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'''CCRMA Colloquium'''
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'''Wednesday 5:30pm PT (CCRMA Classroom & Zoom)
  
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The CCRMA Colloquium is a weekly gathering of CCRMA students, faculty and staff. It is an opportunity for members of the CCRMA community and guests to share the work that they are doing in the field of Computer Music.  The colloquium typically happens every Wednesday during the school year from 5:15 - 6:30 and meets in the CCRMA Classroom, Knoll 217 unless otherwise noted.
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The CCRMA Colloquium is a weekly gathering of CCRMA students, faculty, staff, and guests. It is an opportunity for members of the CCRMA community and invited speakers to share the work that they are doing in the fields of Computer Music, Audio Signal Processing and Music Information Retrieval, Psychoacoustics, and related fields.  The colloquium traditionally happens every Wednesday during the academic year from 5:30 – 7:00pm and meets in the CCRMA Classroom, Knoll 217, often also with a Zoom presence.
  
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Nette and Matt and this wiki page are organizing 2024-25 colloquia.
  
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Winter Quarter Schedule
 
  
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==3/7/08    Bruce Pennycook    Who will turn the knobs when I die?==
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= Current - Autumn Quarter (2024)=
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*'''09/25/24 (Week 1) New Student Introductions
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**Speaker 1:  Emily Saletan
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**Speaker 2: Mateo Larrea
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**Speaker 3: Katie Pieschala
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**Speaker 4: Walker Smith
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**Speaker 5: Gregg Oliva
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**Speaker 6: Siqi Chen
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**Speaker 7: Lejun Min
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**Speaker 8: Shenran Wang
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**Speaker 9: Nathan Sariowan
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**Speaker 10: Saurav Chala
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**Speaker 11: Udbhav Venkataraman
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**Speaker 12: Heloise Garry
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**Speaker 13: Calvin McCormack
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**Speaker 14: Summer Krinsky
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**Speaker 15: Nancy Rico-Mineros
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**Speaker 16: Tae Kyu Kim
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**Speaker 17: Stuart Sul
  
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Abstract:
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*'''10/02/23 (Week 2) - Faculty and Staff Rapid Fire (part 1)
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**Speaker 1: Jonathan Berger
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**Speaker 2: Ge Wang
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**Speaker 3: Marina Bosi
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**Speaker 4: Chris Chafe
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**Speaker 5: Sasha Leitman
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**Speaker 6: Madalyn Merkey
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**Speaker 7: Hassan Estakhrian
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**Speaker 8: Kunwoo Kim
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**Speaker 9: Nando
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**Non-Speaker NaN: Celeste (recruiting slorkers, super short :) )
  
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This slide & audio presentation tackles the thorny problem of
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*'''10/09/23 (Week 3) - POSTPONED TO WEEK 4 or later
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interactive music composition, performance and preservation and
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addresses the reality that interactive works are rarely performed
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without the composer present as either a performer or at least
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as an equipment operator.
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Many of my works over the past 20 years (including Praescio-VI to be
 
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performed March 13 in a modified format) have utilized a variety
 
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of technologies, some of them custom made specifically for a
 
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particular piece. One challenge has been sustaining these works
 
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against a rapidly changing hardware and software landscape.
 
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The other challenge has been to encourage performers with little
 
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or no technical skills to adopt such works into their standing
 
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repertoire. The presentation will attempt to address both issues.
 
  
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*'''10/16/23 (Week 4) - Transitions!
  
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*'''10/23/23 (Week 5) - Faculty and Staff Rapid Fire (part 2) and CCRMA History
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**Speaker 1:
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**Speaker 2: Julius Smith (confirmed)
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**Speaker 3: Matt Wright (confirmed)
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**Speaker 4: Constantin Basica (confirmed)
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**Speaker 5: Takako Fujioka (confirmed)
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**Speaker 6: Nils Tonnätt (confirmed)
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**Speaker 7:
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**Speaker NaN: Celeste
  
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bio
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*'''10/30/23 (Week 6) - Ligeti theme / concert preview (https://ccrma.stanford.edu/events/homage-ligeti-ccrma-50th-anniversary)
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Professor Bruce Pennycook (Doctor of Musical Arts, Stanford, '78) is a
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** Matt Wright (introduction)
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composer, new media developer and media technology specialist. He taught at
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** Jonathan Berger (brief anecdote)
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Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario then McGill University in Montreal,
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** A word from some performers
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Quebec where he developed undergraduate and graduate degree programs in
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** Georg Hajdu
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Music Technology and held the position of Vice-Principal for Information
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** Martin Bresnick (about Ligeti's time at pre-CCRMA and his compositions Atmosphères and Musica ricercata)
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Systems and Technology. Pennycook moved to Austin in 2002 and was appointed
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** John Chowning (about Ligeti's 1972 visit to Stanford and more of the CCRMA/Ligeti connections)
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Senior Lecturer at UT Austin in 2004. He teaches in the Department of
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Composition, School of Music and in the Radio-Television-Film Department,
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College of Communication.
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==Previous Colloquia==
 
  
  
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10/17/07 ---------- Keith McMillen -------------Mapps: A persistent performance score for modern music
 
  
  
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Title: Mapps: A persistent performance score for modern music
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*'''11/06/23 (Week 7) -
  
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Abstract:
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*'''11/13/23 (Week 8) -
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A brief history of the effects of technology on music followed by a description of the problems facing modern technical composers and performers with the persistence of any performable repertoire.  Progress on this front as characterized by the software program MACIAS as used by TrioMetrik and plans for a more enduring format. http://www.beamfoundation.org/
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Presenter:
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Keith McMillen has been working his entire adult life on one single problem – how to play live interactive music in an ensemble using extended instruments moderated by computer intelligence. This goal has required him to create dozens of new instruments, patented technologies and multiple successful companies in order to advance the technology sufficiently to reach his musical objectives. Keith began his audio career in 1979, when he founded Zeta Music. The company's revolutionary electronic instrument designs created a new market in the music industry, and the brand “Zeta” is synonymous with the modern violin. Later, as Vice President of R&D at Gibson Guitars, Keith worked with UC Berkeley’s CNMAT and created a new technology group focusing on audio networking, synthesizers and string instruments. As Director of Engineering at Harman Kardon, he formed an innovative new software product division dealing with audio processing and distributed networks. Keith founded Octiv in 1999 to solve major issues with live audio and led the company as both technologist and business guru raising over $20M from VCs such as 3i and Intel Capital. In April of 2005, Keith successfully sold Octiv to Plantronics (NYSE:PLT) and is personally funding the current operations of the BEAM Foundation. Keith received his BS in Acoustics under James Beauchamp from the University of Illinois where he also trained in classical guitar and studied composition with Herbert Brun, Scott Wyatt, and Sal Martirano. Keith has spent 25 years developing MACIAS – an integrated composition performance system that is the foundation of TrioMetrik’s music. He now works full time at composing, creating and performing while pursuing his original goal of a next generation music he has termed NuRoque and a method for creating a persistent performance score for modern music called MAPPS.
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**Stephanie Sherriff
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**Jonathan Berger
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** Eleanor Selfrige-Field
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** Craig Sapp
  
  
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10/24/07 ---------- Flo Menezes --------------- Maximal Music
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*'''11/20/23 (Week 9) - CCRMA TOWN HALL
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*'''11/27/23 (Week T) - NO SEMINAR (Thanksgiving break)
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*'''12/4/23 (Week 10) - HOLD (Vilbjørg Broch?)
  
