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The CCRMA Colloquium is a weekly gathering of CCRMA students, faculty, staff, and guests. It is an opportunity for members of the CCRMA community and invited speakers to share the work that they are doing in the fields of Computer Music, Audio Signal Processing and Music Information Retrieval, Psychoacoustics, and related fields.  The colloquium traditionally happens every Wednesday during the academic year from 5:30 – 7:00pm and meets in the CCRMA Classroom, Knoll 217, often also with a Zoom presence.
The CCRMA Colloquium is a weekly gathering of CCRMA students, faculty, staff, and guests. It is an opportunity for members of the CCRMA community and invited speakers to share the work that they are doing in the fields of Computer Music, Audio Signal Processing and Music Information Retrieval, Psychoacoustics, and related fields.  The colloquium traditionally happens every Wednesday during the academic year from 5:30 – 7:00pm and meets in the CCRMA Classroom, Knoll 217, often also with a Zoom presence.


Nette and Matt and this wiki page are organizing 2023-24 colloquia.
Walker Smith and this wiki page are organizing 2025-26 colloquia, with support from Nette and Matt.


= Current - Winter Quarter (2026)=
*'''01/07/26 (Week 1) Nathalie Joachim and Owen Dalby (hosted by Walker)


= Current - Autumn Quarter (2023)=
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Composer, flutist, and vocalist Nathalie Joachim presents Fanm d’Ayiti in an open rehearsal format with Decoda (Owen Dalby, Clara Lyon, Meena Bhasin, and Hannah Collins) for Stanford’s CCRMA Colloquium. Through a talk-and-play demonstration, Joachim will trace the work’s compositional genesis, drawing connections between Haitian musical traditions, contemporary classical practice, and her broader artistic inquiry into history, identity, and voice. The session invites listeners into the creative process, illuminating how Fanm d’Ayiti situates personal narrative within collective cultural memory and Joachim’s evolving body of work.
Nathalie Joachim is a Grammy-nominated composer, flutist, and vocalist whose music bridges classical traditions with experimental, electronic, and vernacular forms. A former member of the acclaimed ensemble Eighth Blackbird, she is a co-founder of the duo Flutronix and a leading voice in interdisciplinary performance. Joachim’s works have been presented by Carnegie Hall, the New York Philharmonic, and major festivals worldwide. She is currently Associate Professor of Composition at Princeton University.
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*'''01/14/26 (Week 2) CANCELLED Internship Opportunities (hosted by Jonathan Berger)
*'''01/21/26 (Week 3) TAPSxCCRMA Event (hosted by Héloïse Garry)
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'''Michael Rau''' is a live performance director specializing in new plays, opera, and digital media projects. He has directed projects internationally in Germany, the UK, Brazil, Ireland, Denmark, Mexico, Canada, Australia and the Czech Republic. He has created work in New York City at Lincoln Center, The Public Theater, PS122, HERE Arts Center, Ars Nova, The Bushwick Starr, The Brick, 59E59, 3LD, and Dixon Place. Regionally, his work has been seen the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival, and the Humana Festival at Actors Theater of Louisville. His work with composer Kate Soper has been performed at the Seattle Symphony, Smith College, and The New York Festival of Song at the Dimenna Center. He has developed new plays at the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Playwrights Realm and the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. His production of "temping" was selected by the Guardian and the Telegraph as one of the best productions of the 2022 and 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the piece was featured twice in New York Times He is a recipient of a 2021 Artists + Machine Intelligence Research Award from Google, as well as fellowships from the Likhachev Foundation, the Kennedy Center, and the National New Play Network. He has been a resident artist at the Orchard Project, E|MERGE, and the Tribeca Performing Arts Center. Rau is a Forward/Story fellow and a speaker at Books in Browsers, Performing Robots and StoryCode. He is a fellow of the Akademie für Theater und Digitalität and a resident of Stochaistic Labs. He has been an assistant director for Francesca Zambello, John Turturro, Robert Woodruff and associate director for Anne Bogart, Les Waters, and Ivo Van Hove. He is a New York Theater Workshop Usual Suspect and a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and received his MFA in Theater Directing from Columbia University. At Stanford, he is an affiliate faculty member with the Stanford Institute for Human Centered Artificial Intelligence.
 
