CNMAT Calendar Events from 1999

November 1999

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
 Wednesday, November 10 4:00 - 5:15    CNMAT  David Wessel  Talk  Free

 New Models for New Music

Mathematical modeling of sound and music has become essential to the practice of making music with computers. A variety of models for musical sound and higher level musical features like harmony, melody, and rhythm will be surveyed. In all cases special emphasis will be given to the mutability of the underlying representations and the generation and control of musical material in a reactive real-time performance context. Models of sound include sinusoidal track representations for additive synthesis and resonance models based on banks of high Q filters. Control structures for sound synthesis include those based on neural networks, exemplar or memory-based models, and cluster weighted models. Models for harmony and melody include those based on pitch distributions and a variety of graphical models. Rhythmic representations include those that capture metrical organization and expressive timing variations like swing and rubato. Many of these models are data driven and the underlying statistical issues will be exposed. Finally, a number of musical data bases and some associated tools for musical analysis and synthesis will be described.

 Wednesday, November 17  8:00 PM   CNMAT

Cécile Daroux, flute

Nicolas Vérin, composer

Concert  $10 general, $5 students

Program:
Taï Yi II, for flute and tape, by Shuya Xu, 15'
Instants d'hiver, (short version) for tape, by Daniel Teruggi, 10'
Ici, for flute solo, by Pascal Dusapin, 6'
-- intermission --
Little i, by Marco Stroppa, for flute and electronics, 18'
Mariposa clavada que medita su vuelo, for flute and four-track tape, by Nicolas Vérin, 17'
Densité 21,5, for flute solo, by Edgar Varèse, 3'

Cécile Daroux is actively involved in improvised music, and has played and recorded with Sun Ra, Georges Russel, Michel Portal, and others.

Nicolas Vérin is professor of electroacoustic music in the Conservatories of Chalon sur Saône and Evry. He has performed the works of Pierre Henry, Roger Reynolds, Morton Subotnick, Michael Jarrell, and Michael Levinas. He is also very interested in improvisation, which he performs with CDs, samplers, computers.

 

 

 

October 1999

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
 Monday, October 4  7:30 PM  Mills College Center for Contemporary Music (CCM), Ensemble Room David Wessel Concert  Free The CCM presents composer David Wessel, Professor of Music at UC Berkeley and the Director of CNMAT. Improvisation is central to Mr. Wessel's computer-based musical research and practice. He will describe and demonstrate the way he organizes musical material and prepares for improvised performance with
examples drawn from his collaborations with other improvising perfomers including Roscoe Mitchell, Georg Graewe, and Shafqat Ali Khan In the course of the evening he will present and perform a new solo work entitled "Inappropriate Desires" prepared especially for this Songlines event.
 Sunday, October 10  5:00 PM  CNMAT  Performer: Abbie Conant
Music, Sound Design: William Osborne
 Concert  $10 general, $5 students

 Music for the End of Time
(For trombone and quadraphonic electronics.)

I. A Door Was Opened In Heaven
II. The Sea of Glass
III. The Four Horsemen
IV. As It Were of a Trumpet Talking
V. The White Beast
VI. A Woman Clothed with the Sun

Virtuoso trombonist Abbie Conant presents an hour-length piece for trombone and quadraphonic electronics based on images from the Book of Revelation entitled Music for the End of Time by composer William Osborne. The
movements are continious and flow into each other without break to create a highly dramatic, musical parable of the apocalypse. The electronic music of the surround sound creates a sonic environment in which the trombone is
the central figure.

 Saturday, October 16  8:00 PM  CNMAT  Philip Gelb - shakuhachi, Pauline Oliveros - accordion, Dana Reason - piano, Matthew Sperry - bass  Concert  $10 general, $5 students

 

In concert:

Philip Gelb - shakuhachi
Pauline Oliveros - accordion
Dana Reason - piano
Matthew Sperry - bass

 Friday, October 22 - Thursday, October 28    Beijing, China  David Wessel, Matthew Wriight, Richard Andrews  International Computer Music Conference ICMC99  See the ICMC99 website Papers, demonstrations, and posters featuring CNMAT research. Click here for abstracts and full texts of our papers.

 

September 1999

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
 Tuesday, September 14  8:00 PM  CNMAT

Shafqat Ali Khan, vocal

David Wessel and Matthew Wright, interactive electronics

Concert  $10 general, $5 students Longtime musical collaborators Shafqat Ali Khan (vocals) and David Wessel (interactive computer instrumentation) are joined by Matthew Wright (interactive computer instrumentation) for an evening of improvisation and interaction. They create a musical common ground, informed by classical Indo-Pakisani music, upon which a vital dialogue takes place.