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Title: Maximal Music
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= Future - Winter Quarter (2025)=
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*'''01/08/25 (Week 1)
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*'''01/15/25 (Week 2)
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*'''01/22/25 (Week 3)
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*'''01/29/25 (Week 4)
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*'''02/05/25 (Week 5)
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*'''02/12/25 (Week 6)
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*'''02/19/25 (Week 7)
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*'''02/26/25 (Week 8) Niloufar Shiri Presentation
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*'''03/05/25 (Week 9)
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*'''03/12/25 (Week 10)
  
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Abstract:
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= Past - Spring Quarter (2024)=
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The purpose of the lecture is to give an insight on the compositional aesthetics of composer Flo Menezes. Aspects such as pitch 
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(Organizer/host please put your name in parentheses after each speaker or week)
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polarization, directionalities, musical references, sound spatialilty and interval techniques will be exposed along with 22 musical examples, which go from purely instrumental to electroacoustic compositions.
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*'''4/3 (Week 1) Sasha Leitman: Creative Work and Research
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Flo Menezes (São Paulo, 1962) studied Composition at the University of São Paulo with Willy Corrêa de Oliveira (1980-85), 
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*'''4/10 (Week 2) Zoran Cvetkovic (Chris Chafe)
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Electroacoustic Music with Hans Humpert at the Studio für elektronische Musik of Cologne (1986-90) and Computer Music at the 
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*'''4/17 (Week 3) CCRMA Town Hall
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Centro di Sonologia Computazionale in Padova, Italy (1991), besides courses in France with Pierre Boulez (1988) and Brian Ferneyhough (1995), in Austria with Luciano Berio (1989), and in Germany with Karlheinz Stockhausen (1998), who has invited him as Professor of his International Stockhausen Courses in 1999 and 2001. In 1992, he concluded a PhD on the work of Berio in Liège under the supervision  of Henri Pousseur and worked on Berioâ’s manuscripts at the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basle, Switzerland. His analysis of Visage by Berio was awarded in 1990 at the 1st International Musicology 
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*'''4/24 (Week 4) Marco Fusi in the Stage, followed by Special Social Event (wear clothes you don't mind getting stained) - Nette will send specifics later :)
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Competition, Italy.
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*'''5/1 (Week 5) Professor Emily Howard (PRISM) (Patricia)
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*'''5/8 (Week 6) rapid fire 5 minute presentations (Chris Chafe)
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**Speaker 1: Ge Wang
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**Speaker 2: Kunwoo Kim
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**Speaker 3: Matt Wright
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**Speaker 4: Julius Smith
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**Speaker 5: Chris Chafe
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**Speaker 6: Vidya Rangasayee
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**Speaker 7: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano (aka: nando)
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**Speaker 8: Marina Bosi
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*'''5/15 (Week 7) (The [https://ccrma.stanford.edu/ccrma-open-house Open House] is tomorrow - let's skip Colloquium this week)
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*'''5/22 (Week 8) Lara Weaver - Sonic Arts Research Centre - SARC (Patricia)
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*'''5/29 (Week 9) Capstone projects in Neuromusic lab (Takako Fujioka)
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*'''6/5 (Week 10) Capstone project presentations
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**Speaker 1: Eito Murakami
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**Speaker 2: Ryan Wixen
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**Speaker 3: Terry Feng
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**Speaker 4: Sneha Shah
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Menezes was awarded significant international prizes for composition: UNESCO in Paris (1991); TRIMALCA-Prize (1993); Prix Ars Electronica in Austria (1995); Luigi Russolo Contest in Italy (1996); Prêmio Sergio Motta in São Paulo (2002); Bolsa Vitae de Artes in São Paulo (2003); Giga-Hertz-Preis at ZKM in Karlsruhe (2007). He was invited by many institutions such as Fondation Royaumont (1995), IRCAM and GRM (1997), BEAST in Birmingham (2001), CRCA in San Diego (2007), Experimental studio of Freiburg (2008) etc. and his works have been played in many festivals and theaters around the world (Carnegie Hall in NY; Salle Olivier Messiaen in Paris; Walt Disney Hall/Redcat in Los Angeles; Sala São Paulo; Maison de la Suisse Romande; etc.)
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= Past - Winter Quarter (2024)=
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*'''1/10/24 (Week 1) - CCRMA Trivia Night (hosts: Nette & Marise)
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*'''1/17/24 (Week 2) - Ali "AMAC" McGuire                   
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- Making music is the easiest part of the journey. Navigating a business that pushes to exploit your love and offers you the world at your fingertips is the challenge. Where do you start? How do you set boundaries? How do you make money? How do you avoid the toxic traits that are so often totted as success? Come prepared with any questions that you may went to dive into- from your worries and fears to anything else. In this talk AMAC is going to share her experiences succeeding and failing in the music industry to give you an inside look at what you can expect after you graduate and take your shot.
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*'''1/24/24 (Week 3) - [missed week]
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*'''1/31/24 (Week 4) - Pedro Gonzalez
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*'''2/7/24 (Week 5) - Sasha Leitman Colloquium on Materials and Resources for Maker Projects and PCB Work for Maker and Creative Projects (host: Nette)
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*'''2/14/24 (Week 6) - Miya Masaoka
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*'''2/21/24 (Week 7) - Ed Newton-Rex
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*'''2/28/24 (Week 8) - [CANCELLED] Nando (Lopez-Lezcano) - Modular synthesis workflows, or "why did you turn that knob clockwise now?"
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*'''3/6/24 (Week 9) - David Monacchi -- Stage -- (host: Chris Chafe)
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*'''3/13/24 (Week 10) - Richard Hoover of Santa Cruz Guitars (host: Mark Rau)
  
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Author of several books, he is founder and Director of the Studio PANaroma in São Paulo and of the PUTS: PANaroma/Unesp Teatro Sonoro, the first loudspeaker orchestra in Brazil, and is currently Professor of Electroacoustic Music at the State University of São Paulo (Unesp) and Visiting Professor at the University of Cologne, Germany.
 
  
  
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10/31/07 ---------- Craig Sapp ----------------- Measuring Similarity in Performances of Chopin Mazurkas
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= Past - Autumn Quarter (2023)=
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*'''09/27/23 (Week 1) New Student Introductions
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**Speaker 1: Richard Lee
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**Speaker 2: Anna Gruzas
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**Speaker 3: Rochelle Tham
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**Speaker 4: Becca Wroblewski
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**Speaker 5: Logan Kibler
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**Speaker 6: Spark Wu
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**Speaker 7: Tristan Peng
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**Speaker 8: Ryan Wixen
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**Speaker 9: Asger Langhoff
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**Speaker 10: Signe Henriksen
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**Speaker 11: Ningxin Zhang
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**Speaker 12: Chengyi Xing
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**Speaker 13: Brian Brown
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**Speaker 14: Richard Berrebi
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**Speaker 15: Max Jardetzky
  
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Title: Measuring Similarity in Performances of Chopin Mazurkas
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*'''10/04/23 (Week 2) - Faculty and Staff Rapid Fire (part 1)
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**Speaker 1: Takako
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**Speaker 2: Ge
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**Speaker 3: Matt Wright
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**Speaker 4: Marina
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**Speaker 5: Julius
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**Speaker 6: Eleanor
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**Speaker 7: Craig
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**Speaker 8: Nando
  
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Abstract: 
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*'''10/11/23 (Week 3) - Faculty and Staff Rapid Fire (part 2) and CCRMA History
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Recent work in performance analysis being done at the Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM) at Royal Holloway, University of London will be presented.  Performance features, such as note timings and loudness are extracted from audio files from various performances of the same work.  These musical features are then compared between performers
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**Speaker 1: Chris Chafe
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in isolation, in combination, and in subcomponents to get a feeling for where a performer might be getting their inspiration.
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**Speaker 2: Jarek Kapuscinski
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One pianist was found to have gotten her inspiration in an unusual way:
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**Speaker 3: Scott Oshiro
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http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/17/070917fa_fact_singer?currentPage=all
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**Speaker 4: Constantin Basica
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**Speaker 5: Patricia
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**Speaker 6: Hongchan Choi
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**Presentation: history of CCRMA and The Knoll (Matt Wright / John Chowning / Nette Worthey)
  
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Craig Sapp has been working on performance analysis of Chopin mazurkas with Nicholas Cook and Andrew Earis at CHARM in London for the past two years.
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** Fernando Lopez-Lezcano -- Free What?? -- a look at the worldwide movement that created free/libre operating systems and software
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** Satoshi Yamaguchi (Keio Research Institute at SFC, RADWIMPS) -- Drummer's Dystonia: Incidence and Affected Limb in 1003 Japanese Drummers.
  
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*'''10/25/23 (Week 5) - Matthew Goodheart talk on transducer-activated instruments (host: Matt Wright)
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*'''11/01/23 (Week 6) - Fernando Lopez-Lezcano -- Modular Synthesis Workflows, or The Modules I Loved
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*'''11/08/23 (Week 7) - CCRMA Town Hall
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*'''11/15/23 (Week 8) - Brian Baumbusch: "Polytempo Music" - A new interactive VR music application (host: Constantin)
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*'''11/22/23 (Week T) - NO SEMINAR (Thanksgiving break)
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*'''11/29/23 (Week 9) - Planning session for Winter and Spring colloquium - bring your ideas!
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*'''12/5/23 (Week 10) - Georg Essl: Looking at Sound Synthesis through the Lens of Topology
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** Topology is the science of connectivity. Topological topics have increasingly become part of digital signal processing and sound synthesis in recent years. In this talk I will discuss topology in the context of familiar sound synthesis methods and digital signal foundations. Ultimately the goal is to show that thinking topologically about making algorithmic noises, is interesting, fruitful, and different -- making it worth a closer look.
  
