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
Ron Kuivila Presents: TED/Mencken, a glossetalia for Robert Ashley
Date:Tue, 02/09/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA STAGEEvent Type:ConcertTED/Mencken is a live recitation rendered breathless through circuitry and interleaved with explanatory digressions in the manner of a TED talk. The text recited and subjected to TEDxegesis is IN SARA, MENCKEN, CHRIST AND BEETHOVEN THERE WERE MEN AND WOMEN, a prose poem self-published by John Barton Wolgamot in 1944. That text consists of 128 stanzas identical in basic lexical form but with changing content drawn from a collection of 1023 names, many culled from biographical dictionaries of the day.
FREEOpen to the PublicPeople Making Sounds
Date:Sat, 02/06/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:30pmLocation:CCRMA STAGEEvent Type:ConcertPeople Making Sounds is a project co-organized by Weston Olencki & Charlie Sdraulig. We present experimental sound art, conceptual music, & iterations of expanded sonic practice. Performances feature, but are not limited to, instruments, objects, gestures, tapes, & videos.
Weston Olencki is a San Francisco-based trombonist specializing in the performance and production of new music. His work is primarily concerned with hyper-extended instrumental technique, intensive performer-composer collaboration, de-specialization of the performing body, noise, and alternative concepts of physicality within performance practice.FREEOpen to the PublicLarry Polansky
Date:Thu, 01/28/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA STAGEEvent Type:ConcertLarry will present an evening of his works on the CCRMA Stage. This concert will include some of his guitar duets (performed with Giacomo Fiore) and a long version of his piece freeHorn, for computer and musicians.
Larry will also be joined by
Monica Scott, cello
Tom Dambly, trumpet
Krys Bobrowski, fr. horn
Amy Beal, piano
David Dunn, el. violin
and
David Kant, sax and computer
The concert is free and will be followed by a reception
Bios -FREEOpen to the PublicAshley Bellouin and Ben Bracken
Date:Thu, 01/21/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:ConcertAshley Bellouin and Ben Bracken make music with both traditional and hand made instruments that exploit the natural overtones and sympathetic vibrations generated by highly redundant tuning systems. Minimal structures and simple harmonic relationships give rise to meditative washes of sound.
FREEOpen to the PublicTaiwan Computer Music Association
Date:Sat, 01/16/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA STAGEEvent Type:ConcertTaiwanese composers Shing-Kwei Tzeng, Chih-Fang Huang, Chien-Wen Cheng, Chao-Ming Tung, Ying-Lung Chen, and Mei-Fang Lin will present a concert of new multimedia and electroacoustic works. They will be joined by Flutist: Yu Hui (Grace) Lai and Clarinetist: Chi-Mei Tang.
The concert will be followed by a reception with the artists.
FREEOpen to the PublicSplinter Reeds
Date:Fri, 01/15/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Concert
Splinter Reeds play new acoustic and electroacoustic works by Stanford composers. Splinter Reeds is the Bay Area’s first reed quintet, comprising five innovative musicians with a shared passion for new music. The ensemble is committed to presenting top tier performances of today’s best contemporary composition, showcasing the vast possibilities of the reed quintet with an emphasis on commissioning new works, collaborating with fellow musicians and artists, and educating the next generation of musicians and music enthusiasts.FREEOpen to the Publichk & tcs
Date:Sat, 12/05/2015 - 8:00pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA STAGEEvent Type:Concert
hk&tcs is: Helen Newby, Bethanne Walker, Weston Olencki & Chris Wood.
Bay Area's hk&tcs bring to CCRMA Stage a lot of objects, texts, images, words, and things, in a somewhat bizarre program exploring power relationships within oddly constructed behavioral situations, incidental(ly musical) text and extreme semiotic confusion.
Program:
James Saunders - everybody do this [2014] {us premiere}
Matthew Shlomowitz - letter piece no.1 [2014] {us premiere}
Peter Ablinger - instrument + voice [2013]
Jessie Marino - ritual II :: resolve :: dissolve [2012]
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David Pocknee - economics [2010] {us premiere}
Luke Nickel - string quartet no.1 [2014] {us premiere}FREEOpen to the Public"Playdate" with Roberto Morales and friends
Date:Thu, 11/19/2015 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA STAGEEvent Type:ConcertPlease join us for a performance and jam with Mexican composer/perform and frequent frequenter of CCRMA Roberto Morales
Born in Mexico City in 1958. He started his musical training in national folkloric music learning harps from Veracruz, Michoacan and Chiapas as well as different kinds of flutes from several regions.
Morales-Manzanares PhD in Composition form UC Berkeley went to the music school “Escuela Superior de Musica” where he finished his professional studies on flute, piano and composition. In 1981, he created an interdisciplinary workshop in music, painting, literature and dance, which functioned until 1984. At that time, he founded the group “Alacran del Cantaro” which he continues to direct.FREEOpen to the PublicDavid Kant and Andrew C. Smith
Date:Tue, 11/17/2015 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA STAGEEvent Type:ConcertDavid Kant and Andrew C. Smith rework and reinterpret pieces by David Dunn, Larry Polansky, and Robert Ashley. David Kant performs David Dunn’s “Thresholds and Fragile States,” for a network of eight chaotic oscillators, using his digital implementation of the original analog circuits. Andrew C. Smith performs Larry Polansky’s solo piece "Piano Study #5” for just intonation Fender Rhodes, drawing on Polansky’s performance history and archival recordings of the piece. Finally, the duo performs “The Park” from Robert Ashley’s Perfect Lives, with saxophone, Rhodes, and electronics, following the composer’s instructions that the “score” for the piece is the text itself.
FREEOpen to the PublicJean-Baptiste Barrière and Kaija Saariaho
Date:Thu, 10/29/2015 - 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 Eliane Radigue and Paul DeMarinis. For more information please see sonami.net
Bio:
Sonami’s sound installations combine audio and kinetic elements embedded in ubiquitous objects such as light bulbs, rubber gloves, bags and more recently toilet plungers. She collects electrical wire and embroids them in walls.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 Public
