The Mills College Music Department and
The Center for Contemporary Music (CCM) present:
MILLS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC AT 40
CCM and CalArts Composers Present a Concert Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Founding of the Center for Contempoary Music at Mills College
composers:
Chris Brown: “Stupas” for piano, vibraphone,
and live computer processing
John Bischoff: “Edge Transit” for cello, bass, piano,
percussion, and electronics
James Fei: "Homage" for the Buchla Box
Maggi Payne: "Arctic Winds" electro-acoustic
David Rosenboom: “Zones of Coherence” for trumpet and
interactive electronics
Mark Trayle: “Placeholder” for live audio/video electronics
performers:
Joan Jeanrenaud, cello; Richard Worn, contrabass;
Willliam Winant, percussion; Chris Brown: piano;
Daniel Rosenboom, trumpet; Mark Trayle, live audio/video electronics
Sunday, October 21, 2007, 4:00 pm
Lisser Hall
$12 general, $6 seniors and non-Mills students
Tickets may be purchased at the door or online at:
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Mills College
5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, CA 94613
510 430-2296
http://music.mills.edu/events
40 Year Celebration of the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills
The Center for Contemporary Music (CCM) at Mills College was established in 1966 when the San Francisco Tape Center moved to Oakland. Since then, for over forty years, the CCM has nurtured experimental music composers, and has strongly influenced the history of electronic music. This concert celebrates this legacy with performances of new music by current CCM faculty, and by CalArts faculty who have worked there.
CalArts' Music Dean David Rosenboom was also director ofthe CCM during the 1980s; composer Mark Trayle studied with David Behrman and Rosenboom at CCM, before he himself joined the CalArts composition faculty in the 1990s. Rosenboom was succeeded at the CCM by current Co-Directors Chris Brown and Maggi Payne; two of their CCM colleagues, computer music pioneer John Bischoff, and recently arrived sound artist/composer James Fei will also perform. Famed percussionist William Winant and trumpeter Daniel Rosenboom (son of David Rosenboom) are featured instrumental performers.
The CCM was the first publicly accessible electronic music studio on the West Coast, and many classic works were composed using its Buchla and Moog analog synthesizers, which are still in use today. But in the early 1970s CCM was also the site where computers were first used in musical performances, predating the laptop music era by over three decades. In contrast with most academic studios, the CCM always prioritized the performance and presentation of electronic music over technology research. New software and hardware instruments have nevertheless developed there as part of the quest to discover the musical resources inherent in and singular to electronic technology. The CCM's role at the forefront of the evolution of experimental electronic music practices continues today.
Cost: $12 general, $6 seniors