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CNMAT welcomes PARK Chi-Wan, PIRI (Korean Bamboo Oboe) master and Senior Member at the Gugak Center in Korea, for a special visit in preparation for next year's 2025 Korean Electronic Music Festival (KEMF), to take place in Santa Cruz, Berkeley, and Stanford. Three graduate students in music...Read more about CNMAT Welcomes Piri (Korean Bamboo Oboe) master PARK Chi-Wan

CNMAT welcomes Tom Oberheim! Tom will be feature in a CNMAT open lab on Feb 23, 2024 at 3pm.

Tom Oberheim is an American inventor, instrument designer and electronic music pioneer. From his involvement in the emerging electronic music industry of the 1960’s to the present day, Tom has...Read more about CNMAT Welcomes Tom Oberheim

An evening of spontaneous music by three master improvisers. Electro-acoustic composer/improviser, educator, Zeena Parkins is a pioneer of contemporary harp practices. Using expanded techniques, object preparations, and electronic processing she has re-defined the instrument’s...Read more about Zeena Parkins + William Winant + Myra Melford to perform at CNMAT

Roger Reynolds at 90: PASSAGE and Persistence

In celebration of Roger Reynolds’ 90th year, CNMAT and the Department of Music will be sponsoring and hosting a colloquium and concert. The colloquium will be held on March 8, 2024 at and the concert will be held on...Read more about Roger Reynolds at 90

As part of CNMAT’s OpenLab series, the first meeting of the machine learning and music working group will convene this Thursday, November 9, from 4-5:30 pm at CNMAT (1750 Arch Street). The purpose of the group is to bring together those who are working on research and/or...Read more about OpenLab: Machine Learning and Music Working Group

At the invitation of Professor Carmine-Emanuele Cella, and with the support of the Department of Music, Ensemble l’Itinéraire, one of the leading European ensembles dedicated to the performance of new music, will be in residence at CNMAT...Read more about Ensemble l’Itinéraire Residency

Maija Hynninen, CNMAT affiliate composer, works in concert music, electronic instrument design, and multidisciplinary performances. The essence of her music builds on the unique moments where the parameters of this world are slightly altered to allow a glimpse of another reality to be present....Read more about Maija Hynninen, Mobiles, L'itenéraire -- IRCAM

J.J. Burred is in residence this fall as a visiting scholar. He will be working closely with Carmine Emanuale Cella on machine learning methods for synthesis and orchestration and, in particular, about creative applications of sound source separation methods.

J.J. Burred is a researcher...Read more about Visiting Scholar J.J. Burred

Professor Carmine-Emanuele Cella's Orchidea was featured in the Computer Music Journal (2021) 45:4. The issue published 2 articles on the sophisticated software that enables computer-aided orchestration. See the...Read more about Cella's Orchidea Featured in Computer Music Journal

Composer, Kaija Saariaho died on June 2, 2023. In the Fall of 2015, Ms. Saariaho was the Bloch Lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of California, Berkeley. Her husband Jean-Baptiste Barrière was the holder of the CNMAT David Wessel Residency in Music and Science. Edmund Campion...Read more about Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023) Remembrance CNMAT 2015

Jean Bresson has made incremental updates to CNMAT's Tesselate library to allow it to run under Open Music 7.2 as well as OM#. Download the updated version here: https://github.com/CNMAT/CNMAT-OM/releases/tag/v0.3Read more about OM-Tessellate update for Open Music 7.2 & OM#

Eda Er will be featured on the Mosswood Sound Series event on April 23, 2023. She will present a new work, I belong to nothing; I belong to everything for vocals and electronics. Find more information here: http://www....Read more about Eda Er at Mosswood — April 23, 2023

Created by CNMAT affiliate artist Claudia Hart with UC Berkeley graduate composer and programmer, Andrew Blanton. Culling from art historical references, they devised a protocol thoroughly described in their...Read more about SYSTEMS MADNESS (2023) (E.A.T-Works NYC)

Aine Nakamura’s work, Kusottare! has been selected for performance at the SEAMUS Conference (April 7-8, 2023). Kusottare! was premiered at The LAB in...Read more about Aine Nakamura — SEAMUS 2023 and other events

The Vernon Salon Series, hosted by Anne Rainwater (https://annerainwater.com/vernonsalonseries/), will present CNMAT affiliated composer and vocalist Sarah Grace Graves on March 10 at 7:30 PM PST. Her program is called...Read more about Sarah Grace Graves: Circular Song

On March 3, 2023 at 10am CNMAT will host an open lecture/presentation where Linda Bouchard will introduce her custom tool OCULAR SCORES for the creation of graphical notation from the analysis of complex sounds. She has been developing this tool since 2018 as a resident researcher at matralab,...Read more about Linda Bouchard's Ocular Scores

The Hinge ensemble will be in residence at CNMAT this spring to work with CNMAT affiliated composers: Eda Er, George Papajohn, Sarah Grace Graves and Kevin Lo. The residency will culminate in a concert at CNMAT on March...Read more about Hinge Ensemble Residency

Artistic Director of the Brussels International Acousmatic Festival L'Espace du Son, Annette Vande Gorne, professor emeritus at the Royal Conservatories of Brussels and Mons, will present a multi-channel acousmatic concert of her electro-acoustic work Complete...Read more about CNMAT welcomes Annette Vande Gorne: Haïkus

gamin will be in concert at CNMAT on February 18, 2023 at 8pm with graduate student composers Dion Nataraja and Mat Muntz.

Gamin Kang, simply known as “gamin,” a distinguished NYC soloist, tours the world perform-ing both...Read more about gamin in concert at CNMAT

CNMAT’s lead researcher, Carmine-Emanuele Cella's new composition, I am in blood, wil be given a world premiered at IRCAM’s Espace de projection on February 16, 2023.

I am in blood, commissioned by IRCAM, marks a culmination of Calla’s research in and exploration of...Read more about Cella Honored with IRCAM commission and world premiere