A look back at some items in our archives.
II. La tierra caliente que duerme ("The sleeping warm earth")
III. Ballenas australes y pingu?inos de Magallanes ("Southern right whales and Magellanic penguins")
This piece was commissioned by the Alexander String Quartet for the occasion of their thirtieth anniversary season, and is gratefully dedicated to them.
IV. La tierra fría que duerme ("The sleeping cold earth")
This piece was commissioned by the Alexander String Quartet for the occasion of their thirtieth anniversary season, and is gratefully dedicated to them.
V. La cruz del sur y el cielo que gira ("The southern cross and the revolving sky")
This piece was commissioned by the Alexander String Quartet for the occasion of their thirtieth anniversary season, and is gratefully dedicated to them.
Movements 1-3
Composer [http://martin.matalon.free.fr/|Martin Matalon] was in residence at CNMAT during November, 2007, meeting with students and presenting his work. Matalon was invited to the campus as a 2007-2008 Regents' Lecturer under the UC Berkeley [http://vpaafw.chance.berkeley.edu/regents_professor.html|Regents' Professorships and Lectureships Program].
The [http://www.cirm-manca.org/manca2007/|MANCA Festival] is an annual International Festival of Contemporary Music organized by [http://www.cirm-manca.org/|CIRM/Centre National de Création Musicale] and held in Nice and Monaco. This year's Festival features a number of CNMAT composers, including:
Sunday, November 4: Edmund Campion « Outside music »;
Wednesday, November 7: new works by student composers Aaron Einbond and Gaël Tissot;
An article about CNMAT has been posted on maclife.com's feature section: Made On A Mac - Artists that Depend on the Power of the Mac.
Who: Adrian Freed, Research Director
What: Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, UC Berkeley
Why: To research and develop tech tools musicians and artists can use to enhance live performances
CNMAT has been featured in a recent [http://sciencereview.berkeley.edu/articles.php?issue=15&article=features...|article] in the Berkeley Science Review, a popular science journal on campus.