Music

DJ Lamont

DJ, Founder of Fingersnaps Media Arts
DJ Lamont was a Visiting Artist Participant at the San Francisco: Looking Back as We Look Forward Conference at the Arts Research Center on June 5, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

DJ Lamont started playing with records when his mother gifted him a “Close N’ Play” record player for his 5th birthday in 1969 and he has been playing with records, cassettes, CD’s, DJ Software, and DJ Controllers ever since.

Established June 1, 2004, in DJ Lamont’s spare bedroom (on 20th & Folsom Street),...

Cindy Cox

Professor, Former Chair of the Music Department
Cindy Cox was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Dream of the Red Chamber Symposium at the Arts Research Center on September 12, 2016. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Transparent yet richly multifaceted, Cindy Cox’s compositions synthesize old and new musical designs through linked strands of association, timbral fluctuation, and cyclic temporal processes. The natural world, ecology, and the concept of emergence inspire many of the special harmonies and textural colorations in her compositions, as...

Majel Connery

ARC Fellow, Scholar, Vocalist, and Composer
Majel Connery was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2014 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Majel Connery is an unclassifiable artist who rarely says no to anything. Her music ranges from the guttural to the sublime, appearing in punk rock clubs at night and by day at major destinations from The Kennedy Center to The Kitchen.

A vocalist and composer, Connery combines Classical influences with electronic mentality. Her singing has been called “superb” by the New York Times...

Yao Chen

Composer, Professor of Composition at the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing
Yao Chen was a Visiting Artist Lecturer Participant at the Dream of the Red Chamber Symposium at the Arts Research Center on September 12, 2016. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

In works of various dimensions, Yao Chen seeks paths toward transcendence. His music, always ritual in nature, eschews contemporary vogues and instead aims at a timelessness and an otherness that exists beyond the standard categories – music for the moment, but also music for then and music for what lies ahead. Whether his work is brittle or...

Chris Chafe

Musician, Scientist, Director of the Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Chris Chafe was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the made@berkeley event at the Arts Research Center on April 16, 2016. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Chris Chafe is a composer, improvisor, and cellist, developing much of his music alongside computer-based research. He is Director of Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). In 2019, he was International Visiting Research Scholar at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies The University of British Columbia, Visiting...

Delia Casadei

ARC Fellow, Scholar, Critic, and Translator
Delia Casadei was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website. Delia Casadei is a scholar, critic, and translator. She was Assistant Professor of Musicology at UC Berkeley from 2017-2023, and is now based in Pisa, Italy, where she works as a freelance music critic...

Edmund Campion

Composer, Performer, Collaborating Artist, and Professor of Music Composition and Director at the Center for New Music & Audio Technologies at UC Berkeley
Ed Campion was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Revisions in Time Symposium at the Arts Research Center on November 16, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Edmund Campion (b. 1957) is Professor of Music Composition and Director at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at the University of California, Berkeley. An internationally recognized composer, performer, and collaborating artist for over 30 years, he continues to produce highly personal music that often mixes emerging technologies...

Jindong Cai

Director of the Stanford Symphony Orchestra, Professor of Music and Arts at Bard College
Jindong Cai was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Dream of the Red Chamber Conference at the Arts Research Center on September 12, 2016. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Conductor Jindong Cai is director of the US-China Music Institute, professor of music and arts at Bard College, and associate conductor of The Orchestra Now. Over his 30-year career in the United States, Cai has established himself as an active and dynamic conductor, scholar of Western classical music in China, and leading advocate of music from...

Sarah Cahill

Pianist, Radio Host, Writer, Producer
Sarah Cahill was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Revisions in Time Symposium at the Arts Research Center on November 16, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Sarah Cahill, hailed as “a sterling pianist and an intrepid illuminator of the classical avant-garde” by The New York Times and “a brilliant and charismatic advocate for modern and contemporary composers” by Time Out New York, has commissioned and premiered over seventy...

Lisa Bielawa

Composer, Producer, and Performer
Lisa Bielawa was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Re-staging / Re-construction / Re-enactment Symposium at the Arts Research Center on August 13, 2012. Return to ARC Artist Directory/Archive

Composer, producer, and vocalist Lisa Bielawa is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow and a Rome Prize winner in Musical Composition, who takes inspiration for her work from literary sources and close artistic collaborations. She is the recipient...