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Danielle DeGruttola

Improvising Cellist, Danielle DeGruttola, is an acoustic and electric cellist and composer.  Her cello improvisations fuse multiple genres, room acoustics, and electronic sound, creating thoughtful and powerful compositions that interweave elements of contemporary jazz, classical, electronica, folk, blues, rock, and hardcore. Her sublime sound is adventuresome and exploratory yet maintains concrete form.

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Jean Bresson

Jean Bresson is a computer music researcher and software engineer, currenly working as product owner at Ableton (Berlin). Between 2003 and 2019 he was researcher at IRCAM (Paris). He has been one of the main developers of the OpenMusic environment, and has extended computer-assisted composition applications in a number of new directions such as sound synthesis and processing, sound spatialization, or real-time interaction systems.

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LINDA BOUCHARD

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.

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J.J. Burred

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.

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Juan David Rubio

Artist/scholar Juan David Rubio is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Music and Affiliate at CNMAT.  He has performed for over two decades, mostly on drum kit. His instrumental practice spans jazz, improvisation, punk, contemporary music, and Afro-Latin musics, among others.

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Juliana Gaona

Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Juliana Gaona is an oboist, chamber and orchestra musician, improviser, and educator. Juliana has participated in contemporary music festivals and ensembles including the Academia Cervantina in Guanajuato, Mexico, Vértice Ensemble in Mexico City, and soundSCAPE Festival in Italy.

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Carmine-Emanuele Cella

Carmine-Emanuele Cella, Co-Director and Lead Researcher at CNMAT, is an internationally acclaimed composer with advanced studies in mathematics. For many years he has worked on the poetical relationships between the structured world of mathematics and the chaotic world of artistic expression, using music as a medium. His music is not based on melodies, chords or rhythms but is more about writing the sound itself.

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Edmund Campion

Edmund Campion is Professor of Music Composition and Co-Director at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at the University of California, Berkeley.

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CNMAT Co-Directors

Associate Professor Carmine-Emanuele Cella is Co-Director and Lead Researcher at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT).

Professor Edmund Campion is Co-Director at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT).

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Music 108

A review of the sensory, perceptual, and cognitive foundations of listening, composing, and performing. Topics include relations among various acoustical and perceptual characterizations of sound; perception of pitch, temporal relations, timbre, stability conditions, and auditory space; auditory scene analysis and perceptual grouping mechanisms; perceptual principles for melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic organization; orchestration as spectral composition. A course research project is required. Music majors should enroll in Music 108M.

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Music 208A

A review of the sensory, perceptual, and cognitive foundations of listening, composing, and performing. Topics include relations among various acoustical and perceptual characterizations of sound; perception of pitch, temporal relations, timbre, stability conditions, and auditory space; auditory scene analysis and perceptual grouping mechanisms; perceptual principles for melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic organization; orchestration as spectral composition. A graduate-level course research project is required.

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Music 209

Technical and musical issues in the design and development of computer-based music systems including digital signal processing for the analysis and synthesis of sound, scheduling of multiple musical control processes, perceptual and cognitive models, user-interface design, reactive real-time control, and the analysis and representation of musical structure.

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Music 214

This hands-on course will expose students to musical tools developed by the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT). Topics include performative and compositional applications of current research at CNMAT, including sound synthesis and diffusion, high-level control, and network applications.

<a href="http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/Music214">2007 Course Website</a>

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Music 201

The seminar focuses on recent compositions that employ new technologies in novel ways. Compositional application of digital sound analysis and synthesis, compositional algorithms, interactive control, and audio production techniques are covered. Composition and analysis assignments. Music 201 is designed primarily for graduate level composers in the Department of Music.

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Music 158

Priority for enrollment is given to declared Music Majors in the Department of Music. All others are welcome and should see instructor on first day of class for permission to remain.

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Music 207

Designed for graduate students in music composition, but open to graduate students in related disciplines who can demonstrate thorough knowledge of the history of electro-acoustic music as well as significant experience with computer music practice and research. All projects are subject to approval of the instructor. Undergraduate students who have taken Music 158 and passed with distinction can request a seat in Music 207 for an advanced project in computer music.

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Music 29

Satisfies the L&S Breadth Requirement for Arts and Literature
Textbook: free, on-line hypertext with sound examples

Music Now (Music 29) is a one of a kind course currently in its third year in the Department of Music at UC Berkeley. The course requires no background in music, but anyone with music training will benefit.

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