Brian Kane (Yale University and CNMAT alumnus) presents his paper “The Logic of Listening: Pierre Schaeffer and the Acousmatic Reduction”

Catch Electric Guitar Quartet

• Wiek Hijmans – electric guitar
• Seth Josel – electric guitar
• Patricio Wang – electric guitar
• Mark Haanstra – electric bass guitar

Program:

• Alan Tormey – Cowboy Song (Hope Dies Last) (2006) for guitar quartet and tape
• Seth Cluett - a murmur which redoubles (2006) for guitar quartet and tape
• Huib Emmer – Aurora (2005)

Intermission

• Michael Early - Four guitars in three shorts (2006)
• Scott Smallwood – una occasione d’oro (2006)
• Peter Adriaansz – Serenades II-IV (No 23) (2004)

Thanks to the Nederlands Fonds voor Podium Kunsten and Gaudeamus for supporting this concert.

A near 20-year crisscrossing of paths and collaborations, e.g. within the context of rock bands and free improvisation groups as well in contemporary ensembles, provides the backdrop for the members of the Amsterdam-based CATCH quartet. In 2003 the world premiere of Steve Mackey’s Dreamhouse - a Holland Festival commission - finally provided the opportunity to bring together the talents of all four musicians on one stage. Since then, the quartet has been involved in further premiere performances (Peter Adriaansz, Huib Emmer, Christopher Fox,), ensemble collaborations (Cappela Amsterdam), and has become the ensemble in residence at the OUTPUT festival in Amsterdam. In April 2007 the group was in residence at Princeton University, culminating in the premiere performance of seven new works specifically written for the occasion. The long-awaited North American premiere of Dreamhouse was presented May 2007 with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project about which Jeremy Eichler of the Boston Globe wrote: “the four guitars (played by the Catch Electric Guitar Quartet) bring some highly unusual sonorities to the orchestra and some turbo-charged power to the work’s caterwauling climax.” The group collaborated with the Slagwerk Den Haag, featuring a tour of Holland in the Autumn of 2007.

WIGband “It’s Hard to be Perfect”

One night only: put “sin” into cnmat.

WIGband SELECTIONS and WIGGIE AWARD honoring filmmaker Helen Prince Three decades of protest and bad behavior in wigs, song and video

The notorious twosome known as WIGband, Barbara Golden and Johanna Poethig, the demimondaine/underbelly of the Bay Area contemporary music scene in a rare performance at CNMAT. They will sing a selection of their original classics from the Reagan Years, Bush Senior / Clinton Decade to the painfully present but almost over Millenium George.
Vintage footage by Helen Prince, including Trashy Girls, Its Hard to be Perfect and Silver Abs and Golden Buns, the renowned exercise video shown regularly on middle of the night cable TV, will delight audiences again along with songs “Just Say Yes”, “Paranoia” and “Don’t F—— With Me”.

“…. if you are looking for some fun with a bite to it presented by some serious artists who don’t take themselves too seriously, then check them out..” Linda Erlich SF Bay Guardian

As part of the Berkeley Big Bang 2008, Professor Edmund Campion will demonstrate real-time interactive musical applications of computers featuring the CNMAT Max/MSP/Jitter Depot and the eight channel surround system in the CNMAT Sound Spatialization Theater.

Included will be an introduction to the CNMAT Music Information Center. From tutorials on recording technique to the history of electronic music to third-party externals for Max/MSP, the Music Information Center is an ever-growing directory of materials concerned with new music in general and the creation of electronic and computer music.

On June 1 through 3, BAM/PFA and the Berkeley Center for New Media are hosting a new media arts festival on the Berkeley campus called Berkeley Big Bang 2008. This event is timed to link with 01SJ: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge, a new-media-art biennial, June 4 through 8 in San Jose. Occurring together for the first time, these two events combine to create one of the nation’s largest gatherings of new media art; a virtual “big bang” of innovation and creativity. The Berkeley program will include a symposium on new media, art, science, and the body in partnership with the Berkeley Center for New Media and Leonardo: the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology; a campus media lab demonstration and open house; and an immersive game, “Black Cloud: Red Eye” by Greg Niemeyer. It is presented in tandem with BAM/PFA exhibitions of works by media artists Trevor Paglen, Jim Campbell, and Lynn Hershman Leeson, and Scott Snibbe.

This course features Max 5.0, which is scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2008.