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= Past - Spring Quarter (2023)=
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*'''4/5 (Week 1) - [https://adamstanovic.com Adam Stanović] (Constantin)
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*'''4/12 (Week 2) - Graham Wakefield - talk on algorithms at sample and subsample levels for generative sonic art.'''  Graham is the author of [https://docs.cycling74.com/max8/vignettes/gen_topic gen~] for Max/MSP, providing efficient single-sample audio processing using code generation, along with the gen~ book [https://cycling74.com/books/go Generating Sound and Organizing Time].  This [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbd1CASqUmI  video] shows gen~ programming a Daisy microcontroller in a modular synthesis environment. York University profile: https://ampd.yorku.ca/profile/graham-wakefield Research lab at York University: http://alicelab.world  Artwork collaboration with Haru Ji: https://artificialnature.net/
  
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*'''4/19 (Week 3) - Skills Share (Matt organizing)
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*'''4/26 (Week 4) - Suzanne Dikker & Aurie Hsu (Julia Mills & Alex Han)
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*'''5/3 (Week 5) - Conference-style talks. ''' This includes longer form presentations or lectures. Reach out to Mike (mulshine@stanford.edu) to sign up. 
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*'''5/10 (Week 6) - CCRMA Town Hall (Kunwoo, Nette, & Matt)
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*'''5/17 (Week 7) - Gareth Loy -- Introduction to the Player programming language
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*'''5/24 (Week 8) - CANCELED: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano -- Modular Synthesis Workflows, or The Modules I Loved
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*'''5/31 (Week 9) - Zehao Wang (new researcher visitor from UCSD / Miller Puckette) -- Real-time sound synthesis for 2-D plates using FDTD methods (Julius)
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*'''6/7 (Week 10) - MST Capstone Project showcase! (Nette)
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11/7/07 ------------ Jonathan Middleton ----- The Algorithmic Foundations of My Instrumental Music
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= Past - Winter Quarter (2023)=
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*'''1/11 (Week 1) - Kanru Hua, CEO of Synthesizer V, Japan (https://dreamtonics.com/en/synthesizerv/)(Contact: MAMST Student Benny (Shicheng) Zhang
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*'''1/18 (Week 2) - Game and International Snacks Night (Nette & Kunwoo)
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*'''1/25 (Week 3) - Community-wide rapid-fire talks! ''' Share your recent thoughts, explorations, work, hobbies. Get to know what your peers are up to. Everyone is invited to share.
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**Speaker 1: Mike Mulshine
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**Speaker 2: Ge Wang
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**Speaker 3: Jarek Kapuscinski and Eito Murakami
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**Speaker 4: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
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**Speaker 5: Chris Chafe
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**Speaker 6: Julius Smith 1 minute announcement of Music 423 Thursdays 4:30 pm in Seminar Room - 20 min update tomorrow (there)
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**Speaker 7: Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi
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**Speaker 8: Travis Skare
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**Speaker 9: Matt Wright
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**Speaker 10: Julie Zhu
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**Speaker 11: Nima Farzaneh
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**Speaker 12:
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*'''2/1 (Week 4) - Skills Share (Matt / democratic)
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*'''2/8 (Week 5) - Laura Steenberge meet in Listening Room (Chris Chafe)
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*'''2/15 (Week 6) - Scott Oshiro [quantum music] / Mischa Dohler [Ericsson, low-latency XR] (Chris Chafe)
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*'''2/22 (Week 7) - Webchuck (Chris Chafe + lots of webchuck contributors)
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*'''3/1 (Week 8) - Luna Valentin cave acoustics / Music Business talk from Anne Van Der Erve from Warner Music Benelux
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*'''3/8 (Week 9) - [https://perbloland.com/ Per Bloland]: MaxOrch and Orchidea
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*'''3/15 (Week 10) - [https://www.jayafrisando.com Jay Afrisando] (Constantin)
  
  
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Title: The Algorithmic Foundations of My Instrumental Music
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= Past - Autumn Quarter (2022)=
  
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*'''09/28 (Week 1) New Student Introductions
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In the book "Atlas" one can see the original photographs Gerhard Richter collected as  inspiration and source material for his photo-paintings.  In my CCRMA colloquium, I'd like to make a similar attempt to reveal my creative sources and the artistic strategy I have developed to make these sources the foundation of my music.  I will present the early stages of my creative process that provide a basic thread and musical themes for  Redwoods Symphony (Kiev Philharmonic), Radiant Peaks (Coeur d'Alene Symphony), Reciprocal Refractions (Spokane Symphony), and Dreaming Among Thermal Pools and Concentric 
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**Speaker 1: Sneha Shah
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Spirals (Paradox duo).  Each process begins with the algorithmic transformation (or translation) of  things I care about: redwood 
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**Speaker 2: Josh Mitchell
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trees, bull trout, spirals, topographical maps... things that serve as a creative launching point.  Algorithmic examples will be presented from http://musicalgorithms.ewu.edu/, the user-friendly freeware I designed in 2004-05.
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**Speaker 3: Emily Kuo
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**Speaker 4: Balazs & Truls
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**Speaker 5: Julia Yu
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**Speaker 6: Senyuan Fan
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**Speaker 7: Celeste Betancur
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**Speaker 8: Victoria Litton
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**Speaker 9: Yiheng Dong
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**Speaker 10 Eito Murakami
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**Speaker 11 Soohyun Kim
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**Speaker 12 Luna Valentin
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**Speaker 13 Terry Feng
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**Speaker 14 Alex Han
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**Speaker 15 Benny Zhang
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**Speaker 16 Sami Wurm
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**Speaker 17 Neha Rajagopalan
  
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*'''10/05 (Week 2) Faculty and Staff Rapid Fire
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**Speaker 1 Chris Chafe
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**Speaker 2 Ge Wang
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**Speaker 3 Patricia Alessandrini
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**Speaker 4 Marina Bosi
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**Speaker 5 Julius Smith
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**Speaker 6 Jarek Kapuściński
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**Speaker 7
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**Speaker 8
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**Speaker 9
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**Speaker 10 Mark Rau
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**Speaker 11
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**Speaker 12
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**Speaker 13
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**Speaker 14
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**Speaker 15
  
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*'''10/12 (Week 3) WINGS and Peer Mentoring in Music ''' (Mara Mills visit postponed to Spring)
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Jonathan Middleton is an Associate Professor of Theory and Composition at
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Eastern Washington University, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in
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composition, counterpoint, theory, orchestration, and computer music. During the 2007-08
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academic year he is on professional leave at Stanford University serving as a visiting scholar
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at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).
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Jonathan Middleton’s creative interests include spontaneous approaches to
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composition through stream of consciousness and algorithmic composition. His music has
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won awards and performances throughout the Pacific Northwest, the U.S. and Europe. In
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the year 2000, Jonathan Middleton became Washington State’s “Composer of the Year,” an
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award sponsored by the Washington State Music Teachers Association. In 2004, he was
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awarded a regionally competitive grant to develop a Web-based application that explores
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algorithmic composition and interdisciplinary learning: http://musicalgorithms.ewu.edu/.
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The program provides a creative environment where composers can create music from
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integer sequences and DNA. In 2005 he completed the first movement of Redwoods
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Symphony, a work that uses themes created from DNA of redwood trees. The first
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movement of Redwoods Symphony has been recorded by the Kiev Philharmonic under the
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direction of Robert Winstin. The recording is available on ERM Media’s “Masterworks of
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the New Era” vol. 11. The “musicalgorithms” program was also used to complete Dreaming
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Among Thermal Pools and Concentric Spirals available on “Soak,” sold through CD Baby
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(www.cdbaby.com) and iTunes. In 2007 he will be completing commissions for the Coeur
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d’Alene and Spokane Symphonies.
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Jonathan Middleton’s background includes studies with numerous composition
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teachers, most notably those with Frederic Rzewski, William Kraft, Fred Lerdahl, Emma
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Lou Diemer, Ann Kearns, Peter Golub and two Pulitzer Prize winners Roger Reynolds and
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Lewis Spratlan. He also studied twentieth century compositional techniques with Kyle Gann
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and Tristan Murail. He obtained his Doctor of Musical Arts in 1999 from Columbia
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University where he was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the School of the Arts.
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*'''10/19 (Week 4) Faculty and Staff Rapid Fire, part 2
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**Speaker 1 Takako Fujioka
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**Speaker 2 Eleanor Selfridge-Field
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**Speaker 3 Craig Stuart Sapp
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**Speaker 4 Craig Stuart Sapp
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**Speaker 5 Poppy Crum
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**Speaker 6 Jonathan Berger
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**Speaker 7 Matt Wright
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**Speaker 8 Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
 +
**Speaker 9 Constantin Basica
 +
**Speaker 10 Stephanie Sherriff
 +
**Speaker 11
 +
**Speaker 12
 +
**Speaker 13
 +
**Speaker 14
 +
**Speaker 15
  
