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On Tuesday, October 20th, Prof. Carmine Cella presented "A Study on Neural Models for Target-Based Computer-Assisted Musical Orchestration" at the 2020 Joint Conference on AI Music Creativity. The video can be found ...Read more about Prof. Carmine Cella presents at the 2020 Joint Conference on AI Music Creativity

***NOTE: This webinar is hosted by IRCAM. Click here more more info.***

Greg Niemeyer (Art Practice) in collaboration with composer Hallie Smith and dancer Olivia Holston have released the new music video SweetWire.

Once all becomes data, the boundaries between body, record, thing and mind seem fluid. Information that is meant to be invisible becomes...Read more about SweetWire Music Video Release

Her Majesty the Fool (2020) by Oren Boneh, UCB Ph.D. in Music Composition, with Fanny Vicens, XAMP mictrotonal accordion and electronics. Premiered at the Festival Manifeste IRCAM 2020 with support from Grégoire Lorieux, Thierry De Mey, and the IRCAM Pedagogical Team. Filmed at Centre Pompidou,...Read more about Oren Boneh's Her Majesty the Fool (2020)

Machine Creativity at CNMAT was featured in the opening ceremony of the GRID-EXPOSURE - Art + Tech + Policy Days and inside the ARS ELECTRONICA 2020 Artificial Intelligence and Music Festival (...Read more about CNMAT opens Ai X at THE GRID:EXPOSURE and ARS ELECTRONICA 2020

Check out these CNMAT events during the 2020 ARS ELECTRONICA Festival:

An Introduction to ODOT, its current state, and futureJohn MacCallum(USA), Jeff Lubow (USA)Thu Sep 10, 2020, 6:...Read more about CNMAT events during 2020 ARS ELECTRONICA festival

Professor Carmine Emanuele Cella's new paper will appear in the 20th Anniversary Special Collection of ISMIR.

"This paper is about the story of my relationship, as a contemporary music composer, with computational tools that are situated in the areas of signal processing, machine learning...Read more about MIR and Contemporary Classical Music: A Successful Failure

CNMAT researcher and composer Daniele Ghisi, together with Andrea Agostini, Julien Vincenot, Davor Vincze will hold a summer seminar on the bach library at CCRMA (Stanford University). Given the circumstances, it's an online seminar, so it's accessible from everywhere. The dates are...Read more about Seminar on assisted composition

We write to share in the grief and anger that has moved protesters around the country and the world to protest against the Black racism and violence that is pervasive in our society. Together, we mourn the life of George Floyd, and the lives of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Tony...Read more about STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY FROM THE FACULTY OF THE UC BERKELEY DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC and CNMAT

On May 29, 2020 from 9.30-11 am PT, Professor Carmine-Emanuele from CNMAT will hold a live "hands on" session on the software Orchidea for computer-assisted orchestration (http://www.orch-idea.org).

The session will be on Zoom:...Read more about Hands on session on Orchidea - live

This photo is a cool memory of the outstanding concert that Jenny Q Chai gave at CNMAT in 2019.

CNMAT, in lockdown now for almost two months, is missing our friends and gatherings.

We look forward to announcing new streaming...Read more about Missing CNMAT Main Room Events!

As part of its upcoming 50th Anniversary Season, SFCMP will collaborate with CNMAT to feature SOUND ENCOUNTERS, a concert of sound art in an installation-style setting. SFCMP percussionist Willian Winant will perform James Tenney's Koan: Having Never Written a Note for...Read more about San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and CNMAT

CNMAT-affiliated artist Claudia Hart received an award from the Esports Digital Art Prizes for 2019. Her acceptance of the award included the creative reuse of ZOOM's virtual background feature. The acceptance video went viral and points to a playful emerging art practice in the time of crisis...Read more about On Zoomology: Claudia Hart Accepts ESport Prize for Alice Unchained

The Department of Music at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a pool of qualified temporary instructors to teach any of the following areas:

Music and technology involving CNMAT technologies and Max/MSP programming.

Special topic courses involving...Read more about LECTURER – Music Technology and Music Perception – Department of Music

We are glad to announce the latest release (0.6) of the Orchidea software for computer-assisted orchestration.

Orchidea represents the state-of-the-art system for assisted orchestration and the new release is deployed as Max package, GUI standalone and command line tool:...Read more about Orchidea 0.6 released

Splinter Reeds Ensemble returns March 18-22 to complete their residency at CNMAT, with a free concert of four student composers' works on Friday, March 20, 8:00pm in...Read more about Splinter Reeds CNMAT Residency (Postponed)

CNMAT welcomes Visiting Composer and Researcher Daniele Ghisi for 2020. Together with Assistant Professor Carmine Cella, he will explore several advanced topics in computer-assisted orchestration and deep learning for...Read more about Daniele Ghisi

CNMAT welcomes Visiting Researcher, Scientist, and Artist, Ali Momeni for Spring 2020.

Ali Momeni works at the intersection of art, sound, design, and technology. While at CNMAT, Ali will continue the development of...Read more about Ali Momeni

Olivier Lartillot's residency at CNMAT has been postponed and will be rescheduled for a later date when travel conditions return to normal. Stay tuned!

CNMAT welcomes Visiting Researcher, Olivier Lartillot for Spring 2020.

Olivier is a researcher in computational...Read more about Olivier Lartillot (POSTPONED)

The CNMAT Users group has organized a mini-residency with the New York-based percussion duo Radical 2 from December 5-7, 2019. Radical 2, Levy Lorenzo (photo right) and Dennis Sullivan (photo left) is an irrational, classification-defying duo that explores the intersection of theatric,...Read more about Radical 2