Computer Music Center in the Department of Music at Columbia University News

Camila Agosto, a Columbia DMA student, is featured in I Care If You Listen interview.

The concert (Totem Paramirabo) won the Prix Opus Award for "Concert of the Year, for Electroacoustic Music and Musiques Actuelle."

Kitty Xiao has received one of three Composer Prizes from the Ernst von Siemen Prizes.

Buzzing with electromagnetic waves and designed as flawlessly as a lunar module, Miles Scharff’s Even if something did you would never really know, 2025, was the standout work of LUmkA’s summer group show “The Theater.”

Nina Fukuoka is a Japanese and Polish composer and performer based in New York City. She makes instrumental and computer music and uses various media and technologies to express extramusical meaning.

Professor Seth Cluett has been featured in an episode of the podcast Science Quickly, produced by Scientific American, where he shows off the anechoic chamber at Nokia Bell Labs.

Omer Barash has won the first prize of the 28th Salvatore Martirano composition contest, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for his piece Te'ena for ensemble and electronics.

Bend, by Dani Dobkin & Matt Sargent, will be out on Waveform Alphabet on December 21, 2023. It is available for preorder here: https://bendwa.bandcamp.com/album/bend

It features current CMC TA and DMA student Dani Dobkin on synthesizers and Matt Sargent on guitar. 
The album art is by Merry Sun, a recent graduate of the Sound Art MFA program. 

Columbia University Alum and former WKCR radio host/writer Brooke Wentz recently published Transfigured New York: Interviews with Experimental Artists and Musicians, 1980-1990 on Columbia Press.

Former Visiting Scholar and Brazilian artist/professor Cândida Borges was just recognized as the top authors of 2022 in the fields of Art, Science and Technology by Leonardo LABS MIT Press, with her Ph.D. thesis “Transeuntis Mundi: a nomadic creative practice”.

The New Yorker profiled Columbia Faculty David Sulzer, about his work in neuroscience and music. 

Read the whole profile here: "The Wild World of Music"

Sound Art MFA Program Director Miya Masaoka will be featured at the Toronto Biennial of Art through Dec. 1, 2019.

Links:

Main Toronto Biennial link

Miya Masaoko's Toronto work

Columbia Music/CMC faculty member Zosha Di Castro's video "How Many Bodies" with Diego Espinosa was featured as the "video of the day" on the I Care if You Listen web site.

Columbia Music/CMC faculty member Zosha Di Castro's video "How Many Bodies" with Diego Espinosa was featured as the "video of the day" on the I Care if You Listen web site.

March 13: Tickets: http://armoryonpark.org/…/detail/artists_studio_miya_masaokaA prolific and consistently experimental composer, improviser, and performer, Miya Masaoka has developed a legendary reputation in New York and in global jazz and avant-garde circles with her compositions that expand on our understanding of sound. A longtime explorer of the intersection of technology and music-making, her practice includes performances with interactivity in her ongoing considerations of temporality and perception. The multifaceted artist premieres The Long Arc of Time, a new chamber work that draws…

Zosha Di Castri's video with Diego Espinosa was featured as the "video of the day" on the website/blog I Care if You Listen.  The link is here:

Zosha Di Castri:  I Care if you Listen

Zosha Di Castri's video with Diego Espinosa was featured as the "video of the day" on the website/blog I Care if You Listen.  The link is here:

Zosha Di Castri:  I Care if you Listen

Dear Life for orchestra, soprano, and recorded narrator, performed at World New Music Days in Vancouver on November 2, 2017. 

For more information, please visit:
https://nac-cna.ca/en/lifereflected