Colloquium Series
The CCRMA Colloquium is a weekly gathering of CCRMA students, faculty, staff, and guests. It is an opportunity for members of the CCRMA community and invited speakers to share the work that they are doing in the field of Computer Music. The colloquium typically happens every Wednesday during the school year from 5:30 - 7:00pm and meets in the CCRMA Classroom, Knoll 217 unless otherwise noted.
The schedule for this year's CCRMA Colloquium can be found here: ccrma.stanford.edu/wiki/Colloquium
Colloquia and concerts are announced via a mailing list.
Recent Colloquia
Bryan Jacobs - Mechanical Instruments and ...
Date:Wed, 05/17/2017 - 5:30pm - 6:30pmLocation:CCRMA ClassroomEvent Type:ColloquiumRecent Guggenheim Fellow - composer, performer, and sound artist - Bryan Jacobs, presents this weeks CCRMA Colloquium on his recent work and research. Bryan's work focuses on interactions between live performers and electronic sound. His pieces are often theatrical in nature, pitting blabber-mouthed fanciful showoffs against timid reluctants. The sounds are playfully organized and many times mimic patterns found in human dialogue. Hand-build electromechanical instruments controlled by microcontrollers bridge acoustic and electroacoustic sound worlds. These instruments live dual lives as time-based concert works and non-time-based gallery works.
FREEOpen to the PublicAndrew Schloss - A history of the radiodrum and robotics in musical performance: The art installation as a musical instrument
Date:Wed, 05/03/2017 - 5:30pm - 6:30pmLocation:CCRMA classroomEvent Type:ColloquiumAbstract: Originally created at Bell Labs in the 1980’s by Bob Boie and Max Mathews, the radio baton, radio drum, or radiodrum has gone through many iterations, including two new ones that I have been working on recently; both are currently “one-of-a-kind.” I will demonstrate an entirely analog version of the instrument created by Bob Boie, and a new SDR (software defined radio) version that is in the process of being tested. Both of these instruments differ from Max’s versions, in that they are designed to be more of a 3D percussion instrument than a conducting device.
FREEOpen to the PublicCCRMA Colloquium: Julius Smith and Fernando Lopez Lezcano
Date:Wed, 10/12/2016 - 5:30pm - 7:20pmLocation:CCRMA classroom (Room 217)Event Type:Colloquium
Julius Smith: JOS Courses and Research
This talk summarizes JOS CCRMA courses and research devoted to signal processing for (1) real-time virtual musical instruments and audio effects, and (2) audio spectrum analysis and processing, either real-time or off-line.
FREEOpen to the PublicCCRMA Colloquium: Chris Chafe and Ge Wang
Date:Wed, 10/05/2016 - 5:30pm - 7:20pmLocation:CCRMA classroom (Room 217)Event Type:ColloquiumPlease join us for a colloquium by Prof.Chris Chafe and Prof.Ge Wang. Details see below.
Chris Chafe: Tapping into the Internet as an Acoustical / Musical MediumFREEOpen to the PublicTom Rossing: Acoustics of Eastern and Western Bells, Old and New
Date:Wed, 05/04/2016 - 5:30pm - 6:30pmLocation:CCRMA Classroom (Room 217)Abstract: Bells of different types have played important roles in many cultures, past and present. We discuss the acoustics of church bells, carillon bells, handbells, and ornamental bells, large and small, along with methods used to study them including holographic interferometry and finite element methods. We discuss ancient two-tone bells from China and temple bells from China, Japan, and Korea.Event Type:Colloquium
FREEOpen to the PublicThe RAPID-MIX Project
Date:Wed, 01/20/2016 - 12:00pm - 1:00pmLocation:Seminar RoomABSTRACT:Event Type:ColloquiumFREEOpen to the PublicColloquium: Sasha Leitman, Craig Sapp, and Eleanor Selfridge-Field
Date:Wed, 11/18/2015 - 5:30pm - 7:00pmLocation:CCRMA Classroom (Room 217)Event Type:ColloquiumPlease join us for talks from Sasha Leitman, Craig Sapp, and Eleanor Selfridge-Field
Sasha Leitman will be talking about some of her past and current projects, including an ongoing project to document Max Mathew's Radio Baton.
Craig Sapp, and Eleanor Selfridge-Field will be talking about their work in the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities.FREEOpen to the PublicColloquium: Julius Smith and Takako Fujioka
Date:Wed, 11/11/2015 - 5:30pm - 7:00pmLocation:CCRMA Classroom (Room 217)Event Type:ColloquiumPlease join us for talks from Julius Smith and Takako Fujioka
Julius Smith: Physical/Spectral Audio Signal Processing (MUS 420/421) and Related Research
This talk summarizes JOS CCRMA courses devoted to signal processing for (1) real-time virtual musical instruments and audio effects, and (2) spectrum analysis and processing, both in real time and off line. Sound examples will be played and live demonstrations performed.FREEOpen to the PublicColloquium: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano and Jay LeBoeuf
Date:Wed, 11/04/2015 - 5:30pm - 7:00pmLocation:CCRMA Classroom (Room 217)Event Type:ColloquiumPlease join us for talks from Fernando Lopez-Lezcano and Jay LeBoeuf!
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano: NaN[DO] (Not a Number [Debugging Output]): Facing the Music, Part 2
From 1980 (analog synthesizers) to 2015 (making music with 3d printers) in 40 minutes. The random connections between software, hardware, sound, art and music in some of my pieces.FREEOpen to the PublicColloquium: Jonathan Abel and Matt Wright
Date:Wed, 10/21/2015 - 5:30pm - 7:00pmLocation:CCRMA Classroom (Room 217)Event Type:Colloquium
Jonathan Abel - Mr. Cable's messed up reverberators, the Spherlioni family business and other topics
Abstract: This talk describes some recent room acoustics and signal processing work that's got my interest and time. On that list are a couple CCRMA-related projects, including Icons of Sound, which aims to recreate the experience of Byzantine chant in Hagia Sophia nearly 1,500 years after the fact, and which inspired the Spherlionis to build a 3D-printed spherical microphone array. In the category of unusual local acoustic spaces in need of time-frequency analysis and physical modeling, there's F# Alley (across from Antonio's Nut House, and well worth the price of admission---bring an opera singer); and under the heading of "different" audio effects, there is the modal reverberator---thank you Mr. Cable---which integrates pitch shifting and distortion into a synthetic reverberator architecture. Finally on the list are signal processing analyses of Alvin Lucier's "I am sitting in a room" and Carl Stone's "Sukothai," both of which explore the sonics of iteratively applied audio processes.
Matt Wright - Part 2 of Matt's abridged entire career, focusing on issues of rhythm
Abstract: Matt presents shifty looping, machine learning of micro timing, a clave-centric beat tracker specifically for Afro-Cuban music, bar wrapping visualization of micro timing in metric musical contexts, my dissertation work with Perceptual Attack Time, and Afro-Brazilian percussion ensembles.
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Upcoming Colloquia
Colloquium: Justin Salamon
Date:Wed, 03/04/2020 - 5:30pm - 7:00pmLocation:ClassroomEvent Type:ColloquiumOpen to the Public
