The Sonic Explorations electronic music series presents several concerts each year of faculty and student works, and the Visiting Composers Series has brought Curtis Bahn and Tomie Hahn, Benjamin Boretz, Charles Dodge, Paul Koonce, Paul Lansky, Pauline Oliveros, and Diane Thome recently. Innovative research activity in granular synthesis, visual/aural connections and live performance interfaces and high bandwidth Internet 2 sound exchange is evolving, incorporating collaborative work with artists at DAAP, and engineering department expertise. Physically, (ccm)2 is part of a complex of theaters, classrooms and studios designed by Pei, Cob, Freed and Partners. The electronic music studios in 1996 moved to the South Annex of Memorial Hall which holds performance faculty studios and practice rooms. The studios have been designed with extreme care to provide an attractive and truly functional environment, with a floating concrete floor for sound insulation and conduits, and a multichannel Genelec speaker system. Performances occur in the Cohen Family Studio Theater, a space particularly conducive for performances of interactive and electroacoustic music, and other halls.