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
Juraj Kojs: E-Slovakia T
Date:Thu, 04/28/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertPlease join us as Juraj Kojs preforms E-Slovakia T. This is an interdisciplinary work combining sound and movement in a real-time controlled environment, contemplating the experiences from Juraj's native Slovakia. A set of wireless sensors (developed at Aarhus University, Denmark) are attached to the body of the performer, assisting in a creation of a unique artistic content. Slovakian ancient bass-pipe fujara, insistent vocalizations and folk-inspired piano tune are interwoven into a story of an immigrant. Ancient soundscapes unfold—poignantly, into a technology-infused presence.
Bio:FREEOpen to the PublicMusic From Central Asia - Abbos Kosimov and Sirojiddin Juraev
Date:Mon, 04/25/2016 - 7:00pm - 8:30pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertMaster percussionist Abbos Kosimov is joined by dutar and tanbur virtuoso Sirojiddin Juraev for a lecture and demonstration of instrumental music performance of the folk and classical traditions of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Spanning musical geographies from the remote mountain highlands of Tajikistan, to the urban centers of Bukhara and Samarkand in Uzbekistan, this special evening will highlight these musicians’ technical mastery and innovative techniques in the rhythms and melodies of Central Asian traditions.
FREEOpen to the PublicSéverine Ballon - Chaise Électrique/Electric Chair Music
Date:Tue, 04/19/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertQubit and CCRMA presents Chaise Électrique: An evening-length recital featuring French soloist, Séverine Ballon, with her interpretation of five adventurous works for violoncello and electronics.
“Electric Chair Music”, the working title for Brian Ferneyhough’s landmark Time and Motion Study II for singing cellist and electronics, was written in 1973-76. Already nearly forty years old, where is the medium of violoncello and electronics now? How is a younger generation of composers responding to this most traditional of instruments when confronting it with alien worlds of electronic sound?
Featuring music by:
Aaron Einbond
Franck Bedrossian
Eoin Callery
Alec Hall
andFREEOpen to the PublicCalifornia Electronic Music Exchange
Date:Sat, 04/16/2016 - 5:00pm - 10:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertThe California Electronic Music Exchange Concert (CEMEC) series, run and curated by grad students and faculty of each participating institution, is meant to strengthen the connections between the California institutions that have computer and electronic music programs.
The 2016 series of California Electronic Music Exchange Concerts will be held at the campuses of UCSD, UCSB, Mills, Stanford, and CalArts. The Stanford leg of the exchange will be held on Saturday 16th with a selection of pieces from all the participating institutions.
Details will follow shortly!!!
FREEOpen to the PublicDana Jessen - New Music For Bassoon and Electronics
Date:Thu, 04/14/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Concert
Praised for her diverse talents, bassoonist Dana Jessen is highly active as a soloist, chamber musician, improviser and new music specialist. At CCRMA she will present an exciting program of recent works written for bassoon and electronics.
FREEOpen to the Publichk&tcs ***PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN START TIME - NOW 8.30PM***
Date:Fri, 04/01/2016 - 8:30pm - 9:30pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Concerthk&tcs (helen newby, bethanne walker, weston olencki) are Bay Area based musician playing a wide ranging repertoire who perform chamber music and a lot of objects, texts, images, words, and things that explore power relationships and extreme semiotic confusion.
***PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN START TIME - NOW 8.30PM***
Their program for April 1st:
Helmut Lachenmann - Pression
Bernhard Lang - Monadologie XVI
Andrew Greenwald - a thing is a hole in a thing it is not (VI)
Kaija Saariaho - oi kuu
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Salvatore Sciarrino - Come venmo no prodotti gli incantesimi?
