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Graduate composition student Luke Dzwonczyk’s piece The Oratory of Saint Philip Neri was presented at the 23rd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2022) as part of the music program. The conference ran from December 4th to 8th in a hybrid format in Bengaluru,...Read more about Luke Dzwonczyk at ISMIR 2022

CNMAT affiliated composer and UCB Department of Music Ph.D., Didem Coskunseven, is featured on the upcoming Spectral-Pop Concert at IRCAM's Espace de projection on February 16th, 2023.

https://www.ircam.fr/agenda/...Read more about Coskunseven featured at IRCAM Spectral-Pop Concert

On February 4th at 8pm in Hertz Hall the eco ensemble, in residence at CNMAT, will be performing and premiering major works by CNMAT affiliated composers—Ken Ueno, Amadeus Regucera, Edmund Campion, Cindy Cox—and the 2023 Bloch Lecturer, Toshio Hosokawa.

The concert is supported by...Read more about CalPerfromances Presents the eco ensemble

Professor Carmine-Emanuele Cella has published a significant paper on Orchidea in the Journal of New Music Research.

From the abstract: This paper has two different aims: presenting the problem of target-based computer-assisted orchestration and introducing a new computational framework...Read more about New Paper on Orchidea

Composition graduate student Luke Dzwonczyk created the music for artist Étienne Chambaud's video installation La Nuit sauve, which opened at LaM, Lille Métropole Musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut in Lille, France in October 2022.

La Nuit sauve is a video...Read more about Luke Dzwonczyk — La Nuit Sauve

For a third season, CNMAT will continue its partnership with SFCMP. On December 4th, 2022, in collaboration with the UC Berkeley department of music and SFCMP, CNMAT will help to present Sound Encounters III. The concert will feature works by CNMAT affiliated composers and artists, Eda Er, Kevin...Read more about Sound Encounters III

Prof. Edmund Campion, Director of CNMAT, will be delivering a talk at BAMPFA on November 3, 2022 at 12:45pm as part of the Arts + Design Thursdays speaker series. The talk is free and open to the public and will also be live...Read more about Campion speaks at BAMPFA

Laetitia Sonami will have an extended residency at CNMAT from October to November 2022. She will work closely with students and guest researchers on the application of sensors for musicians, composers, and sound artists. Her residency will culminate in a workshop concert presenting new pieces by...Read more about Laetitia Sonami Residency

Prof. Carmine Emanuele Cella has been awarded the Traiettorie Music Prize 2022 by the Prometeo Foundation.

Cella recieves the award for his research in the field of Artificial Intelligence applied to musical creation, augmented reality, the definition of mathematical models for the...Read more about Cella Awarded the Traiettorie Music Prize 2022

Carol Robinson will be in residence for several days in mid October.

To say that Carol Robinson is a Franco-American clarinetist and composer is perhaps too restrictive to describe her experience and passion. Trained as a classical clarinetist, she graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory...Read more about Carol Robinson in Residence at CNMAT

Huck Hodge will be visiting in early October 2022. He will be participating in the music department colloquium series which will happen at CNMAT and also giving a performance of his work.

Huck Hodge is a composer of “harmonically fresh work", "full of both sparkle and thunder” (New York...Read more about Huck Hodge Colloquium and Concert

CNMAT welcomes Olivia Ting as Artist-in-Residence for the fall of 2022.

Olivia Ting is a HOH visual artist whose works span audiovisual site-specific installations, projection design, and graphic design. Her installation work explores the liminal separation between understanding and not...Read more about CNMAT Artist-in-Residence—Olivia Ting

Eric Raynaud (Fraction) will be a guest artist and visitng researcher at CNMAT this fall.

Fraction is a new media artist whose work focuses in particular on immersive and audiovisual experience design.

His practice has developed from a background in music composition and spatial...Read more about Eric Raynaud—Guest Artist & Researcher

Mari Kimura (CNMAT affiliated researcher) and Roberto Morales (CNMAT Alumni) will be visting CNMAT at the end of September 2022. They will be giving workshops on their recent work and a concert.

Mari Kimura is a prolific violinist/composer, a leading figure in the field of interactive...Read more about Mari Kimura & Roberto Morales Workshops and Concert

Rachel Chen will be a visiting researcher at CNMAT for the fall of 2022. She will be conducting research at the intersection of music, technology, and special education.

Rachel will be working on a version of the Magical Musical Mat that goes beyond musical notes. She will be using Pure...Read more about Rachel Chen—Music, Technology, & Special Education

On Tuesday, July 5, odot v1.3.4 was released through the Max Package Manager. This new release, prepared by John MacCallum, provides support and compatibility with Apple's M1 processors as well as other minor updates and bug fixes. Users should update Odot through the Max Package Manager:

Here at CNMAT we often work with tactile transducers in large stage settings and this presents a number of technical challenges. Composers tend to favor inexpensive, off-the-shelf consumer amplifiers and transducer/exciters that can be difficult to interface with professional audio equipment...Read more about CNMAT PC-2410: a passive pad for tactile transducer workflows

The Zurich University of the Arts Board has appointed Rama Gottfried, a CNMAT alum and PhD graduate in music composition from the Department of Music, to the position of Professor of Contemporary Computer Music Practice previously held by Prof. Dr. Martin Neukom. He will take up the post in...Read more about Rama Gottfried appointed Professor at Zurich University of the Arts

This summer Jeremy Wagner, Technical Director at CNMAT, has been doing a deep dive on several issues related to the use of tactile transducers in new music contexts. CNMAT is sharing the design of a 3D printed bracket that allows for the mounting of a Dayton Audio DAEX58FP tactile transducer to...Read more about 3D Printed Mount for Tactile Transducer

Composer Linda Bouchard will be pursuing a research residency at CNMAT in the fall of 2022 to develop and expand her Ocular Scores project. She will work with Edmund Campion and Carmine Cella. Her residency is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

...Read more about Linda Bouchard's Ocular Scores