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@5:30pm in the Classroom on Wednesdays!
 
@5:30pm in the Classroom on Wednesdays!
  
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 typically happens every Wednesday during the school year from 5:30 - 7:00pm 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 typically happens every Wednesday during the academic year from 5:30 - 7:00pm and meets in the CCRMA Classroom, Knoll 217, unless otherwise noted.  
  
The colloquium team for 2019-2020 is:<br />
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The colloquium team for 2020-2021 is:<br />
Mark Rau - mrau@ccrma.stanford.edu<br />
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Barbara Nerness - bnerness@ccrma.stanford.edu <br />
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Kunwoo Kim - kunwoo@ccrma.stanford.edu <br />
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Mike Mulshine - mrmulshine@ccrma.stanford.edu <br />
 
Camille Noufi - cnoufi@ccrma.stanford.edu <br />
 
Camille Noufi - cnoufi@ccrma.stanford.edu <br />
Vidya Rangasayee - vidya@ccrma.stanford.edu <br />
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<br />
Scott Oshiro - soshiro@ccrma.stanford.edu
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*Note: the colloquium will not be held every Wednesday this year (20-21), please keep an eye on the notification e-mails for the dates.
  
*Note: the colloquium will not be held every Wednesday this year (19/20), please keep an eye on the notification e-mails for the dates.
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= Winter Quarter (2021)=
  
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* 1/13: Break
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* '''1/20: Informal Hangout / Dance Party
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* '''1/27:
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* '''2/03:
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* '''2/10:
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*'''2/17: Rapid-Fire Talks''' (5 min) - sign up here via your CCRMA login
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** Speaker 1: Kunwoo Kim
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** Speaker 2: Elena Georgieva
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** Speaker 3: Noah Fram
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** Speaker 4: Camille Noufi
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** Speaker 5: Barbara Nerness
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** Speaker 6:
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** Speaker 7:
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** Speaker 8:
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** Speaker 9:
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** Speaker 10:
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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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* '''2/24:
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* '''3/03: Conference Style Talks''' (15-20 min) - sign up here via your CCRMA login
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** Speaker 1:
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** Speaker 2:
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** Speaker 3:
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** Speaker 4:
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* '''3/10: Sasha Leitman
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* '''3/17: Break
  
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= Spring Quarter (2021)=
  
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Schedule TBD. Dates will be posted here as soon as they are planned.
  
  
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= Past - Autumn Quarter (2020)=
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<span style="color:red">'''In person colloquiua will not be held for the 2020 Autumn Quarter. All events will be held remotely.
  
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*'''9/16 New Student Introductions'''
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** Speaker 1: Lloyd May
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** Speaker 2: Andrew Zhu
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** Speaker 3: Kathleen Yuan
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** Speaker 4: Marise van Zyl
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** Speaker 5: Hannah Choi
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** Speaker 6: Joss Saltzman
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** Speaker 7: Champ Darabundit
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** Speaker 8: Clara Allison
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** Speaker 9: David Braun
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** Speaker 10: Austin Zambito-Valente
  
= Spring Quarter (2020)=
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*'''9/23 Faculty/Staff Introductions'''
<span style="color:red">'''In person colloquiua will not be held for the 2020 Spring Quarter. Stay tuned for possible online presentations.'''</span>
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**Speaker 1: Jonathan Berger
<!--* '''5/13: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lewis_(trombonist) George Lewis]'''-->
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** Speaker 2: Ge Wang
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** Speaker 3: Takako Fujioka
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** Speaker 4: Seán O Dalaigh (new DMA)
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** Speaker 5: Eleanor Selfridge-Field
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** Speaker 6: Craig Stuart Sapp
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** Speaker 7: Blair Kaneshiro
  
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*'''9/30 Faculty/Staff Introductions'''
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** Speaker 1: Patricia Alessandrini (via video)
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** Speaker 2: Julius Smith
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** Speaker 3: Marina Bosi
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** Speaker 4: Nando (aka Fernando Lopez-Lezcano)
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** Speaker 5: Stephanie Sherriff
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** Speaker 6: Constantin Basica
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** Speaker 7: Matt Wright
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** Speaker 8: Chris Chafe
  
