-blown sparks fly off piano wire
J.D. Parran, bass saxophone, clarinets, percussion
Vijay Iyer, piano
David Wessel, computer-electronics

Reggie Nicholson Brass Concept
golden celestial rhythms from within
James Zollar, trumpet
Vincent Chancey, French horn
Steve Swell, trombone
Aaron Johnson, tuba
Reggie Nicholson, drums and percussion

 Monday, October 30  8 PM  CNMAT  Cecile Daroux, flute
Nicolas Verin, electronics		  Concert  $10 general, $5 students

 Cecile Daroux, flute
Nicolas Verin, electronics

Program:
Nuées-trace, for flute and electronic set-up, by Jean-Louis Agobet
Lied, for alto flute, by Berio (adapted by Cécile Daroux; originally for clarinet)
Sequenza 1, by Berio
Mariposa clavada que medita su vuelo, for flute and four-track tape, by Nicolas Vérin

September 2000
Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
 Wednesday, September 27  8:00 PM  CNMAT  Alvin CURRAN  Concert  $10 general  DEEP FRIED for Shofar, Harmonica, Sampler, MIDI Piano, and Computer
 Saturday, September 16  8:00 PM  CNMAT  Seth Josel  Concert  $10 general, $5 students

 Seth Josel, solo guitar with electronics

Seth Josel - originally from New York, now residing in Cologne - has become one of the leading instrumental pioneers of his generation. As a soloist he has performed in Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, France, Israel, Italy, The Netherlands, the US and Canada. He has performed as a guest with leading orchestras and ensembles of Europe. For more info check out his web site.

 Friday, Sept 15  4.30 PM  CNMAT  Bob Brozman  Lecture/Demonstration  Free

Bob Brozman: Lecture/Demonstration
"From Country Blues to Reunion Island Maloya and Sega Music"
a demonstrated "diary" of Bob Brozman's musical adventures

Bob Brozman has been called "the best-traveled musical adventurer of our time." A polymath who lives a life of musical anthropology and
ethnomusicology, his forty-year development as a virtuoso guitarist/ slide guitarist has given him the tools to work both efficiently and
empathetically with musicians from cultures around the world.

 Wednesday, September 13  7:00 PM  Pacific Film Archive, 2575 Bancroft Way @ Bowditch, Berkeley  Richard Felciano  Video works  See the Pacific Film Archive website

Linearity, a television piece for harp and live electronics (with harpist Beverly Bellows)

also:
-electronic score for Descartes by poet Joanne Kyger
-electronic score for Figure in Videospace by designer William Jones

all of these are presented as a part of the Pacific Film Archive's retrospective of The National Center for Experiments in Television, 1967-1975

 Sunday September 10  8:00 PM  CNMAT

 Shafqat Ali Khan, Khyal vocal

Salar Nadir Khan, tabla

 Concert  $10 general, $5 students

 Shafqat Ali Khan presents a classical Khyal Vocal concert .

Evening Ragas on Sunday September 10, at 8:00 PM

 Wednesday September 6   8:00 PM  CNMAT  Pauline Oliveros/Philip Gelb/DanaReason w/ guest Jon Raskin - alto, sopranino, baritone saxophones  Concert  $10 general, $5 students  The Space Between (Pauline Oliveros/Philip Gelb/DanaReason w/ guest Jon Raskin - alto, sopranino, baritone saxophones)

August 2000
Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
 August 27 - September 1, 2000    Berlin  David Wessel, Matthew Wright, Richard Andrews, Amar Chaudhary, Rimas Avizienis  ICMC2000 International Computer Music Conference  See the ICMC web site. CNMAT researchers present papers, posters, studio report, demonstrations, and panel discussions. For more info click here.

