Columbia University Computer Music Center

12/16/2025

Hello again friends! Please consider the Columbia University Computer Music Center if you're donating at the close of the year. A few months ago, I wrote about issues funding public programming in the current economic and political climate despite the appearance of wealth at Columbia. If you are so inclined, we'd be grateful for your support, no matter how small.

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With your support, Columbia will do more for our students and the world. Choose where to make an impact as you give through Columbia to address the world's most urgent issues.

10/21/2025

Support the Computer Music Center at Columbia University Help ensure the future of the Computer Music Center at Columbia with a tax-deductible contribution: Online Make a donation by credit card on the Giving to Columbia website. Donations are made directly to the CMC. If you wish, you can make this...

04/18/2025

opening soon!

The Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts Program presents the 2025 Visual Arts + Sound Art MFA Thesis Exhibition in collaboration with the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at the Lenfest Center for the Arts.

09/26/2024

We are thrilled to announce tonight’s opening reception of 𝓢𝓮𝓮𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓢𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓭, curated by Barbara London and organized by Independent Curators International, at Pratt Manhattan Gallery (6 – 8 PM)!

“Seeing Sound” is an expansive exhibition that explores the recent trajectory of sound as a dynamic branch of contemporary art practice. The exhibition features ten artists––Seth Cluett, Juan Cortés, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Auriea Harvey, bani haykal, Yuko Mohri, Marina Rosenfeld, Aura Satz, and Samson Young.

A special congratulations to our longtime collaborators: Seth Cluett, Barbara London, and Aura Satz 

Seeing Sound 
September 27 – December 17, 2024
Pratt Manhattan Gallery

08/27/2024

Some compassionate technical advice RE: the end of Finale...
0. I have so much compassion for how difficult this is for Finale users. When the industry standard audio editing software Peak stopped all of a sudden, our community had similar growing pains. I now use Steinberg Wavelab editor and haven't looked back but I did what I'm suggesting in steps 1-3 below for about 5 years.
1. MakeMusic is still letting people download the installer for the last version you bought, probably a good idea to do this and then back it up somewhere.
2. Whatever version you're on now should work on your current machine unless there's a major OS update so turn off auto update for now.
3. If you have an old computer or have the $ to grab a used computer, do a clean install of Finale, copy over all your old scores, make sure it works, and freeze that machine and only use it for Finale.
4. Advocate as a user community to do what Luke DuBois suggests and organize "to compel MakeMusic to publish the Finale .musx file format spec with a permissive license so that folks could develop open source tools to translate it to other formats as they evolve, other commercial notation packages could build in support for reading it"
4. Dorico is lovely but you don't have to redo your existing scores immediately if you do 1-3
5. If you do migrate to Dorico, the community is lovely and they just published a musicXML conversion guide to take the guess work out:

Switching to Dorico from Finale? This short series of tutorials from professional music engraver and publisher Ben Byram-Wigfield shows you lots of useful in...

05/10/2024

thank you larry (and phill and joel)

04/27/2024

tonight! 4/27 in Portland, Oregon! Matt Hannafin, Loren Chasse and members of Extradition present the world premiere of my work 'no small matter' for a very nice table and some plants

Based in Portland, Oregon, USA, Extradition is both an ensemble and a concert series, presenting music that exists at the intersection of composition, improvisation, clarity, and silence.

05/24/2023

TODAY! a two-day symposium at Columbia’s Global Center in Paris that will feature papers published in that journal, concert performances by Radigue collaborators, as well as new scholarship in the field.

Free and open to the public, but registration is required.

Radigue at 90 Conference For over 60 years, the prolific French composer Éliane Radigue has remained unflinchingly dedicated to crafting her own artistic voice, operating largely outside of official and institutional channels. Her extensive creative output spans the worlds of sound art, concert