Archive

Oakland, CA-based oboist Kyle Bruckmann tramples genre boundaries in widely ranging work as a composer/performer, educator and New Music specialist.

Claudia Hart emerged as part of that generation of 90s intermedia artists in the “identity art” niche, but now updated through the scrim of technology. Her work is about issues of the body, perception, nature collapsing into technology and then back again. Everything is fluid in it including gender.

Aditi Raja is an undergraduate researcher at CNMAT. She is currently a student at UC Berkeley studying Computer Science and Music.

Imran Sekalala is an undergraduate researcher at CNMAT. He is currently studying Data Science with an emphasis in Data Arts and Humanities. He is also minoring in Environmental Design. At CNMAT, Imran is working with Professor Edmund Campion on an upcoming release of the CNMAT Depot 2.0 software package with a focus on CNMAT Spectral Tools.

Theocharis Papatrechas is a visiting Researcher and Composer at CNMAT through November, 2021.

Composer, sound artist, improviser /piano, drums, electronics/
post-doctorate degree (habilitation)  /composition/
associate professor at Academy of Music in Poznan

Eda Er is a composer, sound artist, and singer currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her artistic pursuits primarily revolve around exploring expressivity and narrativity in her music. Drawing upon a diverse range of mediums, including singing, composition, analogue and digital electronics, video, theatricality, and storytelling, she creates a multifaceted and immersive musical experience.

Jeremy Lee is a pianist, researcher, and a recent Computer Science graduate from UC Berkeley.  At CNMAT, Jeremy primarily works with Professor Carmine Cella on developing software for music, particularly in the space of human-performed music.  Jeremy’s most recent project at CNMAT was in developing a web application that gives real-time dynamics feedback to a musical performer.  The project was an investigation of potential metrics an

Jeremy Hunt is a composer, poet, and creative technologist based in Oakland. After graduating UC Berkeley with a PhD in Music Composition with a Designated Emphasis in New Media in 2008, Jeremy embarked on a career in education administration, teaching, and pedagogy in the private education sector. 

George Papajohn (b. 1998 Milwaukee) is a composer and instrumentalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His recent work engages with latent tensions of identity held within the material, historical, and phenomenological aspects of sound. 

Danniel Ribeiro is a Brazilian composer from Bahia. Danniel’s recent work focuses on instrumental music—exploring the use of instruments by way of project-specific contextualized techniques, preparations, practical sculptural objects, amplification, and transduced electronics.

Shane Cumming is a fourth-year Music major at UC Berkeley from Park City, Utah. Shane has been focused on many different aspects of music for his entire life; lately, his interest has been in sound engineering, specifically studio work and live audio. Shane conducted an Independent Study in the Rear Studio during his junior year and is now working with Dr. Wagner on an Independent Project in the Rear Studio. 

Mat Muntz is a composer, bassist, and experimental bagpiper.

Ursula Kwong-Brown is a composer, sound designer and arts technologist based in Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. in Music Composition & New Media from the University of California, Berkeley (2018) and her B.A. in Music & Biology from Columbia University (2010).