Charlie Sdraulig - few
Kurt Isaacson - radiant species
Weston Olencki - casting
FREEOpen to the Publiccmetq - an opera - Christopher Jette, composer and Nathan Krueger, baritone
Date:Sun, 03/13/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Concertcmetq contains both singing accompanied by fixed electronics and singing with live electronic processing. The piece examines the etiquette that encompasses communication technology. In addition to this complex web of etiquette, cmetq examines the human emotions tied to etiquette. The story is set in two time periods; the age of the invention of the telephone and the age of mobile communication and social media. The text for this piece was created using two distinct processes.Soliloquies were created to act as commentary on each of the ages and the unfolding stage work. Tweet-length texts were written and tweeted as reactions to readings about technology, etiquette, and their intersection. From the tweets, melodies were improvised and were translated with software.
FREEOpen to the PublicMARCH MATTNESS - CCRMA in the Bing Concert Hall Studio
Date:Fri, 03/11/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmDate:Sat, 03/12/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertOn Friday March 11th and Saturday March 12th CCRMA's new Technical Director Matt Wright will curate - MARCH MATTNESS - two evenings of immersive multimedia, electronic, acoustic, and electroacoustic music in the Bing Concert Hall Studio Space. Matt has studied and worked in many of the leading musical research centers throughout the US and for these two evenings he will present an eclectic mix of the works that have influenced and inspired him throughout his career, as well as several of his own genre bending compositions. From instrument designer to computer music researcher, from samba to oud, from network audio concerts to improvising electronic ensembles - these concerts will display the inner workings and idiosyncrasies of Matt's musical mind...
Friday:FREEOpen to the PublicJohn Bischoff
Date:Tue, 03/01/2016 - 5:00pm - 7:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertJohn Bischoff will present a prepared slideshow outlining his musical history and approach to electronic music, followed by a discussion of recent pieces, both solo and for computer network band. At the conclusion of his talk, he will perform a set of solo works that incorporate a custom analog circuit of his own design. As he activates the circuit, the resulting sounds are analyzed in real-time and used to inform an extended computer-synthesis response. A binding together of the analog and digital realms is the result, the unique characteristics of each medium crossbred and counterpoised in time to form a hybrid sensibility. Works include Circuit Combine, Visibility Study, and Surface Effect.
FREEOpen to the PublicLine Upon Line Percussion
Date:Tue, 02/16/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Concert
FREEOpen to the Public
Upcoming Concerts
CCRMA Transitions 2016
Date:Wed, 10/05/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmDate:Thu, 10/06/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA CourtyardEvent Type:ConcertPlease join us for two nights of immersive and 3D multichannel music at our annual season opener concerts. We will present two different programs under the stars and as always we encourage everybody to wrap up warm, bring a blanket, and bring a picnic! Program details will be announced soon... stay tuned...
FREEOpen to the PublicLaetitia Sonami
Date:Thu, 10/13/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertGroundbreaking composer, performer, technologist, and sound installation artist Laetitia Sonami presents an evening of performances developed by her and in collaboration with Éliane Radigue and Paul DeMarinis.
FREEOpen to the PublicTania Chen, Thomas Dimuzio, and Wobbly
Date:Thu, 10/20/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertTania Chen, Thomas Dimuzio, and Wobbly come to CCRMA to present a Bay Area all star show of electronic, acoustic, and improvised sound worlds. For more information see taniachen.com www.thomasdimuzio.com and www.detritus.net/wobbly/
Bios:FREEOpen to the PublicCeleste Oram and Andrew C. Smith
Date:Fri, 10/28/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertCeleste Oram is joined by violinists Keir GoGwilt and (remotely, from New Zealand) Alex Taylor in performing the works of Vera Wyse Munro (1897-1966): a pioneering New Zealand radio ham, improviser, and sonic/electronic experimenter. The telematic duet will be joined in person by layers of archival text and recordings of ham radio logs and activity, from both New Zealand and Santa Cruz. The performance will be broadcast over low-power radio transmitters on many different channels, and audience members are invited to come prepared with battery-powered radios to tune in to the performance live in the space.
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