December 2002

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
 Monday, December 9  8:00 PM  The Berkeley City Club,
2315 Durant St, Berkeley

 The Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio

David Abel, violin; Julie Steinberg, piano; William Winant, percussion

 Concert  $20 general, $15 students

The Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio presents a concert of contemporary music.

Edmund Campion, Domus Aurea
Paul Dresher, Elapsed Time
Somei Satoh, A Gate Into Infinity
Lou Harrison, Varied Time

Location: The Berkeley City Club
2315 Durant St, Berkeley
Tickets are $20 general and $15 for students
(510) 848-7800 for ticket information

November 2002

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
 Saturday, November 30  8:00 pm  CNMAT

 India Cooke - Violin
Miya Masaoka - Koto
Joëlle Léandre - Acoustic Bass

plus

Joëlle Léandre - Acoustic Bass
David Wessel - Electroacoustics

 Concert  $10 general, $5 students

String Stories
India Cooke - Violin
Miya Masaoka - Koto
Joëlle Léandre - Acoustic Bass

plus

Duo
Joëlle Léandre - Acoustic Bass
David Wessel - Electroacoustics

Sunday , November 17   8:00 pm  CNMAT Rich Fudoli - Saxophones and Flute
George Marsh - Percussion
Mel Graves - Acoustic Bass
David Wessel - Electroacoustics
  Concert   $10 general, $5 students Rich Fudoli - Saxophones and Flute
George Marsh - Percussion
Mel Graves - Acoustic Bass
David Wessel - Electroacoustics
Friday , November 15  8:00 pm  CNMAT David Bithell - Trumpet
Ali Momeni - Electroacoustics
Roberto Morales - Flute, Piano, Harp,
and Electroacoustics
 Concert  $0 to $10 sliding scale New Works
David Bithell - Trumpet
Ali Momeni - Electroacoustics
Roberto Morales - Flute, Piano, Harp,
and Electroacoustics
Wednesday, November 13  8:00 pm  CNMAT Laura Carmichael - Clarinets  Concert   $10 general, $5 students Laura Carmichael - Clarinets
New Works by Roderik de Man, Guus Janssen, Theo Loevendie, Tristan Keuris, Claudio Ambrossini, Isang Yun, Edison Denissov
 Friday, November 8  8:00 pm  CNMAT  Chris Brown - Piano
Don Robinson - Percussion
Biggi Vigeloe - Saxophone
 Concert  $10 general, $5 students Chris Brown - Piano
Don Robinson - Percussion
Biggi Vigeloe - Saxophone
 Tuesday, November 5  8:30 PM  Nice, France  Edmund Campion, composer; John Campion, concept and poetry; Carl Faia, musical assistant; Matthew Wright, musical assistant and production  Concert  Visit Festival MANCA web site

Festival MANCA:

Edmund Campion, composer
John Campion (conception et poésie)
ME
Création mondiale - Production CIRM
Pour baryton solo et électronique
Assistant musical (CIRM) Carl Faia
Assistant musical et réalisation (CNMAT) Matthew Wright
20'

Eric Marty
Nuds de chanterelles au coulis de cimes, et autres délices
Création mondiale
Pour 6 voix, flûte, cithare, percussions, viole d'amour, contrebasse et piano
20'

Ce concert s'inscrit dans un programme d'échanges technologiques entre le CIRM (Nice) et CNMAT (UC Berkeley)

Technique CIRM, Centre National de Création Musicale
Ingénieur du son Gérard d'Elia

 Sunday, November 3   8:00 pm   CNMAT   Pauline Oliveros - Accordian
Joelle Leandre - Acoustic Bass
Dana Reason - Piano
Philip Gelb - Shakuhachi
  Concert    $10 general, $5 students  Pauline Oliveros - Accordian
Joelle Leandre - Acoustic Bass
Dana Reason - Piano
Philip Gelb - Shakuhachi
 Saturday, November 2   8:00 pm   CNMAT  Pauline Oliveros - Accordian
Joelle Leandre - Acoustic Bass
Dana Reason - Piano
Philip Gelb - Shakuhachi
  Concert    $10 general, $5 students  Pauline Oliveros - Accordian
Joelle Leandre - Acoustic Bass
Dana Reason - Piano
Philip Gelb - Shakuhachi