−
11/14/07 ---------- Jesper Nordin ------------- "calm like a bomb"
+
*'''10/26 (Week 5) Romain Michon, Tanguy Risset, Maxime Popoff : [https://ccrma.stanford.edu/events/high-level-programming-of-fpgas-audio-real-time-signal-processing-applications High-Level Programming of FPGAs for Audio Real-Time Signal Processing Applications]
  
−
Title: "calm like a bomb" - Jesper Nordin
+
*'''11/2 (Week 6) - TBD
  
−
Abstract:
+
*'''11/9 (Week 7) - Pizza & Pegagody: Assignments and Evaluations
−
Jesper Nordin's music is largly influenced by his background in rock music and the traditional Swedish folk music. These influences are always present in his music, be it orchestral pieces or works with live electronics. His focus on the audible aspect in composition has  made the computer his foremost tool in composing. Usually he builds up very detailed sketches/maquettes with recorded and treated sounds that he then transcribes. The use of improvisation during composing is also important and can include everything from himself singing to letting different programs treat his material in controlled or random ways. Lately he has also started to incorporate different control surfaces to be able to improvise but still keep control over musical materials and techniques. His piece "calm like a bomb" for violin and electronics will be performed by Greame Jennings of the SFCMP on November 19th at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum.
+
  
−
Presenter:
+
*'''11/16 (Week 8) - Student-only Town Hall
−
The music of Jesper Nordin, with its clear traces of traditional Swedish folk music, rock music and improvised music, is played throughout the world by major soloists, ensembles and symphony orchestras.  His international break-through came in 2000 with the piece “calm like a bomb” that is regularly performed by ensembles like ASKO, l’Itineraire and San Francisco Contemporary Music Players.  He has been awarded prizes in many composition competitions in Europ and North America, for instance at UNESCO’s Rostrum of Composers.  His music is broadcast around the world and has been played at festivals such as ISCM, Gaudeamus, ICMC and Resonances.  After studies  at the Royal College in Stockholm, Stanford University and at IRCAM in Paris he was appointed Composer in Residence at the National Swedish Radio 2004-2006.  In 2006 the Swedish Radio Released the portraid CD “Residues” that include some of his major orchestral works.  For more info see www.jespernordin.com
+
  
 +
*'''11/23 (Week 9) - NO SEMINAR (Thanksgiving break)
  
 +
*'''11/30 (Week 10) - planning session for Winter and Spring colloquium
  
−
11/28/07  ---------- Hans Tutschku ------------ The electronic studio as instrument 
+
<br />
  
−
Title: The electronic studio as instrument
 
  
−
Abstract:
 
−
My compositional work is very much informed by the practice of performance. Many of my musical ideas emerge from playing an instrument.  I’m interested in the human gesture and how it can be 
 
−
analyzed and used to influence electroacoustic treatments. The piece « Zellen Linien » for piano and live-electronics, presented on the Thursday nights concert program, is a result of such a research, 
 
−
where the pianist is controlling many aspects of the live-electronics by the way how he/she interprets the score.
 
  
−
But also in non-real-time settings, during my work in the studio, I search for possibilities to transform the studio into an instrument, which reacts as spontaneously as possible to my ideas.
+
= Past - Spring Quarter (2022)=
−
The colloquium will provide an analysis of « Zellen Linien » with practical examples.
+
  
 +
*'''03/30 - Spring Welcome Dinner at Treehouse'''
 +
*'''04/06 - In-House Project and Research Updates (Everyone is encouraged to present)'''
 +
*'''04/13 - BREAK'''
 +
*'''04/19* Tuesday - Installation by J. Mills'''
 +
*'''04/27 - [http://maramills.org/ Mara Mills] (Virtual Talk)'''
 +
*'''05/04 - Inclusive Teaching Workshop (Lloyd May & CTL)'''
 +
*'''05/11 - BREAK '''
 +
*'''05/18 - BREAK'''
 +
*'''05/25 - BREAK'''
 +
*'''06/01 - BREAK'''
  
  
−
Presenter:
+
*''' Future Colloquiums already booked:'''
 +
*10/12 Mara Mills - History of PCM
  
−
Hans Tutschku
+
= Past - Winter Quarter (2022)=
−
Born 1966 in Weimar. Member of the "Ensemble for intuitive music Weimar" since 1982. He studied composition of electronic music at the college of music Dresde and had since 1989 the opportunity to participate in several concert cycles of Karlheinz Stockhausen to learn the art of the sound direction. He further studied 1991/92 Sonology and electroacoustic composition at the royal conservatoire in the Hague (Holland).  1994 followed a oneyear’s study stay at IRCAM in Paris. He taught 1995/96 as a guest professor electroacoustic composition in Weimar. 1996 he participated in composition workshops with Klaus Huber and Brian Ferneyhough. 1997-2001 he taught electroacoustic composition at IRCAM in Paris and from 2001 to 2004 at the conservatory of Montbéliard.  In May 2003 he completed a doctorate (PhD) with Professor Dr. Jonty Harrison at the University of Birmingham. During the spring term 2003 he was the "Edgar Varèse Gast Professor" at the TU Berlin.
+
*'''01/05 - BREAK'''
−
Since September 2004 Hans Tutschku has been working as composition professor and director of the electroacoustic studios at Harvard University (Boston). He is the winner of many international composition competitions, among other: Bourges, CIMESP Sao Paulo, Hanns Eisler price, Prix Ars Electronica, Prix Noroit and Prix Musica Nova. In 2005 he rezeived the culture prize of the city of Weimar.
+
  
 +
*'''01/12 - David Kanaga''' Composer/designer behind the games: [https://store.steampowered.com/app/223450/Dyad/ Dyad], [https://store.steampowered.com/app/219680/Proteus/ Proteus], [https://store.steampowered.com/app/284260/PANORAMICAL/ PANORAMICAL], & the podcast-opera [https://player.fm/series/soft-valkyrie Soft Valkyrie] ([https://stanford.zoom.us/rec/play/mieXwoFVZvaXBeyMXjVYfECaDWF1g-cPB6crtb7F4XDWLBZd9VQrm51DGPZ4MzmkigERYPVV_fEUcpGS._UjZ93byy84C4Z8b?continueMode=true&_x_zm_rtaid=5upEGBnLQ1y0Lo9FUvcfhQ.1642105886449.38f96f3577c62100fbf9b412b90ef670&_x_zm_rhtaid=270 Recording available here])
  
 +
*'''01/19 - [http://www.marcevanstein.com/ Marc Evanstein]'''
  
−
NOTE: The first three colloquiums of the quarter will be talks presented by applicants to the Music Department's faculty position in composition.  These presentations will occur from 4:15 - 6:15 on January 9, 16 and 23 in Cambell Recital Hall in Braun Music Center.  Application letters and curriculum vita can be found at: https://www.stanford.edu/dept/music/private/CompSearch.html.
+
*'''01/26 - Walker Davis & Alex Mitchell from [https://boomy.com/ boomy]  '''
  
−
1/9/08      Dr. Marcelo Toledo
+
*'''02/02 - Social Event and Student-Only Meeting '''
−
Application letters and curriculum vita can be found at: https://www.stanford.edu/dept/music/private/CompSearch.html.
+
  
−
1/16/08      Dr. Jaroslaw Kapuscinski
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*'''02/09 - [http://vibeke.info/ Vibeke Sorensen] '''
−
Application letters and curriculum vita can be found at: https://www.stanford.edu/dept/music/private/CompSearch.html.
+
  
−
1/23/08      Dr. Panayiotis Kokoras
+
*'''02/16 - Unofficial Social and Welcome to WasteLAnd!'''
  
