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What does a sunflower sound like?
Professor Matthew Suttor’s Fibonacci Sunflower turns the spiral patterns found in sunflower seeds into music. But the conversation became about something even bigger: how nature, science, and music can tell the same story in different languages.
A reminder that music is bigger than the sum of its parts.
Full episode on Spotify. Link in Bio.
#Voices4Values
#musicandscience
#fibonaccisunflower
#musicandmath
#youthpodcast by @msuttor

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Presenting at The Royal Ballet & Opera @royalballetandopera in London tomorrow, June 5 at 3:30pm: "Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, Matthew Suttor & Company – I AM ALAN TURING — A Séance with the Machine!"

Part of SHIFT/EXCHANGE—talks, interviews and creative interaction centred around AI.

I AM ALAN TURING, an artificially intelligent opera drawing on Turing’s fascination with natural number patterns, was incubated at CCAM with support from the Yale-HP Curricular Technology Project.

#YaleCCAM #Yale+HP #RoyalBalletAndOpera #CCAMInTheWorld #IAMALANTURING #AlanTuring taken in Royal Ballet And Opera by @msuttor

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Presenting at Royal Ballet & Opera, tomorrow, June 5 at 3:30 PM: Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, Matthew Suttor & Company – I AM ALAN TURING — A Séance with the Machine. @hughiepharell @really_em_reilly @wawr.ca @wawr.myths @tkeef @sola.fadiran @frederickckennedy @dakkomusic @liambellmansharpe @maddiepages @yaleccam @yalecollegedean by @msuttor

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Looking back at CCAM Fest: Fluxus!

"Sirens and Sunflowers," a workshop with Ivana Dama @ivana.dama, Aubrey Moore @aubrey_moore_, and Matthew Suttor @msuttor, explored the siren disk as a performative and compositional tool.

A siren disk is a rotating disk with patterned holes that produces sound as air passes through—its spinning perforations interrupt airflow to generate precise, measurable tones. Participants devised short Fluxus-style actions and concise scores informed by the mathematical geometry of sunflower patterns.

Photos by Christian Badach @c_badach

#YaleCCAM #CCAMFestFluxus #SirenDisks #Fluxus #Interdisciplinary #Yale #YaleUniversity #NewHaven by @msuttor

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Join us tomorrow, February 4, from 6:30–8pm at CCAM, 149 York Street, for:

Wednesday Wisdom: Resounding Nature & Turing’s Sunflower!

In this hands-on workshop, participants will use accessible tools to create their own data-to-sound sketches, mapping streams of numbers into musical gestures and generative structures they can build upon.

We’ll also trace these experiments to Alan Turing’s enduring legacy, exploring themes from Matthew Suttor's opera I AM ALAN TURING: from computation as a way of modeling nature to the sunflower as a living symbol of emergence, through Fibonacci phyllotaxis and other generative patterns where biology, mathematics, and imagination converge. @i_am_alan_turing

This Wednesday Wisdom event is designed and taught by Matthew Suttor (CCAM Program Manager and Senior Lecturer, Yale College) and Konrad Kaczmarek (Associate Professor Adjunct, Department of Music). @msuttor @konradkaczmarek

Pictured: Turing's sunflower from I AM ALAN TURING and materials from Turing archive at King's College. Courtesy: I AM ALAN TURING.

#YaleCCAM #WednesdayWisdom #AlanTuring #Fibonacci #Yale #YaleUniversity by @msuttor

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Resounding Nature × NOW Ensemble
Exploratory Workshop
Friday, November 21, 2025 • 10am–12pm
Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM)

Join us for an informal workshop and playthrough featuring original music created through Resounding Nature in collaboration with students from Music Haven. NOW Ensemble will join Matthew Suttor, @konradkaczmarek, and the Resounding Nature team for a conversation and live exploration of new works shaped by environmental listening, data, and community-based creativity.

Original music by:
Matthew Suttor and Music Haven Students

With support from:
Yale Department of Music • Yale School of Music • CCAM • Yale Schwarzman Center • Yale Planetary Solutions taken in Center for Collaborative Arts and Media at Yale by @msuttor

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CCAM and our collaboration with Yale Planetary Solutions, Music Haven, and more is featured on "It's Your Yale!" @yale

Click the link in our bio to read "Birds, data, and violins" and learn how Matthew Suttor (CCAM Program Manager and faculty in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies) "turns bird flight data into music, inspiring young musicians to explore climate change through AI, sound, and storytelling."