July 2000
Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
 July 2, through September 31    P.S 1 Museum, New York City  Edmund Campion  Volume:
Bed of Sound		    Edmund Campion, Ellipsis.
For piano, electronics and voices. Presented in the "Volume" exhibition at the P.S 1 Museum, New York City.
For more information click here.
July 10-14, 2000 7:00-10:00 PM  CNMAT Instructors: David Wessel, Richard Dudas, Adrian Freed, Leslie Stuck, Michael Zbyszynski, and Matthew Wright Max/MSP Night School Course Fee: $250.00 Max/MSP Night School
This intensive week of evening classes features instruction in Max/MSP programming by a cast of highly experienced Max/MSP programmers. The course will focus on developing MSP-based electroacoustic instrumentation in which Max provides flexible control and interactivity. A variety of materials will be provided to course participants, including machine readable copies of all the programming examples provided in the course. For more info click here.
 Saturday, July 15  8:00 PM  CNMAT  Bob Ostertag  Concert  Tickets: $10 general, $5 students  Bob Osertag in concert.
"With entrance into Ostertag's world comes a severe attitude adjustment.
You have to curb your brain, dump your 'common sense' judgments, and peel
away the calluses that have built up over the vulnerable core of your senses.
Listening becomes cultural time travel at warp speed. Time, however, jumps
off its linear tracks. You have to accept both the simultaneity of your
feelings and your hapless inability to control them."-- San Francisco Bay Guardian
July 17-21, 2000 7:00 to 10:00 pm  CNMAT Instructors: James McCartney, Alberto de Campo, Matthew Wright SuperCollider Night School Course Fee: $250.00 SuperCollider Night School at CNMAT
This intensive week of evening classes features instruction in SuperCollider 2 programming by its developer James McCartney and a cast of highly experienced SuperCollider programmers. The course will cover basic language and environment handling, and proceed from standard synthesis and processing methods to advanced synthesis, composition, and interaction possibilities provided by SuperCollider 2. Also covered will be many new features upcoming in version 3. For more info click here.
 Sunday, July 23  8:00 PM   CNMAT  Kotoist Miya Masaoka, pianist Vijay Iyer and saxophonist Aaron Stewart   Concert  Tickets: $10 general, $5 students Kotoist Miya Masaoka (San Francisco), pianist Vijay Iyer (New York) and saxophonist Aaron Stewart (New York) perform in various configurations ­- and with a surprise guest artist -- for this unusual concert featuring these highly innovative and accomplished musicians.

June 2000
Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
Tuesday, June 6 8 pm  CNMAT  Paul Lehrman (University of Massachusetts, Lowell), David Wessel, Edmund Campion, Susan Key
(moderator)		  Panel discussion   Free

Switched-on Symphony?
Technology and the Orchestra

This panel, presented in conjunction with the SF Symphony's American Mavericks festival, explores the relationship between technology and the symphony orchestra from both historical and contemporary perspectives. What are the practical and aesthetic issues involved? From the orchestra's point of view? The composer's? The audience's?

For reservations, contact: Susan Key, (415) 503-5448, key@sfsymphony.org

 Tuesday, June 20  8 PM  CNMAT

Georg Graewe

Berkeley Project

Georg Graewe, piano
George Marsh, percussion
David Wessel, live electronics

 Concert $10-general,$5 - students New works for piano, percussion, and live electronics.
 Friday, June 23  8 PM  CNMAT

 Georg Graewe

Berkeley Project

Georg Graewe, piano
George Marsh, percussion
David Wessel, live electronics

 Concert  $10-general,$5 - students  More new works for piano, percussion, and live electronics.

May 2000
Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
Wednesday, May 3 2pm  CNMAT  SILYA KIESE  Lecture   Free CROSSING THE BORDERS
Interdisciplinary Artist Silya Kiese explores the cross-pollination of music, Installation Art and sculpture.
Sunday, May 7 8pm CNMAT John Schott, Will Bernard Concert $10 general, $5 students An evening of new and experimental music for guitar featuring John Schott and Will Bernard
Monday, May 8  8pm  CNMAT  John Schott, Will Bernard  Concert  $10 general, $5 students  An evening of new and experimental music for guitar featuring John Schott and Will Bernard
 Monday, May 15  7:30 pm  Los Angeles County Art Museum  Mosaic Ensemble of New York with percussionist Dan Druckman  Concert  Tickets/information: $20; $15, museum members, students, and seniors.

