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 - 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.
FREEOpen to the PublicStanford Laptop Orchestra: SLOrktastic Chamber Music 2018
Date:Thu, 05/03/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertThe Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) presents new works for electronic chamber music, by members of the SLOrk ensemble and seminar. You are warmly invited to join us in exploring new instruments and musical spaces crafted for laptops, humans, and hemispherical speaker arrays! Featuring works and performances by: Doga Cavdir, Charles Foster, Elena Georgieva, Mark Hertensteiner, Kunwoo Kim, Juan Sierra, Ian Avery Bick, Kimberly Juarez-Rico, Tucker Leavitt, Kangrui Xue, Rodrigo Cadiz, Ge Wang, Matt Wright, Christopher Jette, Trijeet Mudhopadhyay.
For more info, visit: http://slork.stanford.edu/events/2018/slorktastic/
FREEOpen to the PublicPump up the Bings - CCRMA in The Bing Studio
Date:Thu, 04/19/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmDate:Fri, 04/20/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:Bing Concert Hall Studio SpaceEvent Type:ConcertPlease join us for two concerts of 3D audio multichannel immersive music and soundscapes at the Bing Concert Hall Studio Space. We will deploy our the full CCRMA Grail sound system for a selection of pieces from CCRMA and around the world -
Thursday April 19th:
Ake Parmerud
Mark Applebaum
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
Scott Wilson
Yukiko Yoden
Eoin Callery
Dan Peterson
Friday April 20th:
Jonty Harrison
Rodrigo Cadiz
Julie Herndon
Larry Smith
Anna Tskhovrebov
... and maybe something special
FREEOpen to the Publicscapegoat - new music for sax, percussion, and electronics
Date:Tue, 04/10/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Concertscapegoat is an experimental saxophone and percussion duo. Close creative collaboration and multi-media projects form the basis of their pursuit for artistic innovation and expression. Programmes are designed to broaden and challenge the musical experience of the audience, through original works featuring live electronics, performer-controlled sonic and visual amplification, video and lighting design, and improvisation. scapegoat's 2017/18 season features new commissions of composers Pierluigi Billone and Michelle Lou funded by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, with residencies and performances as part of an Australian tour, a Californian tour, and at the Ultima Festival (Oslo) and Open Ears Festival (Kitchener).
FREEOpen to the PublicCEMEC 2018
Date:Sat, 04/07/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertThe California Electronic Music Exchange Concerts (CEMEC) form a series of events designed to strengthen the connections between the various California educational institutions that maintain computer and electronic music programs. These events are run and curated by the graduate students and faculty of each participating institution. The 2018 series of California Electronic Music Exchange Concerts will be held at the campuses of UCSD, UCSB, Mills, CCRMA/Stanford, UC Santa Cruz, and CalArts throughout April 2018. The Stanford/CCRMA leg will be held on April 7th from 7.30PM
FREEOpen to the PublicJaap Blonk
Date:Thu, 04/05/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertAhead of his Other Minds Festival performance in SF, Jaap Blonk presents “Songs of Little Sleep" and other recent works for voice and electronics. As a vocalist, Jaap is unique for his powerful stage presence and almost childlike freedom in improvisation, combined with a keen grasp of structure. He has performed around the world, on all continents. With the use of live-electronics the scope and range of his concerts has acquired a considerable extension. Besides working as a soloist, he collaborated with many musicians and ensembles in the field of contemporary and improvised music, like Maja Ratkje, Mats Gustafsson, Joan La Barbara, The Ex, the Netherlands Wind Ensemble and the Ebony Band.
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