'''Jarosław Kapuściński''' is an intermedia composer and pianist born in Poland. He studied piano and composition at the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw and furthered his education in multimedia and intermedia art during doctoral studies at the University of California, San Diego, and a residency at Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. Kapuściński presented his works at numerous gallery and concert venues worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, National Arts Centre in Canada, EMPAC, ZKM and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He has also received awards for his intermedia art at the Film sur l'Art Festival in Paris, the VideoArt Festival in Locarno, and the International Festival of New Cinema and New Media in Montréal. Apart from his career as a composer and performer, Kapuściński has lectured internationally and held positions at institutions such as McGill University in Montreal and the Conservatory of Music at the University of the Pacific. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Composition at Stanford University.
 
'''Maxine Carlisle''' is a dancer, completing her PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies at Stanford. After training in ballet, yoga and improvisation at Sydney Dance Company in 2016, she freelanced across disciplines, and co-founded the dance collective SXAE with Eliza Cooper, Mitchell Christie, Allie Graham and Strickland Young. At the same time, she completed a Bachelor of Arts in English (Honours, 1st Class) from the University of Sydney. Maxine owes her fascination for physical listening to Thomas Bradley, who is strongly influenced by Japanese “butoh.”
Erring back and forth between theory and practice, she completed an MA in English from New York University (2025) with a focus on transdisciplinary concepts. Maxine continues to work closely and diligently with NYU Associate Professor Dr. Wendy Lee and the Consent Lab. Currently, Maxine is working on the gap between language and movement, and it’s here, in this kind of silence, that she finds her love of dance.
 
'''Pauline Mornet''' is an artist-scholar and current PhD candidate in Performance Studies at Stanford University. Their work uses performance-based practices to explore questions of migration and memory. She holds a Master of Arts in Performance Studies from New York University. Pauline has published in Performance Research Journal with her essay ‘Intimate Archives: Love Letters in Wartime Europe’ exploring an archive of love letters sent during the Second World War. Pauline is also a RAISE scholar working on the migratory experience of recent Hong Kong exiles, and co-artistic director of the Nitery Experimental Theater in Stanford, CA. They have previously been artist in residence at Kebbel Villa, Germany, and they collaborated on the art installation HEARTH which is currently exhibited at the Djerassi Artist Residency Center, CA.
 
Afterwards: Reception/Mixer with food and drinks!
 
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*'''01/28/26 (Week 4) Arshia Cont (hosted by Matt/Chris/Jarek):  ''From Real-Time Musical Interaction to Scalable Semantic Data for Music AI''
 
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This talk presents a trajectory from real-time musical interaction systems to the construction of scalable semantic data for music AI applications. The work originates at the intersection of mixed electronic music composition, computer music research, and industry-facing AI music systems, and has evolved through sustained real-world deployment.
 
Starting with Antescofo, a system designed for real-time audio–score alignment and interaction, and continuing through its industrial deployment in Metronaut, we have spent several years operating alignment technology at production scale. Originally developed for score-following and interactive performance, Antescofo has been continuously deployed in a large body of mixed electronic music, including works by composers such as Pierre Boulez, Philippe Manoury, Marco Stroppa, Jonathan Harvey, as well as many contemporary creations today. In parallel, its industrial extension through Metronaut has brought related alignment technologies to millions of practicing amateur musicians worldwide.
 
Originally conceived for real-time interaction and performance, this framework has more recently been extended to educational contexts involving highly error-prone audio, large temporal deviations, and expressive variability. This shift revealed that audio–score alignment can function as more than an evaluation or interaction tool: it becomes a semantic layer that transforms paired audio and notation into structured, high-value training data. At scale, this process effectively converts musical performances into interpretable representations capturing timing, structure, deviation, and intent.
 
We will show how this semantic data has been leveraged to train and fine-tune music AI models, including piano transcription systems that surpass current benchmarks while operating in real time. These results suggest that alignment-driven semantic extraction provides a powerful alternative to purely signal- or annotation-driven approaches.
 
The talk concludes by discussing the broader implications of this paradigm for music AI, where production-ready musical intelligence systems can act as foundational infrastructure for training, evaluation, and interaction across multiple applications.
 
 
 
'''Arshia Cont''' is a researcher and engineer working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, real-time musical interaction, and passionate of contemporary music creation.
 