−
Application letters and curriculum vita can be found at: https://www.stanford.edu/dept/music/private/CompSearch.html.
+
*'''02/23 - Break'''
  
 +
*'''03/02 - Rapid Fire and Conference Style Talks''' (Sign-ups are open!)
 +
** (Conference Style = 15 minutes, Rapid Fire = 5 minutes)
 +
** Speaker 1: Tamilore Awosile (10 mins)
 +
** Speaker 2: Frank Mondelli (Conference Style)
 +
** Speaker 3: Lloyd May (Rapid Fire)
 +
** Speaker 4: Julia Mills (Conference Style)
 +
** Speaker 5: Nima Farzaneh (Conference Style)
  
 +
*'''03/09 - CCRMA Town Hall'''
  
 +
*'''03/16 - Break'''
  
−
[[Category:CCRMA User Guide]][[Category:General]][[Category:Current Events]]
+
= Past - Autumn Quarter (2021)=
 +
 
 +
*'''9/22 New Student Introductions'''
 +
** Speaker 1: Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi
 +
** Speaker 2: Taylor Goss
 +
** Speaker 3: Julia Mills
 +
** Speaker 4: Kiran Gandhi
 +
** Speaker 5: Dirk Roosenburg
 +
** Speaker 6: Aaron Hodges
 +
** Speaker 7: Nick Shaheed
 +
** Speaker 8: Nima Farzaneh
 +
** Speaker 9: Noah Berrie
 +
** Speaker 10: Angela Lee
 +
 
 +
* '''9/29: [https://deutsch.ucsd.edu/ Diana Deutsch] || [https://stanford.zoom.us/rec/play/BqWvlQm3A56M40R7RacsoECfgLyDBceMAKCmv-reuiF9z2vqBe2zOQkuIhYcx5yas_qaI6rNwlJuEhHC.gNOkgLaCa1MoGAwy?continueMode=true&_x_zm_rtaid=pLyEfNNkT1ehEzQ0llwZ3w.1633020343192.a1088fb5aa65f3bfc1eec9f8cd66a807&_x_zm_rhtaid=200 Recording of talk] || [https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~cc/DDeutsch_CCRMA_Video_2021c.webm Pre-recorded lecture (Lightweight)] || [https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~cc/DDeutsch_CCRMA_Video_2021c.mov Pre-recorded lecture (Full-res)]'''
 +
 
 +
*'''10/6 [https://stanford.zoom.us/rec/share/-dg0kA_9aJHEPYIahSBeG-5H4Vh9R6uT7M3qBfoBXEWQ69agHXeOyAgzBLskQoaF.rtlqEmUAd8b8p4tb Faculty/Staff Introductions Part 1]'''
 +
**Speaker 1:
 +
** Speaker 2: Matt
 +
** Speaker 3: Ge
 +
** Speaker 4: Takako
 +
** Speaker 5: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNGpbxAPU1c Julius]
 +
** Speaker 6:
 +
** Speaker 7:
 +
 
 +
*'''10/13 Faculty/Staff Introductions Part 2'''
 +
** Speaker 1: Constantin
 +
** Speaker 2: Nando
 +
** Speaker 3: Jonathan (B)
 +
** Speaker 4: Jarek
 +
** Speaker 5: Nick
 +
** Speaker 6: Chris C
 +
** Speaker 7: Patricia
 +
** Speaker 8: Marina
 +
 
 +
*'''10/20 - CCRMA Town Hall'''
 +
 
 +
*'''10/27 ''' BREAK
 +
 
 +
*'''11/03 ''' Social Event (TBD)
 +
 
 +
*'''11/10 Rapid Fire & Conference Style '''(Sign-ups are open!)
 +
** (Conference Style = 15 minutes, Rapid Fire = 5 minutes)
 +
** Speaker 1: Lloyd May (Rapid Fire)
 +
** Speaker 2: Chris Chafe (Rapid Fire via zoom, assuming my internet works after the storm)
 +
** Speaker 3: Mark Rau (Rapid Fire)
 +
** Speaker 4: Champ Darabundit (Conference)
 +
** Speaker 5: Eleanor Selfridge-Field (Rapid Fire)
 +
** Speaker 6: Crag Stuart Sapp (Rapid Fire)
 +
 
 +
*'''11/17 ''' BREAK
 +
 
 +
*'''12/1 Special Guest Talks:''' Nils Tonnätt & Victoria Shen
 +
 
 +
= Past - Spring Quarter (2021)=
 +
 
 +
* '''3/31: Town Hall
 +
* '''4/07: CCRMA Open House Prep
 +
* '''4/14:
 +
* '''4/21: [[12pm]] - CCRMA Colloquium Phase Shift -1.88 degrees (social hang)
 +
* '''4/28: [http://www.avneeshsarwate.com/ Avneesh Sarwate]:''' Digital Audiovisual Interactive Media
 +
* '''5/05: Break! Rapid-Fire Talks Postponed to 5/19'''
 +
* '''5/12: [http://scattershot.org/ Jeff Snyder]:''' "Unusual Embedded Instruments"
 +
* '''5/19:  Rapid Fire & Conference Style Talks''' - sign up here via your CCRMA login
 +
** '''Rapid Fire Signups (5 min)'''
 +
*** Speaker 1: CC waveguide mesh, part 2, realtime wavefield output
 +
*** Speaker 2:
 +
*** Speaker 3:
 +
*** Speaker 4:
 +
*** Speaker 5: Ge "ChucK: new features, new bugs, new worlds (ChucKTrip?)"
 +
*** Speaker 6:
 +
*** Speaker 7:
 +
*** Speaker 8:
 +
** '''Conference Style Signups (15 min)'''
 +
*** Speaker 1: Marise van Zyl (rapid fire)
 +
*** Speaker 2: Prateek Verma
 +
*** Speaker 3: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
 +
* '''5/26: [https://www.decontextualize.com/ Allison Parrish]:''' Poet and Programmer
 +
* '''6/02: [http://sashaleitman.com/about/ Sasha Leitman]:''' Physical Interaction Design for Music
 +
 
 +
= Past - Winter Quarter (2021)=
 +
 
 +
* 1/13: Break
 +
* '''1/20: Informal Hangout / Dance Party
 +
* '''1/27:
 +
* '''2/03:
 +
* '''2/10: CCRMA Town !!
 +
*'''2/17: Rapid-Fire Talks''' (5 min) - sign up here via your CCRMA login
 +
** Speaker 1: Kunwoo Kim
 +
** Speaker 2: John Chowning
 +
** Speaker 3: Noah Fram
 +
** Speaker 4: Camille Noufi
 +
** Speaker 5: Barbara Nerness
 +
** Speaker 6: (maybe) Julie Zhu
 +
** Speaker 7: Chris Chafe
 +
** Speaker 8: Lloyd May
 +
** Speaker 9: Mike Mulshine
 +
** Speaker 10: Ge Wang
 +
** Speaker 11: Jatin (hopefully)
 +
** Speaker 12: Alex Chechile
 +
** Speaker 13: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
 +
** Speaker 14:
 +
** Speaker 15:
 +
* '''2/24:
 +
* '''3/03: Conference Style Talks''' (15-20 min) - sign up here via your CCRMA login
 +
** Speaker 1: Ty Sadlier
 +
** Speaker 2: Travis Skare
 +
** Speaker 3: Constantin Basica & Prateek Verma
 +
** Speaker 4:
 +
* '''3/10: Sasha Leitman
 +
* '''3/17: Break
 +
 
 +
= Past - Autumn Quarter (2020)=
 +
<span style="color:red">'''In person colloquiua will not be held for the 2020 Autumn Quarter. All events will be held remotely.
 +
 
 +
*'''9/16 New Student Introductions'''
 +
** Speaker 1: Lloyd May
 +
** Speaker 2: Andrew Zhu
 +
** Speaker 3: Kathleen Yuan
 +
** Speaker 4: Marise van Zyl
 +
** Speaker 5: Hannah Choi
 +
** Speaker 6: Joss Saltzman
 +
** Speaker 7: Champ Darabundit
 +
** Speaker 8: Clara Allison
 +
** Speaker 9: David Braun
 +
** Speaker 10: Austin Zambito-Valente
 +
 
 +
*'''9/23 Faculty/Staff Introductions'''
 +
**Speaker 1: Jonathan Berger
 +
** Speaker 2: Ge Wang
 +
** Speaker 3: Takako Fujioka
 +
** Speaker 4: Seán O Dalaigh (new DMA)
 +
** Speaker 5: Eleanor Selfridge-Field
 +
** Speaker 6: Craig Stuart Sapp
 +
** Speaker 7: Blair Kaneshiro
 +
 
 +
*'''9/30 Faculty/Staff Introductions'''
 +
** Speaker 1: Patricia Alessandrini (via video)
 +
** Speaker 2: Julius Smith
 +
** Speaker 3: Marina Bosi
 +
** Speaker 4: Nando (aka Fernando Lopez-Lezcano)
 +
** Speaker 5: Stephanie Sherriff
 +
** Speaker 6: Constantin Basica
 +
** Speaker 7: Matt Wright
 +
** Speaker 8: Chris Chafe
 +
 
