December 1996

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Wednesday, 12/4 5-6:30 pm CNMAT Students of Fall 1996 Music 158 ("Musical Applications of Computers and Related Technologies") Interactive computer music demos free See, hear, and play with a number of students projects: Clark Huang's 4-part Harmony Generator; Kevin Chang's Music Processing Unit; Fractal Music Generators by Joseph Stanko, Andrew Smolle, and Jane Yen; Po-Ying Liu's "Pong96"; and Greg Pitter's Realtime Algorithmic Jazz Improviser.
Wednesday, 12/4 7:30-9 pm  CNMAT Students of Fall 1996 Music 158 ("Musical Applications of Computers and Related Technologies") Live computer music performances  free Student works: James Reynolds' "Chroma" (an interactive perforrmance system with visuals and sound); David Wilcox's piece for guitar and Electronics; Fernando Benadon's music for digital tape; Dennis Schultz's music for digital tape; and Paul Greyson's music for algorithmic rhythm generators.
Thursday & Friday -- December 5 & 6 4:30 and 8:00 pm Zellerbach Hall, Room #7. ("A secret room in the bowels of Zellerbach hall. Call or e-mail for directions; it's pretty tricky.") Choreographer Diana Barrios and composer Michael Zbyszynski World premiere of Tanczyc, featuring dance and electronic tape music. free The music for this work was produced this semester at CNMAT, using MAX, Sound Designer, Sample Cell, and a mix of synthysizers and samplers. For more details, contact Michael Zbyszynski: mikezed@uclink2.berkeley.edu or (510) 653-3213.
Friday, 12/6 8:00 pm Mills Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland Composer/performer Ted Henderson, Chairman of the Music Engineering Technology Program at Cogswell College in Sunnyvale "Music From Dark Places", an evening of experimental, avant-garde, and political music dealing primarily with African-American issues. (Graduate Thesis Presentation) free The concert will include a mixture of tape and interactive electronic music featuring music never before performed publicly. The second half of the concert will feature the multi-movement work "African Awakenings II (In Celebration of Kwanzaa)" requiring multiple performers simultaneously controlling one MIDI instrument. For more information contact Ted Henderson.
Sunday, 12/8 2 pm Cogswell College, 1175 Bordeaux Dr., Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Percussionist/ vibraphonist Mark Goldstein "Taking Lightning to the Max": Talk/Performance on MAX and Alternative Controllers (Buchla Lightning and Mallet KAT). ?? Click here for details.
Friday, 12/13 8 pm CNMAT Maestro Shafqat Ali Khan, vocal, son of Ustad Salamat Ali Khan, with accompanying musicians Evening of classical and light classical Indo-Pakistani vocal music. $15 Bio of Shafqat Ali Khan

November 1996

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Wednesday, 11/6 12:30 to 2:00 405 Soda Hall, U.C. Berkeley Sam Drake, Imake Two short talks: "Notes on Video On Demand Networks" and "MPEG Audio Servers" Free Click here for abstract.
Thursday, November 7 7:30 pm San Jose State University Concert Hall of the School of Music and Dance The Electro-Acoustic Area and the Center for Research in Electro-Acoustic Music at San Jose State University presents... "An Evening of Electro-Acoustic Music" in conjunction with American Music Week ??? Click here for program. Please call the School office at 408.924.4673, or send e-mail to music@sjsuvm1.sjsu.edu if you have questions.
Wed, 11/13/96 3:00 PM Room 128 Morrison Hall, Department of Music, University of California, Berkeley CNMAT visiting scholar Pierre Korzilius Talk: Effects of Public Funding on Programming Contemporary Music: Orchestras & Ensembles in Europe and the US. Part 1: Funding Structures Free The lecture will present the results of a survey among orchestras and specialized ensembles in the US, France, Germany and the United Kingdom. In the first part, Pierre Korzilius will explain the different arts funding systems in the various countries with a special emphasis on new music. (Part 2 will be 11/20.)
Thursday, 11/14 8 pm CNMAT Duo: Shafqat Ali Khan, vocal, and David Wessel, interactive instrumentation Concert $8, $5 students and seniors. Reservations required. Shafqat Ali Khan is an exuberant improviser and well grounded in the khyal style of North Indian classical vocal music. David Wessel is a computer musician and creates software for improvisational contexts in which he performs. Click here for more details.
Thursday, 11/14 7-10pm The Choral Rehersal Hall in the Golden Bear Center, U.C. Berkeley. (Near Sproul Plaza.) Conference on Puerto Rican Music free The genres will be explained and the history will be discussed, but mainly a group of musicians will be playing live examples, including Mazurca, Bomba, Plena, Seis, Aguinaldo, Danza, Bolero, Merengue, Salsa and Latin Jazz.
Sunday, 11/17 3 pm to 10:30 pm The ODC Performance Gallery in San Francisco (3153 Seventeenth St.) Dozens of Bay Area composers. Opus 415 Bay Area New Music Marathon $10 for the whole day - come and go as you please. Check out Common Sense Composers Collective for more info. If you would like free admission in exchange for 2-1/2 hour of volunteer work, please contact Dan Becker
Monday, 11/18 8 pm Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley Berkeley New Music Project. Performances by Sarah Cahill, Leighton Fong, John Schott, Laura Carmichael, Luigi Peracchia, and others. Fall concert of new works by graduate student composers at UC Berkeley. Free Electronic, acoustic, and electro-acoustic works by Bruce Bennet, Michael Zbyszynski, Eric Marty, Eitan Steinberg, Keeril Makan, Trevor Weston, Jude Navari, Jeff Morrow, Tom Swafford and Moon Choo Oh. Reception follows. Contact Keeril Makan (549-1168) for more information.
Tuesday, 11/19 ??? Miller Theatre, New York City Peggy Kampmeier, Christopher Oldfather Concert, including Edmund Campion's A Complete Wealth of Time for two pianos. ???

