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
Stanford 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.
FreeOpen to the PublicMichiko Theurer - Circling the Waves
Date:Tue, 04/03/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertCircling the Waves is a multimedia performance designed by violinist and artist Michiko Theurer. It interweaves music commissioned from six composers around a central series of paintings created by Michiko. The project is inspired by Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves, and explores a multiplicity of independent voices wrapping around a shared visual space.
FreeOpen to the PublicJordan Rudess - CCRMA Encore
Date:Thu, 03/08/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Concert
CCRMA visiting artist Jordan Rudess presents one last evening of keyboard and technological virtuosity and dexterity to close out his current residency at the Knoll. For this show he will perform selections from his Bach to Rock solo piano tour as well as his own synthesizer improvisationsFREEOpen to the PublicJonathan Berger- Vân-Ánh Võ - Kronos Quartet - Rinde Eckert - My Lai
Date:Sun, 03/04/2018 - 7:00pm - 8:30pmLocation:Zellerbach Hall - BerkeleyEvent Type:ConcertCal Performances presents - MY LAI - the Kronos Quartet’s fully-staged collaboration with CCRMA composer Jonathan Berger and librettist Harriet Scott Chessman that explores the aftermath of My Lai—a tragic episode in the Vietman War when American soldiers massacred hundreds of unarmed villagers—from the perspective of the helicopter pilot who tried to intervene. Berger’s score blends Rinde Eckert’s voice with the strings of the Kronos Quartet augmented by traditional Vietnamese instruments played by Vân-Ánh Võ, and an electronic soundscape of helicopters, voices, and snippets of American blues.
$38-68: available from: https://calperformances.org/performances/2017-18/new-music/kronos-quartet-rinde-eckert-van-anh-vo-my-lai.phpOpen to the PublicMari Kimura
Date:Fri, 03/02/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertPlease join us post-Open House for a special evening of music by virtuoso violinist/composer/technologist Mari Kimura.
FREEOpen to the PublicSonic Exploration with Dream Theater's Jordan Rudess
Date:Thu, 02/22/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:Memorial ChurchEvent Type:Concert
Please join us at Stanford Memorial Church as CCRMA presents an evening of Sonic Exploration with Dream Theater's Jordan Rudess. Voted "Best Keyboardist of All Time" by Music Radar Magazine, Jordan is best known as the keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire for platinum-selling Grammy- nominated prog rock band, Dream Theater. A classical prodigy who began his studies at the Juilliard School of Music at the age of 10, Jordan's music is a unique blend of classical and rock influence.
FREEOpen to the Public
Upcoming Concerts
Transitions 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 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 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 PublicThe World According to Sound, Live!
Date:Mon, 11/26/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Concert
Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett are co-creators of The World According to Sound, a radio show that airs on NPR’s All Things Considered and weekly on individual public radio stations. The Washington Postwrites that “each episode is 90 seconds, containing a neat little story about an evocative, unusual sound rendered in intense aural detail.” The show’s sound-driven approach to radio has been featured on programs like NHPR’s “Overheard,” KQED’s “Earful,” KALW’s “The Spot,” CBC’s “Podcast Playlist,” and a segment on “HowSound” called “Short is Beautiful.”FREEOpen to the PublicBEAM SPLITTER
Date:Thu, 12/06/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation: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 Public