 +
*10/7 - Break
 +
 
 +
*'''10/14 - Town Hall'''
 +
 
 +
*'''10/21 - Adjunct Faculty Talks'''
 +
** Speaker 1: Malcolm Slaney
 +
** Speaker 2: Poppy Crum
 +
** Speaker 3: Paul Demarinis
 +
** Speaker 4: Jonathan Abel
 +
** Speaker 5: Doug James
 +
 
 +
*11/4 - Break
 +
 
 +
*'''11/11 - [https://www.justinsalamon.com/ Justin Salamon (Adobe / NYU)] [https://vimeo.com/480670893 (Watch Again)]'''
 +
 
 +
*'''11/18 - Mona Shahnavaz'''
 +
 
 +
ABSTRACT & BIO:
 +
Mona is an enthusiastic musician, whose focus and passion has been to
 +
share the joy of music with others. In 2018, a successful outcome of
 +
her innovative music program designed for senior citizens was the
 +
turning point for her to decide to change the course of learning piano
 +
in a less complex route. Her engineering background helped her to
 +
start working on the idea that bridges the gap between music and
 +
technology.
 +
 
 +
The approach to fingering in music has always been and still is one of
 +
the major elements of success for keyboard players. Correct fingering
 +
assists the performer in delivering a better technical and musical
 +
performance. This research presents the best technique to generate
 +
fingering for any sequence of music notes. Dynamic programming and
 +
mathematics are major parts of this paper, they work alongside rules
 +
set by pianists to calculate the most practical fingerings for any
 +
musical passage.
 +
 
 +
The ultimate goal is to facilitate the process of playing the piano
 +
using an AR platform. This is helpful for scaling music instructors
 +
and allows for efficient teaching. Through solving this problem,
 +
virtual instructions would be more productive and impactful. Success
 +
of this research applied in the AR field can be applied to robotic
 +
tasks in educational programs, video games, and medical fields.
 +
 
 +
*11/25 - THANKSGIVING WEEK - Break

Latest revision as of 14:12, 30 October 2024

Wednesday 5:30pm PT (CCRMA Classroom & Zoom)

The CCRMA Colloquium is a weekly gathering of CCRMA students, faculty, staff, and guests. It is an opportunity for members of the CCRMA community and invited speakers to share the work that they are doing in the fields of Computer Music, Audio Signal Processing and Music Information Retrieval, Psychoacoustics, and related fields. The colloquium traditionally happens every Wednesday during the academic year from 5:30 – 7:00pm and meets in the CCRMA Classroom, Knoll 217, often also with a Zoom presence.

Nette and Matt and this wiki page are organizing 2024-25 colloquia.


Current - Autumn Quarter (2024)

  • 09/25/24 (Week 1) New Student Introductions
    • Speaker 1: Emily Saletan
    • Speaker 2: Mateo Larrea
    • Speaker 3: Katie Pieschala
    • Speaker 4: Walker Smith
    • Speaker 5: Gregg Oliva
    • Speaker 6: Siqi Chen
    • Speaker 7: Lejun Min
    • Speaker 8: Shenran Wang
    • Speaker 9: Nathan Sariowan
    • Speaker 10: Saurav Chala
    • Speaker 11: Udbhav Venkataraman
    • Speaker 12: Heloise Garry
    • Speaker 13: Calvin McCormack
    • Speaker 14: Summer Krinsky
    • Speaker 15: Nancy Rico-Mineros
    • Speaker 16: Tae Kyu Kim
    • Speaker 17: Stuart Sul
  • 10/02/23 (Week 2) - Faculty and Staff Rapid Fire (part 1)
    • Speaker 1: Jonathan Berger
    • Speaker 2: Ge Wang
    • Speaker 3: Marina Bosi
    • Speaker 4: Chris Chafe
    • Speaker 5: Sasha Leitman
    • Speaker 6: Madalyn Merkey
    • Speaker 7: Hassan Estakhrian
    • Speaker 8: Kunwoo Kim
    • Speaker 9: Nando
    • Non-Speaker NaN: Celeste (recruiting slorkers, super short :) )
  • 10/09/23 (Week 3) - POSTPONED TO WEEK 4 or later


  • 10/16/23 (Week 4) - Transitions!
  • 10/23/23 (Week 5) - Faculty and Staff Rapid Fire (part 2) and CCRMA History
    • Speaker 1:
    • Speaker 2: Julius Smith (confirmed)
    • Speaker 3: Matt Wright (confirmed)
    • Speaker 4: Constantin Basica (confirmed)
    • Speaker 5: Takako Fujioka (confirmed)
    • Speaker 6: Nils Tonnätt (confirmed)
    • Speaker 7:
    • Speaker NaN: Celeste
  • 10/30/23 (Week 6) - Ligeti theme / concert preview (https://ccrma.stanford.edu/events/homage-ligeti-ccrma-50th-anniversary)
    • Matt Wright (introduction)
    • Jonathan Berger (brief anecdote)
    • A word from some performers
    • Georg Hajdu
    • Martin Bresnick (about Ligeti's time at pre-CCRMA and his compositions Atmosphères and Musica ricercata)
    • John Chowning (about Ligeti's 1972 visit to Stanford and more of the CCRMA/Ligeti connections)




  • 11/06/23 (Week 7) -
  • 11/13/23 (Week 8) -
  • TBD
    • Stephanie Sherriff
    • Jonathan Berger
    • Eleanor Selfrige-Field
    • Craig Sapp


  • 11/20/23 (Week 9) - CCRMA TOWN HALL
  • 11/27/23 (Week T) - NO SEMINAR (Thanksgiving break)
  • 12/4/23 (Week 10) - HOLD (Vilbjørg Broch?)

Future - Winter Quarter (2025)

  • 01/08/25 (Week 1)
  • 01/15/25 (Week 2)
  • 01/22/25 (Week 3)
  • 01/29/25 (Week 4)
  • 02/05/25 (Week 5)
  • 02/12/25 (Week 6)
  • 02/19/25 (Week 7)
  • 02/26/25 (Week 8) Niloufar Shiri Presentation
  • 03/05/25 (Week 9)
  • 03/12/25 (Week 10)

Past - Spring Quarter (2024)

(Organizer/host please put your name in parentheses after each speaker or week)

  • 4/3 (Week 1) Sasha Leitman: Creative Work and Research
  • 4/10 (Week 2) Zoran Cvetkovic (Chris Chafe)
  • 4/17 (Week 3) CCRMA Town Hall
  • 4/24 (Week 4) Marco Fusi in the Stage, followed by Special Social Event (wear clothes you don't mind getting stained) - Nette will send specifics later :)
  • 5/1 (Week 5) Professor Emily Howard (PRISM) (Patricia)
  • 5/8 (Week 6) rapid fire 5 minute presentations (Chris Chafe)
    • Speaker 1: Ge Wang
    • Speaker 2: Kunwoo Kim
    • Speaker 3: Matt Wright
    • Speaker 4: Julius Smith
    • Speaker 5: Chris Chafe
    • Speaker 6: Vidya Rangasayee
    • Speaker 7: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano (aka: nando)
    • Speaker 8: Marina Bosi
  • 5/15 (Week 7) (The Open House is tomorrow - let's skip Colloquium this week)
  • 5/22 (Week 8) Lara Weaver - Sonic Arts Research Centre - SARC (Patricia)
  • 5/29 (Week 9) Capstone projects in Neuromusic lab (Takako Fujioka)
  • 6/5 (Week 10) Capstone project presentations
    • Speaker 1: Eito Murakami
    • Speaker 2: Ryan Wixen
    • Speaker 3: Terry Feng
    • Speaker 4: Sneha Shah


Past - Winter Quarter (2024)

  • 1/10/24 (Week 1) - CCRMA Trivia Night (hosts: Nette & Marise)
  • 1/17/24 (Week 2) - Ali "AMAC" McGuire

- Making music is the easiest part of the journey. Navigating a business that pushes to exploit your love and offers you the world at your fingertips is the challenge. Where do you start? How do you set boundaries? How do you make money? How do you avoid the toxic traits that are so often totted as success? Come prepared with any questions that you may went to dive into- from your worries and fears to anything else. In this talk AMAC is going to share her experiences succeeding and failing in the music industry to give you an inside look at what you can expect after you graduate and take your shot.