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*10/7 - Break
  
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*'''10/14 - Town Hall'''
  
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*'''10/21 - Adjunct Faculty Talks'''
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** Speaker 1: Malcolm Slaney
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** Speaker 2: Poppy Crum
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** Speaker 3: Paul Demarinis
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** Speaker 4: Jonathan Abel
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** Speaker 5: Doug James
  
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*11/4 - Break
  
= Winter Quarter (2020)=
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*'''11/11 - [https://www.justinsalamon.com/ Justin Salamon (Adobe / NYU)] [https://vimeo.com/480670893 (Watch Again)]'''
  
* '''1/8: No Colloquium '''
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*'''11/18 - Mona Shahnavaz'''
* '''1/15: No Colloquium to avoid conflict with the Jazz Faculty Search'''
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* '''1/22: No Colloquium to avoid conflict with the Jazz Faculty Search'''
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* '''1/29: No Colloquium to avoid conflict with the Jazz Faculty Search'''
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* '''2/5: Rapid-Fire Talks'''  
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** Speaker 1: Mark Rau
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ABSTRACT & BIO:
** Speaker 2: Elliot C-D
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Mona is an enthusiastic musician, whose focus and passion has been to
** Speaker 3: Jack Atherton
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share the joy of music with others. In 2018, a successful outcome of
** Speaker 4: GASP (waterbottles)
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her innovative music program designed for senior citizens was the
** Speaker 5: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
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turning point for her to decide to change the course of learning piano
** Speaker 6: Julius Smith
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in a less complex route. Her engineering background helped her to
** Speaker 7: Matt Wright (all about the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oud ud] and previewing the spring visit by [http://www.necaticelik.com.tr/en/biyografi/ Necati Çelik])
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start working on the idea that bridges the gap between music and
** Speaker 8: Ge Wang
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technology.
** Speaker 9: Jatin
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** Speaker 10: Travis Skare
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** Speaker 11: Camille Noufi
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** Speaker 12: Kim Kawczinski
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The approach to fingering in music has always been and still is one of
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the major elements of success for keyboard players. Correct fingering
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assists the performer in delivering a better technical and musical
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performance. This research presents the best technique to generate
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fingering for any sequence of music notes. Dynamic programming and
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mathematics are major parts of this paper, they work alongside rules
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set by pianists to calculate the most practical fingerings for any
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musical passage.
  
* '''2/12: CCRMA Town Hall
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The ultimate goal is to facilitate the process of playing the piano
* '''2/19: [http://www.marcevansmusic.com/bio.html Marc Evanstein]''' (Week 7)
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using an AR platform. This is helpful for scaling music instructors
* '''2/26: Conference-Style Talks '''
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and allows for efficient teaching. Through solving this problem,
** Speaker 1: SooperLoopy, a multi-loop sampler - the music behind the software and the software behind the music
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virtual instructions would be more productive and impactful. Success
** Speaker 2:
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of this research applied in the AR field can be applied to robotic
** Speaker 3:
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tasks in educational programs, video games, and medical fields.
** Backup: Topics in GPU audio: background, filter banks, waveguides, meshes. Didn't prepare specifically for this week but see that there's only one topic so far, so can present this if needed. Thanks! (Travis)
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* '''3/4:'''  [http://www.justinsalamon.com/ Justin Salamon (Adobe / MARL-NYU)]''' (Week 9)
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*11/25 - THANKSGIVING WEEK - Break
 
