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Austin Oting Har is a US-based composer, writer, and performer with a background in music technology and ancient philosophy. His work utilizes ancient concepts, languages, and instruments, digital sound design and creative coding, bridging traditional, experimental electronic, and contemporary classical music worlds. An Associate Artist of the Australian Music Centre, his music has been commissioned by Dark Mofo, Berlin Atonal, and MaerzMusik, and released on Possible Futures and Neuma Records.

CNMAT extends its heartfelt thoughts to all who knew, revered, and loved CNMAT Director and Professor David Wessel (October 6, 1942–October 13, 2014) as we mark the 10th anniversary of his passing. David’s legacy resonates deeply across the UC Berkeley campus, particularly at CNMAT and in the Department of Music.  

Under Carmine Cella, CNMAT students Alois Cerbu and Luke Dzwonczyk published three papers this summer at both the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in Seoul, Korea and the Digital Audio Effects Conference (DAFx) in Surrey, UK.

Reprogrammable Effects Pedals on the Daisy Seed Platform

Alois Cerbu, Carmine Cella

ICMC 2024, Seoul, Korea

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https://cnmat.berkeley.edu/events

Fairy tales about love, power and money, in four acts, based on The Alices Virtual-Reality Ballet, a collaboration by Claudia Hart and Edmund Campion, taking place over seven years, between 2013 and 2020. Written by Claudia Hart, 2022-2023, and rewritten in collaboration with Tommy Martinez in 2024. Live Music Composed and Performed by Tommy Martinez. Event Production by Andrew Blanton

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The cover (sidewise view) of Campion's book, Consilience, is an image of trans-Pecos, cave art from Coahuila, Mexico (five thousand years BP). It shows various instances of the shaman approaching the edge (between this world and the other?) and in the midst of the mind-altering flights across dimensions. The historic photo was taken by the great anthropologist, Solveig Turpin--now deceased.

Sonic reflections of deep space 

an evening of meditations and sound works based on the observations of the James Web Space Telescope, the VLT, and Hubble Telescope

CNMAT welcomes Alexander Jensenius, Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time, and Motion (RITMO), and Dor Abrahamson, Director of the Embodied Design Research Laboratory (EDRL) at Berkeley The collaborative teams from RITMO and EDRL have organized the international interdisciplinary research gathering made possible by the Peder Sather Grant Program (Abrahamson and Jensenius).

   RITMO Visitors Include:

The CNMAT Users Group is hosting the Del Sol String Quartet at CNMAT the week of April 22 culminating in a concert featuring five new graduate student compositions including new works by composers Nathan Corder, Matthew Monaco, Mat Muntz, Aine Nakamura, Dion Nataraja. The concert of new works will be presented at CNMAT on April 27.  

https://cnmat.berkeley.edu/events/concert-del-sol-quartet

Jeremy Wagner, Technical Director at CNMAT, has received a 2024 Chancellor's Outstanding Staff Award, one of the highest honors given to UC Berkeley staff.

Composer, performer, and sound designer, Jeremy Wagner has served as Research Composer and Technical Director at CNMAT since 2016, providing sound & video engineering support for CNMAT concerts & events while mentoring graduate composers in a wide range of production technologies.

From April 20th to 27th, La Nuit Sauve, by Etienne Chambaud, will show at CuratingAI at the 120710 gallery in Berkeley. Graduate student Luke Dzwonczyk worked with Etienne to create the sound of the installation, which uses Carmine Cella's Orchidea software to endlessly generate orchestrations of the film's sounds.