  • 1/24/24 (Week 3) - [missed week]
  • 1/31/24 (Week 4) - Pedro Gonzalez
  • 2/7/24 (Week 5) - Sasha Leitman Colloquium on Materials and Resources for Maker Projects and PCB Work for Maker and Creative Projects (host: Nette)
  • 2/14/24 (Week 6) - Miya Masaoka
  • 2/21/24 (Week 7) - Ed Newton-Rex
  • 2/28/24 (Week 8) - [CANCELLED] Nando (Lopez-Lezcano) - Modular synthesis workflows, or "why did you turn that knob clockwise now?"
  • 3/6/24 (Week 9) - David Monacchi -- Stage -- (host: Chris Chafe)
  • 3/13/24 (Week 10) - Richard Hoover of Santa Cruz Guitars (host: Mark Rau)


Past - Autumn Quarter (2023)

  • 09/27/23 (Week 1) New Student Introductions
    • Speaker 1: Richard Lee
    • Speaker 2: Anna Gruzas
    • Speaker 3: Rochelle Tham
    • Speaker 4: Becca Wroblewski
    • Speaker 5: Logan Kibler
    • Speaker 6: Spark Wu
    • Speaker 7: Tristan Peng
    • Speaker 8: Ryan Wixen
    • Speaker 9: Asger Langhoff
    • Speaker 10: Signe Henriksen
    • Speaker 11: Ningxin Zhang
    • Speaker 12: Chengyi Xing
    • Speaker 13: Brian Brown
    • Speaker 14: Richard Berrebi
    • Speaker 15: Max Jardetzky
  • 10/04/23 (Week 2) - Faculty and Staff Rapid Fire (part 1)
    • Speaker 1: Takako
    • Speaker 2: Ge
    • Speaker 3: Matt Wright
    • Speaker 4: Marina
    • Speaker 5: Julius
    • Speaker 6: Eleanor
    • Speaker 7: Craig
    • Speaker 8: Nando
  • 10/11/23 (Week 3) - Faculty and Staff Rapid Fire (part 2) and CCRMA History
    • Speaker 1: Chris Chafe
    • Speaker 2: Jarek Kapuscinski
    • Speaker 3: Scott Oshiro
    • Speaker 4: Constantin Basica
    • Speaker 5: Patricia
    • Speaker 6: Hongchan Choi
    • Presentation: history of CCRMA and The Knoll (Matt Wright / John Chowning / Nette Worthey)
  • 10/18/23 (Week 4) - Two completely different talks (sequence TBD):
    • Fernando Lopez-Lezcano -- Free What?? -- a look at the worldwide movement that created free/libre operating systems and software
    • Satoshi Yamaguchi (Keio Research Institute at SFC, RADWIMPS) -- Drummer's Dystonia: Incidence and Affected Limb in 1003 Japanese Drummers.
  • 10/25/23 (Week 5) - Matthew Goodheart talk on transducer-activated instruments (host: Matt Wright)
  • 11/01/23 (Week 6) - Fernando Lopez-Lezcano -- Modular Synthesis Workflows, or The Modules I Loved
  • 11/08/23 (Week 7) - CCRMA Town Hall
  • 11/15/23 (Week 8) - Brian Baumbusch: "Polytempo Music" - A new interactive VR music application (host: Constantin)
  • 11/22/23 (Week T) - NO SEMINAR (Thanksgiving break)
  • 11/29/23 (Week 9) - Planning session for Winter and Spring colloquium - bring your ideas!
  • 12/5/23 (Week 10) - Georg Essl: Looking at Sound Synthesis through the Lens of Topology
    • Topology is the science of connectivity. Topological topics have increasingly become part of digital signal processing and sound synthesis in recent years. In this talk I will discuss topology in the context of familiar sound synthesis methods and digital signal foundations. Ultimately the goal is to show that thinking topologically about making algorithmic noises, is interesting, fruitful, and different -- making it worth a closer look.

Past - Spring Quarter (2023)

  • 4/19 (Week 3) - Skills Share (Matt organizing)
  • 4/26 (Week 4) - Suzanne Dikker & Aurie Hsu (Julia Mills & Alex Han)
  • 5/3 (Week 5) - Conference-style talks. This includes longer form presentations or lectures. Reach out to Mike (mulshine@stanford.edu) to sign up.
  • 5/10 (Week 6) - CCRMA Town Hall (Kunwoo, Nette, & Matt)
  • 5/17 (Week 7) - Gareth Loy -- Introduction to the Player programming language
  • 5/24 (Week 8) - CANCELED: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano -- Modular Synthesis Workflows, or The Modules I Loved
  • 5/31 (Week 9) - Zehao Wang (new researcher visitor from UCSD / Miller Puckette) -- Real-time sound synthesis for 2-D plates using FDTD methods (Julius)
  • 6/7 (Week 10) - MST Capstone Project showcase! (Nette)


Past - Winter Quarter (2023)

  • 1/11 (Week 1) - Kanru Hua, CEO of Synthesizer V, Japan (https://dreamtonics.com/en/synthesizerv/)(Contact: MAMST Student Benny (Shicheng) Zhang
  • 1/18 (Week 2) - Game and International Snacks Night (Nette & Kunwoo)
  • 1/25 (Week 3) - Community-wide rapid-fire talks! Share your recent thoughts, explorations, work, hobbies. Get to know what your peers are up to. Everyone is invited to share.
    • Speaker 1: Mike Mulshine
    • Speaker 2: Ge Wang
    • Speaker 3: Jarek Kapuscinski and Eito Murakami
    • Speaker 4: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
    • Speaker 5: Chris Chafe
    • Speaker 6: Julius Smith 1 minute announcement of Music 423 Thursdays 4:30 pm in Seminar Room - 20 min update tomorrow (there)
    • Speaker 7: Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi
    • Speaker 8: Travis Skare
    • Speaker 9: Matt Wright
    • Speaker 10: Julie Zhu
    • Speaker 11: Nima Farzaneh
    • Speaker 12:
  • 2/1 (Week 4) - Skills Share (Matt / democratic)
  • 2/8 (Week 5) - Laura Steenberge meet in Listening Room (Chris Chafe)
  • 2/15 (Week 6) - Scott Oshiro [quantum music] / Mischa Dohler [Ericsson, low-latency XR] (Chris Chafe)
  • 2/22 (Week 7) - Webchuck (Chris Chafe + lots of webchuck contributors)
  • 3/1 (Week 8) - Luna Valentin cave acoustics / Music Business talk from Anne Van Der Erve from Warner Music Benelux
  • 3/8 (Week 9) - Per Bloland: MaxOrch and Orchidea
  • 3/15 (Week 10) - Jay Afrisando (Constantin)


Past - Autumn Quarter (2022)

  • 09/28 (Week 1) New Student Introductions
    • Speaker 1: Sneha Shah
    • Speaker 2: Josh Mitchell
    • Speaker 3: Emily Kuo
    • Speaker 4: Balazs & Truls
    • Speaker 5: Julia Yu
    • Speaker 6: Senyuan Fan
    • Speaker 7: Celeste Betancur
    • Speaker 8: Victoria Litton
    • Speaker 9: Yiheng Dong
    • Speaker 10 Eito Murakami
    • Speaker 11 Soohyun Kim
    • Speaker 12 Luna Valentin
    • Speaker 13 Terry Feng
    • Speaker 14 Alex Han
    • Speaker 15 Benny Zhang
    • Speaker 16 Sami Wurm
    • Speaker 17 Neha Rajagopalan
  • 10/05 (Week 2) Faculty and Staff Rapid Fire
    • Speaker 1 Chris Chafe
    • Speaker 2 Ge Wang
    • Speaker 3 Patricia Alessandrini
    • Speaker 4 Marina Bosi
    • Speaker 5 Julius Smith
    • Speaker 6 Jarek Kapuściński
    • Speaker 7
    • Speaker 8
    • Speaker 9
    • Speaker 10 Mark Rau
    • Speaker 11
    • Speaker 12
    • Speaker 13
    • Speaker 14
    • Speaker 15
  • 10/12 (Week 3) WINGS and Peer Mentoring in Music (Mara Mills visit postponed to Spring)
  • 10/19 (Week 4) Faculty and Staff Rapid Fire, part 2
    • Speaker 1 Takako Fujioka
    • Speaker 2 Eleanor Selfridge-Field
    • Speaker 3 Craig Stuart Sapp
    • Speaker 4 Craig Stuart Sapp
    • Speaker 5 Poppy Crum
    • Speaker 6 Jonathan Berger
    • Speaker 7 Matt Wright
    • Speaker 8 Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
    • Speaker 9 Constantin Basica
    • Speaker 10 Stephanie Sherriff
    • Speaker 11
    • Speaker 12
    • Speaker 13
    • Speaker 14
    • Speaker 15
  • 11/2 (Week 6) - TBD
  • 11/9 (Week 7) - Pizza & Pegagody: Assignments and Evaluations
  • 11/16 (Week 8) - Student-only Town Hall
  • 11/23 (Week 9) - NO SEMINAR (Thanksgiving break)
  • 11/30 (Week 10) - planning session for Winter and Spring colloquium