 Monday Evening Concerts
Mosaic Ensemble of New York with percussionist Dan Druckman performing
Edmund Campion's Losing Touch for vibraphone and tape

For information and to order tickets, call 310-532-1164.

April 2000
Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
Thurs, April 13 8 pm  CNMAT  Kyle Gann   Concert/discussion   $10 general, $5 students

A co-presentation with New Music Bay Area.

Kyle Gann is a noted composer and the Village Voice's new music critic since
1986. He is also the author of "American Music in the 20th Century" and "The Music of Conlon Nancarrow." He is on the faculty of Bard College.

Sat, April 15 12 noon - 4pm CNMAT Cal Day Open House Free Cal Day at CNMAT -- visit our facilities and meet some of the staff.
 Weds, April 19 - Thurs, April 20 8 pm

 CCRMA

The Knoll, 660 Lomita Drive, Stanford

 CNMAT/CCRMA Exchange  Concert  Free

CNMAT/CCRMA Exchange

Featured composers and performers include: Bruce Bennett, Chris Burns, Matthew Burtner, Edmund Campion, Chris Chafe, Ching-Wen Chao, Amar Chaudhary, Cem Duruoz, Kris Falk, Matt Ingalls, Chris Jones, Damian Keller, Seny Lee, Hugh Livingston, Silvia Matheus, Ketty Nez, Charles Nichols, Juan Reyes, Michael Zbyszynski

Programs include works for bassoon, cello, celletto (electric cello),
clarinet, classical guitar, saxophone, interactive electronics, and tape.

For more information:
Chris Burns: cburns@ccrma.stanford.edu
Michael Zbyszynski: mzed at cnmat dot berkeley dot edu

 Fri, April 21 -Sat, April 22  8 pm

 CNMAT

1750 Arch Street, Berkeley

 CNMAT/CCRMA Exchange  Concert  Free (see above)

March 2000
Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
 Weds., March 8  2 pm  CNMAT  Georg Graewe  Lecture  Free

 The Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) and the Consortium for the Arts at UC Berkeley present a series of lectures by German composer/pianist Georg Graewe

Musical Strategies

Lester young: Articulating time

 Weds., March 15  2 pm  CNMAT  Georg Graewe  Lecture  Free

 The Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) and the Consortium for the Arts at UC Berkeley present a series of lectures by German composer/pianist Georg Graewe

Musical Strategies

Prince: Gates and parody

 Weds., March 15 8 pm  CNMAT  Jennifer Hymer  Concert  $10 general, $5 students

Jennifer Hymer, piano
Georg Hajdu, electronics and sound control

See the program notes for more info

 Weds., March 22  2 pm  CNMAT  Georg Graewe  Lecture  Free

  The Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) and the Consortium for the Arts at UC Berkeley present a series of lectures by German composer/pianist Georg Graewe

Musical Strategies

Cream: The conflict approach

Thurs., March 23  8 pm   Zellerbach Hall Berkeley Symphony Orchestra Concert  See the BSO website

George Benjamin, Antara
in collaboration with CNMAT

Jonathan Harvey, Scena
Stuart Canin, violin

Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony no. 8 in C minor, op. 65

 Weds., March 29  3 pm  salle Igor Stravinsky, Ircam, Paris  Xavier Rodet, David Wessel, Matthew Wright  Demo  Free

 Researchers from CNMAT and Ircam will present results from their collaborative research project, Gestural Control of Musical Sound Synthesis, which was supported by a grant from the France-Berkeley Fund.

This project examines the multidimensional real-time control of computer-generated musical sound using a tablet and dual-pen- based user interface. New software/ hardware developments will be demonstrated and applications of the research results will be shown, including musical examples.

