Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
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hk & tcs
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hk&tcs is: Helen Newby, Bethanne Walker, Weston Olencki & Chris Wood.
Bay Area's hk&tcs bring to CCRMA Stage a lot of objects, texts, images, words, and things, in a somewhat bizarre program exploring power relationships within oddly constructed behavioral situations, incidental(ly musical) text and extreme semiotic confusion.
Program:
James Saunders - everybody do this [2014] {us premiere}
Matthew Shlomowitz - letter piece no.1 [2014] {us premiere}
Peter Ablinger - instrument + voice [2013]
Jessie Marino - ritual II :: resolve :: dissolve [2012]
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David Pocknee - economics [2010] {us premiere}
Luke Nickel - string quartet no.1 [2014] {us premiere}
Colloquium: Johannes Goebel - The Politics and Mechanics of Archiving - Moving Parts, the Cloud, Magnetic Fields and Stone
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Abstract: Most everyone in our society has an ever-increasing amount of digitally encoded documents and data, be they a private person or an institution.
Hideki Kawahara on STRAIGHT (high resolution speech modifications)
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Prof. Kawahara has spent many years building STRAIGHT, an ultra-high resolution approach to analyzing and modifying speech signals, that is the basis of many speech manipulation experiments and products. He will be at CCRMA to discuss STRAIGHT, its history, its approach, and current status.
"Playdate" with Roberto Morales and friends
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Born in Mexico City in 1958. He started his musical training in national folkloric music learning harps from Veracruz, Michoacan and Chiapas as well as different kinds of flutes from several regions.
Morales-Manzanares PhD in Composition form UC Berkeley went to the music school “Escuela Superior de Musica” where he finished his professional studies on flute, piano and composition. In 1981, he created an interdisciplinary workshop in music, painting, literature and dance, which functioned until 1984. At that time, he founded the group “Alacran del Cantaro” which he continues to direct.
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Recent News
Issue 21 of the Csound Journal Released
http://csoundjournal.com/issue21/index.html
This issue of the Csound Journal features an article written by MST student Paul Batchelor, which can be found here:
http://csoundjournal.com/issue21/chuck_sound.html
John Chowning Interview on RWM
Sonifying the world: How life's data becomes music
"Unlike sex or hunger, music doesn’t seem absolutely necessary to everyday survival – yet our musical self was forged deep in human history, in the crucible of evolution by the adaptive pressure of the natural world. That’s an insight that has inspired Chris Chafe, Director of Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (or CCRMA, stylishly pronounced karma).
Behind the Scenes at the Stanford Laptop Orchestra
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