Recent Music, Projects, Courses and face
shots of Chris
Chafe
Gathering of music collages in
preparation for the CCMRA / MCDT project March 8, 2005...
14
minute mix of Autumn class projects from 220a .wav
file (160MB download) .ogg
file (16MB download)
Example recordings from low-latency
network audio experiments...
...Halloween '04, AES
convention demonstration of 300
square mile recording studio.
...20-Aug-04,
Piano duo: Stanford/Banff
(Chryssie Nanou/Marc Ryser) for the Network
Audio Summit August 20-22 during CCRMA's Summer
Workshops held in Banff, Alberta. Audio delay was approx. 32
ms one-way .wav
file (85.4MB download)
...18-June-04, Improvisation
over really good networks: Stanford/Stockholm
quartet split by 104 ms delay, one-way .wav
file (35.3MB download)
...14-May-04:
Triple jam: Stanford/Victoria/Missoula
trio hanging together rhythmically despite heavy packet loss .wav
file (63.5MB download)...
--
-- www.newscientist.com heard from my
DSL using stereo pinging wav
file (3.5MB
download)
Listen
to the sound of the network.
(recorded examples of
real-time monitoring by plucking the network and by sonifying
ICMP pings)
-- SoundWIRE
technique reverberating between Denver and Stanford wav
file (6.4MB
download)
-- dropped
packet bass guitar sound reverberating between Seattle
and Stanford wav
file (2.8MB
download)
-- "sonified" pings
across my home's LAN wav
file (3.2MB
download)
-- "sonified" pings between my home DSL
and CCRMA's web server wav
file (3.5MB download)
Music
New CD's
Extrasensory
Perceptions clips
2002 (An hour's worth of music from Oxygen
Flute and Ping)
Arcology
Centaur Records
2002
Arco
Logic Centaur
Records 2001
New computer
music compositions
Replication
pn solo + DVD computer sound, DVD conductor
2005
Speed
and Consensus pn,vn,cl,vc
+ DVD computer sound, DVD conductor 2005
Carbon
Path celletto, live DSP-vocals, Oxygen Flute software, video
2002
Tangent
clavichord and synthesis 2002 wav
file (20
MB)
Voice
Coil celletto and live synthesis 2000
Transect
synthesis 1999
Music + other
media (with Greg Niemeyer, June Holtz, Kris Samuelson, John Haptas,
Ken Goldberg)
Ballet
Mori real-time seismic data piped to lights, dance, music,
Winter 2006
Organum
animation LodesStar
Planetarium, Albuquerque, Fall
2003
Open
Rehearsal music installation work-in-progress
The
World As We Know It film music (incl. in Underground
Zero) 2001
Oxygen
Flute music installation San
José Museum of Art
2001, UC
Berkeley 2002
Ping
music installation SFMOMA
2001, portable
( reconfigurable
) ( fun
) ( dance
floor ) Oregon, Calif. 2002-3
Riding
the Tiger film music (dist. by UCMedia)
1999
Research Projects
SoundWIRE
sonification for network monitoring and great audio for
internet-based collaboration:
"Effect of Time Delay on Ensemble
Accuracy" (pdf
) ISMA 2004
"Distributed Internet
Reverberation for Audio Collaboration" (pdf
) AES 2003
"Physical Model Synthesis with
Application to Internet Acoustics" (pdf
) ICASSP 2002
Network `harp' demo in SCinet
Bandwidth Challenge SC2001, Denver 2001
"Levels of Temporal Resolution in
Sonification of Network Performance" (pdf)
ICAD 2001
"Simplified Approach to
High-Quality Music and Sound over IP" (ps)
DAFX 2000
SoundWIRE demo wins Network
Challenge Award SC2000, Dallas 2000
STRAD
instrument design, performance studies:
"Incorporating Haptic Feedback
into Interfaces for Music Applications" (ps)
WAC/ISORA 2000
"The Performer-Instrument
Interaction: A Sensory Motor Perspective" ICMC 2000
"Influence of Attack Parameters
on the Playability of a Virtual Bowed String Instrument: Tuning the
Model" ICMC 2000
Synthesis and signal processing:
"Physical Model Synthesis in
Music Composition" (pdf)
ICA 2004
"Autonomous Virtuosity"
(pdf)
2004
"A Short History of Digital Sound
Synthesis by Composers in the USA" (pdf)
Musiques en Scène 1999
"Vicarious Synthesizers:
Listening for Timbre" (html)
ISMA 98
Courses
Music
220a September, 2005 (Pd, Scheme, CM, CLM)
Sophomore
College September, 2005
Music
220a Autumn, 2003 (PlanetCCRMA-based)
Sophomore
College September, 2003
Music
220a Autumn, 2002 (platform is Stk, C++)
Sophomore
College September, 2002
Music
220a-2001 Autumn, 2001
Sophomore
College September, 2001
Music
220a Autumn, 2000 (platform is Snd, Scheme)
Sophomore
College September, 2000
Music
220a Autumn, 1999 (platform is CLM, Lisp)
Sophomore
College September, 1999
Talks (slide show presentations in html)
ICA
2004 Kyoto 8-Apr-04
ISMA
2004 Nara 2-Apr-04
Keihanna
Media Festival 31-Aug-02
NTT
/ Atsugi, Japan 21-Aug-02
CENIC
11-May-01
Multimedia
Graphics and Interfaces Seminar U.C. Berkeley Multimedia Research
Center 21-Mar-01
Comm.
on IT and Creativity, Natl. Acad. of Sci. 12-Jan-01
C.V. (pdf)
