Archive

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, multimedia artist, and vocalist whose work integrates storytelling, sound, and visual media to explore themes of identity, belonging, trauma, and cultural heritage. She combines electronic music, classical composition, traditional Turkish visual arts, and installation with emerging technologies to challenge artistic boundaries.

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 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. His compositional practice is driven by research and creative exploration, with a focus on exploratory instrumental writing and improvised performances supported by emerging technologies and informed by investigations into identity and multiculturalism.

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).

Born in Québec, Canada, Linda Bouchard has been an active researcher, composer, orchestrator, conductor, and producer for over forty years. Her honors in the United States include first prizes at the Princeton Composition Contest, the Indiana State Competition, and the National Association of Composers USA Contest and a Fromm Music Foundation Award from Harvard University.

J.J. Burred is a researcher and developer specialized in music technology. He holds a PhD in Engineering from the Technical University of Berlin and has worked as a researcher at IRCAM-Centre Pompidou (Paris) and Audionamix on topics such as source separation, automatic music analysis, sound synthesis and musical applications of machine learning.