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
Sounds in Remembered Spaces
Date:Tue, 06/20/2017 - 1:00pm - 2:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Guest LectureFREEOpen to the PublicMusic, Environment, Multimedia Theater and the Silk Road: Recent Research at Shanghai Conservatory of Music
Date:Thu, 04/27/2017 - 5:30pm - 7:00pmLocation:CCRMA ClassroomEvent Type:Guest Lecture
Dai Weiyi : The Construction of "Audio Visual Field" in Multimedia Music Theater.
The lecture will center on the concept of “audio visual field” to describe structural thinking and use of the audio-visual elements in the multimedia music theater.FREEOpen to the PublicMargareta Ackerman: Algorithmic Songwriting
Date:Thu, 04/13/2017 - 5:30pm - 6:30pmLocation:CCRMA Classroom, Knoll 217Event Type:Guest LectureAbstract: Songwriting, the art of combining melodies and lyrics, poses new challenges to algorithmic composition. ALYSIA is a machine-learning system that learns the relationship between melodies and lyrics, and uses the resulting model to create new songs in the style of the corpus. While ALYSIA creates melodies for user-provided lyrics, another system, MABLE, creates computer generated lyrics that convey a coherent story. In addition to discussing both systems, an original song co-created by ALYSIA and music professor Joshua Palkki will be performed.
Joint work with David Loker, Chris Cassion, Rafael Perez y Perez, and Divya Singh.FREEOpen to the PublicHow to Mash Up Music: Lecture, Demo, and Workshop
Date:Wed, 04/12/2017 - 1:00pm - 4:00pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Guest LectureHow to Mash Up Music: Lecture, Demo and Workshop by Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky)
Topic: Tools, motivations and techniques to create mashups in audio, video and code
Preparation: Bring the files of 5 audio tracks or video clips that you would like to mix together, in stem format (wav, mp3, quicktime etc.)
Action: Rock it.Open to the PublicRyan Groves - Building Artificially Intelligent Musical Composers - CCRMA Open House 2017 Keynote
Date:Fri, 03/03/2017 - 1:30pm - 2:20pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Guest LectureFREEOpen to the PublicConsumer Neuroscience of Music: Applied Research at Nielsen
Date:Thu, 12/08/2016 - 5:00pm - Thu, 12/15/2016 - 6:00pmLocation:CCRMA (660 Lomita dr) seminar room (third floor)Event Type:Guest LectureAbstract:
Nielsen Consumer Neuroscience uses measures of neurophysiology to develop insights into consumer experience and behavior. This presentation will provide an overview of those measures, test-retest reliability, validation to in-market sales, and how Nielsen scales neuroscience globally for work with multinational companies. Research at Nielsen provides further evidence that music, in particular, significantly affects advertising performance by influencing emotional engagement and memory activation, and by triggering semantic associations. Case study examples will demonstrate these effects and how consumer neuroscience methods are applied in practice.
FREEOpen to the PublicKurt James Werner's Dissertation Defense: Virtual Analog Modeling Using Wave Digital Filters
Date:Thu, 11/10/2016 - 3:30pm - 5:30pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Guest LectureJimi Hendrix. Keith Emerson. Wendy Carlos. Jeff Mills. The Beastie Boys. Aphex Twin. What do these artists have in common? Their signature sounds feature vintage audio circuits including fuzz boxes, Moog synths, analog drum machines, etc.
In this dissertation defense, Kurt James Werner will present theoretical contributions to topological and nonlinear aspects of Wave Digital Filter theory, advancing the state of the art of virtual analog circuit modeling of classic audio gear. Throughout, the legendary bass drum circuit from the TR-808 Rhythm Composer will serve as a case study, demonstrating the theoretical advances in action.
(don't worry, we've patched in the gigantic QSC subwoofer)Offical abstract follows.
FREEOpen to the PublicWorkshop with Caballito Negro - Terry Longshore and Tessa Brinckman
Date:Sat, 10/29/2016 - 2:00pm - 3:30pmLocation:CCRMA StageEvent Type:Guest LectureFREEOpen to the PublicGuest Lecture: Nori Jacoby "Perceptual Priors in Music and Speech Revealed by Iterated Learning"
Date:Wed, 08/17/2016 - 4:30pm - 5:30pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar roomEvent Type:Guest LectureBio:
Nori Jacoby studies the role of culture in auditory perception. His current work uses iterated learning alongside classical psychophysical methods to characterize perceptual biases in music and speech rhythms in various populations ranging from Westerners to the Tsimané, an Amazonian foraging-farming society in Bolivia. He is also working on computational modeling of synchronization and entrainment in jembe drum ensembles in Mali. Nori completed a Ph.D.
FREEOpen to the PublicAuriel Washburn: Anticipatory Synchronization of Chaotic Behaviors in Humans and Artificial Agents
Date:Thu, 05/12/2016 - 5:00pm - 6:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Guest LectureAbstract: Coordinating one’s behaviors with that of another individual is fundamental to successful social interaction. In most instances, such interaction is effortless and efficient, even when we are faced with highly variable and often unpredictable behavioral events. Key to achieving such coordination and cooperation is being able to predict or anticipate the behaviors of other individuals. Research investigating the mechanisms that support behavioral anticipation has traditionally focused on hypotheses formulated to explain how the human nervous system compensates for the temporal delays that occur between the production of a movement and the perception of its outcome (i.e., feedback).
Open to the Public