On Wednesday, April 27, CNMAT released a maintenance update for CNMAT Externals v1.0.5 that provides support and compatibility with Apple's M1 processors as well as other minor updates and bug fixes. Users should update the CNMAT Externals through the Max Package Manager:
CNMAT's Lead Researcher, Department of Music Assistant Professor Carmine-Emanuele Cella, with co-authors, recently published two new papers on the mathematical modeling of music timbre.
CNMAT composer and researcher, Andrew Blanton, will be featured in Portal Refractions, a New Art City Physical Activation. The event is hosted by Gray Area.
https://grayarea.org/event/portal-refractions/
"The portal is a gateway to another world; but when you cross the threshold everything changes, it becomes refracted. This special event, featuring mixed-reality and sound performances, offers a look at the looking glass itself."
Rage Thormbones will complete their residency at CNMAT this month and present a concert of works by UC Berkeley composers. They have worked closely with the duo over past months to develop pieces that range from ecstatic grim comedy to improvisatory murmurings. There will be a light reception to follow the concert.
RAGE Thormbones Concert
Saturday, April 30, 2022, 8:00pm to 9:30pm
1750 Arch Street
Berkeley, CA 94709
Come experience David Coll's Word Search
Word Search
Friday, April 22, 2022, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
CNMAT
1750 Arch Street
Berkeley, CA 94709
Word Search is a pop-up exhibition with an ongoing reception from 7-9pm. Showings earlier in the day by appointment.
Prof. Carmine Cella will be participating in a Y-Exchange presentation over zoom on Wednesday, March, 30, 2022 at 6:00pm.
RSVP required at this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/y-exchange-talking-about-art-science-tickets-300898344047
As part of his composition, Kobi, which will be premiered at Milano Musica in May 2022 by Les Percussions de Strasbourg, Professor Carmine Cella is working to complete the first model of an augmented Mbira. Carmine has partnered with Ozias Macoo, an instrument builder from Mozambique who has built a special Mbira for the project.
CNMAT welcomes Januibe Tejera, Olivier Stankiewicz, and Alice Belugou for an April concert.
Tejera, Belugou, Stankiewicz Concert
Wednesday, April 6, 2022 @ 8pm
1750 Arch Street
Berkeley, CA, 94709
The concert will feature works by Tejera, Pedro Garcia Velazquez, Tonia Ko, and Gabriel Araújo.
Selim Göncü’s new composition “Widerklang”, winner of the 2020 Lee Ettelson Award, will be premiered by the Ninth Planet Music Ensemble.
Saturday, March 19, 2022 at 7:30pm
Center for New Music
55 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
Selim Göncü’s “Widerklang” for bass clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, and cello (Ettelson 2020), presents a distorted, noisy, and quasi-improvisational sound world, exploring the connection between noise and pitch.
CNMAT is pleased to host a concert of composers and performers affiliated with CCRMA.
CCRMA @ CNMAT Concert
Friday, April 15, 2022 @ 8pm
1750 Arch Street
Berkeley, CA 9470
The concert will feature Barbara Nerness and Engin Dağlık. Barbara will be joined by Stephanie Sherriff and they will be performing as Alkimiya Transfer.
