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The Fall CNMAT OpenLab will be Friday, Aug 28, from 1pm to 6pm with a BBQ afterwards. We have speakers from Google, Stanford, and UC Berkeley. Space is limited to 35 seats. Please RSVP here to reserve your spot.

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Awarded annually to an artist for a significant body of work that has substantially advanced the aesthetic development of digital art, this CNMAT Affiliate Artist is currently showing in SF with...Read more about Claudia Hart receives Distinguished Artist Award from ACM SIGGGRAPH

October 5, 1949 - April 17, 2026

CNMAT mourns the loss of a great colleague and friend, Jay Cloidt. Jay served as Audio Engineer in the Department of Music and worked weekly at CNMAT from 2009 until his retirement in 2017. A multi-talented composer, sound designer, and...Read more about Jay Cloidt: Composer, Sound Designer, Audio Engineer

Richard James “Rico” Felciano, composer, pioneer in electronic music, Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of California, Berkeley, and founder of the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, died peacefully in San Francisco on February 21, 2026, at the age of 95.Born on December 7...Read more about Richard J. Felciano (1930-2026)

Join us on Friday, March 6, for a unique day to explore memory and human rights in Peru through sound and sight at CNMAT.

Event Name: Counter-Pedagogies of Forgetting

Date: Fri March 6, 2026

Location: 1750 Arch St. (CNMAT), UC Berkeley

10am – 4pm: Photo...Read more about Counter-Pedagogies of Forgetting

CNMAT is pleased to invite you to our upcoming OpenLab, an afternoon of talks and discussions at the intersection of music, technology, and research, bringing together leading figures from academia and industry.

Thursday, January 29...Read more about CNMAT OpenLab — January 29

CNMAT welcomes musicians from the National Gugak Center in Seoul, along with the Del Sol String Quartet, for a festival that blends traditional Korean instrumentalists with emerging technologies. Don’t miss these concerts of new works shaped by deep intercultural dialogue and inspired by the...Read more about CNMAT hosts the Korean Experimental Music Festival at UC Berkeley (Nov. 11-16, 2025)

The College of Letters & Science at UC Berkeley recently reported on CNMAT. Read the article here.

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CNMAT OpenLab, focused on generative AI in audio. Space is limited to 30 attendees. Fill out...Read more about CNMAT OpenLab – August 29, 2025

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***NOTE: This event is online only. The Zoom link for the event is: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/96182696334?pwd=...Read more about CNMAT OpenLab

The Voices of Silicon Valley in collaboration with the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) has released performances of the American premiere of Gerard Grisey's "Les Chants de l'amour" ("Songs of Love"). The recording of the first of two US performances of this work was on March...Read more about Voices of Silicon Valley Performance of Grisey's "Les Chants de l'Amour

CNMAT welcomes composer Olivier Pasquet for a special visit and presentation in the main room at CNMAT for Thursday, June 19, from 11:30-12:30. Free and open to the pubic.

Olivier Pasquet is a composer, music producer, and visual artist. His work is based on the writing of audiovisual...Read more about Oliver Pasquet Thurs. Jun 19, 11:30-12:30 2025

The 2025 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) has concluded in Boston, MA hosted by Northeastern University, New England Conservatory, Berklee College of Music, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Emerson College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This year's conference was...Read more about ICMC 2025

A new solo exhibition of CNMAT affiliate digital artist Claudia Hart runs at bitforms gallery New York City from April 26-June 7, 2025.

Claudia Hart’s fifth bitforms gallery solo exhibition,...Read more about Claudia Hart Illuminations show at bitforms gallery NYC

CNMAT is thrilled to have been part of the design and implementation of the newly inaugurated Wu Performance Hall in the Department of Music at Morrison Hall. With the support of Meyer Sound, Wu Hall is an ideal space for CNMAT's future concerts in the Department of Music. This project was made...Read more about Helen and Thomas WU Performance Hall Opens for CNMAT Concerts

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 "...Read more about CNMAT at 2025 APS Global Summit

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...Read more about 2025 CNMAT Users Group (CUG) Residency: collective lovemusic

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

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ABOUT MARCO PAVIN - guitarist and composer

Born in Padua (Italy), he began studying guitar at a young age, graduating in 1987 from the Conservatory of Padua. In 1991 he also obtained a degree in physics.

As a classical guitarist he attended advanced courses with Betho Davezac and...Read more about Marco Pavin, Guitarist and Composer, Sat., Nov. 16, CNMAT, 8 p.m.