 

July 1999

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
 Monday July 12 to Friday July 16  7:00 - 10:30 PM  CNMAT Max/MSP Night School Instructors: David Zicarelli, David Wessel, Adrian Freed, Matthew Wright, Richard Dudas, and Leslie Stuck  Course Fee: $250.00 payable in advance or at the first meeting.

See the Max/MSP Night School page for more info.

Reservations: richard@cnmat.berkeley.edu
(510) 643-9990 x300

 Monday July 19 to Friday July 23  7:00 - 10:30 PM  CNMAT  Supercollider Night School  Instructors: James McCartney, Alberto de Campo, Curtis Roads, Matthew Wright   Course Fee: $250.00 payable in advance or at the first meeting.

See the Supercollider Night School page for more details.

Reservations: richard@cnmat.berkeley.edu
(510) 643-9990 x300

 

 

June 1999

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
 Saturday, June 5  5:00 PM  Hertz Hall Manoury Celebration Workshop/Concert  TBA Manoury Celebration
A three part celebration of the work of contemporary French composer Philippe Manoury
 Sunday, June 6  3:00 PM  Hertz Hall  Manoury Celebration  Concert   TBA Manoury Celebration
A concert of works by Philippe Manoury:
- Pluton, for piano and electronics
- Jupiter for flute and electronics
 Wednesday, June 9  8:00 PM  Zellerbach  Manoury Celebration  Concert  Ticket prices are from $19, $27 and $35; $10 for students

Manoury Celebration
A concert version of Manoury's opera
- 60th Parallel

For tickets or information call (510) 841-2800. ONE TICKET WILL ADMIT PATRONS TO ALL THREE EVENTS

 Sunday, June 20  8:00 PM  CNMAT  Ensemble LOOS  Concert  $10 general, $5 students   Holland's Ensemble LOOS is known for a variety of projects involving notated music, improvised music, live electronics and avant-garde theatre. They have played at major European festivals such as Donaueschingen Musiktage in Germany, and are passing through the Bay area en route to their performances at the Vancouver Jazz Festival. The music of LOOS is sparse and intense, with abrupt textural and tempo changes. They acknowledge the influence of Japanese Noh theatre, and have been compared to Captain Beefheart.
 Wednesday, June 30  8:00 PM  CNMAT  Solos and Duos: Georg Graewe and David Wessel  Concert  $10 general, $5 students

 Pianist and composer Georg Graewe was born in 1956 in Bochum, Germany. His compositions, which include works for solo piano, chamber music, as well as pieces for full symphony orchestra, have been performed at major venues throughout the world.

David Wessel is a composer and performer of electroacoustic music that exploits reactive and interactive computer technology in musical contexts where improvisation and dialog are central.

 

May 1999

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
 Saturday, May 8  8:00 pm  CNMAT  Laetitia Sonami  Concert  $10 general/$8 students

Laetitia Sonami will give a solo performance of recent compositions for the lady's glove. Her custom-designed electronic glove, which is studded with sensors, tracks her movements, controlling and generating wildly creative musical arrangements.

Texts written by Melody Sumner-Carnahan accompany her performances. The Village Voice describes Sonami as "sultry and magical... a striking talent... expect something inexplicable, compelling and deeply personal".

