Department of Music, University of California, San Diego
The UC San Diego Department of Music features a dynamic community of composers, computer musicians, performers, and scholars. These foundation of these four categories provides the impulse for the IcM conference. The department features hundreds of concert every year, bringing in world-renowned as well as up-and-coming artists, composers, and scholars for stimulating exchanges with our students and faculty members. The department is hosted in the Conrad Preby Music Center. See http://musicweb.ucsd.edu/about/about-pages.php?i=400 for more information on its history.
San Diego:
(cited from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego)
San Diego is a major city in California, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, approximately 120 miles (190 km) south of Los Angeles and immediately adjacent to the border with Mexico.
With an estimated population of 1,381,069 as of July 1, 2014, San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest in California. San Diego is the birthplace of California and is known for its mild year-round climate, natural deep-water harbor, extensive beaches, long association with the U.S. Navy, and recent emergence as a healthcare and biotechnology development center.
Historically home to the Kumeyaay people, San Diego was the first site visited by Europeans on what is now the West Coast of the United States. Upon landing in San Diego Bay in 1542, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo claimed the entire area for Spain, forming the basis for the settlement of Alta California 200 years later. The Presidio and Mission of San Diego, founded in 1769, formed the first European settlement in what is now California. In 1821, San Diego became part of newly independent Mexico, and in 1850, became part of the United States following the Mexican–American War and the admission of California to the union.
icm 2016 @ UC San Diego, feb 26-28, 2016 