The project team included Suttor; Judith Lichtman, Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases), School of Public Health; Konrad Kaczmarek, Department of Music; Neal Baer, Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health; Richard Prum, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Diego Soto, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Jonathon Gewirtzman, Yale School of the Environment; Vivek Sridhar, Ecology of Animal Sciences, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. @yalesph @konradkaczmarek @nealbaer @diego_ellissoto @environmentyale @vivekhsridhar @mpi_animalbehav

Thank you to Linda Clarke for writing about this work, and to Vani Bhushan @vanibhushann for her beautiful photographs from Music Haven that are featured in the piece.

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1. Defining the work as “acoustic ecology,” Suttor underscored its aim of fostering the young musicians’ “environmental stewardship.” Here he works with high school and middle school students in the Resounding Nature workshop.

2. Yaira Matyakubova, a member of the Haven String Quartet and artistic director of Music Haven, teaches high school and middle school students during the Resounding Nature workshop. @yairamatyakub

3. Suttor asked the elementary school students to think about how birds sound in nature and in their imaginations, to draw pictures, and to come up with stories that they could transform into music by using all the sounds that violins can make.

Photos: Vani Bhuhshan

#YaleCCAM #ListeningToClimateChange #CCAMPlanetarySolutions #YaleSchoolofPublicHealth #MusicHaven #ItsYourYale #Yale #YaleUniversity by @msuttor

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We honor the legacy of Alan Turing — brilliant mathematician, WWII codebreaker, and a pioneer in computing and AI — through music.

Composer @msuttor explores Turing’s extraordinary life in his opera I AM ALAN TURING, written in collaboration with AI. The work delves into Turing’s visionary thinking, his caution around artificial intelligence, and his lasting impact.

🎧 Hear Suttor reflect on creativity, technology, and teaching on the latest episode of Sunday Baroque Conversations. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Link in our bio.

#PrideMonth #AlanTuring #IAMALANTURING #MatthewSuttor #LGBTQHistory #SundayBaroque #MusicMatters #yaleccam by @msuttor

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A composer, educator, and innovator — Matthew Suttor is driven by the question, "Can creativity be taught?" He explores the edge of music, tech, and AI. From @yaleccam to global stages, his work inspires creativity and reimagines how we teach, collaborate, and compose. @msuttor joins Suzanne on Sunday Baroque Conversations. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Link in our bio.

#YaleDHLab #sundaybaroqueconversations #AlanTuring
#musicmatters
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25 years at Yale by @msuttor

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Yale alumni coming back for reunions?
Listening to Climate Change
CCAM Open House & Lecture
Saturdays, May 24 & 31 | 11 AM–12 PM
Leeds Studio (Room 103) • 149 York Street

Explore how art, science, and technology converge to bring climate data to life through sound at the Yale Center for Collaborative Arts & Media (CCAM).

Listening to Climate Change: Translating Environmental Data into Dynamic Performance

Recently featured on Yale’s Instagram: https://lnkd.in/efbNysFv

Discover how bird migrations, forest rhythms, and other environmental datasets become immersive sound and movement through AI-driven sonification.

Featuring a special performance by the Haven Quartet, in collaboration with students from Music Haven, bringing these sonic landscapes vividly to life.

Part of a broader research initiative supported by the Yale Planetary Solutions Project—and tied to my new course, Nature, AI, and Performance, which reimagines ecological systems through creative technologies.
• Yale News: https://lnkd.in/etymmmgU
• YPS Announcement: https://lnkd.in/eP_ZS9vz

At CCAM, we develop creative tools and interdisciplinary collaborations that translate complex ideas into experiences people can feel, question, and understand. #yale #yalealumniassociation #yaleccam #musichaven by @msuttor

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The CCAM Sponsored Course Nature, AI, and Performance, taught by Matthew Suttor (CCAM Program Manager and faculty in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies), was featured in YaleNews! @yale

Students in the course transformed data from nature into compositions using AI and visual programming software like Max.

Also mentioned in the article is the collaboration between Suttor and Music Haven in a project titled "Listening to Climate Change." Students from New Haven middle and high schools created compositions premiered in a two-day event at CCAM on April 25 and 26. @musichavenct

The Listening to Climate Change project was supported by the Yale Planetary Solutions Seed Grant to support novel and impactful projects aimed at solving planetary challenges.

Listening to Climate Change is led by Judith Lichtman (School of Public Health), Matthew Suttor (Center for Collaborative Arts and Media), Konrad Kaczmarek (Department of Music), Diego Ellis Soto (UC Berkeley), and Jonathan Gewirtzman (Yale School of the Environment) @konradkaczmarek @diego_ellissoto @jongewirtzman @yalesph

Check out YaleNews to read the full article!

Photos by Vani Bhushan

#YaleCCAM #ListeningToClimateChange #CCAMSponsoredCourses #MusicHaven by @msuttor

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