CCRMA Concerts
Concerts at CCRMA feature new and recent computer music by graduate students, faculty, and guests. Classic works and recent music from other studios and composers are also occasionally programmed. Colloquia and concerts are announced via a mailing list.
Recent Concerts
The Happy Valley Band - Machine Learning Like You've Never Heard Before!
Date:Sat, 06/04/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertThe Happy Valley Band is a cover band like you've never heard before. They play strictly notated machine deconstructions of popular tunes, filtered through the brain of a computer. You'll hear James Brown backed by a simmering Sun Ra Arkestra, Madonna with a jittery freak-out synth rhythm section, and Herb Alpert with a Tijuana Brass that must have been led by Charles Ives. Join us for the madness!
Their debut album ORGANVM PERCEPTVM, five years in the making, will be out on Santa Cruz label Indexical in 2016. For more info, visit indexical.org.
Video: vimeo.com/159568524FREEOpen to the PublicWaveforms: An Interdiscplinary Arts Showcase
Date:Thu, 06/02/2016 - 8:00pm - 11:00pmLocation:StageEvent Type:ConcertWAVEFORMS: An Interdisciplinary Arts Showcase is a mixed media performance and exhibition featuring personal or academic synthesis projects by students from various backgrounds – art majors and non-majors alike. A packed lineup of music, video art, light installations and other digital ventures will be on display at The Stage from 8-11 PM on Thursday, June 2nd. This event is open to the public and light refreshments will be served.
FreeOpen to the PublicBryan Day - Robotic Instruments
Date:Tue, 05/31/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertBryan will perform with some new robotic instruments - Displacement Rails and Rotowhisker - and a spherical tape loop machine called the Accumulation Sphere.
Bryan is an improviser, instrument inventor, illustrator and installation artist based in Richmond, CA. His work involves combining elements of the natural and man-made world using field recordings, custom audio generation software and homemade instruments. Day’s work explores the parallels between the patterns and systems in nature to those in contemporary society.
Day has toured throughout the US, Europe, Japan, Korea, Argentina and Mexico, performing both solo as Sistrum and Eloine and in the Shelf Life and Seeded Plain ensembles.
FREEOpen to the PublicMusic <541> Present - Liminar
Date:Sat, 05/28/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertMusic <541> Present - Mexican ensemble Liminar - playing new electroacoustic works by Stanford composers. Liminar is comprised of more than 20 soloists from Mexico who are dedicated to the performance of new chamber works and works from the past century that have limited exposure in Mexico. The ensemble is co-directed by Carlos Iturralde with Alexander Bruck and CalArts voice faculty and alumna Carmina Escobar.
For more information see www.facebook.com/liminarmxFREEOpen to the PublicNew Music from Mexico at Stanford
Date:Sat, 05/21/2016 - 7:30pm - 10:30pmDate:Sun, 05/22/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertPlease join us for two evenings of music from Mexican electroacoustic composers and Mexican new music chamber ensemble Liminar.
The Saturday concert features new multichannel electronic music by Mexican composers Germán Romero, Hiram Navarrese, Ivan Naranjo, and Carlos Iturralde. This concert is made possible with additional support from the Stanford Center for Latin-American Studies.
This concert will take place in 2 halves:
1st half from 7.30 - 8.30PM
2nd half from 9.00 - 10.00PM
FREEOpen to the PublicThe Well-Tempered GRAIL - CCRMA Sound Worlds in the Bing Studio Space
Date:Wed, 05/18/2016 - 7:30pmDate:Thu, 05/19/2016 - 7:30pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertPlease join us as we deploy the CCRMA GRAIL - Giant Radial Array for Immersive Listening - for two nights of immersive multichannel music in the Bing Studio Space.
Both concerts will have some of the same people.... BUT....completely different programs -
Concert 1, pieces by:
John Luther Adams
Elliot Kermit-Canfield
Alex Chechile
Simon Fay
Jia Li
Gareth Loy
Eric Lyon
Anders Vinjar
Concert 2, pieces by:
Mark Applebaum
Natasha Barrett
Alex Chechile
Eric Lyon
Nathan James Tindall
Hans Tutschku
Anders VinjarFREEOpen to the Publichk&tcs
Date:Sun, 05/15/2016 - 8:00pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertWeston Olencki, Helen Newby and Bethanne Walker perform premieres by Dan Tramte and Santiago Diez-Fischer as well as music by Matthias Kranebitter and Chris Swithinbank, with a new arrangement of Michelle Lou’s untitled three part construction for trombone + two performers + objects.
