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 Lecture
Composer 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 Lecture
In 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 Lecture
Laetitia 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 LectureClarence Barlow will talk about Five Dodecaphonic Pieces, a series of 12-channel electroacoustic pieces realized in 2016 and 2017. He will also briefly talk about Approximating Pi and Four ISIS Studies, electroacoustic pieces from 2003-2008. These works will be presented after the lecture in the 7:30pm concert.
FREEOpen 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 LectureAkiko Hatakeyama is a composer/performer of electroacoustic music and intermedia. She explores the boundaries between written music, improvisation, electronics, real-time computer-based interactivity, and visual media. Storytelling, memories, and nature play an important role in Akiko's work, and she most often finds beauty in simplicity. Akiko's practice focuses on realizing her ideas of relations between the body and mind into intermedia composition, often in conjunction with building customized instruments/interfaces. It is a form of nonverbal communication with her inner self and with the environment, including the audience. By somatically actuating perceptions with sound, light, and haptic objects, her ideas of relations between the body and mind become embraceable.
FREEOpen 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 LectureGRAME's Yann Orlarey gives the CCRMA Open House 2018 Keynote Presentation - Faust: the Roots of Evil
From Yann -FREEOpen to the PublicDemixing and Remixing Music with Deep Learning
Date:Fri, 11/10/2017 - 5:00pm - 6:20pmEvent Type:Guest LectureAbstract: In 2015 Alejandro Koretzky created tuneSplit with the goal of democratizing music creation and remixing while introducing the concept of “Semantic Equalization” in music. By implementing an end-to-end pipeline that performs audio source separation in real time, commercial stereo music can be deconstructed into different instruments and vocals, allowing users to personalize the listening experience and unlocking the possibilities for remixing using parts of existing stereo mixes. Initial versions of the underlying algorithms were based on a proprietary adaptive version of Non-negative Matrix Factorization.
FREEOpen to the PublicGenerative Models for Music and Art
Date:Thu, 10/26/2017 - 6:00pm - 7:20pmLocation:CCRMA Classroom [Knoll 217]Event Type:Guest Lecture
Abstract: 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 LectureThis presentation will discuss a series of related works related to field recording in sites of historical infrastructure within New York City, Rome, and elsewhere.
FREEOpen to the Public
