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
Special workshop (M39A): Introduction to the Feldenkrais Method and Awareness Through Movement
Date:Tue, 10/01/2013 - 1:15pm - 3:05pmLocation:CCRMA stageEvent Type:Guest Lecture
Music 39A (Seminar in Music, Health, and Medicine) invites Marcia Scott, who is a dancer, singer, and certified Feldenkrais practitioner, to give us a special workshop and seminar about Feldenkrais methods to improve our sensory processing and motor repertoire. Come experience her group session and join our discussion.
Guest lecturer: Marcia ScottFreeFor CCRMA Users OnlyEnzo De Sena: Interactive Auralization for Virtual and Augmented Reality
Date:Thu, 09/26/2013 - 5:30pm - 6:30pmLocation:CCRMA Classroom, Rm 217Event Type:Guest Lecture
Auralization is the process of generating the impression of a sound source in a given space. In virtual reality applications, rendering a convincing auditory experience is key to achieving a high level of immersiveness. Physically accurate models of room acoustics can run in real-time using massively parallel GPUs, but significant limitations in terms of frequency range and room dimensions remain. An alternative is to consider inexact models that render accurately only the most important perceptual cues.
Full abstract:Open to the PublicRobert Henke Public Workshop
Date:Sat, 05/25/2013 - 10:00am - 5:00pmLocation:Bing Hall StudioEvent Type:Guest LectureMorning Session: Outside the Machine, Robert Henke presents a comprehensive overview over several of his works, including Atlantic Waves, Fragile Territories, and Monolake Live Surround.
lunch break
Afternoon Session: Inside the Machine, A detailed examination of the inside and development of some of his projects, focusing on sound design, programming, and other artistic and technological interactions.FREE, with registerationOpen to the PublicVijay Iyer @ CCRMA Special Lecture "Embodied Music Cognition: Compositional and improvisational approaches"
Date:Fri, 03/15/2013 - 12:00pm - 1:00pmLocation:Knoll 2F ClassroomEvent Type:Guest LectureThe paradigms of embodied and situated cognition provide an understanding of mind as emerging from real-world, physically embodied, environmentally and culturally located experience. In this informal talk I'll present some ideas about embodied/situated music cognition, and some techniques I have used in my creative work that are inspired by these ideas.
FREEOpen to the PublicTimothy Bird of Knifedge
Date:Mon, 03/04/2013 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation:CCRMA Stage (The Knoll) - 3rd FloorEvent Type:Guest LectureFREEOpen to the PublicFaust Workshop with Yann Orlarey
Date:Fri, 02/22/2013 - 9:00am - 5:00pmLocation:CCRMA ClassroomEvent Type:Guest Lecture
1 PM-5 PM Tutorials and Hacking Session
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Open to the PublicYann Orlarey: Recent developments in Faust
Date:Thu, 02/21/2013 - 5:15pm - 6:15pmLocation:CCRMA ClassroomEvent Type:Guest LectureAbstract:
FAUST [Functional Audio Stream] is a synchronous functional programming language specifically designed for real-time signal processing and synthesis. The FAUST compiler translates dsp specifications into equivalent C++ programs, taking care of generating efficient code. The FAUST environment includes various "architecture" files. Their role is to describe how to relate the dsp code to the external world. This approach allows a single FAUST program to be
easily deployed to a large variety of audio platforms (Max-MSP externals, PD externals, VST plugins, CoreAudio applications, Jack applications, etc.).
FREEOpen to the PublicJames Cottingham: Sound Production in Free Reed Instruments - Experiments and Models
Date:Thu, 02/14/2013 - 5:15pm - 6:15pmLocation:CCRMA Classroom, The Knoll 2nd floor, Rm 217Event Type:Guest LectureOpen to the PublicMichael Vorländer : How Spherical Loudspeakers Came Into Auralization
Date:Tue, 01/22/2013 - 5:00pm - 6:00pmLocation:CCRMA Classroom, The Knoll 2nd floor, Rm 217Event Type:Guest LectureOpen to the PubliciZotope and the audio industry (from ANR to SRC)
Date:Thu, 10/25/2012 - 7:00pm - 8:00pmLocation:CCRMA classroomEvent Type:Guest LectureiZotope is an industry leader in audio signal processing technology for music creation and production. iZotope employees will provide an overview of the company and a behind-the-scenes look at working in the audio industry. We will present concrete examples of algorithms (such as sample rate conversion, noise reduction, beat and rhythmic analysis) that have gone from conception to productization, the engineering challenges involved, and the team needed to make it happen.FREEOpen to the Public