February 2000
Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
 Tuesday, February 22 12:00    CNMAT  Leigh Landy  Talk  Free

Leigh Landy :
Heightening Access and Cohesion within the Worlds of Electroacoustic Music

Leigh Landy
Music and Innovation Group
Center for Technology and the Arts
De Montfort University
Leicester

Thursday, Feburary 24  8:00 PM   Zellerbach Hall Berkeley Symphony Orchestra Concert  See the BSO website Arnold Schoenberg, Verklarte Nachte, op. 4

Kaija Saariaho, NoaNoa for flute and interactive electronics
Fred Lau, flute in collaboration with CNMAT

Ludwig van Beethoven, Triple Concerto in C major, op. 56
Hai-Ye Ni, cello; Momo Kodama, piano; Cary Koh, violin

January 2000
Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
 Wednesday, January 19 4:00    CNMAT  Vijay Iyer  Talk  Free

Vijay Iyer: The Role of Embodiment in Music Perception and Cognition

Vijay writes,
The dual theoretical frameworks of embodied and situated cognition ground our understanding of cognitive processes in physical and cultural realities. In this talk I review these viewpoints and discuss their implications for aspects of music perception. I argue that musical meter fulfills a specific cognitive function in a certain range of timescales, delimited by natural timescales of physical embodiment and human memory. Furthermore, I claim that meter perception is a cultural practice, requiring specific, culturally contingent decoding strategies. I continue with a discussion of rhythmic expression in African and African-American groove-based musics, focusing on a handful of specifically constructed musical examples. I discuss how expressive microtiming variations may be decoded as the sonic trace of a physical, culturally situated body.

Finally I speak of musical improvisation as a kind of dialectic between symbolic and situational constraints. Musical meaning in improvisation depends on temporal situatedness, a crucial aspect of embodiment. In conclusion I argue for an enlarged view of music perception, incorporating the body, temporality, and culture.

Vijay Iyer is a pianist, composer, and bandleader recently described by Amiri Baraka as "an oncoming phenomenon, already up to his fingers in the most advanced music of this wildly contradictory age." In addition, he has had a unique academic career in tandem with his musical pursuits. He received a B.S. in mathematics and physics from Yale and a Masters in Physics from U.C.
Berkeley. Then he merged his passions and assembled his own academic program focusing on the scientific study of music. In 1998, he earned an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Technology and the Arts at U.C. Berkeley. He now resides in New York City, where he works as a freelance musician, writer, and scholar.

Thursday, January 27  8:00 PM   CNMAT Abbie Conant - trombone Concert  $10 general, $5 students

Virtuoso trombonist Abbie Conant presents an evening of works for trombone and electronics, including world premieres of pieces by Pauline Oliveros, Chris Brown, and Maggi Payne. The evening will conclude with a large-scale improvisation.

Ms. Conant is an internationally acclaimed trombonist who was soloist of the Munich Philharmonic from 1980 to 1993. In recent years she has performed as a soloist in over 60 cities in Europe and America.

Program:
Chris Brown,"Time Bomb: Four Poems by Mina Loy" for Trombone and Interactive Electronics.
Pauline Oliveros, "The Heart of Tones", for trombone and 2 oscillators: Matthew Wright, oscillator, William Osborne, oscillator.
Abbie Conant and Matthew Wright, "Garden of Earthly Delights", for trombone and interactive electronics, on a text by Czeslaw Milosz. Matthew Wright: interactive electronics. World Premiere
Maggi Payne "Hum 2: (Diana, Goddess of the Hunt)", for 8 trombones: live trombone and 7-track tape.
Jorge Boehringer, "The Sinking Ship" (How to Use the Trombone as a Snorkel), for trombone, video and delay line: Jorge Boehringer, delay line.
William Osborne, "As it were of a trumpet talking", from "Music for the End of Time", for trombone and quadraphonic tape.
Alex Potts "The Secret Waits for Eyes Unclouded by Longing" for trombone and interactive electronics Alex Potts, computer