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@5:30pm in the Classroom on Wednesdays!
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'''Wednesday 5:30pm PT (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 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 traditionally happened every Wednesday during the academic year from 5:30 - 7:00pm and meets in the CCRMA Classroom, Knoll 217. During the pandemic, the colloquium has been held consistently via Zoom.
  
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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Scott Oshiro - soshiro@ccrma.stanford.edu
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= Spring Quarter (2021)=
  
*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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* '''3/31: Town Hall
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* '''4/07: CCRMA Open House Prep
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* '''4/14:
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* '''4/21: [[12pm]] - CCRMA Colloquium Phase Shift -1.88 degrees (social hang)
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* '''4/28: [http://www.avneeshsarwate.com/ Avneesh Sarwate]:''' Digital Audiovisual Interactive Media
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* '''5/05: Rapid-Fire Talks''' (5 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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** Speaker 5: Ge: "ChucKTrip"
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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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* '''5/12: [http://scattershot.org/ Jeff Snyder]:''' Embedded Instrument Design/Craft
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* '''5/19:  Conference Style Talks''' (15-20 min) - sign up here via your CCRMA login
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** Speaker 1: Marise van Zyl
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** Speaker 2:
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** Speaker 3:
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* '''5/26: [https://www.decontextualize.com/ Allison Parrish]:''' Poet and Programmer
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* '''6/02:
  
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= Past - 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: CCRMA Town !!
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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: John Chowning
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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: (maybe) Julie Zhu
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** Speaker 7: Chris Chafe
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** Speaker 8: Lloyd May
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** Speaker 9: Mike Mulshine
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** Speaker 10: Ge Wang
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** Speaker 11: Jatin (hopefully)
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** Speaker 12: Alex Chechile
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** Speaker 13: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
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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: Ty Sadlier
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** Speaker 2: Travis Skare
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** Speaker 3: Constantin Basica & Prateek Verma
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** Speaker 4:
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* '''3/10: Sasha Leitman
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* '''3/17: Break
  
= Fall Quarter (2019)=
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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.
* '''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: JOS - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWCLuYz1mxk five-minute video]
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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 waste breakthroughs
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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:
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** Speaker 14:
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** Speaker 15:
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** Speaker 16:
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** Speaker 17:
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** Speaker 18:
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** Speaker 19: Carlos
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* '''10/23: Alexander Jensenius''' (Week 5) 
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* '''10/30: No Colloquium''' (Week 6
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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
  
* '''11/6: Anne Hege''' (Week 7)
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*'''9/23 Faculty/Staff Introductions'''
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**Speaker 1: Jonathan Berger
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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
  
* '''11/13: CCRMA Town Hall''' (Week 8)
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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
  
* '''11/20: Don Lewis''' (Week 9)
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*10/7 - Break
  
* '''Thanksgiving week'''  
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*'''10/14 - Town Hall'''
  
* '''12/4: VR Lab Day''' (Week 11)
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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: '''
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*'''11/18 - Mona Shahnavaz'''
* '''1/15: '''
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* '''1/22: '''
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* '''1/29: '''
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* '''2/5: '''
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* '''2/12: '''
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* '''2/19: Marc Evanstein'''
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* '''2/26: '''  
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* '''3/4:'''
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ABSTRACT & BIO:
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Mona is an enthusiastic musician, whose focus and passion has been to
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share the joy of music with others. In 2018, a successful outcome of
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her innovative music program designed for senior citizens was the
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turning point for her to decide to change the course of learning piano
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in a less complex route. Her engineering background helped her to
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start working on the idea that bridges the gap between music and
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technology.
  
* '''3/11: Samuel Pluta'''
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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.
  
* Rapid-Fire and Conference-Style Talk will each be held on one of the dates above, TBD.
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The ultimate goal is to facilitate the process of playing the piano
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using an AR platform. This is helpful for scaling music instructors
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and allows for efficient teaching. Through solving this problem,
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virtual instructions would be more productive and impactful. Success
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of this research applied in the AR field can be applied to robotic
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tasks in educational programs, video games, and medical fields.
  
= Spring Quarter (2019)=
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*11/25 - THANKSGIVING WEEK - Break
* '''5/6: Diana Deutsch'''
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Revision as of 21:01, 13 April 2021

Wednesday 5:30pm PT (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 happened every Wednesday during the academic year from 5:30 - 7:00pm and meets in the CCRMA Classroom, Knoll 217. During the pandemic, the colloquium has been held consistently via Zoom.

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

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: Rapid-Fire Talks (5 min) - sign up here via your CCRMA login
    • Speaker 1:
    • Speaker 2:
    • Speaker 3:
    • Speaker 4:
    • Speaker 5: Ge: "ChucKTrip"
    • Speaker 6:
    • Speaker 7:
    • Speaker 8:
    • Speaker 9:
    • Speaker 10:
    • Speaker 11:
    • Speaker 12:
    • Speaker 13:
    • Speaker 14:
    • Speaker 15:
  • 5/12: Jeff Snyder: Embedded Instrument Design/Craft
  • 5/19: Conference Style Talks (15-20 min) - sign up here via your CCRMA login
    • Speaker 1: Marise van Zyl
    • Speaker 2:
    • Speaker 3:
  • 5/26: Allison Parrish: Poet and Programmer
  • 6/02:

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