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
JUCE, the Universe and Everything
Date:Thu, 05/11/2023 - 4:30pm - 6:00pmLocation:CCRMA Classroom [Knoll 217]Event Type:Guest LectureAbstract: This talk, delivered by the JUCE software developers, gives an overview of upcoming JUCE features followed by a selection of topics designed to provide information essential for working with professional software that rarely forms part of academic curriculums.
The latter part of this talk will be drawn from the following discussion points selected based on audience input:
FREEOpen to the PublicAlexander Lecture, Dr. Janie Cole: Music, African Agency, and Foreign Entanglements in the Christian Kingdom of 16th‐Century Ethiopia
Date:Mon, 11/07/2022 - 4:30pm - 6:45pmLocation:Braun 103Join us to hear a fascinating lecture from Professor Janie Cole from the University of Cape Town College of Music!Event Type:Guest LectureFREEOpen to the PublicLudmila Yurina | Ukrainian music: Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow.
Date:Mon, 10/31/2022 - 4:00pm - 5:30pmLocation:Seminar Room / ZoomEvent Type:Guest Lecture
What does Stanford know about Ukrainian culture and music? Not only about Ukrainian folk songs, food and vyshyvankas? Lyudmila Yurina talks about academic Ukrainian music, the system of education in conservatories, the classics of Ukrainian music, trends, styles, the music of different generations of composers and the prospects for the development of musical culture in the near future.
In person | ZoomFREEOpen to the PublicComposition Forum with Felipe Lara
Date:Tue, 05/24/2022 - 5:00pm - 7:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar Room and on zoomEvent Type:Guest Lecture
Felipe Lara, born in Sao Paolo in 1979, has a long list of collaborations, commissions, and awards. The Arditti, Asasello, and Brentano quartets have performed his works, along with the Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, London Sinfonietta, and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. Some of his compositions, such as the string quartet “Tran(slate)” which won the 2008 Staubach Preis in Darmstadt and premiered by the Arditti Quartet, include live electronics. His “Vocalise 2,” for two vocalizing amplified saxophonists, was performed in Paris in February 2016 as well as “Fringes,” a large-scale work for 22 instrumentalists. Lara’s music has also been presented at many festivals all over the United States, South America, and Europe.
FREEOpen to the PublicIntermedia Lab | Sholeh Asgary
Date:Fri, 05/13/2022 - 12:00pm - 1:00pmLocation:CCRMA Stage / ZoomEvent Type:Guest LectureThe Intermedia Lab will host Sholeh Asgary for a guest lecture on her artistic practice.
The event is open to all CCRMA affiliates for in-person attendance or Zoom participation (please join with your Stanford account).Intermedia Lab + CCRMA Colloquium | Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
Date:Fri, 05/06/2022 - 11:50am - 1:00pmLocation:CCRMA Stage / ZoomEvent Type:Guest LectureThe Intermedia Lab in collaboration with the CCRMA Colloquium hosts Budhaditya Chattopadhyay for a guest lecture on his recent research titled Beyond the Headphones: Contemporary Film Sound Research.
The event is open to all CCRMA affiliates for in-person attendance or Zoom participation (please join with your Stanford account).
Composition Forum with King Britt (remotely)
Date:Tue, 04/12/2022 - 5:00pm - 7:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar Room and on zoomEvent Type:Guest Lecture
Pew Fellowship recipient, King James Britt (his real name) is a 30+ year, producer, composer and performer in electronic music.
His current position as Assistant Teaching Professor in Computer Music at UCSD carries a unique perspective, bringing a non-linear approach and knowledge to the Department of Music by focusing on various modern forms of electronic music pedagogy, while continuing to be an active force in the music industry.
FREEOpen to the PublicKitty Shi's Dissertation Defense: Computational analysis and modeling of expressive timing in music performance
Date:Tue, 04/20/2021 - 10:00am - 11:00amLocation:ZoomEvent Type:Guest LectureThis thesis presents a machine learning model of expressive performance of piano music (specifically of Chopin Mazurkas) and a critical analysis of the output based upon statistical analyses of the musical scores and of recorded performances. Given the multidimensionality of the task, generating compelling computer generated interpretations of a musical score represents a formidable challenge, and a significant goal of MIR and computer music research. Here I seek to characterize the problems and suggest solutions.
Open to the PublicDissertation Defense: Decorrelation and Virtual Acoustics, Elliot Canfield-Dafilou
Date:Fri, 05/08/2020 - 4:00pm - 6:00pmLocation:Online (please email to receive a watch link)Event Type:Guest LectureThe systems that allow us to experience the auditory world in three spatial dimensions are extraordinarily complex. Humans possess a remarkable ability for identifying the distance, location, and size of a sound source with high accuracy, and these spatial auditory cues fundamentally shape the way we interact with the world. Moreover, spaces impart their own distinctive coloration to sounds occurring within their walls. My research aims to understand and to model human auditory spatial perception with a specific focus on music. I characterize and model how physical spaces and spatial cues affect creating, producing, and listening to music. More broadly, I show how architecture, music composition, and performance practice are intertwined.
FreeOpen to the Public[CANCELED/STREAMING] Miguel Azguime: “New Op-Era” examples and their technological creation network
Date:Thu, 03/05/2020 - 1:00pm - 3:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Guest LectureLive Streaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HhQYs5VWjM
In the last 15 years I have created several stage works involving a network of technological means as well as a network of artistic disciplines. I call this type of work New Op-Era, indeed born from the current electronic culture and being the expression of hybrid intertextuality. I’ll take as examples my works “Salt Itinerary” (2006) and “A Laugh to Cry” (2013) where we’ll find within the creative process a network of multiple “inputs” and “outputs”, and where representation and operability are integrated in a new kind of creative transversality of textuality.— Miguel AzguimeFREEOpen to the Public