October 2002

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
 Friday, October 11  8:00 PM  CNMAT  Frank Gratkowski - Reeds
Roberto Morales - Flute, Piano, Harp, and Electroacoustics
David Wessel - Electroacoustics
 Concert  $10 general, $5 students

in concert

Frank Gratkowski - Reeds
Roberto Morales - Flute, Piano, Harp, and Electroacoustics
David Wessel - Electroacoustics

Friday, October 11, 8:00 PM
presented in CNMAT's Meyer Powered Multi-Channel Sound Theatre 

Friday, October 11   3:00 to 4:30 pm Department of Music, Morrison Hall, Room 117 Richard Felciano Colloquium   Free Colloquium: Richard Felciano
discusses his Library of Congress commission,
"An American Decameron",
songs from the interviews of Studs Terkel
for soprano Phyllis Bryn-Julson.

September 2002

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
 Wednesday, September 18   8:00 pm  CNMAT  Lee Forrest Ferguson - Percussion
Stephen Altoft - Trumpet
  Concert   $10 general, $5 students Duo Contour
Lee Forrest Ferguson - Percussion
Stephen Altoft - Trumpet
Works by Christian Wolff, Igor Majcen, Christopher Fox, Laurence Crane, and James Saunders
 Saturday, September 14  8:00 pm  CNMAT Roscoe Mitchell - Saxophones
David Wessel - Electroacoustics
 Concert  $10 general, $5 students Duo
Roscoe Mitchell - Saxophones
David Wessel - Electroacoustics
Friday, September 13    8:00 pm  CNMAT Roscoe Mitchell - Saxophones
David Wessel - Electroacoustics
 Concert   $10 general, $5 students Duo
Roscoe Mitchell - Saxophones
David Wessel - Electroacoustics

August 2002

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
 Wednesday August 28  8:00 pm  CNMAT  Shafqat Ali Khan - Voice
Ali Momeni, Matthew Wright,
and David Wessel - Electroacoustics
 Concert  $10 general, student discount

 CONFLUENCE
Shafqat Ali Khan - Voice
Ali Momeni, Matthew Wright,
and David Wessel - Electroacoustics

CNMAT, 1750 Arch Street, Berkeley
$10 general (special rates for students)

The extraordinary Shafqat Ali Khan, an 11th generation Indo-Pakistan classical Khyal vocalist, is joined by Ali Momeni, David Wessel, Matthew Wright in a concert featuring voice and live interactive electronics.

A sample downloadable MP3 recording from a previous performance is available.

June 2002

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
 Thursday, June 27  6:30 pm  Fondation Vasarely
Aix en Provence
 Edmund Campion  Concert  Contact the Fondation Vasarely

 Le 27 juin 2002 à 18h30,
Festival "Les Microfoli's", Fondation Vasarely
Aix en Provence

Duo percussions - piano (Frédéric Daumas - Nathalie Négro). Oeuvres
Edmund Campion "Losing Touch"

Monday, June 24 through Friday, June 28 7-10 pm CNMAT Max/MSP Night School Workshop $250 -- Night School only
$400 -- Night School plus 4 daytime lab sessions

This intensive week of evening classes features instruction in Max/MSP programming by a cast of highly experienced Max/MSP programmers.

For reservations or more information, visit the 2002 Max/MSP Night School site.

