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CNMAT | Lyon Conservatory Exchange

The Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), the UC Berkeley Department of Music, and the Berkeley New Music Project are partnering with the Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Danse de Lyon (CNSMDL) in a collaborative concert featuring new compositions by Berkeley and Lyon Composers performed by the ECO Ensemble on December 8th at 8pm.  The same new compositions will travel to France in January as part of a featured concert in Lyon at Festival Empreintes.

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Sound Encounters II — CNMAT & SFCMP

SFCMP and CNMAT are partnering to present Sound Encounters II as part of SFCMP’s in the community series. The event will feature works from several CNMAT artists and includes the world premiere of a new work for percussion and electronics by CNMAT director and longtime friend of SFCMP Edmund Campion, setting the stage for four acousmatic, electro-acoustic and multimedia compositions by Hallie Smith, Jon Yu, Andrew Harlan and Didem Coskunseven.

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Concert Featuring the Work of Rafal Zapala

As the culminating expereince of Rafal Zapala's Fulbright residency at CNMAT, a concert featuring his work will be performed by the visiting Hashtag ensemble. It will focus on artistic theory surrounding new open forms of music intermediated by technological tools. These forms are explored in the context of written scores and live chamber music performance.

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CUG Presents Ear Foil

The CNMAT Users Group (CUG) will present Ear Foil, a completely improvised concert for cello, violin, voice, and electronics. The work ranges from dense and internal states to billowing, ebullient, and expansive expressions of sound-with some short interruptions in between. Please join us for this free event!

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CNMAT Welcomes Composer Hans Tutschku

The Center for New Music and Audio Technologies welcomes Hans Tutschku for a colloquium and concert of his music. Please join us at CNMAT on Friday, October 22 at 3pm for the colloquium and 8pm for the concert. Both are free events open to the public.

Hans Tutschku is a distinguished composer. His work has been recognized with many awards and prizes. His music has been performed internationally and he has taught throughout Europe and the US. He currently teaches at Harvard University.

https://tutschku.com

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Rafal Zapala Working on a Fulbright Project

Rafal Zapala, associate professor at I. J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań (Poland), is working at CNMAT on his Fulbright awarded project entitled "Research into real-time interactive systems for non-linear music composition and performance" during Fall 2021.

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CNMAT Welcomes Han Zhang

CNMAT welcomes international researcher Han Zhang to begin a 2021/22 research residency.

Han will be working closely with Carmine Cella. The focus of the research will be machine learning based methods for music timbre representation, music creation, and other related areas.

Han recently completed her MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University.

https://cnmat.berkeley.edu/people/han-zhang

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