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
ENS 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 PublicCCRMA Transitions 2019
Date:Thu, 10/03/2019 - 7:00pm - 8:30pmDate:Thu, 10/03/2019 - 9:00pm - 10:30pmDate:Fri, 10/04/2019 - 7:00pm - 8:30pmDate:Fri, 10/04/2019 - 9:00pm - 10:30pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertCCRMA presents its annual Transitions concerts. Feast your ears on immersive 3D sounds played on our multichannel system (56.8 speakers!) in the Stage. CCRMA students, faculty, and staff, as well as external artists will present live performances, fixed media electronic music, and audiovisual works. Each evening’s program will feature different artists.
FREE with RegistrationOpen to the PublicTine Surel Lange: Works for Listening
Date:Thu, 06/06/2019 - 7:30pm - 8:30pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Concert
Works for Listening is a series of electroacoustic works by Tine Surel Lange developed at Notam (NO), MISC (LT) and EMS (SE). All the works are made in 5th order Ambisonics, but have been presented in other formats as well at various occasions and arenas.FREEOpen to the PublicCCRMA at Bing | The Lord of the Bings: The Two Bings
Date:Fri, 05/31/2019 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmDate:Sat, 06/01/2019 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:Bing Concert Hall StudioEvent Type:Concert
Please join us for the second installment of our epic concert series The Lord of the Bings: The Two Bings. We will present two different evening programs of multichannel immersive music, soundscapes, and visuals 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 PublicLiveware
Date:Thu, 05/23/2019 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertLiveware is an audiovisual ensemble consisting of Shawn Lawson (graphics) and Michael Century (music), with Jeremy Stewart processing both graphics and sound using machine learning algorithms. Lawson is an expert practitioner of live-coding with graphics languages and environments he developed. Century performs on piano and accordion, and uses software he developed allowing live manipulations of performed material on both instruments.
FREEOpen to the PublicOpenings
Date:Fri, 05/10/2019 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertJoin Christopher Costanza, Christopher Jette, and members of the fff ensemble (Doga Cavdir, Michele Cheng, Simona Fitcal, Julie Herndon, Tiffany Lin, Barbara Nerness, Patricia Robinson, Michiko Theurer, and Julie Zhu) for an evening of sonic and visual questions and openings.
FREEOpen to the PublicMark Applebaum: Mind Altering Concert
Date:Tue, 05/07/2019 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:Memorial ChurchEvent Type:ConcertMark Applebaum presents an evocative, meditative improvisation on his stunning electroacoustic sound-sculpture—the mouseketier—in the extraordinarily resonant space of Stanford’s Memorial Church. The improvisation will be interspersed with Applebaum’s colorful percussion compositions performed by the Southern Oregon University Percussion Ensemble. The evening begins with a simultaneous two-person performance of Aphasia, an idiosyncratic piece for hand gestures performed in synchrony with two-channel sound.
FREEOpen to the PublicDafna Naphtali: Audio Chandelier | Hans Tammen: Endangered Guitar
Date:Thu, 04/25/2019 - 7:30pm - 9:30pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertThis double-bill concert will include two different artists’ programs in one evening: Dafna Naphtali's Audio Chandelier and Hans Tammen's Endangered Guitar.
FREEOpen to the PublicANDERSON x CCRMA: Sound Happenings
Date:Tue, 04/23/2019 - 5:30pm - 8:00pmLocation:Anderson Collection at Stanford UniversityEvent Type:ConcertANDERSON x CCRMA: Sound Happenings is a show bridging the auditory and visual worlds of the arts through installations and performances by members of the Stanford Music community, including the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). The event takes place in the galleries of the Anderson Collection, and will feature 8-channel sound installations, generative video works, and performances by composers in the Stanford DMA program, to name a few.
FREEOpen to the Public
Upcoming Concerts
Salt 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?Reflecting on Art and Madness, it revolves around languages, words as meaning and words as sound. Both are used as an extension of the body and melted in the construction of the staging as a tangible projection of the resonance of the words through sound and image.
FREEOpen to the PublicVilbjørg Broch: Speaking in Mute Silence
Date:Tue, 03/10/2020 - 7:30pm - 8:30pmLocation: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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