The Center for Contemporary Music (CCM) has for more than 50 years been a leading force in the conception and production of cutting edge electronic music. The CCM was established in 1966 after The San Francisco Tape Music Center partnered with Mills College and moved its activity to the campus. The Tape Music Center, originally founded by Morton Subotnick and Ramon Sender in 1961, had commissioned the late Donald Buchla to create a synthesizer which would become known as the "Buchla Box", a cutting edge, voltage control electronic instrument which was free of the restrictions of a piano-emulating keyboard. The synthesizer moved to Mills and is still there to this very day and has influenced generations of curious and creative musicians. In the CCM, many groundbreaking systems, techniques and electronic compositions have been concieved and created. The center has served as an exceptional environment for experimentation and research within the field of electronic music, not only in creating systems and techniques but also in the presentation and conceptual development of electronic music performance. The CCM is arguably one of the finer cultural institutions in the Bay Area and will be very well represented at the Signal Flow festival. Among artists that have participated in creating innovative work in the CCM are Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, David Behrman, Robert Ashley, Maggi Payne, Laetitia Sonami, John Bischoff and Holly Herndon.