He received a PhD in computer music and artificial intelligence from the University of California in 2008, for which he was awarded the French Academy of Sciences Prize. He subsequently joined '''IRCAM''' in Paris, where he developed core algorithms for real-time audio–score alignment and interaction. He is best known for '''Antescofo''', a system for automatic accompaniment and predictive musical interaction that has been continuously deployed in mixed electronic music for over a decade, including works by composers such as Pierre Boulez, Philippe Manoury, Kaija Saariaho, Marco Stroppa, and Jonathan Harvey, and performed by major orchestras and ensembles worldwide.
 
From 2008 to 2016, he led a joint '''Inria'''–IRCAM research team focused on machine learning and real-time musical systems. During this period, he also served as General Manager of Musical Creation at IRCAM, where he founded the IRCAM Artist Residency Program, contributed to the modernization of the IRCAM Forum, and actively advocated for a strong and sustained coupling between artistic creation and research.
 
Alongside his research activity, he has been deeply and actively engaged in contemporary music creation, working closely with composers, performers, and ensembles to integrate advanced technologies into artistic practice.
 
Since 2016, he has been the co-founder of '''Metronaut''', a platform extending audio–score alignment technologies to large-scale music practice and education. He is also president of the ''Ensemble Itinéraire'' and collaborates regularly with instrument makers including Pleyel, Buffet Crampon, and Selmer.
 
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*'''02/04/26 (Week 5) CCRMA Jam Session in the Stage (hosted by Walker/Alex) [confirmed!]
*'''02/11/26 (Week 6) Marco Fusi (hosted by Sean O'Dalaigh)
 
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This presentation explores interpretative and creative strategies for performing Luigi Nono’s “La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura” (1988–1989). After briefly reflecting on Nono’s creative process with Gidon Kremer, including observations from sketches, drafts, and the final score, the focus will be on how the finalized performing materials can be articulated in today’s performances. We will examine the evolving dialogue between sound projectionist and violinist, shaped by artistic visions and diverse technological setups (octophonic, wave field synthesis). By the end, we will propose an understanding that Nono’s score invites creative participation—offering performers today a living space for self-determination and artistic choices.
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*'''02/18/26 (Week 7) Mari Kimura ''Mastery over Novelty: MUGIC® - a lasting tool for musicianship''  and Nolan Miranda ''Audience Participation in Performance Environments''
 
<blockquote>
'''Mastery over Novelty: MUGIC® - a lasting tool for musicianship''': This lecture explores a pivotal shift in the relationship between technology and the performing arts—from chasing novelty to cultivating mastery. Violinist, composer, and technologist Mari Kimura presents MUGIC® (Music/User Gesture Interface Control), a groundbreaking motion sensor designed to deepen, not replace, musicianship.  Unlike many fleeting tech innovations, MUGIC® is a lightweight, wearable device that captures expressive gestures in real time, converting them into control data for sound, visuals, and interactive media. Designed with performers in mind, it emphasizes expressivity, accessibility, and longevity—offering a sustainable model for integrating technology into the arts, education, and therapeutic practices. Drawing from over a decade of development and real-world application—from interdisciplinary curricula to stages such as Lincoln Center, the Venice Biennale, and Expo 2025 Osaka—Kimura showcases how mastering a robust, intuitive tool fosters deeper expression and long-term artistic growth.
 
'''Audience Participation in Performance Environments''': In this talk, I will investigate the effects of audience participation on the intended message, narrative arc, and viewer reception of performance. (Volunteers required.)
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*'''02/25/26 (Week 8) Akash Thakkar (hosted by Andrew Zhu Aday)
 
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'''Akash Thakkar''' is an award-winning sound designer based in Seattle. His portfolio includes contributions to critically lauded titles such as "Hyper Light Drifter," "Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye," "Concrete Genie,” and the Peabody-Winning “We Are OFK," among others.
 
Beyond his creative work, Akash is dedicated to educating and empowering the next generation of audio professionals. He frequently shares his expertise through international speaking engagements and educational content for aspiring sound designers. Akash is also a vocal advocate for fair compensation in the gaming industry, actively working to ensure audio professionals receive appropriate recognition for their contributions.
 
'''Ryan Ike''' is a two-time BAFTA-nominated composer and sound designer, currently living in Seattle, Washington. He's written for award winning games like "West of Loathing," "Where the Water Tastes Like Wine," and "Wizard With a Gun."
 