 Sunday, May 9  8:00 pm  CNMAT  David Berhman, Laetitia Sonami, John Ingle, and Alex Potts.  Concert  $10 general/$8 students Legendary Composer David Berhman will present his music along with guest artists Laetitia Sonami, John Ingle, and Alex Potts.
 Friday, May 14  8:00 pm  CNMAT CNMAT/CCRMA Exchange Concert  $5 The CNMAT Users Group and CCRMA present a concert of electroacoustic music. Click here for more info.
 Saturday, May 15  8:00 pm  CNMAT CNMAT/CCRMA Exchange  Concert  $5 The CNMAT Users Group and CCRMA present a concert of electroacoustic music. Click here for more info.
 Tuesday, May 18  8:00 pm  University of Washington  CNMAT/CARTAH Exchange  Presentation and concert  $5 The CNMAT Users Group and CARTAH present a concert of electroacoustic music. Click here for more info.
 Sunday, May 23  8:00 pm  CNMAT  Georg Graewe  Concert  $10 general, $5 students Pianist and composer Georg Graewe was born in 1956 in Bochum, Germany. He founded his first group, The Georg Graewe Quintet, in 1974 while still in his teens. He has consequently been leading a variety of ensembles ranging from trio to chamber orchestra formats, which have involved some of the major soloists in contemporary music. From 1982 to 1993 Graewe was director of the GrubenKlangOrchester, a 10-piece chamber group with an international line-up and from around 1989 he has also had a long-standing trio with Ernst Reijseger and Gerry Hemingway. His compositions, which include works for solo piano, chamber music as well as pieces for full symphony orchestra, have been performed at major venues in throughout the world. His work is documented on some 30 releases on several American and European labels. He has also performed and recorded with Anthony Braxton, John Tchicai, Barry Guy, Marilyn Crispell, Evan Parker, Barre Phillips, Ken Vandermark, Paul Lovens, Mats Gustafsson, Joëlle Léandre, Dave Douglas among many others. Current projects include The Georg Graewe Quartet with Frank Gratkowski, Kent Kessler and Hamid Drake, TORQUE with Peter van Bergen and Melvyn Poore and a duo with Sebi Tramontana. Georg Graewe runs the label Random Acoustics.

 

April 1999

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
 Monday April 12  4:00 PM Ear Club - 5101 Tolman Hall  Jean-Claude Risset Lecture Demonstration   Free Jean-Claude Risset at the Ear Club
Lecture Demonstration:
Sound Synthesis, Perception and Auditory Illusions
Tuesday April 13  3:30 PM  CNMAT  Jean-Claude Risset  Lecture and Discussion   Free Jean-Claude Risset at CNMAT:
Lecture and Discussion with David Wessel
Composition, Perception, and Cognition
 Tuesday April 13  8:00 PM  CNMAT  Jean-Claude Risset  Concert  $10 general, $5 students Concert of the Electro-Acoustic Music of Jean-Claude Risset
 Friday, April 16  8:00 PM  Hertz Hall

 Ensemble InterContemporain

David Robertson, music director

Florent Boffard, piano

 Concert (for details, see these Program Notes)  $16

The 31 members of Ensemble InterContemporain - France's first ensemble dedicated to the exploration and revelation of the music of the 20th century - are committed to encouraging the realization of what is richest and most promising in the contemporary imagination.

Co-sponsored by the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT). The one-week residency of Ensemble InterContemporain is a co-production of Cal Performances and Stanford Lively Arts.

 Saturday, April 17  TBA  CNMAT  CNMAT staff  Open house  Free Cal Day
 Friday, April 23   8 pm   CNMAT CNMAT/CARTAH Exchange  Concert  $5

A concert of new and recent works by Linda Antas, Bret Battey, Bruce Bennett, Edmund Campion, Amar Chaudhary, Keeril Makan, Richard Karpen, Eric Marty, David Wessel, and Michael Zbyszynski.

Featuring performances by, Linda Antas, flute, Amar Chaudhary, electronics, Ernie Mansfield, EWI, John McGinn, piano, and Silvia Yee, flute

 Saturday, April 24  3 pm   CNMAT  CNMAT/CARTAH Exchange  Colloquium  Free Colloquium: Richard Karpen on his work. Click here for more info.
 Saturday, April 24  8 pm    CNMAT  CNMAT/CARTAH Exchange  Concert  $5

A concert of new and recent works by Linda Antas, Bret Battey, Bruce Bennett, Edmund Campion, Amar Chaudhary, Keeril Makan, Richard Karpen, Eric Marty, David Wessel, and Michael Zbyszynski.

Featuring performances by, Linda Antas, flute, Amar Chaudhary, electronics, Ernie Mansfield, EWI, John McGinn, piano, and Silvia Yee, flute. Click here for more info.

 Thursday, April 29  8 pm  Campbell Recital Hall at Stanford University CNMAT/CARTAH Exchange  Concert  TBA The CNMAT Users Group and CCRMA present a concert of electroacoustic music. Click here for more info.

 

February 1999

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
 Friday, February 12  8:00 pm  CNMAT  Kurahashi Yoshio  Concert  $10 general, $5 students

Kurahashi Yoshio, master shakuhachi player from Kyoto performs his first concert in the SanFrancisco Bay Area!

Contact:ryokan@wenet.net for more information.

A webpage of shakuhachi events will be up shortly at www.shakuhachi.com

 

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