Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
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CCRMA WAVE (Wall for AudioVisual Expression) presents
Upcoming Events
Composition Forum with Felipe Lara
Felipe Lara, born in Sao Paolo in 1979, has a long list of collaborations, commissions, and awards. The Arditti, Asasello, and Brentano quartets have performed his works, along with the Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, London Sinfonietta, and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. Some of his compositions, such as the string quartet “Tran(slate)” which won the 2008 Staubach Preis in Darmstadt and premiered by the Arditti Quartet, include live electronics. His “Vocalise 2,” for two vocalizing amplified saxophonists, was performed in Paris in February 2016 as well as “Fringes,” a large-scale work for 22 instrumentalists. Lara’s music has also been presented at many festivals all over the United States, South America, and Europe.
Cruel Diagonals
Free and Open to the Public | Registration | Livestream
Joel St. Julien
Free and Open to the Public | Registration | Livestream
Vaim Sarv
Free and Open to the Public | Registration
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano: The Love Songs of Flying Dinosaurs
Free and Open to the Public | Registration | Livestream
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CCRMA's Online Classes
CCRMA currently offers several online courses to the general public:
Chris Chafe "ONLINE JAMMING AND CONCERT TECHNOLOGY"Perry Cook and Julius Smith "PHYSICS-BASED SOUND SYNTHESIS FOR GAMES AND INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS"
Jay LeBoeuf "CAREERS IN MEDIA TECHNOLOGY"
Xavier Serra and Julius Smith "AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR MUSIC APPLICATIONS"
Matt Wright (with David Zicarelli) "PROGRAMMING MAX: STRUCTURING INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE FOR DIGITAL ARTS"
Recent Events
CCRMAlite Spring Concerts
Free and Open to the Public | Concert 1 | Concert 2 | Livestream
Marcin Pietruszewski + Douglas McCausland
Free and Open to the Public | Registration | Livestream
Quarantine Sessions #90 | Guest: Fred Malouf
Composition Forum with King Britt (remotely)
Pew Fellowship recipient, King James Britt (his real name) is a 30+ year, producer, composer and performer in electronic music.
His current position as Assistant Teaching Professor in Computer Music at UCSD carries a unique perspective, bringing a non-linear approach and knowledge to the Department of Music by focusing on various modern forms of electronic music pedagogy, while continuing to be an active force in the music industry.
Recent News
Jonathan Berger's "My Lai" In the News
"In My Lai, a monodrama for tenor, string quartet, and Vietnamese instruments, composer Jonathan Berger had countless tragic elements at his disposal... In this immersive performance, we had the sense that, rather than defaulting to the story's obvious tragic details, Berger illuminate a single, more subtle element - the outraged bewilderment we often feel in the face of unimaginable horror."
Issue 21 of the Csound Journal Released
http://csoundjournal.com/issue21/index.html
This issue of the Csound Journal features an article written by MST student Paul Batchelor, which can be found here:
http://csoundjournal.com/issue21/chuck_sound.html
John Chowning Interview on RWM
Sonifying the world: How life's data becomes music
"Unlike sex or hunger, music doesn’t seem absolutely necessary to everyday survival – yet our musical self was forged deep in human history, in the crucible of evolution by the adaptive pressure of the natural world. That’s an insight that has inspired Chris Chafe, Director of Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (or CCRMA, stylishly pronounced karma).
