I was a MA/MST student at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Accoustics.
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Already into the second week of Spring term. This term is pretty
different from my last term - only two classes which both meet on the
same day and are both project / performance based.
CCRMA's open house was was last Friday. I demoed my synthesizer and
people seemed to like it, which was nice.
My post-final thoughts on last term's courses:
150 - The material was good but I didn't find the assignments very
valuable overall. It was good to get some baseline
introduction to acoustics.
318 - This was really interesting. I still owe Tom Rossing a paper,
actually. I'm going to try to set up some form of
interferometer this term or over the summer so that we can do
measurements.
421a - I still need a few years to really let that material sink in
but I think I got a lot out of this course. I'm excited about
doing a project in 421b.
422 - It went pretty well. Our codec had good performance overall
despite a couple of corner-case artifacts. I think I found an
interesting result doing Huffman coding (instead of coding just
the mantissas I coded the entire block with a two-bit code and
it seemed to perform pretty well). And I learned a lot about
psychoacoustics.
And my initial thoughts on this term:
128 - SLORk, the Stanford Laptop Orchestra. An entirely
performance-based course. Laptop Orchestra is kinda weird but
I think it's going to be a lot of fun. It will be a chance to
try out some new ideas.
421b - Spectral modeling project course. I'm going to try to write a
nice vocal harmonizer, or perhaps some other effects. We are
also learning supercollider (I bought the supercollider book
and never read it so this is a good excuse to finally get up to
speed).
Finally, the first day of the Linux Audio Conference was today. I
didn't actually make it to any of the sessions but I'm going to try to
attend as much as I can the next three days of the conference.