Saturday, June 8 10:30 pm Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles
46, rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
M° Rambuteau, Hôtel de Ville, Châtelet, Les Halles
01 53 01 96 96
Louis Sclavis, clarinettes
Cécile Daroux, flûtes
Nicolas Vérin, électronique
David Wessel, électronique
Concert See the Agora 2002 site

[nuits Agora] Densité

Improvisations, électronique

Louis Sclavis, clarinettes
Cécile Daroux, flûtes
Nicolas Vérin, électronique
David Wessel, électronique

Coréalisation Ircam-Centre Pompidou et la Muse en Circuit

May 2002

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
Saturday, May 18 8 pm ;CNMAT John Schott, guitar; Matthew Wright and David Wessel, interactive electronics Concert $10/$5 students A concert of new works for guitar and interactive electronics.
Thursday, May 16 8 pm CNMAT John Schott, guitar; Matthew Wright and David Wessel, interactive electronics Concert $10/$5 students A concert of new works for guitar and interactive electronics.
Thursday, May 9 8 pm Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley Campus The Berkeley Symphony, conducted by Kent Nagano Concert visit the Berkeley Symphony website Pierre Boulez, Dialogue de l'ombre double, version for alto flute and electronics (World Premiere), Cécile Daroux, flute
Monday, May 6 8 pm CNMAT Daniel Koppelman and Christopher Dobrian Concert $10/$5 students Artful Devices: Music for Piano and Computers -- Virtuoso pianist Daniel Koppelman takes on virtuoso interactive computer music software by composer Christopher Dobrian and others in a concert of new works for piano and computer.
Monday, May 6 11:00 am CNMAT quintet.net Concert Free Orpheus Kristall - Eine Oper in zwei Medien by Manfred Stahnke. quintet.net is an interactive Internet performance environment invented and developed by composer and computer musician Georg Hajdu.
Saturday, May 4 1:00 pm CNMAT quintet.net Concert Free Orpheus Kristall - Eine Oper in zwei Medien by Manfred Stahnke. quintet.net is an interactive Internet performance environment invented and developed by composer and computer musician Georg Hajdu.
Friday, May 3 3:00 pm CNMAT Cécile Daroux Colloquium Free UC Berkeley Department of Music's Colloquia in Composition presents flutist Cécile Daroux discussing Pierre Boulez's Dialogue de l'ombre double, version for alto flute which has its world premiere with the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra on Thursday, May 9.
Friday, May 3 11:00 am CNMAT quintet.net Concert Free Orpheus Kristall - Eine Oper in zwei Medien by Manfred Stahnke. quintet.net is an interactive Internet performance environment invented and developed by composer and computer musician Georg Hajdu.

 

April 2002

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
 Tuesday, April 23  8 pm  CNMAT  Christian Eloy  Concert  Free

In concert: Christian Eloy

Program:
Christian ELOY Random Access Memory 0:05:00 1998
Lin MEI FANG Internal Landscape 0:08:00 1999
Bruno SCHWEISGUTH 24 variation PH 0:04:00 2001
Christian ELOY L'estran 0:12:00 1998
Jacques DANEY Kali Yuga 0:12:30 1997
Christian ELOY Musica mundana 0:20:00 2000 

Composer Christian Eloy was born in Amiens where he studied flute and composition at the conservatoire national of region and at the conservatoire national superior of Paris. He performed as a flutist in an orchestra, then was director of a music school, before his meeting with Ivo Malec and the GRM at Radio France. He is currently the artistic director of the SCRIME research and creation studio in the university of Bordeaux I. His awards include prize of the european community poetry and music - prize "François de Roubaix." Mr. Eloy has composed over fifty pieces, including instrumental, electroacoustic, vocal and pedagogical works, and is published by Billaudot, Fuzeau, Lemoine, Combre, Notissimo and Jobert.

 Saturday, April 20  12 noon - 4 pm  CNMAT  CNMAT researchers  Cal Day  Free  Come visit CNMAT during Cal Day, the campus-wide open house.
 Friday, April 12  8 pm   CNMAT  Del Sol String Quartet  Concert  $10, $5 for students

 The Del Sol String Quartet presents a concert featuring pieces from their upcoming "Music of the Americas-Snapshots" CD.