Thursday, 11/21/96 (Formerly Wednesday)
4:00 PM Room 125 Morrison Hall, Department of Music, University of California, Berkeley CNMAT visiting scholar Pierre Korzilius Talk: Effects of Public Funding on Programming Contemporary Music: Orchestras & Ensembles in Europe and the US. Part 2: Programming. Free The lecture will present the results of a survey among orchestras and specialized ensembles in the US, France, Germany and the United Kingdom. In the second part, the consequences of the different funding environments will be shown by presenting the results of an extensive repertoire analysis and a survey dealing with the attitude towards 20th century music.
Thursday, 11/21/96 8:30 pm sharp ODC Performance Gallery, 3153 17th at Shotwell, San Francisco (between Mission and South Van Ness) Bay Area Composers / Performers Laurie Amat, Thom Blum, Jim Cave, Greg Goodman, and Erling Wold An evening of colorful new music, text sound, and music-theater $12. For reservations call (415) 255-6357 Click here for details about the concert, including the pieces, composers, and performers.

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Friday, 10/25/96 3pm to 5pm The Hughes Room, Room 400 Cory Hall. (Immediately on your left as you exit the elevator on the fourth floor.) Nick Porcaro, Pat Scandalis, Julius Smith, and Scott Van Duyne from CCRMA Talk and demonstration of SynthBuilder, a user-extensible, object-oriented, NEXTSTEP Music Kit application for interactive real-time design and performance of synthesizer patches, especially physical models. Free Click here for a detailed abstract, references, and bios.
10/21/96 8pm Yoshi's Austrian flautist Gunter Wehinger with Vijay Iyer, piano; Erich Hunt, bass; Dr. Anthony Brown, drums Concert Sponsored by Jazz in Flight. Wehinger is a fine flautist from Austria who used to study with the great James Newton. The material is original "straight-ahead" jazz.
10/11/96 11am CNMAT Eric Singer, Sabrina Liao and Clilly Castiglia from New York University Talk/Demo Free A discussion of the research and projects being done at the NYU Media Research Laboratory (MRL) and Center for Advanced Technology (CAT). They will talk about and show video from the MRL's installation at SIGGRAPH '96, featuring Botanica Virtual, a virtual spirit world, and Aria, an interactive opera singer. They will also discuss their current work in creating Interactive Virtual Musicians, artificially intelligent animated characters that play and respond to music.
10/10/96 evening Cafe Du Nord, Market near Church, SF Fatty Boom Boom (John Yi, Vytas Nagisetty, Andrew Borger) with special guest Vijay Iyer Concert

September 1996

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September 30 8 pm Annenberg Center, University of Pennsylvania. 3620 Walnut St. New York New Music Ensemble, Daniel Druckman (vibes) Concert, including Edmund Campion's Losing Touch for vibraphone and tape. ???
Saturday, 9/21 8 PM CNMAT Sharafat Ali Khan and guest artist Shafqat Ali Khan North Indo-Pakistani Classical Vocal Concert $15 ($10 students) Don't miss the concert!
Saturday, 9/14 9:30 pm Blake's, 2367 Telegraph Ave. @ Durant, Berkeley Matt Wright's band Dervish, plus "Liar" Concert $5 See the Dervish home page. Both bands feature singing, electric violin, electric guitar, electric bass, and drum set.
Monday, 9/2/96 8 pm and 10 pm Yoshi's pianist Vijay Iyer and friends Concert $7 Iyer plays his original music, on solo piano and in his two current critically-acclaimed ensembles, the Vijay Iyer Trio and Poisonous Prophets.

August 1996

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Monday, 5th August 9 AM SIGGRAPH 1996 New Orleans Adrian Freed Sound Synthesis Tutorial See details SIGGRAPH 1996
Saturday, 8/31/96 8 pm CNMAT Ustad Salamat Ali Khan and Shafqat Ali Khan "Rainy Season Ragas", a Concert of Hindustani Classical Vocal Music $15, $10 students and seniors Forthcoming

Sunday, May 19, 1996: STRINGS AND MACHINES

CNMAT with support from Silicon Graphics, Inc. presents, the world premiere performance of four compositions for cello and interactive electronics on Sunday, May 19, 1996, at 8 PM.

Cellist Hugh Livingston is a doctoral student at UCSD specializing in the performance of contemporary music; the composers are students and faculty at UCSD's Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) and at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at UC Berkeley.

Mr. Livingston has commissioned these works and collaborated with the composers over the last year.

UCSD faculty composer Peter Otto presents the pioneering use of TrANSIT, a six-channel sound spatialization system which whirls gusts of sound around the audience, triggered by the cellist in the middle.

Mark Danks presents a multimedia work involving projected video on a giant screen. A Silicon Graphics workstation generates abstract images in real-time based on the musical material played by the cellist.

Composer Guy Garnett from CNMAT at UC Berkeley has composed Interactions 3, one of a series of pieces for instruments with computer-controlled digital sound processing. The sound is distorted, phased, echoed and reverberated as elegant melodic figures are spun by the cellist.

Joseph "Butch" Rovan's "clear and cool nights" draws on 'found' sound material, reminiscent of the Cocteau film "Orpheus," where the poet receives his inspiration via the radio. The cellist is involved in a verbal and musical dialogue with these sounds, which evolve into an industrial groove with the cellist performing rap-style vocals.

These exciting compositions are the result of a year-long collaboration between the artists and represent the cutting edge in music and music technology being developed in California. The tour and a compact disc to be released fall 1996 are sponsored by Inter-Campus Arts, a UC granting organization.