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Lloyd May on Audio Processing Strategies to Enhance Cochlear Implant Users' Music Enjoyment
Cochlear implants are a brutal solution to a hard problem. How do you electrically stimulate the auditory system to convey sound to people who are otherwise deaf? They work well enough to allow people to understand speech. It's really quite remarkable. But what about music? What might we do to encode music so that people with cochlear implants can enjoy it?
Who: Lloyd May (CCRMA)
What: Designing Audio Processing Strategies to Enhance Cochlear Implant Users' Music Enjoyment
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Caroline Davis: Liberative Joy
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John Chowning & Friends
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Stanford Graduate Composers Present: Manuela Freua & The TANK
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Palette of sound: Triple CCRMAlite’s excursion through time
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Palo Alto Weekly writer Nick Veronin takes a look at recent work being done at CCRMA and profiles the upcoming "Designing Musical Games::Gaming Musical Design", "New Music Controllers" and "3D Printing for Acoustics" Summer Workshops.
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Holly Herndon's New Single Named Best New Track on Pitchfork
"In reviewing electronic music composer Holly Herndon’s breakout debut, 2012's Movement, we noted her penchant for "Bending one person's voice into phantasmagorias", which continues on her newest, breath-halting single, “Chorus”." Read more, and watch video here...