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
Odeya Nini: A Solo Voice
Date:Thu, 01/24/2019 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Concert
Evolving over the last seven years, A Solo Voice, composed and performed by Odeya Nini, is an investigation of resonance, extended vocal techniques, performance, and pure expression, exploring the relationship between mind and body and the various landscapes it can yield. The work is a series of malleable compositions and improvisations that include field recordings and theatrical elements, aiming to dissociate the voice from its traditional attributes and create a new logic of song that is not only heard but seen through movement and action.FREEOpen to the PublicGadi Sassoon: Multiverse
Date:Wed, 01/23/2019 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Concert
Gadi Sassoon performs Multiverse in a multichannel setup at CCRMA.FREEOpen to the PublicClarence Barlow: Piano and electroacoustic works | Chryssie Nanou, piano
Date:Fri, 01/18/2019 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertChryssie Nanou will perform a selection of preludes and fugues for piano from Clarence Barlow's Ludus Ragalis in alternation with playback of some of his multichannel electroacoustic pieces.
Pre-concert lecture at 5:30pm: Before the concert, Mr. Barlow will give a talk about Five Dodecaphonic Pieces, a series of 12-channel electroacoustic pieces realized in 2016 and 2017. He will also briefly talk about Approximating Pi and Four ISIS Studies, electroacoustic pieces from 2003-2008. These works will be presented in the concert.
FREEOpen to the PublicCCRMA WAVE Inauguration | Barbara Nerness: Doublevision
Date:Wed, 01/09/2019 - 5:30pm - 7:00pmLocation:CCRMA LobbyEvent Type:Concert
Please join us in the lobby for the inauguration of the CCRMA WAVE: Wall for AudioVisual Expression. In this space we will showcase audiovisual works by in-house and external artists. The first featured artist is our own Barbara Nerness, who is presenting her interactive installation Doublevision. The reception will take place on Wednesday, January 9th at 5:30pm in lieu of the Colloquium. Barbara will talk about her work and we will have wine and cheese. The installation will run until January 27th.FREEOpen to the PublicBEAM SPLITTER
Date:Thu, 12/06/2018 - 7:30pm - 8:30pmLocation: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 PublicThe World According to Sound, LIVE!
Date:Mon, 11/26/2018 - 7:30pm - 8:30pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Concert
SOLD OUT - Thank you for your interest!FREE with REGISTRATIONOpen 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 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 PublicTransitions 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 PublicPalle 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 Public
Upcoming Concerts
Shelly Knotts
Date:Wed, 03/20/2019 - 7:30pm - 8:30pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertShelly Knotts produces live-coded and network music performances and projects which explore aspects of code, data and collaboration. Her experimental and collaborative tendencies have seen her engage with diverse musical practices and styles ranging from electroacoustic tape music to live-coded dance music.
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:Concert
After 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.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 8pm
CCRMA Courtyard
Monday, March 25, 8pmFREEOpen 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 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/imaginative/forgotten walls: Do they (still) mark our internal and external space?
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 PublicDafna Naphtali | Hans Tammen
Date:Thu, 04/25/2019 - 7:30pm - 9:30pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertDafna Naphtali and Hans Tammen present two individual performances: Audio Chandelier (Naphtali) and Endangered Guitar (Tammen).
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 Public
