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
Jonathan Berger: Leonardo
Date:Sat, 04/06/2019 - 8:00pm - 10:45pmLocation:Kaufmann Concert Hall, 92nd St. Y, New YorkEvent Type:Concert
Jonathan Berger: Leonardo
Designs by Gabriel Calatrava
As the world celebrates the genius of Leonardo da Vinci at 500, Jonathan Berger brings the première of his new chamber opera—a modern masterwork that invites us into the mind, observations, and boundless curiosity of one of the greatest creative thinkers of all time.$35Open to the PublicCEMEC 2019
Date:Sat, 04/06/2019 - 7:30pm - 9:30pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Concert
The California Electronic Music Exchange Concerts (CEMEC) are a series of events designed to strengthen the connections between the various California educational institutions that maintain computer and electronic music programs. Run and curated by the graduate students and faculty at each participating institution, the 2019 CEMEC will be held at the campuses of CalArts, Mills, UCSD, UCSB, UCI, and Stanford throughout April. At CCRMA, we will present works composed and performed by Rodrigo Barriga, Jaehoon Choi, Danielle Dahl, Stewart Engart, Stephanie Fischer, Nathaniel Haering, Mason Hock, Amina Kirby, Douglas McCausland, Matthew Perez, and Yiyang Shi.
FREEOpen to the PublicOedipus: Sex with Mum was Blinding
Date:Thu, 04/04/2019 - 7:30pm - 8:30pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertA hybrid opera libretto and direction by Elli Papakonstantinou, music composition by Julia Kent and Tilemachos Moussas.
FREEOpen to the PublicOstap Manulyak: sounds from behind the (absent) walls
Date:Fri, 03/29/2019 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertOstap Manulyak presents a program of works by contemporary Ukrainian composers and asks a question about real/imagined/forgotten walls: Do they (still) mark our internal and external space?
FREEOpen to the PublicAmnon Wolman: Barrier, Stop for inspection
Date:Wed, 03/27/2019 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Concert
Barrier, Stop for inspection was commissioned for the 2018 Warsaw Autumn Festival, and employs sounds, texts and images. The text, about the activity of remembering, was written in June 2018, and was translated to Polish by Halina Cieplińska. It appears both in English and in Polish orally and visually in fixed times during the piece. Most other materials, musical and visual, are performed and controlled during the live performance.
A memory that I create right now.FREEOpen to the PublicLinux Audio Conference 2019 Concerts
Date:Sat, 03/23/2019 - 6:00pm - 7:00pmDate:Sat, 03/23/2019 - 8:00pm - 9:00pmDate:Sun, 03/24/2019 - 6:00pm - 7:00pmDate:Sun, 03/24/2019 - 8:00pm - 9:00pmDate:Mon, 03/25/2019 - 8:00pm - 10:00pmLocation:CCRMA Stage / CCRMA CourtyardEvent Type:ConcertAfter seven years outside of the United States, Linux Audio Conference (LAC) is coming back to Stanford University on March 23-26, 2019 for its 17th edition! LAC is the international conference about Free/Open-Source Software for music, sound, and other media with GNU/Linux as the main platform.
The full conference program can be found here: http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2019/#program
Electroacoustic music and multimedia performances by participants at the conference will be presented in five concerts:
CCRMA Stage
Saturday, March 23, 6pm and 8pm
Sunday, March 24, 6pm and 8pmFREEOpen to the PublicShelly Knotts
Date:Wed, 03/20/2019 - 7:30pm - 8:30pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertShelly Knotts is interested in human interaction with algorithmic processes as an improvisatory performance practice. She live codes waves in supercollider resulting in weird noisy textures, bleeps, bloops and occasional rhythmic structures. Human and/or machine failure are often integral to the performance.
Shelly produces live-coded and network music performances and projects which explore aspects of code, data and collaboration in improvisation. Based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, she performs internationally, collaborating with computers and other humans.FREEOpen to the PublicSounds in Space: Winter Quarter Final Concert for Music 222
Date:Sat, 03/16/2019 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertThe Music 222 class has been hard at work creating pieces for 56.8 channels diffused using Ambisonics and custom software, as well as project demos. Come hear a wide range of immersive sound pieces, from electroacoustic to pop, nature soundscapes to original songs, and everything in between and beyond.
FREEOpen to the PublicThomas Buckner: Songs Without Words
Date:Thu, 03/14/2019 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertThomas Buckner presents Songs Without Words, for voice (no text) and electronics. These works were written for, and dedicated to him by some of the most pioneering composers in experimental music: Alvin Lucier, Robert Ashley, Annea Lockwood, and Phill Niblock.
FREEOpen to the PublicMarco Fusi performs works by Stanford composers
Date:Fri, 03/08/2019 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertWorks by Julie Herndon, Chris Lortie, Charlie Sdraulig, Davor Vincze, and Julie Zhu.
Marco Fusi is a violinist/violist, and a passionate advocate for the music of our time.
Among many collaborations with emerging and established composers, he has premiered works by Billone, Sciarrino, Eötvös, Cendo and Ferneyhough. Marco has performed with Pierre Boulez, Lorin Maazel, Alan Gilbert, Beat Furrer, David Robertson, and frequently plays with leading contemporary ensembles including Klangforum Wien, MusikFabrik, Meitar Ensemble, Mivos Quartet, Ensemble Linea, Interface (Frankfurt), Phoenix (Basel) and Handwerk (Köln).FREEOpen to the Public
