Guest Lectures
Occasionally, courses offered at CCRMA will bring in a guest lecturer. Often times, those lectures are open, not only to CCRMA students, staff, faculty and researchers, but also to the public. Such events are listed below.
Recent Guest Lectures
EASTN-DC presentations
Date:Wed, 03/27/2019 - 10:00am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Guest LectureEASTN-DC is the European Art - Science – Technology Network for Digital Creativity (https://www.eastndc.eu/home), an impressive network of 14 European institutions (plus 3 “resource partners” in the Americas, including Stanford), supporting exchanges among these institutions and "the creation of many unique pieces." CCRMA is fortunate to host representatives from three of these institutions on campus this week, who will each give presentations tomorrow.
10:00-10:40 Overview of EASTN project; The ACROE’ Helicanthe creation platform.
FREEOpen to the PublicDavid Behrman: Participatory Lecture
Date:Wed, 02/20/2019 - 1:00pm - 2:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Guest LectureComposer and pioneer of electronic music David Behrman gives a “participatory lecture" for the CCRMA community. You are invited to attend and engage with him in a conversation.
Please see the abstract below and prepare questions for Mr. Behrman.This event is limited to 30 participants, so please register here:FREEOpen to the PublicDanny Clay: Composing with New and Non-musicians
Date:Tue, 02/19/2019 - 5:00pm - 7:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Guest LectureIn his lecture, Danny will share several composition projects that he has done in collaboration with elementary schoolers, as well as some basic games from 'playbook,' his current toolset for building pieces with both professional and amateur musicians.FREEFor CCRMA Users OnlyLaetitia Sonami: Ideas & Machines
Date:Tue, 01/22/2019 - 5:00pm - 7:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Guest LectureLaetitia Sonami, composer, sound installation artist and technologist, discusses her forty yearlong musical trajectories and encounters and questions her abilities to think out of the machine.
Sonami studied with Eliane Radigue, Robert Ashley, David Behrman and Joel Chadabe - She moved from France to the United States in the late seventies to pursue her interest in electronic music, away from the more conservative French institutions of the time.
FREEOpen to the PublicClarence Barlow: Recent electroacoustic pieces
Date:Fri, 01/18/2019 - 5:30pm - 6:30pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Guest LectureFREEOpen to the PublicAkiko Hatakeyama - Storytelling, memories... real-time computer-based interactivity
Date:Fri, 05/04/2018 - 3:00pm - 4:30pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Guest LectureFREEOpen to the PublicCCRMA Open House Keynote with Yann Orlarey - Faust: the Roots of Evil
Date:Fri, 03/02/2018 - 1:30pm - 2:20pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Guest Lecture
From Yann -FREEOpen to the PublicDemixing and Remixing Music with Deep Learning
Date:Fri, 11/10/2017 - 5:00pm - 6:20pmEvent Type:Guest LectureFREEOpen to the PublicGenerative Models for Music and Art
Date:Thu, 10/26/2017 - 6:00pm - 7:20pmLocation:CCRMA Classroom [Knoll 217]Event Type:Guest LectureAbstract: Doug Eck will discuss Magenta, a Google Brain project investigating music and art generation using deep learning and reinforcement learning. The goals of Magenta and how it fits into the general trend of AI moving into our daily lives will be described. One crucial question is: Where does AI and Machine Learning fit in the creative process? The speaker argues that generative models are the core tools to import from machine learning, and introduces concepts from generative models such as autoencoders, recurrent neural networks, variational methods, generative adversarial networks (GANs) and different sampling methods.
FREEFor CCRMA Users OnlySounds in Remembered Spaces
Date:Tue, 06/20/2017 - 1:00pm - 2:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Guest LectureFREEOpen to the Public