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* '''3/11: [http://www.sampluta.com/biographyText.html Samuel Pluta]''' (Week 10)
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= Fall Quarter (2019)=
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* '''9/25: New Student Presentations''' (Week 1)
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** Speaker 1: Jeremy Raven
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** Speaker 2: Brendan Larkin
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** Speaker 3: Raul Altosaar
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** Speaker 4: Jan Stoltenberg
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** Speaker 5: Vivian Chen
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** Speaker 6: Ty Sadlier
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** Speaker 7: Kunwoo Kim
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** Speaker 8: Andrea Baldioceda
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** Speaker 9: Varsha Sankar
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** Speaker 10: Mike Mulshine
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* '''10/2: Faculty Introductions''' (Week 2)
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** Speaker 1: Patricia Alessandrini
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** Speaker 2: Eleanor Selfridge Field
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** Speaker 3: Craig Stuart Sapp
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** Speaker 4: JRB
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** Speaker 5: Takako
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** Speaker 6: Ge
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** Speaker 7: Jarek
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** Speaker 8: Blair Kaneshiro
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** Speaker 9: Matt Wright
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** Speaker 10: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
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** Speaker 11: Anne Hege
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** Speaker 12: Julius Smith
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** Speaker 13: Elena Georgieva
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** Speaker 14: Marina Bosi
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** Speaker 15: Hongchan Choi
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* '''10/9: ''' (Week 3): YOM KIPPUR - no colloquium
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* '''10/16: Rapid-Fire Talks''' (Week 4)
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** Speaker 1: Jack
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** Speaker 2: Jason
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** Speaker 3: Ge
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** Speaker 4: Noah
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** Speaker 5: Elliot
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** Speaker 6: Barbara
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** Speaker 7: Orchi
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** Speaker 8: Matt (the "after" of my Modulations instrument, hopefully this time with MIDI working)
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** Speaker 9: CCRMA composting
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** Speaker 10: Jatin
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** Speaker 11: Mark
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** Speaker 12: Elena
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** Speaker 13: Carlos
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* '''10/23: [http://www.arj.no/ Alexander Jensenius]''' (Week 5) 
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* '''10/30: No Colloquium''' (Week 6) 
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* '''11/6: [http://www.annehege.com/ Anne Hege]''' (Week 7)
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* '''11/13: CCRMA Town Hall''' (Week 8)
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* '''11/20:[https://www.donlewismusic.com/ Don Lewis]''' (Week 9)
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* '''Thanksgiving week'''
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* '''12/4: [https://ccrma.stanford.edu/groups/vr/ VR Lab Day]''' (Week 11)
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Revision as of 12:20, 20 January 2021

@5:30pm in the Classroom on Wednesdays!

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 typically happens every Wednesday during the academic year from 5:30 - 7:00pm and meets in the CCRMA Classroom, Knoll 217, unless otherwise noted.

The colloquium team for 2020-2021 is:
Barbara Nerness - bnerness@ccrma.stanford.edu
Kunwoo Kim - kunwoo@ccrma.stanford.edu
Mike Mulshine - mrmulshine@ccrma.stanford.edu
Camille Noufi - cnoufi@ccrma.stanford.edu

  • Note: the colloquium will not be held every Wednesday this year (20-21), please keep an eye on the notification e-mails for the dates.

Winter Quarter (2021)

  • 1/13: Break
  • 1/20: Informal Hangout / Dance Party
  • 1/27:
  • 2/03:
  • 2/10:
  • 2/17: Rapid-Fire Talks (5 min) - sign up here via your CCRMA login
    • Speaker 1: Kunwoo Kim
    • Speaker 2: Elena Georgieva
    • Speaker 3: Noah Fram
    • Speaker 4: Camille Noufi
    • Speaker 5: Barbara Nerness
    • Speaker 6:
    • Speaker 7:
    • Speaker 8:
    • Speaker 9:
    • Speaker 10:
    • Speaker 11:
    • Speaker 12:
    • Speaker 13:
    • Speaker 14:
    • Speaker 15:
  • 2/24:
  • 3/03: Conference Style Talks (15-20 min) - sign up here via your CCRMA login
    • Speaker 1:
    • Speaker 2:
    • Speaker 3:
    • Speaker 4:
  • 3/10: Sasha Leitman
  • 3/17: Break

Spring Quarter (2021)

Schedule TBD. Dates will be posted here as soon as they are planned.


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