Center for New Music and Audio Technologies
The Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT /ˈsɛnmæt/) is a multidisciplinary research center within University of California, Berkeley Department of Music. The Center's goal is to provide a common ground where music, cognitive science, computer science, and other disciplines meet to investigate, invent, and implement creative tools for composition, performance, and research. It was founded in the 1980s by composer Richard Felciano.
Located in the Berkeley Hills on the north edge of the UC Campus, the CNMAT facility includes a variety of state-of-the-art workspaces and equipment.
Research
CNMAT's Research Program pursues inquiry and invention with a broad range of projects. A special interest is in the innovative application of technology to musical composition and performance, with emphasis on interactivity, real-time processes, and new instruments that combine exceptional quality with high degrees of expressive control. Current research topics include:
Gone Mad
I get the feeling it was different here
Before we came along
Another young man murdered on the TV there
It seems so far from my comfy chair
The world isn't good, the world ain't bad
The world ain't happy and the world ain't sad
The thing about the world is it's gone mad, it's gone mad
The thing about the world is
I get the feeling it was different here
Before we came along
Everybody's talking 'bout the good old days
How could they all be wrong?
The thing about the world is it's gone mad
The only world that we've ever had
The only world that we can use
It's big and round and it's got the blues
The thing about the world is
The world isn't good, the world ain't bad
The world ain't happy, the world ain't sad
The thing about the world is it's gone mad, it's gone mad
The thing about the world is
I get the feeling it was different here
Before we came along
Everybody's talking 'bout the good old days
How could they all be wrong?
In a world gone mad, in a world gone mad
In a world gone mad, in a world gone mad
In a world gone mad
Business man sittin' on a big empire
Only took one day to set a Rome on fire
Food on the table in the lucky cases
Sweet expressions on the children's faces
The thing about the world is
The world isn't good the world ain't bad
The world ain't happy and the world ain't sad
The thing about the world is it's gone mad, it's gone mad
The thing about the world is
I get the feeling it was different here
Before we came along
Everybody's talking 'bout the good old days
How could they all be wrong?
I get the feeling it was different here
Before we came along
Everybody's talking 'bout the good old days
