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.