PROGRAM
Piazzolla/Cohen: "Libertango"
Lou Harrison: "String Quartet Set", Song of Palestine
Ronald Bruce Smith: "Quartet #2", Corrente, Caprice
Earle Brown: "String Quartet"
Ruth Crawford Seeger: "Quartet 1931", Andante
Keeril Makan: "Tear"
-- Intermission --
John Harbison: "Quartet #2", Fantasia
Del Sol: "Conversations": Argument, Resolution, Joke
Gabriela Ortiz: "Quartet #1"
Alberto Ginastera: "Quartet #2", Theme and Variations
Silvestre Revueltas: "Musica de Feria"

Del Sol String Quartet: Kathryn Stenberg, violin; Aenea Mizushima Keyes, violin; Charlton Lee, viola; Randolph Fromme, cello.

Founded in 1992, the Del Sol String Quartet began performing while in
residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts, followed by a residency at San
Francisco State University, where they worked as assistants to the Alexander
String Quartet. Other residencies have included the Steamboat Springs and
Bravo festivals in Colorado and the Mendocino Music Festival in California.
International touring include concerts in France and Switzerland plans
include a tour of Asia within the next two seasons. 2001 marked the release
of Short Cuts, the Del Sol's first CD, featuring the world premiere of
Keeril Makan's piece "Cut". In 2002, the quartet will release another CD,
featuring 10 composers from the Americas, including new works by Ronald Bruce Smith, Keeril Makan, and others. The Del Sol String Quartet is an affiliate of San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, a non-profit
organization promoting chamber music. 

Monday, April 8 Concert at 8 pm, pre-concert talk at 7:15 pm   Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum:
701 Howard Street, at Third, San Francisco
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players perform music by Ronald Bruce Smith Concert  Individual ticket prices are: $18 for general, $14 for seniors, and $7 for students

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
Concert 5
Zeroes and Ones

Monday, April 8, 2002
Yerba Beuna Center Forum
What do a trombone, a truck, and a radio all have in common? Hall Goff hits upon a surprising answer in Alvarez' glitzy, hot-to-trot Mambo Vinko . SFCMP takes a swerve into the electroacoustic realm, infusing the sonic techno frontier with instrumental warmth and luster. Harpist Karen Gottlieb brings delicacy and drama to Cort Lippe1s digital tour de force. Ezequiel Viñao and Ronald Bruce Smith tear open the doors of sonic imagination.

Hall Goff, trombone
Karen Gottlieb, harp
Jean-Louis LeRoux, conductor

Ezequiel Viñao The Voices of Silence

Cort Lippe Music for Harp and Tape
Javier Alvarez Mambo Vinko

Ronald Bruce Smith Return to Breath (US premiere) trumpet, 2 percussionists, bass and 4 channel tape.

 Friday, April 5  8:00 pm  Hertz Hall  Larry Ochs, Donald Robinson, Miya Masaoka, David Wessel  Concert  Free

The UC Berkeley Consortium for the Arts presents:

Musical Improvisation Conference

Opening concert:
Preparing the Unforeseen: Approaches to Musical Improvisation 
Larry Ochs and Special Guests
Larry Ochs, saxophones; Donald Robinson, drums; Miya Masaoka, koto; David Wessel, interactive computer electronics

 Friday, April 5  5:00 pm  Hertz Hall  Henry Threadgill, David Wessel, and Anthony Brown  Talk  Free Henry Threadgill: In Conversation
Pioneering musician and composer Henry Threadgill will discuss his work, his creative philosophy, and the art of improvisation with David Wessel, Director of the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, and Anthony Brown, visiting faculty in the Department of Music.

March 2002

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
Friday, March 22 Sound installation at 7:30; two sets from 8:15  Tuva Space
3192 Adeline in Berkeley, CA
Larry Ochs - saxophones
Matt Wright - real-time computer processing
John Schott - hexaphonic/electric guitar
Chess Smith - percussion
Concert  tickets: $8 ($20 for 3-evening series)

JOHN SCHOTT: NEW WORK

NEW MUSIC FOR ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC QUARTET
New Music for New Quartet featuring New Technology.
Produced in collaboration with U.C. Berkeley's Center for New Music and Audio Technology.

