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 music analysis at RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion, at the University of Oslo, Norway.
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, percussive and electronic mediums. UC Berkeley Graduate Composers Sarah Grace Graves, Andrew Blanton (photo center), and Andrew Harlan have created new compositions for the duo using a variety of CNMAT-supported technologies and with support from Jeremy Wagner and David Coll (sound artist and composer in re
CNMAT is happy to welcome back Percussionist Russell Greenberg for a visit! Russell is a founding member of the YARN/WIRE quartet and has collaborated over the years with many UC Berkeley composers.
Undergraduate students are working with Assistant Professor Carmine Cella on computer-assisted orchestration and machine learning.
This semester, visiting undergraduate researcher from China, Hongfu Liu, is interning at CNMAT. His topic is:
Deep Learning Approaches for Computer-Assisted Orchestration
Computer-assisted orchestration is a recognized topic in Music Information Retrieval (MIR). Systems ‘Orchidea’ and ‘Ato-ms’ have been used by composers in different communities for many years.
Jean Geoffroy, percussionist, and international soloist, is in residence this week at CNMAT working with composer Edmund Campion on projects and collaborations with the Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Danse de Lyon (CNSMDL) and Générateur de Ressources et d’Activités Musicales Exploratoires (GRAME).
Jean Geoffroy is the invited speaker for the composition colloquium this Friday, November 8, at 3 p.m. at CNMAT (free and open to the public):
Innovative tools for performance
In his own words...
The Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR)
Monday, November 4, 2019, 12:00pm to 1:00pm
1750 Arch Street (CNMAT)
free and open to the public
Lecture: Music-related micromotion with Alexander Refsum Jensenius (RITMO)
When: Wednesday, October 23, 10-12 noon
Where: CNMAT Main Room (1750 Arch Street)
Open to the public and free of charge.
Berkeley Computational Music Research (BCMR) held their first annual conference on Saturday, September 28, 9am-6pm at CNMAT:
Synthesis: Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Computational Music Research
The Contemporary Gugak Orchestra is presenting Edmund Campion's Audible Numbers on Friday and Saturday, September 27-28, 2019, at the National Gugak Center in Seoul, S. Korea. The piece was composed using the Open Music/TESSELLATE library developed by Matthew Schumaker, Edmund Campion, and Jean Bresson at CNMAT.
Read the preview article in the Korean Herald
Two new research papers have been produced at CNMAT during the past semester.
