The cover (sidewise view) of Campion's book, Consilience, is an image of trans-Pecos, cave art from Coahuila, Mexico (five thousand years BP). It shows various instances of the shaman approaching the edge (between this world and the other?) and in the midst of the mind-altering flights across dimensions. The historic photo was taken by the great anthropologist, Solveig Turpin--now deceased.
Sonic reflections of deep space
an evening of meditations and sound works based on the observations of the James Web Space Telescope, the VLT, and Hubble Telescope
CNMAT welcomes Alexander Jensenius, Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time, and Motion (RITMO), and Dor Abrahamson, Director of the Embodied Design Research Laboratory (EDRL) at Berkeley The collaborative teams from RITMO and EDRL have organized the international interdisciplinary research gathering made possible by the Peder Sather Grant Program (Abrahamson and Jensenius).
RITMO Visitors Include:
The CNMAT Users Group is hosting the Del Sol String Quartet at CNMAT the week of April 22 culminating in a concert featuring five new graduate student compositions including new works by composers Nathan Corder, Matthew Monaco, Mat Muntz, Aine Nakamura, Dion Nataraja. The concert of new works will be presented at CNMAT on April 27.
Jeremy Wagner, Technical Director at CNMAT, has received a 2024 Chancellor's Outstanding Staff Award, one of the highest honors given to UC Berkeley staff.
Composer, performer, and sound designer, Jeremy Wagner has served as Research Composer and Technical Director at CNMAT since 2016, providing sound & video engineering support for CNMAT concerts & events while mentoring graduate composers in a wide range of production technologies.
From April 20th to 27th, La Nuit Sauve, by Etienne Chambaud, will show at CuratingAI at the 120710 gallery in Berkeley. Graduate student Luke Dzwonczyk worked with Etienne to create the sound of the installation, which uses Carmine Cella's Orchidea software to endlessly generate orchestrations of the film's sounds.
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Hélène Papadopoulos is a pianist known for her intricate and sensitive interpretations who possesses a transversal vision of music creation and performance. She embarks on her residency at CNMAT to delve into the legacy of American keyboardist Rosalyn Tureck (1913-2003) for Bach performance in the 21st century. She is commissioning new works from living composers inspired by Tureck’s perspective, fostering a dialogue between tradition and innovation in Bach's performance.
The composers and sound designers David Monacchi and Nicola Casetta are in residency at CNMAT this week. The schedule for the week inlcudes:
Tue, Feb 27, 2pm: Masterclass by Casetta on sound design with feedback
Fri, Mar 1, 3pm: Colloquium by Monacchi on his project Fragments of exctinction ( https://www.fragmentsofextinction.org)
Fri, Mar 1, 8pm: Concert
DAVID MONACCHI
Composer Fred Lerdahl (Bloch Lecturer, UC Berkeley 2011) leads a working group at CNMAT this Spring 2024 to discuss his music alongside his music theory and cognition texts.
Fred Lerdahl’s music is admired for its original harmonic syntax and formal processes, striking ideas, elegant craftsmanship, and expressive depth. His work seeks and achieves both complexity and intelligibility. It is indebted to the past yet committed to the exploration of new territory.
