About SoundWIRE

Description

SoundWIRE research group at CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics), Stanford University is concerned with the use of Internet networks as an extension to computer music performance, composition and research. Research areas include:

• Professional-Quality Multi-Channel Audio Streaming
• Internet Physical Models and Virtual Acoustics
• Sonification of Network Reliability
• Human factor (psychoacoustics) in Network Performance
• Internet/Computer/Acoustic Music Performance Practice

SoundWIRE research uses Internet2 and other countries' high speed/bandwidth networks. With the exponential increase in computers and networks speed, low-latency multichannel streaming is already possible, approaching very fast to the physical limits of the speed of light. Next generation computer music will use integrally the new possibilities that offers the network in performance, composition, and acoustical space.

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Collaborations

SoundWIRE has several active partners collaborations across the planet. They include extended musical collaborations and research partisanships:

• Banff Centre at Alberta, Canada.
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) at Troy, New York.
• Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) at Belfast, Northern Ireland.
• University of Santa Cruz (UCSC) at Santa Cruz, California.

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SoundWIRE on the Press

» Time Out Chicago Magazine article on our 4-way concert (100 Meeting Places) held on Mach 22th, 2007.

» The Winter 2006-2007 Banff Centre Report to the Community includes an article on our project with the St. Lawrence String Quartet SLSQ on the effect of delay and remote acoustics on network performance.

» New York Times Article (December 2002) with a interview to Chris Chafe on Sonification of Network Reliability.

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Contact

Chris Chafe, Duca Family Professor, CCRMA, Stanford University.
cc [at] ccrma [dot] stanford [dot] edu

Juan-Pablo Caceres, PhD Student, CCRMA, Stanford University.
jcaceres [at] ccrma [dot] stanford [dot] edu