Larry Ochs - saxophones
Matt Wright - real-time computer processing
John Schott - hexaphonic/electric guitar
Chess Smith - percussion

Ali Momeni interactive sound installation at 7:30; two sets from 8:15

Admission to each event is $8.00, or three evenings for $20.
Seating is extremely limited!
Call 510-649-9669 or email john@johnschott.com

Tuva Space
3192 Adeline in Berkeley, CA USA

 Monday, March 11  8:00 PM  Hertz Hall, University of California, Berkeley  Berkeley New Music Project  Concert  Free

The Berkeley New Music Project will be presenting a concert of new music by Berkeley Graduate Composers, including Ali Momeni, Dwight Banks, Roberto Morales, Keeril Makan, and Peter Slavin. Performances by Amelia Archer, the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, David Arend, Lara Bruckmann, Hubert Ho, Kevin Adams. Reception to follow.

Pieces by Ali Momeni and Roberto Morales incorporate tools developed at CNMAT.

Info: 510-642-4864 or hubertho@uclink4.berkeley.edu

 Sunday, March 10  4:00 PM  CNMAT  Pauline Oliveros
with
George Marsh - Percussion
Jennifer Wilsey - Percussion
David Wessel - Electroacoustics
 Concert  $10, $5 students

 Pauline Oliveros

with

George Marsh - Percussion
Jennifer Wilsey - Percussion
David Wessel - Electroacoustics

 Saturday, March 2  8:00 pm   CNMAT

 W. A. Mathieu - piano

George Marsh - percussion

 Concert  $10, $5 students Improvisations
W. A. Mathieu and George Marsh began improvising together in the mid-60's. At the time Mathieu was musical director of Chicago's Second City, the legendary improvisational theatre company and George Marsh was a freelance drummer. Mathieu and Marsh moved to San Francisco in the late 60's and improvised together in Mathieu's Ghost Opera Company. There have been reunions since but they are rare and this performance promises to be a very special event.

February 2002

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
 Thursday, February 28  3:30 pm    CNMAT  James Dashow  Talk  Free

James Dashow, an internationally recognized pioneer, has been making music with computers since 1968. He composed the first computer works in Italy in the 1970s). His awards include commissions and grants from the Bourges Festival, Guggenheim Foundation, Linz Ars Electronica, Rockefeller Foundation, La Biennale di Venezia, Fromm Foundation, RAI (Italian National Radio/Television), Koussevitzky Foundation at the Library of Congress, Prague Musica Nova, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Il Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte di Montepulciano, National Endowment for the Arts, Harvard Music Association (Boston) ... His technical research includes the development of MUSIC30, a complete language for digital sound synthesis, and the Dyad System, which integrates pitch and electronic sound. His articles appear in Perspectives of New Music, Computer Music Journal, Interface, La Musica ... In 2000, he was awarded the Magisterium Prize at the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Art Festival.

James Dashow lives in Rome, Italy, where he is currently working on Archimedes, a planetarium opera based on the life of the famed ancient mathematician.

The Dyad System
The Dyad System was born from the compositional necessity of integrating digitally synthesized electronic sound into the pitch structure of a work. An effective way was found of using pitches in pairs to produce a wide variety of electronic sounds; by working backwards from the generalized algorithmic expressions for certain kinds of sound synthesis procedures, I arrived at alternate forms of the algorithms that express the procedure in terms of pitch pairs, what I call the generating dyad. The composer now communicates with the synthesis algorithms in terms of the pitches or intervals in the composed work rather than with abstract numbers.

Monday, February 4

Concert at 8 pm

pre-concert talk at 7:15 pm

  Yerba Buena Center for the Arts EARPLAY ensemble Concert  tickets:
$19 general,
$5 students.

Four Seasons Concerts
presents

EARPLAY ensemble
February 4, 2002

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Edmund Campion, Mathematica III
for flute and electronics
with Tod Brody, flute

Tickets: $19 general, $5 students.

All concerts start at 8:00PM
Pre-concert talks at 7:15PM

January 2002

Date Time Location Who What Cost Details
 Wednesday, January 23 1-5 PM   CNMAT Ircam Presentation  free Represenatives from Ircam present some of their recent work.
More info TBA