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
Palle Dahlstedt, Per Anders Nilsson, Tim Perkis, and Gino Robair: Systemic Improvisation
Date:Tue, 10/09/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Concert
Palle Dahlstedt, Per Anders Nilsson, Tim Perkis, and Gino Robair present a concert to introduce their research project Systemic Improvisation.
FREEOpen to the PublicPuck Quartet Premiers Works by Young Composers
Date:Wed, 10/03/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Concert
The Puck Quartet, who seeks to bring a capricious spirit and evocative language to music, is premiering the work of three Stanford student composers: Noah Berrie, Andreas Garcia, and Blaine Rister.
FREEOpen to the PublicStanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk): Spring Concert 2018
Date:Sat, 06/09/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:30pmLocation:Bing Concert Hall, Stanford UniversityEvent Type:ConcertThe Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) will present its 2018 spring concert in Bing Concert Hall on Saturday, June 9th. You are warmly invited to an evening of music for the full ensemble of humans, laptops, new instruments, and musical spaces. This is the 10th anniversary of SLOrk, and there will be a pre-concert talk by director Ge Wang about the medium and history of the laptop orchestra, starting at 6:45pm. The concert begins at 7:30pm.
FREEOpen to the PublicThe Composer/Performer
Date:Tue, 06/05/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertPlease join us for a concert of new works composed and performed by Mark Applebaum, Utku Asuroglu, Constantin Basica, Chris Chafe, Hassan Estakhrian, Julie Herndon, Chris Lortie, and Davor Branimir Vincze
FREEOpen to the PublicJohn Schott, electric guitar -- Matthew Wright, digital sound
Date:Sat, 06/02/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertJohn Schott and Matt Wright have been musically collaborating for 18 years both as a duo and also with the late David Wessel as That Situated Trio, who performed in the U.S. and Europe. Matt and John have carried on with recent duo performances in the Bay Area and New York. Together they develop a number of musical programs and interfaces for Matt that provide certain limits and affordances for their improvisatory explorations. These include pre-recorded samples of John playing, as well as programs that listen to John's live guitar and respond, and programs that allow Matt to improvise harmonically, melodically, and rhythmically. The music can range from abstract, contemplative, thrashing, grooving, not grooving, bluesy, Viennese, and downright insane.
FreeOpen to the PublicTender Buttons - Helen Newby and Daniel King
Date:Thu, 05/31/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertTender Buttons is cellist Helen Newby, percussionist Dan King, and various devices/electronics. Come join us for works by - Thomas Meadowcroft, Julie Herndon, Peter Swendsen, Celeste Oram, Malin Bang, and Sam Pluta.
FREEOpen to the PublicKaren Bentley Pollick
Date:Sat, 05/26/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertCelebrating current CCRMA faculty and graduate student composers and their mentors with new compositions for violin, electronics and video by Mark Kopytman, Jonathan Berger, Christopher Jette, Constantin Basica, and Chris Lortie, with Nina C. Young of New York Women Composers, recipient of the 2015 Rome Prize and in residence at Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga in June 2018.
Program -
Mark Kopytman: Cantus IV: Dedication for violin solo (1986)
Jonathan Berger: Sink or Swim for solo violin (2006)FREEOpen to the PublicEkmeles
Date:Sat, 05/19/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertEkmeles Vocal Ensemble performs new works for sextet and electronics by Stanford composers: Chris Lortie, Jessie Marino, Charlie Sdraulig, Davor Branimir Vincze, Nick Virzi, and Andrew Watts.
Ekmeles is a vocal ensemble dedicated to the performance of new and rarely-heard works, and gems of the historical avant garde. New York is home to a vibrant instrumental New Music scene, with a relative paucity of vocal music. Ekmeles was founded to fill the gap by presenting new a cappella repertoire for solo voices, and by collaborating with these instrumental ensembles. For more information see - ekmeles.comFREEOpen to the PublicWilfrido Terrazas – Alta – Flute Music from Mexican Composers in California
Date:Thu, 05/10/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertThis concert presents recent works by Carmina Escobar, Guillermo Galindo, Ivan Naranjo, Mauricio Rodriguez, Pablo Rubio and Wilfrido Terrazas. It offers a vivid picture of contemporary Mexican composers based in the California. Beyond the allegorical references of a New Mexican Music, pure and fresh forms of musical expression come together to broaden the musical map of the most uncompromising acoustic art. This event is kindly supported by the Cultural Affairs section of the General Mexican Consulate in San Jose, California.
FREEOpen to the PublicAkiko Hatakeyama
Date:Sat, 05/05/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertAkiko Hatakeyama is a composer/performer of electroacoustic music and intermedia. She explores the boundaries between written music, improvisation, electronics, real-time computer-based interactivity, and visual media. Storytelling, memories, and nature play an important role in Akiko's work, and she most often finds beauty in simplicity. Akiko's practice focuses on realizing her ideas of relations between the body and mind into intermedia composition, often in conjunction with building customized instruments/interfaces. It is a form of nonverbal communication with her inner self and with the environment, including the audience. By somatically actuating perceptions with sound, light, and haptic objects, her ideas of relations between the body and mind become embraceable.
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Upcoming Concerts
Transitions 2018
Date:Thu, 10/18/2018 - 7:00pm - 8:30pmDate:Thu, 10/18/2018 - 9:00pm - 10:30pmDate:Fri, 10/19/2018 - 7:00pm - 8:30pmDate:Fri, 10/19/2018 - 9:00pm - 10:30pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Concert
Feast your ears on immersive 3D sounds played on our multichannel speaker system (56.8)!Due to limit seating we will present two shows with the same program at 7pm and 9pm each night.Open to the PublicSideband
Date:Thu, 11/01/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Concert
Sideband presents a concert of electracoustic works for laptop ensemble. This performance will feature favorite Sideband repertoire pieces alongside world premieres of new works, using voice-on-voice vocoders, non-traditional controllers, wireless networking, graphic and text scores, video, and more.FREEOpen to the PublicIMA
Date:Tue, 11/13/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Concert
Noise music of Japanese poetry. IMA is the sound project of Nava Dunkelman x Amma Ateria, marching forth with fearless percussion, stark electronics, and filmic poetic vocals. Deconstructing and dissolving heavy music through restraint and release, IMA strives for a balance between meticulous detailed precision of instrumentation.FREEOpen to the PublicThe World According to Sound, Live!
Date:Mon, 11/26/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Concert
Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett are co-creators of The World According to Sound, a radio show that airs on NPR’s All Things Considered and weekly on individual public radio stations. The Washington Postwrites that “each episode is 90 seconds, containing a neat little story about an evocative, unusual sound rendered in intense aural detail.” The show’s sound-driven approach to radio has been featured on programs like NHPR’s “Overheard,” KQED’s “Earful,” KALW’s “The Spot,” CBC’s “Podcast Playlist,” and a segment on “HowSound” called “Short is Beautiful.”FREEOpen to the PublicBEAM SPLITTER
Date:Thu, 12/06/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Concert
BEAM SPLITTER is a duo for amplified voice, trombone and occasional analog electronics. Utilizing the pure sounds of acoustic and closely amplified sound sources, the duo joins together two individual voices into a distinct dialog that delves beyond the borders of the corporeal elements of extended technique and sound. There is an intimacy and conflict that becomes evident as the two personas intertwine, in moments joining together seamlessly and in the next, being left with the feeling of irrevocable fracture. The two manage between these extremes with a kind of improvised grace that reveals an effort towards a common goal.FREEOpen to the Public
