Please come and enjoy 'Transitions:' an evening of computer music outdoors by CCRMA in the Knoll courtyard, to bring in the new academic year. We'll have an 8 channel surround system and projections for you, and space for you to lay out your blankets (bring some warm clothes)!

The program will include works by: Max Mathews with Laurie Amat, Mark Applebaum, John Chowning, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano, Chris Chafe and Roberto Morales, Visda Goudarzi, Javier Sanchez, and Edgar Berdahl.

Linger after the concert for TransAfter: beat-centered electronic music from Luke Dahl and Baeksan Chang.

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Admission: FREE.

The Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) celebrates the conclusion of a wonderful 2009 season with a full-scale laptop orchestra concert in Dinkelspiel Auditorium at Stanford University! You are cordially invited for an evening of all new works for the full ensemble.

Admission: FREE.

The Net vs. Net Collective presents a networked concert with music composed and performed by several of the most prominent practitioners of the art of network music around the world. Remote acoustics, distributed animated scores, virtual worlds and mechanical interconnected pianos are among the repertoire. Several interconnected ensembles of acoustic and electronic instruments will take place in this unique transcontinental event. Several years of research by the SoundWIRE group at CCRMA, Stanford University, powers up the technology and the music of this concert. Pieces by Pauline Oliveros (New York), Chris Chafe (Banff, Canada) Pedro Rebelo, Franziska Schreoder, Justin Yang (Belfast), Mark Applebaum, Juan-Pablo Caceres, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano, Robert Hamilton (Stanford) and Alain Renaud (Bourmouth, UK) will be featured.

Admission: FREE.

Please join us for an evening of electronic music, intermedia performances and interactive installations at CCRMA's quarterly concert. Works and performances by Michael Berger, Christine Keiko Funahashi, Visda Goudarzi, David Jaffe, Jaroslaw Kapuscinski, Bruno Ruviaro, Javier Sanchez, Diana Siwiak, Hiroko Terasawa and Cobi van Tonder.

Admission: FREE.

A solo recital at CCRMA Stage, NODAS presents the premiere of Tomboy (2009), Luciano Chessa's brand new collaboration with artist Terry Berlier, as well as the solo Vietnamese dan bau Nodas (2008), on traditional Sardinian musical forms, the newly-published solo guitar piece Amadou, featuring Travis Andrews, and a set of rarely performed works by Giuseppe Chiari.

As a composer, pianist, and musical saw / dan bau soloists, Luciano Chessa has been active in Europe, the U.S., and Australia. Among his compositions, it is worth mentioning a piano and percussion duet after Pier Paolo Pasolini's Petrolio, written for Sarah Cahill and Chris Froh and presented in 2004 at the American Academy in Rome, Il pedone dell'aria for orchestra and double children choir, premiered in 2006 at the Auditorium of Turin's Lingotto and subsequently released on DVD, Inkless Imagination IV (UC Davis, Mondavi Center, 2008) for viola, mini-bass musical saw, turntables, percussion, FM radios, blimp and video projection (both works in collaboration with artist Terry Berlier), and the Recitativo, aria e coro della Vergine (Concert Hall of the San Francisco Conservatory, 2008). His next composition projects include Nepente, a large orchestral work commissioned by the Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino, Italy, and the completion and staging of an oratorio titled Urlo impietrato. His research on Italian Futurism, which he has presented and published internationally, has shown for the first time the occult relationship between Luigi Russolo's intonarumori and Leonardo da Vinci's musical machines. He is currently working on Luigi Russolo Futurista. Noise, Visual Arts, and the Occult the first monograph dedicated to Russolo and his Art of Noises, to be published by the University of California Press in Spring 2010.

Chessa's Futurist expertise has resulted in an invitation by RoseLee Goldberg, General Director of the New York-based Biennale of the Arts PERFORMA to supervise the first complete reconstruction project of Russolo's intonarumori, and to curate concerts of music specifically commissioned for this ensemble, and featuring an impressive array of world premieres written by the who's who of contemporary experimental and noise music.