Past - Spring Quarter (2022)

  • 03/30 - Spring Welcome Dinner at Treehouse
  • 04/06 - In-House Project and Research Updates (Everyone is encouraged to present)
  • 04/13 - BREAK
  • 04/19* Tuesday - Installation by J. Mills
  • 04/27 - Mara Mills (Virtual Talk)
  • 05/04 - Inclusive Teaching Workshop (Lloyd May & CTL)
  • 05/11 - BREAK
  • 05/18 - BREAK
  • 05/25 - BREAK
  • 06/01 - BREAK


  • Future Colloquiums already booked:
  • 10/12 Mara Mills - History of PCM

Past - Winter Quarter (2022)

  • 01/05 - BREAK
  • 01/26 - Walker Davis & Alex Mitchell from boomy
  • 02/02 - Social Event and Student-Only Meeting
  • 02/16 - Unofficial Social and Welcome to WasteLAnd!
  • 02/23 - Break
  • 03/02 - Rapid Fire and Conference Style Talks (Sign-ups are open!)
    • (Conference Style = 15 minutes, Rapid Fire = 5 minutes)
    • Speaker 1: Tamilore Awosile (10 mins)
    • Speaker 2: Frank Mondelli (Conference Style)
    • Speaker 3: Lloyd May (Rapid Fire)
    • Speaker 4: Julia Mills (Conference Style)
    • Speaker 5: Nima Farzaneh (Conference Style)
  • 03/09 - CCRMA Town Hall
  • 03/16 - Break

Past - Autumn Quarter (2021)

  • 9/22 New Student Introductions
    • Speaker 1: Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi
    • Speaker 2: Taylor Goss
    • Speaker 3: Julia Mills
    • Speaker 4: Kiran Gandhi
    • Speaker 5: Dirk Roosenburg
    • Speaker 6: Aaron Hodges
    • Speaker 7: Nick Shaheed
    • Speaker 8: Nima Farzaneh
    • Speaker 9: Noah Berrie
    • Speaker 10: Angela Lee
  • 10/13 Faculty/Staff Introductions Part 2
    • Speaker 1: Constantin
    • Speaker 2: Nando
    • Speaker 3: Jonathan (B)
    • Speaker 4: Jarek
    • Speaker 5: Nick
    • Speaker 6: Chris C
    • Speaker 7: Patricia
    • Speaker 8: Marina
  • 10/20 - CCRMA Town Hall
  • 10/27 BREAK
  • 11/03 Social Event (TBD)
  • 11/10 Rapid Fire & Conference Style (Sign-ups are open!)
    • (Conference Style = 15 minutes, Rapid Fire = 5 minutes)
    • Speaker 1: Lloyd May (Rapid Fire)
    • Speaker 2: Chris Chafe (Rapid Fire via zoom, assuming my internet works after the storm)
    • Speaker 3: Mark Rau (Rapid Fire)
    • Speaker 4: Champ Darabundit (Conference)
    • Speaker 5: Eleanor Selfridge-Field (Rapid Fire)
    • Speaker 6: Crag Stuart Sapp (Rapid Fire)
  • 11/17 BREAK
  • 12/1 Special Guest Talks: Nils Tonnätt & Victoria Shen

Past - Spring Quarter (2021)

  • 3/31: Town Hall
  • 4/07: CCRMA Open House Prep
  • 4/14:
  • 4/21: 12pm - CCRMA Colloquium Phase Shift -1.88 degrees (social hang)
  • 4/28: Avneesh Sarwate: Digital Audiovisual Interactive Media
  • 5/05: Break! Rapid-Fire Talks Postponed to 5/19
  • 5/12: Jeff Snyder: "Unusual Embedded Instruments"
  • 5/19: Rapid Fire & Conference Style Talks - sign up here via your CCRMA login
    • Rapid Fire Signups (5 min)
      • Speaker 1: CC waveguide mesh, part 2, realtime wavefield output
      • Speaker 2:
      • Speaker 3:
      • Speaker 4:
      • Speaker 5: Ge "ChucK: new features, new bugs, new worlds (ChucKTrip?)"
      • Speaker 6:
      • Speaker 7:
      • Speaker 8:
    • Conference Style Signups (15 min)
      • Speaker 1: Marise van Zyl (rapid fire)
      • Speaker 2: Prateek Verma
      • Speaker 3: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
  • 5/26: Allison Parrish: Poet and Programmer
  • 6/02: Sasha Leitman: Physical Interaction Design for Music

Past - Winter Quarter (2021)

  • 1/13: Break
  • 1/20: Informal Hangout / Dance Party
  • 1/27:
  • 2/03:
  • 2/10: CCRMA Town !!
  • 2/17: Rapid-Fire Talks (5 min) - sign up here via your CCRMA login
    • Speaker 1: Kunwoo Kim
    • Speaker 2: John Chowning
    • Speaker 3: Noah Fram
    • Speaker 4: Camille Noufi
    • Speaker 5: Barbara Nerness
    • Speaker 6: (maybe) Julie Zhu
    • Speaker 7: Chris Chafe
    • Speaker 8: Lloyd May
    • Speaker 9: Mike Mulshine
    • Speaker 10: Ge Wang
    • Speaker 11: Jatin (hopefully)
    • Speaker 12: Alex Chechile
    • Speaker 13: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
    • Speaker 14:
    • Speaker 15:
  • 2/24:
  • 3/03: Conference Style Talks (15-20 min) - sign up here via your CCRMA login
    • Speaker 1: Ty Sadlier
    • Speaker 2: Travis Skare
    • Speaker 3: Constantin Basica & Prateek Verma
    • Speaker 4:
  • 3/10: Sasha Leitman
  • 3/17: Break

Past - Autumn Quarter (2020)

In person colloquiua will not be held for the 2020 Autumn Quarter. All events will be held remotely.

  • 9/16 New Student Introductions
    • Speaker 1: Lloyd May
    • Speaker 2: Andrew Zhu
    • Speaker 3: Kathleen Yuan
    • Speaker 4: Marise van Zyl
    • Speaker 5: Hannah Choi
    • Speaker 6: Joss Saltzman
    • Speaker 7: Champ Darabundit
    • Speaker 8: Clara Allison
    • Speaker 9: David Braun
    • Speaker 10: Austin Zambito-Valente
  • 9/23 Faculty/Staff Introductions
    • Speaker 1: Jonathan Berger
    • Speaker 2: Ge Wang
    • Speaker 3: Takako Fujioka
    • Speaker 4: Seán O Dalaigh (new DMA)
    • Speaker 5: Eleanor Selfridge-Field
    • Speaker 6: Craig Stuart Sapp
    • Speaker 7: Blair Kaneshiro
  • 9/30 Faculty/Staff Introductions
    • Speaker 1: Patricia Alessandrini (via video)
    • Speaker 2: Julius Smith
    • Speaker 3: Marina Bosi
    • Speaker 4: Nando (aka Fernando Lopez-Lezcano)
    • Speaker 5: Stephanie Sherriff
    • Speaker 6: Constantin Basica
    • Speaker 7: Matt Wright
    • Speaker 8: Chris Chafe
  • 10/7 - Break
  • 10/14 - Town Hall
  • 10/21 - Adjunct Faculty Talks
    • Speaker 1: Malcolm Slaney
    • Speaker 2: Poppy Crum
    • Speaker 3: Paul Demarinis
    • Speaker 4: Jonathan Abel
    • Speaker 5: Doug James
  • 11/4 - Break
  • 11/18 - Mona Shahnavaz

ABSTRACT & BIO: Mona is an enthusiastic musician, whose focus and passion has been to share the joy of music with others. In 2018, a successful outcome of her innovative music program designed for senior citizens was the turning point for her to decide to change the course of learning piano in a less complex route. Her engineering background helped her to start working on the idea that bridges the gap between music and technology.

The approach to fingering in music has always been and still is one of the major elements of success for keyboard players. Correct fingering assists the performer in delivering a better technical and musical performance. This research presents the best technique to generate fingering for any sequence of music notes. Dynamic programming and mathematics are major parts of this paper, they work alongside rules set by pianists to calculate the most practical fingerings for any musical passage.

The ultimate goal is to facilitate the process of playing the piano using an AR platform. This is helpful for scaling music instructors and allows for efficient teaching. Through solving this problem, virtual instructions would be more productive and impactful. Success of this research applied in the AR field can be applied to robotic tasks in educational programs, video games, and medical fields.

  • 11/25 - THANKSGIVING WEEK - Break
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