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Upcoming Events
Guillermo Galindo: Nexo Organico/Organic Nexus
Iran Sanadzadeh: Frames of Reference
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Robert L. White's Cochlear Implants
Stanford Graduate Composers Present: Iran Sanadzadeh
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person
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Recent Events
In Coherence World Premiere & Watch Party
"In Coherence" is an audiovisual collage representing the incredibly varied musical interests and talents of CCRMA's 2024 MA/MST cohort. Each artist completed a minute-long audiovisual piece, given only the last six seconds of a previous artist's work for inspiration. While each artist's gesture may appear in coherent at first glance, this sequential juxtaposition places them "in coherent" conversation with each other, a celebration of creative and interdisciplinary audiovisual expression.
Shannon Hayden: Electric Strings
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
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Ludmila Yurina: Other Visions
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Past Live Streamed Events
Recent News
LISTEN: 1,200 Years of Earth’s Climate, Transformed into Sound
Science podcast featuring work by our fearless leader, Chris Chafe:
"When you sonify data, you experience time in a way you can’t when you look at a chart." Hal Gordon, Graduate student
Oakum - Eoin Callery
Released from behind the mixing console CCRMA's Concert Coordinator Eoin Callery has been set free to make an old-timey CD for Bay Area Label Eh? Records. Enjoy some amplified violin bow, guitar, and lots of Supercollider controlled feedback, all available on a small shiny disc and in a new fangled digital Bandcamp form.
Jonathan Berger Première
"Classical musicians face enormous expectations when they play a standard repertory work. Listeners have strong feelings about favorite pieces, even when they are open to fresh interpretive approaches.
The stakes are even higher with a premiere. Performing a new piece becomes an act of advocacy to pull an audience in.
Mystery of 101-year-old master pianist who has dementia
From the article: At first glance, she was elderly and delicate – a woman in her 90s with a declining memory. But then she sat down at the piano to play. “Everybody in the room was totally startled,” says Eleanor Selfridge-Field, who researches music and symbols at Stanford University. “She looked so frail. Once she sat down at the piano, she just wasn’t frail at all. She was full of verve.” Read more here...