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
Tender Buttons
Date:Thu, 02/13/2020 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Concert
Tender Buttons | Gino Robair - Tania Caroline Chen - Tom Djll | with live video by VJLove aka Bill Thibault
The sound of Tender Buttons occupies a post-New York School sound-space, very much in the spirit of Cage, Feldman, and Wolff. Their music is both composed and improvised, often performed with interactive video projection.FREEOpen to the PublicCCRMA at Bing | The Lord of the Bings: The Return of the Bing
Date:Fri, 01/31/2020 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmDate:Sat, 02/01/2020 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:Bing Concert Hall StudioEvent Type:Concert
Please join us for the third and final installment of our epic concert series The Lord of the Bings: The Return of the Bing. We will present two different evening programs of multichannel immersive music and soundscapes in Bing Concert Hall Studio. Our GRAIL sound system will be deployed again in a 3D setup for a selection of pieces from CCRMA and around the Middle-earth.FREEOpen to the PublicNEW DIMENSIONALITY
Date:Sat, 01/25/2020 - 7:00pm - 11:00pmDate:Sun, 01/26/2020 - 2:00pm - 5:00pmLocation:CCRMA Stage, Listening Room, LoungeEvent Type:Concert
// NEW DIMENSIONALITY //live synthesized beatboxing, sensory engagement with the SF Bay tidal record, and an entombed and distorted Alexa…experience all this and even more of our community’s most boundary-pushing art!FREEOpen to the PublicSideLObe | The Furies: A Laptopera (Act I)
Date:Sat, 12/07/2019 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmDate:Sun, 12/08/2019 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertThis event is FREE and OPEN to all; RSVP required: https://laptopera-2019-dec.eventbrite.com
The Furies: A Laptopera is a retelling of the Greek tragedy Electra. Blending a number of versions of the Electra story including works by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Jean Paul Sartre, this retelling explores central questions regarding how communities escape from cycles of violence, the role of guilt and shame in community identity, personal responsibility, how justice interfaces with cycles of violence, and redemption. The artistic medium of the laptop orchestra both serves to recast the traditional instrumental role in a new kind of operatic medium (the “laptopera”) that reimagines the potential of instrument-building to support dramatic elements and character relationships -- while simultaneously positing critical questions about technology in our lives presently, both in its promise to help us flourish and in its perils to perpetuate and amplify the existing cycles of violence in our world today.FREE wth RSVPOpen to the PublicEllen Phan & Nisa Karnsomport
Date:Thu, 11/14/2019 - 7:30pm - 8:30pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertFor their performance at CCRMA, Ellen will present sounds that morph into abstractions, dissected and scattered across the psychoacoustic sphere as Nisa will transduce audio into optical patterns and fractures to create an illuminating psychedelic digitalism.
FREEOpen to the PublicNowNet Arts Conference 2019
Date:Thu, 11/07/2019 - 8:00am - Sun, 11/10/2019 - 9:30amLocation:CCRMA Stage / Studio EEvent Type:ConcertNOWNET ARTS CONFERENCE 2019:
Social Purpose in Contemporary Network ArtsNovember 7-10, 2019Free for Stanford faculty/staff/students with registration | Registration fee for any non-Stanford affiliated personOpen to the PublicTimothy Weaver: HYLAEA ReSpoken
Date:Thu, 10/31/2019 - 7:30pm - 8:30pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Concert
HYLAEA ReSpoken is a collection of live cinema (sound/moving image) movements that seeks to reanimate the residues of lost ecological memory. The project enriches the transcoding of bio- and ecoinformatic data to soundscape thru the re-witnessing of endangered and extinct habitats and uncertain biodiversity.FREEOpen to the PublicŽibuoklė Martinaitytė: In Search of Lost Beauty...
Date:Fri, 10/25/2019 - 7:30pm - 8:30pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Concert“In Search of Lost Beauty…” (2016) is a sequence of audiovisual novellas for violin, cello, piano, electronics and video on the elusive subject of beauty. Here the experience of time is slowed down as to transport us into an alternate dimension where the commonly apprehended reality is inverted into the otherworldly mystique of reflections and shadows. The amplitude of this ephemeral search for beauty encompasses phenomena found in nature, everyday life and art. The piece consists of 10 sections, which are woven into one structural entity of suggestive coherence.
FREEOpen to the PublicENS EKT
Date:Thu, 10/17/2019 - 7:30pm - 8:30pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Concert
ENS EKT features the experimental musical inventions of Paul Stapleton (Californian born, Belfast-based) placed in dialogue with the circular breathed multiphonics and harmonic textures of Simon Rose (English born, Berlin-based) and the resonant gestural and spectrally focused playing of Adam Pultz Melbye (Danish born, Berlin-based). The group explores emergent timbral, dynamic and social musical structures through improvisation. Having worked together more frequently in duo settings (see below), the trio configuration offers an opportunity to explore new modes of interactions in part facilitated by purpose built technologies that intertwine metallic, wooden and electronic resonances in real time.FREEOpen to the PublicCCRMA Modulations 2019: In Memoriam Carr Wilkerson
Date:Sat, 10/05/2019 - 7:30pm - Sun, 10/06/2019 - 12:00amLocation:CCRMA CourtyardEvent Type:Concert
CCRMA presents a Modulations concert in loving memory of longtime CCRMA staff member Carr Wilkerson (1966-2019). Carr was responsible for organizing CCRMA's previous Modulations festivals. Friends of Carr will present live performances and fixed media works of electronic music.FREEOpen to the Public
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Upcoming Concerts
Stanford New Ensemble + Friction Quartet
Date:Wed, 02/19/2020 - 7:30pm - 9:30pmLocation:CCRMA Stage and other roomsEvent Type:ConcertCCRMA presents a concert with new works by undergraduate composers and Terry Riley’s In C performed around the building.
FREEOpen to the PublicEzra Buchla | Alex Chechile
Date:Thu, 02/20/2020 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertCCRMA presents a double bill concert with Ezra Buchla and Alex Chechile.
FREEOpen to the PublicSalt Itinerary | New Op-Era by the Miso Ensemble
Date:Fri, 03/06/2020 - 7:30pm - 8:30pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertSalt Itinerary multimedia opera transcends theatrical and music conventions. A New form of Opera, Electroacoustic Theatre, Musical Theatre, Sound Poetry?
FREEOpen to the PublicVilbjørg Broch: Speaking in Mute Silence
Date:Tue, 03/10/2020 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Concert
CCRMA Visiting Scholar Vilbjørg Broch presents a concert with computer generated immersive audio works and voice. Exploring 3D projections of higher dimensional algebraic and geometric structures for spatialisation and synthesis. Symmetry groups, nonperiodic order and the massa confusa. The concert will be woven together with text fragments from the collection of dreams which appear in C.G. Jung's Psychology and Alchemy.FREEOpen to the PublicPremiere of The Furies: A LaptOpera
Date:Sun, 03/15/2020 - 6:30pm - 10:00pmDate:Mon, 03/16/2020 - 6:30pm - 7:00pmLocation:StageEvent Type:ConcertOpen to the PublicTechnology and the Post Human
Date:Fri, 04/03/2020 - 7:30pm - 8:30pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Concert
What if our physical bodies become nothing more than a shell to host our technologies? Are technological advances reducing what makes someone an individual? Will complete distributed intelligence lead to absolute homogeneity? Works featured in this concert series address such philosophical questions of our Internet Age.
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