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
Colloquium: 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.
FREEOpen to the PublicColloquium: Tom Rossing and Jarek Kapuscinski
Date:Wed, 10/14/2015 - 5:30pm - 7:00pmLocation:CCRMA Classroom (Room 217)Event Type:ColloquiumTom Rossing - A is for Acoustics
Abstract: Acoustics is the Science of Sound. Musical acoustics deals with the science and technology of musical sound. The study of musical acoustics is important for performers, composers, researchers, instrument designers and builders, and serious listeners.
This talk will highlight some of the hot topics in musical acoustics, the courses in acoustics at CCRMA, publications in musical acoustics, and the services provided by the Acoustical Society of America.
Jarek Kapuscinski - Intimating the World and other Adventures in IntermediaFREEOpen to the PublicOn the road to massive-multichannel reverberation
Date:Tue, 10/06/2015 - 5:30pm - 7:00pmLocation:CCRMA Classroom [Knoll 217]Event Type:ColloquiumAbstract:
Massive-multichannel sound presentation approaches like Wave Field Synthesis and Higher-Order Ambisonics offer significantly more degrees of freedom for designing the sound field to be synthesized than conventional approaches like Stereophony or Surround Sound. While a significant number of achievements regarding the presentation of the direct sound of virtual sound sources are available, the presentation of reverberation has always been a stepchild. This talk gives an overview over current work on all components of reverberation, i.e. early reflections, late reverberation, and room modes. The talk targets a general audience.FREEOpen to the PublicApplication of Acoustics for Underwater ROVs
Date:Wed, 04/29/2015 - 5:15pm - 7:00pmLocation:CCRMA ClassroomEvent Type:Colloquium
Signaling and navigating in the underwater world presents challenges for traditional approaches such as radio waves and light. Both are readily absorbed in water. Light also tends to scatter and reflect over short distances. Sound waves are much more adaptable to use in this world. While they also present challenges – especially absorption and reflection – they can be used effectively over much greater distances in the order of kilometers.
FREEOpen to the PublicRobert Henke: Finding a New Audiovisual Language Using Lasers and Sound
Date:Wed, 04/01/2015 - 5:15pm - 7:00pmLocation:Knoll StageEvent Type:ColloquiumRobert Henke talks about his laser based performance project Lumière II which just premiered at Centre George Pompidou in Paris, and provides insight into the artistic and technical challenges of the project.
Artist Bio:
Robert Henke, born 1969 in Munich, Germany, builds and operates machines that create sounds, shapes and structures.FREEOpen to the PublicSETI Institute AIR Program / Stanford CCRMA / Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Date:Wed, 01/21/2015 - 6:00pm - 8:00pmLocation:189 Bernardo Ave, Suite 100, Mountain View, CA 94043Event Type:Colloquium
January 21, 2015 6-8 pmThe SETI Institute invites CCRMA faculty, students and alumni to a keynote presentation by SETI’s artists in residence. Please join Chris Chafe, Nette Worthey, SETI scientists Jill Tarter and Nathalie Cabrol, incoming AIRs Nina Waisman and Martin Wilner, NASA historian Glenn Bugos and friends for this informal gathering.Open to the PublicSETI Institute AIR Program
Date:Wed, 01/21/2015 - 6:00pm - 8:00pmLocation:SETI Institute, 189 Bernardo Ave., Ste. 100, Mountain ViewEvent Type:Colloquium
SETI Institute AIR Program / Stanford CCRMA / Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
January 21, 2015 6-8 pm
The SETI Institute invites CCRMA faculty, students and alumni to a keynote presentation by SETI’s artists in residence. Please join Chris Chafe, Nette Worthey, SETI scientists Jill Tarter and Nathalie Cabrol, incoming AIRs Nina Waisman and Martin Wilner, NASA historian Glenn Bugos and friends for this informal gathering. Other attendees to be announced.Open to the PublicLuke Dahl PhD Thesis Defense: Timing of Discrete Musical Air-Gestures
Date:Tue, 11/18/2014 - 3:15pm - 4:15pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Colloquium
Motion sensing technologies enable musical interfaces where a performer controls sound by moving their body ``in the air" without manipulating or contacting a physical object. These interfaces work well when the movement and sound are smooth and continuous, but it has proven difficult to design a system which triggers discrete sounds with precision that feels natural to the performer and allows for complex rhythmic performance.
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