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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, Concordia University in Montreal with Joseph Browne, the designer. She will present her work on ocular scores with the participation of Carmine Cella, Jeffrey Lubow and Ellen Ruth Rose.

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 25th.

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 Haikus (New Year's Day, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter) 2016-2020 (57').  The one-hour composition will be diffused in the CNMAT main room in a special multi-channel mix performed live by Annette Vande Gorne.

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

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 assisted orchestration which integrates artificial intelligence, spatialization and the augmentation of instruments.

https://www.ircam.fr/agenda/spectral-pop/detail

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/spectral-pop/detail

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, India.

The piece, which was written by various computer programs, explores computational creativity, the ability of computers to create music, and the way humans interpret art made by machines.

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 CalPerformances, CNMAT, and the UC Berkeley Music Department.

https://calperformances.org/events/2022-23/new-music/eco-ensemble-2223/

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

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.