BCNM, in partnership with the School of Information and Graduate School of Journalism, turn to the particular role, and power, of digital tools to express and organize political dissent, and create greater institutional and political transparency! Read more
26 Jun, 2014
Special Events
Maxine CD Release Party
The release of Ritwik Banerji's (DE) project, Maxine Read more
26 Jan, 2023
Indigenous Technologies Coordinator Sierra Edd Featured in Berkeley News
Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this November! Read more
25 Oct, 2022
BCNM at AMS/SEM/SMT 2022
Alumni Ritwik Banerji and Sivan Eldar featured at the American Musicological Society (AMS), Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), and Society for Music Theory (SMT) conference. Read more
07 Jul, 2022
Abigail De Kosnik Mercator Fellow at Goethe University
As part of her Fellowship, Gail is giving a lecture on July 11th! Watch it online! Read more
08 Jun, 2022
Nour El Rayes Joins the Peabody Institute
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Ritwik Banerji presented a paper on free improvisation at the Society for Ethnomusicology's 64th annual meeting. Read more
01 Sep, 2019
BCNM around the Web September 2019
More in the media from faculty Abigail De Kosnik, Nicholas de Monchaux, Ken Goldberg, and Tom McEnaney; and alumni Jenni Higgs, Andrea Horbinski, Jane McGonigal, Trevor Paglen, Ritwik Banerji and Jen Schradie. Read more
17 Feb, 2019
Alum Ritwik Banerji at the MMaP Research Center
Check out this video of Ritwik discussing "Prying Apart the Social Phenomenology of Free Improvisation" Read more
28 Nov, 2018
Ritwik Banerji at AMS/SMT 2018
The American Musicological Society Society for Music Theory featured Ritwik Banerji and his piece The Opportunity Cost of Experimentalism: Cultural Economics, Popular Music, and the Avant-Garde in Salvador, Brazil.Read more
28 May, 2018
Undergraduate Research Dispatch: Marissa Ahmed on Music, Improvisation, Ethnography
Marissa Ahmed was a recipient of this year's BCNM research fellowship, assisting Ritwik Banerji on his research about human sociality and algorithmic ethnography. Read more
20 Nov, 2017
Welcome to Our Fall 2017 Graduate Cohort
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08 Nov, 2017
Ed Campion on the University Carillon
Ed Campion, Department of Music chair, comments on the university Carillon and the Music Department's support. Read more
15 May, 2017
Alum Tiffany Ng Featured in Diverse Issues of Higher Education
Alum Tiffany Ng is fundraising for minority students to have the opportunity to learn the carillon Read more
28 Feb, 2017
Announcing the Lyman 2017 Fellowship Recipients
This year's Lyman fellow and runner-up goes to... Read more
17 Oct, 2016
Announcing the BCNM Conference Grant Recipients!
Each of the following students have received funding to help defray the costs of presenting their research at the premiere conferences in their fields! Read more
01 Sep, 2016
Ritwik Banerji: How the Virtual Free Improviser Maxine Works
11 Mar, 2015
Tiffany Ng to be University of Michigan Carilloneur
She is Visiting Instructor of Music History at St. Olaf College and a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology with a Designated Emphasis in New Media at UC Berkeley Read more
18 Nov, 2014
Announcing the Winners of Hack the Bells
Winners of Hack the Bells, the first international carillon remix competition, have been selected Read more
24 Apr, 2014
Announcing our Spring 2014 Graduating Class
We are proud to announce our latest cohort of graduating BCNM Designated Emphasis and Masters Certificate students Read more
03 Mar, 2014
Meet Tiffany Ng
This month, hear how Designated Emphasis Ph.D. candidate Tiffany Ng explores urban spaces through the architecture of music. Read more
13 Feb, 2013
"An Instrument of Urban Planning: Bells and the Sonic Remediation of Community Space in the Southeastern United States," Tiffany Ng
An abstract of Ng's article, which investigates debates over amplified, synthesized musical sounds in semi-public spaces. Read more
04 Dec, 2012
BCNM Welcomes Newly Admitted Students to the DE and Certificate in New Media
We are very pleased to welcome new graduate students to our Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate program! Read more