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Guest Lectures

Occasionally, courses offered at CCRMA will bring in a guest lecturer.  Often times, those lectures are open, not only to CCRMA students, staff, faculty and researchers, but also to the public.  Such events are listed below.

Recent Guest Lectures

  • Latent Variable Modeling of Audio

    Date: 
    Tue, 05/31/2011 - 3:15pm - 5:00pm
    Location: 
    CCRMA Classroom [Knoll 217]
    Event Type: 
    Guest Lecture

    Abstract: In this seminar, we will describe how latent variable models can be used to analyze and process speech and audio signals. We will begin with the basics of latent variable multinomial decompositions and work our way upwards through various higher-level models that can perform matrix and tensor factorizations, extract shift-invariant features, learn time-series, perform sparse coding, and more. We will examine their interpretations and extensions as well as their relationship to other popular machine learning techniques.

    FREE
    Open to the Public

  • Trevor Gore - Designing Contemporary Acoustic Guitars

    Date: 
    Wed, 05/18/2011 - 10:00am - 11:30am
    Location: 
    CCRMA Classroom, The Knoll 2nd floor, Rm 217
    Event Type: 
    Guest Lecture

    While opinions differ as to what forms a “perfect” acoustic guitar, one that is loud, has an even gradation of tone and timbre across all the frets and plays in tune to the evenly tempered scale is quite rare, and will be perceived as having a rather alluring sound. This lecture examines how a “perfect” guitar might be designed, starting with string vibrations and the forces they exert on the soundboard and the way the soundboard consequently behaves to radiate sound.

    FREE
    Open to the Public

  • Peter Nyboer - Live Video Performance with Livid Instruments

    Date: 
    Mon, 05/09/2011 - 5:15pm - 7:05pm
    Location: 
    CCMRA Stage
    Event Type: 
    Guest Lecture
    Modulations video artist and Livid Instruments co-founder, Peter Nyboer talks about specific techniques used at Modulations 2011, as well as presenting techniques and technologies for live video.  He'll  present a survey of live video environments, demonstrate using controllers with video, and show Max for Live devices that tie together Ableton Live and CellDNA.  He'll have a collection of Livid controllers, and present their DIY controller hardware framework. 
    FREE
    Open to the Public

  • The Eigenharp, Continuum and LinnStrument: Hands-on with three new musical instruments for the post-mechanical age

    Date: 
    Thu, 05/05/2011 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    Location: 
    Knoll Stage
    Event Type: 
    Guest Lecture
     There is a new crop of musical instruments that forgo the old world of wood, strings, brass, reeds and horsehair in favor of new high-resolution sensors, sensors that promise to capture the subtleties of performance gestures as well as or better than traditional instruments. Notable examples of these new instruments are the Eigenharp (www.eigenlabs.com) and the Continuum (www.hakenaudio.com). 
     
    The Eigenharp will be demonstrated by Eigenlabs developer Geert Bevin and the Continuum will be demonstrated by bay area pianist Ed Goldfarb.
    FREE
    Open to the Public

  • Alfonso Pérez Carrillo - Special Seminar - Enhancing Spectral Synthesis Techniques with Performance Gestures using the Violin as a Case Study

    Date: 
    Wed, 01/19/2011 - 5:15pm
    Location: 
    Seminar Room
    Event Type: 
    Guest Lecture
    ABSTRACT: 
    FREE
    Open to the Public

  • History of YAMAHA keyboard instruments / Organ, Piano, Electone, Synthesizer

    Date: 
    Wed, 11/03/2010 - 5:30pm - 6:30pm
    Location: 
    CCRMA Classroom [Knoll 217]
    Event Type: 
    Guest Lecture
    "History of YAMAHA keyboard instruments / Organ, Piano, Electone, Synthesizer"

    Toshifumi Kunimoto, General Manager, Corporate Research & Development Center, YAMAHA Corp.

    FREE
    Open to the Public

  • Jörn Loviscach

    Date: 
    Wed, 11/03/2010 - 11:15am - 12:00pm
    Location: 
    CCRMA Classroom
    Event Type: 
    Guest Lecture

    Professor Jörn Loviscach of technical mathematics and computer engineering at Fachhochschule Bielefeld will hold a guest lecture on Audio and Music Computing, also relating to Tangible Computing. Come join us!

    By the way, Jörn has an incredible list of research ideas that can be found at  http://www.j3l7h.de/ideas.html

    He could even fund your travel to a conference if you work on one of them!

    Open to the Public

  • Claude Cadoz Presentation

    Date: 
    Sun, 08/01/2010 - 12:00pm
    Location: 
    4235 McKellar Lane, Palo Alto
    Event Type: 
    Guest Lecture
     One of the major figures in the physical modeling of complex physical structures, Claude Cadoz will explain his composition Gaea at noon in the Listening Room on Sunday, August 1.  The sounds that he has produced are matched in elegance by the graphics that he has produced for his explanations. You may read about the piece at http://acroe.imag.fr/enactive07/g.php
    Free
    Open to the Public

  • Mixing Seminar: Ivan Neville's Dumstaphunk

    Date: 
    Wed, 06/09/2010 - 8:30pm
    Location: 
    CCRMA Stage - The Knoll (3rd Floor)
    Event Type: 
    Guest Lecture
    To help close out the academic year we're bringing the funk. There will be a very informal, yet super megadociously awesome seminar on multi-track mixing using Ivan Neville's Dumstaphunk's show from the 2010 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. You are probably saying to yourself "OMG! That sounds excellent but what's going to happen?!?!" (read on to find out)... 
    FREE
    Open to the Public

  • Frieder Weiss: Interactive Dance (cancelled)

    Date: 
    Wed, 05/12/2010 - 1:15pm
    Location: 
    Knoll Classroom
    Event Type: 
    Guest Lecture
    Frieder Weiss, a German Interactive Artist, best known for his work with the Australian Dance company, Chunky Moves, will be in the SF Bay area working on a dance collaboration for the San Francisco International Arts Festival this month.   He uses infrared motion tracking and overlay projection with Processing and Isadora to create a compelling new dimension to modern dance.   Make sure to check out these links:
    FREE
    Open to the Public