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Composers [http://www.kenueno.com/|Ken Ueno] and [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franck_Bedrossian |Franck Bedrossian] have been added to the composition faculty in the Department of Music at UC Berkeley.

An exchange program for graduate student composers from UC Berkeley and France will continue for the upcoming academic year. [http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/people/evelyn_ficarra|Evelyn Ficarra], a student in the graduate program in composition in the Department of Music at UC Berkeley, will be in residence in Nice, France from October through December of 2008. A French student composer will be coming to UC Berkeley in the spring of 2009.

CNMAT presents a series of summer workshops for students, artists, musicians and anyone interested in learning new software.

Mason Bates, an alumnus of the UC Berkeley graduate music composition program, is featured in this [http://ls.berkeley.edu/?q=stories/archive/composer-fuses-orchestral-and-...|article] on the College of Letters and Science web site.

This [http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mods/multimedia/2009/03/gallery_instruments...|article] in Wired magazine describes David Wessel's SLABS project, a new controller developed at CNMAT that won a prize in the [http://www.whistle.gatech.edu/archives/09/mar/9/guthman.shtml|Guthman Competition] for new musical instruments held at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Local writer Andrew Gilbert profiled CNMAT in this [http://alumni.berkeley.edu/California/200903/gilbert.asp|article] in California magazine, a periodical for UC Berkeley alumni.

Our online presence features continually evolving content with opportunities for user interaction and contributions including:
[cnmat:about|About] – an overview of CNMAT, including directions to our facility and ways to get involved with our programs;
[cnmat:calendar|Events] – upcoming concerts, lectures, workshops, etc.;
[cnmat:research|Research] – gateway to CNMAT research projects and publications;
[cnmat:mic|Education > Music Information Center] -- a gateway to content related to electronic music, computer music, and contemporary music;

On July 1, 2009 CNMAT observed its 20th anniversary. We'll be announcing special events to commemorate the occasion, reflect on our history, and invite our local, national and international communities to be part of CNMAT's next twenty years.

CNMAT presents a series of summer workshops for students, artists, musicians and anyone interested in learning new software. This year we have completely redesigned our popular beginners and advanced courses to be more immersive. We will also be offering our week-long Jitter course, plus a redesigned workshop for developers wishing to learn how to code Max/MSP externals in C.

[http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/event/2009/07/20/max_msp_jitter_day_school_beg...|July 20-24, 11-4 -- Max/MSP/Jitter Day School (beginners to intermediate)]
[http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/event/2009/07/21/jitter_night_school_july_20_2...|July 20-24, 6-9 pm -- (Expanded!) Jitter Night School]

For security reasons, all CNMAT username passwords have been reset. To set a new password for your CNMAT username, follow the link on the lefthand side titled “Request a new password”. You will be prompted to type your email address and fill in a Captcha code. Hit the link in your email, and you can reset your password.

Max/MSP/Jitter Day+Night School: July 23-27, 2012, 10AM-9PM
- This intensive week of hands-on classes covers a wide variety of topics related to Max/MSP programming and will make use of the latest features of Max 6.

Jitter Night School: July 30-August 3, 2012, 6-9 PM
- Jitter is an extension to Max that allows flexible generation and manipulation of video, matrix, and 3D graphics data

The Eco Ensemble Concert Series received some well deserved attention from the New York Times in January. Journalist Kevin Berger attended one of the final rehearsals for the January 21st concert and shares his views on this far-reaching musical experience:

Dear Friend of CNMAT,

***Invited to UC Berkeley as the first participant in the newly created David Wessel Music/Science Residency, Jean-Baptiste Barrière will be in residence at CNMAT from October 1 through December 7, 2015.***