A look back at some items in our archives.
CNMAT is pleased to invite you to our upcoming OpenLab, an afternoon of talks and discussions at the intersection of music, technology, and research, bringing together leading figures from academia and industry.
Thursday, January 29
2:00 – 6:30pm
CNMAT, 1750 Arch St.
RSVP required.
Schedule
2:00 – 2:15pm
Welcome – Carmine Cella
Join us on Friday, March 6, for a unique day to explore memory and human rights in Peru through sound and sight at CNMAT.
Event Name: Counter-Pedagogies of Forgetting
Date: Fri March 6, 2026
Location: 1750 Arch St. (CNMAT), UC Berkeley
10am – 4pm: Photo Exhibition & Sound Installation Experience Percy Rojas’s "Ausencias Presentes" paired with an immersive sound installation by Brian Cruz (PhD candidate Mathematics/CNMAT). A dialogue between the captured image and the resonance of the past.
Richard James “Rico” Felciano, composer, pioneer in electronic music, Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of California, Berkeley, and founder of the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, died peacefully in San Francisco on February 21, 2026, at the age of 95.
Born on December 7, 1930, in Santa Rosa, he grew up in Sebastopol and fell asleep looking out at the stars in the dark Sonoma sky from his top bunk. That sense of wonder — of possibility on an expansive scale — never left him.
October 5, 1949 - April 17, 2026