Program:
Dan Tramte - #hijackthishashtag [2016] solo untrained voice, objects, edibles, melodica, hacked DJ-hero controller, and live video *world premiere
Santiago Diez-Fischer - sensitive switch [2016] for trombone, cello, and electronics *world premiere
Matthias Kranebitter - packtheboxwithsixdozenofmyliquorjugs [2013] for flute, trombone, and piano
Chris Swithinbank - local bond [2015] for viola, cello, and four performersFREEOpen to the PublicWeston Olencki
Date:Mon, 05/09/2016 - 7:30pm - 8:30pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertForging a hybrid territory of installation art, sonic structures, and live concert music, Weston Olencki presents two long-form works by Timothy McCormack and Michelle Lou. The selected works explore the perceptual distortion of time and scale, sensory world-building, and sonic excess and subtlety within fields of acoustic and electronic noise.
Program:
Timothy McCormack - panic around death [2015] for vocalizing performer, objects, electronics, light
Michelle Lou - HoneyDripper [2016] for trombone, guitar pedals, transducers, metal, glass, plywood, and ultraviolet light
Note: The second piece on the program contains high levels of feedback. Earplugs will be provided or if preferred, please bring your own.FREEOpen to the PublicPeople Making Sounds
Date:Mon, 05/02/2016 - 9:00pm - 10:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertIn their second installment, People Making Sounds presents a night of rigorously-choreographed works for performers manipulating traditional instruments, homemade hybrids, and ordinary consumer products. Unstable slabs of noise and electronic feedback collide with aggressively awkward music theater to pry open the creative sonic potential of everyday objects, recycling musical and cultural artifacts into a whimsical and eccentric collection of works.
Program:
Ingrid Lee - Cells
Weston Olencki - TRANSISTOR
Charlie Sdraulig - emulator
Jessie Marino - Endless Shrimp
Louis d'Heudieres - Laughter Studies 2
Michael Maierhof - Shopping 4
FREEOpen to the PublicNow Hear Ensemble
Date:Sat, 04/30/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertThe Now Hear Ensemble will present the first installment of the Not for the Ears Alone series, featuring music that exploits the potential for creativity using both the stage space and the performers’ bodies. These works make powerful musical statements, yet they are best experienced with eyes wide open. For this show, we will make use of chalkboards, a boombox, animated videos, sandpaper, samplers, and toy guitars.
FREEOpen to the Public
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Upcoming Concerts
CCRMA Transitions 2016
Date:Wed, 10/05/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmDate:Thu, 10/06/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA CourtyardEvent Type:ConcertPlease join us for two nights of immersive and 3D multichannel music at our annual season opener concerts. We will present two different programs under the stars and as always we encourage everybody to wrap up warm, bring a blanket, and bring a picnic! Program details will be announced soon... stay tuned...
FREEOpen to the PublicLaetitia Sonami
Date:Thu, 10/13/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertGroundbreaking composer, performer, technologist, and sound installation artist Laetitia Sonami presents an evening of performances developed by her and in collaboration with Eliane Radigue and Paul DeMarinis. For more information please see sonami.net
Bio:
Sonami’s sound installations combine audio and kinetic elements embedded in ubiquitous objects such as light bulbs, rubber gloves, bags and more recently toilet plungers. She collects electrical wire and embroids them in walls.FREEOpen to the PublicTania Chen, Thomas Dimuzio, and Wobbly
Date:Thu, 10/20/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertTania Chen, Thomas Dimuzio, and Wobbly come to CCRMA to present a Bay Area all star show of electronic, acoustic, and improvised sound worlds. For more information see taniachen.com www.thomasdimuzio.com and www.detritus.net/wobbly/
Bios:FREEOpen to the Public
