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
Hongchan Choi: Collaborative Musicking on the Web - Thesis Defense
Date:Fri, 09/26/2014 - 2:30pm - 4:30pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Colloquium
What if there is a music making platform that allows you to create, edit and share the music with others no matter where or when? What if the system is as easy as visiting a web page? What if there is “Google Doc” for music?
This dissertation probes the potential of collaborative musicking using the web browser and cloud computing, and introduces a novel software framework, the Web Audio API eXtension (WAAX), that facilitates and supports the development of web music applications as well as various collaborative music creation scenarios.
FREEOpen to the PublicDave Smith Instruments
Date:Wed, 06/04/2014 - 5:15pm - 7:00pmLocation:CCRMA Stage (The Knoll, Stanford Campus)Event Type:Colloquium
Dave Smith will discuss the interesting history of synths, moving from analog to digital to software and now back to analog.
Live Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmMi9mBdSMQ
Bio: Dave Smith founded Sequential Circuits in the mid-70s. In 1977, he designed the Prophet-5, the world's first microprocessor-based musical instrument. This revolutionary product was the world's first polyphonic and programmable synth, and set the standard for all synth designs that have followed. The Prophet instruments played a major part in the recordings of all popular music styles, and are still prized by musicians today.FREEOpen to the PublicCharles Gadeken and the students of ME289: Interactive Art and Performance Design
Date:Wed, 05/28/2014 - 5:15pm - 7:05pmLocation:CCRMA ClassroomEvent Type:Colloquium
Charles Gadeken has been working as a professional artist in the Bay Area for 20 years. His artistic practice seeks to realize the potential for unexpected magic and serendipity in everyday life. His art pulls inspiration from objects, structures and natural processes in the world around us, and transforms them into beautifully crafted sculptures that engage and surprise the viewer. His goal through this work is to instill a sense of play into the environment, taking the form of things we tend to overlook and remaking them as magical items that exist as a real life portal to our imagination.Open to the PublicNew Work of Rocco Di Pietro
Date:Wed, 05/21/2014 - 5:15pm - 7:00pmLocation:CCRMA Stage, The Knoll 3rd floorEvent Type:ColloquiumA presentation and update of the new work of Rocco Di Pietro since his last
SICA artist in residency 2009 and the performance of his "Finale" 2012 by TheStanford Symphony Orchestra.
Open to the PublicRoy Pertchik: The Tri-Chromatic Keyboard and the Symmetry of Music
Date:Wed, 05/14/2014 - 5:15pm - 6:30pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Colloquium
A highly symmetrical musical keyboard and a small system of just a few new musical scales provide a powerful way to access a wide variety of musical harmony. The keyboard is isomorphic, a "6+6" (all half steps), and is marked in 3 groups of diminished 3rd's (the 3 diminished chords.) A very few scales based on the diminished chords are shown to produce a wide variety of harmony in a controlled way. A few identities provide "tinker-toy" links between different scales and different keys, and allow for the construction of many familiar chord progressions as well as advanced harmonic substitutions. The whole system includes binary selections at different levels, offering good handles for interface design.
Open to the PublicEvelina Rajca : Recent Works
Date:Wed, 05/07/2014 - 5:15pm - 7:00pmLocation:CCRMA Classroom, The Knoll 2nd floor, Rm 217Event Type:Colloquium
Evelina Rajca's practice is based in between intuitive embodied knowledge and systems that construct processes of documenting these experiences, translating them into interventions, objects, maps and scores. She uses old and new technologies as working materials in an ever-changing process. Her performative explorations in the form of collaborations, sculptures and interventions in public space stimulate the question of who inhabits that space under constant transformation. In her colloquium she will present a selection of her practice based artistic research.
Full abstract:Open to the PublicLudger Brümmer: About Spatial Audio - Psychoacoustic facts and the Klangdom Systems at the ZKM|Karlsruhe
Date:Wed, 04/30/2014 - 5:15pm - 6:45pmLocation:CCRMA Stage, The KnollEvent Type:ColloquiumThe 47 channel Klangdom continuously implemented at the ZKM|Karlrsuhe (center for art and media) along with the 50 channel sound Pavilion "the morning line" placed in front of the cubus represent the activity in the field of spatial audio at the ZKM|Institut for Music and acoustic.
FREEOpen to the PublicFrançois Germain: Towards practical source-independent algorithms using nonnegative matrix factorization
Date:Wed, 04/23/2014 - 5:15pm - 7:00pmLocation:CCRMA Classroom, The Knoll 2nd floor, Rm 217Event Type:ColloquiumLimitations of nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) were recently circumvented through the development of "universal source models" which exploit the similarities inside a given class of sources in order to eliminate the need for user-provided training data. The resulting system is unsupervised from the user perspective which strongly improves its range of practical use. This method was applied to applications such as offline speech enhancement, voice activity detection and singing voice separation.
Full abstract:Open to the PublicDana Massie - Sample rate conversion with MaxSRC
Date:Wed, 04/16/2014 - 5:15pm - 7:00pmLocation:CCRMA, 2nd floor, Rm 217Event Type:Colloquium
A digital method for sample rate conversion using recursive IIR “phasor” filters, denoted MaxSRC, named in honor of Max Mathews whose work popularized the term “phasor filter". High quality sample rate conversion is useful for many applications in computer audio and music, including sound synthesis and sampled waveform playback. The most common methods used historically for sample rate conversion use FIR filters. MaxSRC uses time-varying IIR filters.
Open to the PublicJosé Echeveste: Antescofo, a dynamic language for real-time musician-computer interaction
Date:Mon, 04/14/2014 - 5:15pm - 6:45pmLocation:CCRMA Classroom, The Knoll 2nd floor, Rm 217Event Type:Colloquium
This talk focuses on programing of time and interaction in Antescofo, a real-time system for performance coordination between musicians and computer processes during live music performance. To this end, Antescofo relies on artificial machine listening and a domain specific real-time programing language. It extends each paradigm through strong coupling of the two and strong emphasis on temporal semantics and behavior of the system.The challenge in bringing human actions in the loop of computing is strongly related to temporal semantics of the language, and timeliness of live execution despite heterogeneous nature of time in the two mediums.
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