Chessa taught and lectured at St. John's College of Oxford, Columbia University, Sydney's and Melbourne's Conservatories and Universities, the Conservatory of Music in Bologna, UC Davis, UC Berkeley, Stanford University. He has been interviewed at the CBS (KPIX/KBHK) television channel as an expert on Italian hip-hop and in June will be interviewed by the British BBC as Luigi Russolo's foremost scholar. He currently teaches at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and collaborates with SF's Italian Cultural Institute. His music is published by RAI TRADE, the Italian National Broadcast Channels' music publishing company.

Admission: FREE.

The Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) presents the second of two evenings of all new works for laptop chamber music, by members of the SLOrk ensemble and seminar. You are cordially invited to join us in exploring new sounds and musical spaces with performances crafted for chamber SLOrk. more info ...

Admission: FREE.

Come to see videos with multichannel sound, intermedia performances and interactive installations.
Artists: Michael Berger, Luke Dahl, Christine Keiko Funahashi, Visda Goudarzi, Jaroslaw Kapuscinski, Linden Melvil, Jason Sadural, Javier Sanchez, Diana Siwiak, Hiroko Terasawa and Cobi van Tonder

Admission: FREE Reception to follow.

A solo live transmission performance for radio and speaker array, built on the sounds of breath and other bodily exclamations that are usually eliminated from conventional radio broadcasts. Restless characters seep up into the thin heterodyne music of live and pre-sampled radio atmosphere, together with instruments and electronics that echo the human breath and the detuned radio landscape.

Admission: FREE

Please join us for a two part concert of SiCa Artist in Residence, Rocco Di Pietro, on Tuesday, March 3rd. At 5pm, there will be a premiere of Body Trap, a new work for acupuncture, performed live at CCRMA with performers joining us over the internet from RPI and Banff. At 8pm, there will be a performance of selected works by the composer.

Admission: FREE

A celebration of Jean-Claude Risset's 70th birthday. Performers: Jean-Claude Risset and violinist Mari Kimura. Works by Risset, Kimura, Bach and Nancarrow

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Admission: FREE
Reception to follow

An evening of electronic music of all kinds at CCRMA's quarterly concert. Works and performances by Laurie Amat, Nicholas Bryan, Baek San Chang, Andy Greenwood, Craig Hanson, Larry Marotta, Max Mathews, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano, Jieun Oh, Rocco Di Pietro, Jason Sadural, Beau Silver and Cobi van Tonder.

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Admission: FREE
Reception to follow

Discover the newest directions in music and technology under development at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). A mixture of musicians and engineers present musical installations, interactive performance environments for acoustic instruments and computer systems, and electroacoustic compositions. All are welcome at this celebration of all things CCRMA.

Admission: FREE
Reception to follow

On the 20th anniversary of Giacinto Scelsi's death, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, the Fondazione Isabella Scelsi of Rome, the Consulate General of France in San Francisco and CCRMA present a solo performance by clarinetist Lori Freedman which includes music by Scelsi, Giorgio Magnanensi, and others, as well as her own Scelsi-inspired improvisation.
Lori Freedman is an internationally acclaimed clarinetist/improviser defined by John Corigliano as "the best thing that ever happened to contemporary music".

Admission: FREE
Reception to follow

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"...fully realized music, a series of complex auditory worlds in which processes lead to new discoveries and in which the sense of the beautiful is reexamined and reconstituted..."

The Original Computer Network Band in the San Francisco Bay Area consisting of John Bischoff, Tim Perkis, Chris Brown, Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Mark Trayle and Phil Stone, composers, designers and builders of their own hardware and software instruments.

Tickets: FREE

CCRMA presents pieces written for multichannel production and sonic immersion in CCRMA's unique 16-channel heptagonal listening room. Stanford composers present works written for an array of 8 to 16 speakers, used to create a virtual sonic space where you can be the only one in the audience hearing whispers in your ear.

Tickets: FREE

Due to limited seating availability, reservation is required.
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The Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics presents a summer concert of experimental musical ideas featuring our latest in artistic and technological research in the Center. Works written by Stanford faculty and students include home-made electronic instruments, virtual worms and lizards and programming-on-the-fly chamber music.

Tickets: FREE