Hiroko Terasawa

Research interest

Timbre perception and auditory models
Parameter estimation of physical modeling synthesis, applied to timbre control
Nonlinear musical systems and crossmedia productions

Education

2002 - Present : CCRMA, Department of Music, Stanford University, California, USA

• 2003 : Ph.D. candidate in Computer Based Music Theory and Acoustics
  Advisors : Jonathan Berger and Malcolm Slaney
• 2002 - 2003 : M.A. in Music, Science and Technology
  Advisor : Julius Smith

1995 - 2002 : University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

• 2002 : M.E. in Electronic Engineering
  Master's Thesis "Physical Model Synthesis of Recorder Sound"
  Advisors : Kenshi Kishi and Isao Nakamura
• 2000 : B.E. in Electronic Engineering
  Senior Thesis "Measurement of Young's Modulus using Finite Element Method"
  Advisor : Kenshi Kishi

Professional Experience

• 2007 Spring - Summer : IRCAM, Paris, France
  Visiting scholar, Timbre modeling research.
  With Xavier Rodet in Analysis-Synthesis team.
  
• 2002 Spring - Summer : NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kanagawa, Japan
  Research Intern, specialized in sinusoidal modeling synthesis
  Advisor : Naotoshi Osaka
• 2000 Summer : Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
  DSP engineer, with marketing and product design training
• 1998 Fall - 1999 Summer : Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris, France
  Exchange student / Research assistant
  Project "Prediction of Sounds Radiated by Structures in View of Perceptive Evaluation"
  Advisor : Antoine Chaigne
  

Teaching

Teaching Assistant

• Music 220A "Introduction to Computer Generated Sound" (Prof. Chris Chafe, Fall 2004)
• Music 19 "Introduction to Music Theory" (Dr. Talya Berger, Fall 2005)
• Music 150 "Musical Acoustics" (Prof. Tom Rossing, Winter 2005 and 2006)
• Music 151 "Pyschophysics and Cognitive Psychology for Musicians" (Prof. Jonathan Beger, Spring 2005 and 2006)

Awards

• Internship Grant, France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (2007)
• Stanford Residency at Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris (2007)
• Centennial Teaching Assistant Award (2006)
• Chair's Award for Excellence in Teaching (2005)
• Stanford Fellowship (2003 - 2004)
• Internship Grant, French Ministry of Environment (1998 - 1999)
• UEC Alumni Association Scholarship (1998)

Contact me

• hiroko (at) ccrma.stanford.edu