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On March 21, 2025, Jeremy Wagner gave a presentation as an invited speaker to the Joint March and April Meeting: Global Physics Summit 2025 of the American Physical Society (APS).  He was invited to present in the "Physics for Everyone" session of the Materials Physics track on the topic of "Physics & Music". Jeremy gave a brief historical overview of past and present projects at CNMAT that have significantly leveraged physics in the service of new music.

Bio: lovemusic was founded in 2018 by Adam Starkie and Emiliano Gavito in Strasbourg, a new music hub in the heart of Europe. The collective takes its name from the eponymous work by Betsy Jolas, which was the starting point of their musical collaboration. They began by creating a new music concert series at the Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg, which became the epicentre of experimentation for the collective, inviting composers and musicians to create new music presented in various formats.

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Link to CNMAT YouTube video of Professor David Wessel speaking on the connection between music and cognition.

https://youtu.be/kpErjiDacAA?si=bfqXt1vA2J83PtHV

Composer and CNMAT alum, John MacCallum, remembers his last gig with David Wessel: 

On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of David Wessel's passing, CNMAT's ex-officio Associate Director, Richard Andrews, shares his reflections:

I had the distinct privilege of working with David Wessel from September 9, 1996 until his untimely passing on October 13, 2014. I started as an administrator and eventually became CNMAT’s Associate Director as well as Executive Director of the Eco Ensemble. I retired from CNMAT in June of 2021.

CNMAT extends its heartfelt thoughts to all who knew, revered, and loved CNMAT Director and Professor David Wessel (October 6, 1942–October 13, 2014) as we mark the 10th anniversary of his passing. David’s legacy resonates deeply across the UC Berkeley campus, particularly at CNMAT and in the Department of Music.  

Under Carmine Cella, CNMAT students Alois Cerbu and Luke Dzwonczyk published three papers this summer at both the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in Seoul, Korea and the Digital Audio Effects Conference (DAFx) in Surrey, UK.

Reprogrammable Effects Pedals on the Daisy Seed Platform

Alois Cerbu, Carmine Cella

ICMC 2024, Seoul, Korea

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Fairy tales about love, power and money, in four acts, based on The Alices Virtual-Reality Ballet, a collaboration by Claudia Hart and Edmund Campion, taking place over seven years, between 2013 and 2020. Written by Claudia Hart, 2022-2023, and rewritten in collaboration with Tommy Martinez in 2024. Live Music Composed and Performed by Tommy Martinez. Event Production by Andrew Blanton

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The cover (sidewise view) of Campion's book, Consilience, is an image of trans-Pecos, cave art from Coahuila, Mexico (five thousand years BP). It shows various instances of the shaman approaching the edge (between this world and the other?) and in the midst of the mind-altering flights across dimensions. The historic photo was taken by the great anthropologist, Solveig Turpin--now deceased.