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

The Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) celebrates the end of its inaugural year! You are cordially invited to attend a special outdoor concert event at CCRMA, the home of SLOrk, for an evening of new and classic works for laptop orchestra. Come experience the laptop orchestra like never before - "amphitheater style", in the charming CCRMA Courtyard.

Tickets: FREE

Paul Koonce's music explores the fantastic and magical role of technology in creating unexpected experiences of sound, space, and place. The evening's presentation will feature a varied collection of the composer's works for fixed, multi-channel sound, sampling the composer's surreal and hyper-real take on instruments, places, music and our environment.

Tickets: FREE

The three venues are:
RPI at Troy, New York
Tintinnabulate Ensemble directed by Sarah Weaver, technical support by Jonas Braasch

VistaMuse at San Diego, California
Mixed Ensemble directed by Mark Dresser.

CCRMA at Stanford, California
SOUNDWire directed by Chris Chafe, technical support by Juan Pablo Caceres

Tickets: FREE

Saxophonist Michael Straus' (b. 1983, New Orleans) abilities and dedication to the performance of new music have led to a variety of engagements at venues ranging from Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center and New York City's The Stone to Italy's Festival Internazionale del Sassofono. Michael's main artistic focus lies in the solo multimedia performance project What are you looking at? This interdisciplinary project has teamed together a collective of forward thinking composers and visual artists from the United States and abroad. Through the combination of new media and technology with contemporary classical and free improvisational forms, this event continues to challenge and excite a wide variety of audiences.

Saturday, April 26, 2008
CCRMA Stage
8pm

On the program:
Billie by Jacob Ter Veldhuis

(dis)Locations by Matthew Burtner

a sudden change in the consistency of snow by Peter V. Swendsen

FeXIV (Iron Fourteen) by Per Bloland

THE STATE OF THE inSIGNIFICANT (world premier) by Cory Kasprzyk

Dorian Reeds by Terry Riley

Admission: FREE

The Knoll
660 Lomita Drive
Stanford, CA 94305

The all-new Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) presents an afternoon of music and sonic installations performances, among the statues and under the canopy of the New Guinea Sculpture Garden at Stanford University. This first-ever outdoor laptop orchestra concert features works by members of CCRMA/SLOrk, Scott Smallwood, Perry Cook, Dan Trueman, and SLOrk director Ge Wang.

Saturday, April 26, 2008
New Guinea Sculpture Garden
3pm

Admission: FREE

New Guinea Sculpture Garden
450 Santa Teresa St
Stanford, CA 94305

Pedro Rebelo will present current work from the Sonic Arts Research Centre in the areas of fixed media, audiovisuals and network performance. Pedro Rebelo is SARC's Director of Research, a composer and digital artist with interests in improvisation, interaction and cultural theory. He has recently released a double album under the project FAINT (Creative Source Recordings) with saxophonist Franziska Schroeder and percussionist Steve Davis which explores two extremes of musical practice: free improvisation and composition for fixed medium. The Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) is a newly established centre of excellence, dedicated to the research of music technology. This unique interdisciplinary project has united internationally recognised experts in the areas of musical composition, signal processing, internet technology and digital hardware.

Friday, April 4, 2008
CCRMA Stage
8pm

On the program:
Fragmentos for Soprano Sax and Live-Electronics by Pedro Rebelo with Franziska Schroeder

Net vs Net by Alain Renaud and Juan Pablo Caceres

Netrooms by Pedro Rebelo

Pixel Parasites by Brian Cullen

Instrument of Dissection by Pedro Rebelo

Over Hear by l a u t

Admission: FREE

The Knoll
660 Lomita Drive
Stanford, CA 94305

Solidly in the neoclassical and jazz crossover traditions, Dexter Morrill's music spans 50 years. In celebration of his upcoming 70th birthday, he is joined by long time friends and collaborators Chris Chafe, Bruce Pennycook, Maureen Chowning, and Jean Alexis Smith for an exceptional concert. On the program the pieces for voice, piano, cello, and electronics, all speak with a consistent sonic vision.

Thursday, March 13, 2008
CCRMA Stage
8:00pm

Music by Inland Northwest Composers Jonathan Middleton, Charles Nichols, Mark Branscom and Alexina Louie from Vancouver BC. Their inspirations and influences from Billie Holiday to Zen through their piano music. Featuring pianists Christopher Hahn, Margaret Brink and Barbara Blegen via telematics performance and CCRMA's MoPhOrcC (Mobile Phone Orchestra).

Saturday, February 16, 2008
CCRMA Stage
2:30pm

Originating from Chile, one of the first countries in South America to develop research projects in electroacoustic music, Mario Mora is currently a visiting composer at CCRMA. An internationally known composer, researcher and teacher, he will be presenting works for acoustic and mixed media.

Friday, January 18, 2008
CCRMA Stage
8:00pm

On the program:
Works for violin, saxophone, flute, piano and electronics.

CCRMA presents an experimental ensemble concert featuring music performed on mobile electronic devices including laptop computers and mobile phones. Far beyond ring-tones, these interactive musical works take advantage of the unique technological capabilities of today's hardware, turning computer keyboards, touch-screens and built-in accelerometers into powerful musical control systems.

NOTE: The Mobile Orchestra Workshop as advertised on the Stanford Events Calendar will not be taking place. The Open Rehearsal @ 2:00PM on Friday and the 8:00PM Concert will proceed as scheduled.

This concert is made possible with the support of the Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto.

Friday, January 11, 2008
CCRMA Stage
8:00pm

On the program:
Original compositions by Greg Schiemer, Jonathan Middleton, Ge Wang, Georg Essl and Henri Penttinen.

With an impressive catalogue of compositions, including this collection of engaging multimedia productions, Hans Tutschku - faculty member and director of the electroacoustic studios at Harvard University - uses a precise craftmanship in compositional techniques to allow the listener "to hear only the voice of the music he has created and not the technology". CCRMA is proud to feature this concert of Tutschku's electroacoustic works including some of his most recent works for piano, oboe, cello and electronics.

Thursday, November 29, 2007
CCRMA Stage
8:00pm

The Telematic Circle is several ensembles rehearsing and performing in real time via Internet2. Participants include Soundwire Ensemble from CCRMA, Tintinnabulate Ensemble from Rensselaer, Plork (Princeton Laptop Orchestra), and UCSD musicians.

Friday, November 16, 2007
CCRMA Stage
5:30pm

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, electroacoustic compositions, and tomato music. All are welcome at this celebration of all things CCRMA.

"This hour-long-ish concert, part of Stanford's Chamber Music Live series, features San Francisco improvising genius and legendary instrument inventor Tom Nunn, and yours truly. Tom is the direct inspiration for my own original instruments and so I'm extremely pleased to feature him on this concert. We'll both have several instruments there to amuse and baffle you in solo and duo configurations."

Mark Applebaum