When not making audio, Ryan is likely preparing talks and online content on how to navigate the game industry. At events like PAX West, Indiecade, and GDC, he’s given talks designed to help people start or further their work in games, with an emphasis on emotional and mental health.
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*'''03/04/26 (Week 9) CCRMA Town Hall (hosted by Alex)
*'''03/11/26 (Week 10)
 
= Future - Spring Quarter (2026)=
*'''4/1/26 (Week 1) HOLD: Walker
*'''4/8/26 (Week 2) Carmine-Emanuele Cella (CNMAT Co-director) presentation
*'''4/15/26 (Week 3)
*'''4/22/26 (Week 4) John La Grou (hosted by Walker/Chris Chafe)
 
<blockquote>
Title: Moving from 120dB to 170dB: Audio's Fourth Paradigm Shift
 
Abstract: HDR-A is a revolutionary new multi-path audio architecture that dramatically reduces systemic noise, delivering 170dB of dynamic range and linearity. In this lecture, we'll review the theory of triple-patented HDR-A architecture and how it can be applied to microphones, preamps, ADCs, DACs, and power amplifiers, resulting in a 170dB audio capture and delivery ecosystem. We'll briefly review the first three audio paradigm shifts (electric, tape, digital) and reveal why HDR-A is the single greatest performance improvement in the 140 year history of audio.
 
Bio: Husband, father, renaissance spirit. One of three original startup members of Multitech Electronics in Mountain View (1984). After three years of intensive growth, the company name was changed to Acer America. Defined and led the OEM foundation for what is today the world's third largest personal computer company. Founder and chair of POW-r Consortium, the leading audio bit reduction algorithms - used on aprox 1/3 of all streaming and downloaded music (licensed by Apple Logic, ProTools-Avid, Ableton, Sonar, Samplitude, Pyramix, etc.). "If you listen to music, you listen to POW-r." Founder and CEO of Millennia Media, a leader in design of audio electronics for critical music production. Millennia has received over 35 key industry awards and was recently inducted into the Technology Hall of Fame (2019). Millennia products are embraced by a who's who in popular music, film scoring, and critical acoustic music production. Founder at imersiv, the fourth paradigm of audio architecture. This multi-patented design topology boldly re-imagines music production with a 40nV noise floor and 170dB dynamic range - from microphone to power amplifier, and everything in-between. Co-founder and patent-holder at SafePlug, one of "10 World Changing Ideas" (Scientific American). Innovative electrical products which save lives, save energy, and make the Smart Home smarter - winner of the 2009 and 2012 CES Top Home Innovation Award, a WSIE 2012 Global Hot 100 Company, and CE Pro 2014 Automation Device of the Year. Co-founded Compathos Foundation with Thea, my truelove and muse of four decades. Compathos is a non-profit social action community that invites us to understand ourselves and our world through the eyes of the most vulnerable. Director and Chair at our El Dorado County (CA) Food Bank. Executive producer of Drawn From Water, a multi-award-winning investigative documentary film highlighting the plight of Ethiopia's mingi children (music by Sigur Ros, streaming on Amazon and Netflix). A 2018 Edmund Hillary Fellow and frequent speaker at colleges and technical conferences. My 2009 TED Talk, translated into 30+ languages, has been featured in Fast Company, cNet, Engadget, PopSci, TechCrunch, and dozens of other e-zines and publications. I serve on university and foundation boards and was creator and co-editor of the Wikiklesia Project: a 500-page, forty-author open-source anthology exploring the intersections of spirituality and technology - recipient of the SNCR Award for New Media. Avocations include progressive music (guitarist in the 2012 Thomas Dolby TED House Band) and ultra-premium wine making in the California Foothills. Listed in Board Options, maintaining lifelong professional affiliations with: Audio Engineering Society (AES) and the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (Voting Member, Grammy Awards).
 
https://imersiv.com
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*'''4/29/26 (Week 5) CCRMA Town Hall (hosted by Alex)
*'''5/6/26 (Week 6) preparation for [https://ccrma.stanford.edu/ccrma-open-house CCRMA Open House 2026] not to mention [https://slork.stanford.edu SLOrktastic Chamber Music 2026]
*'''5/13/26 (Week 7) HOLD: Barbara Nerness (hosted by Walker)
*'''5/20/26 (Week 8) Richard Lee - Design of Audio-Haptic Systems for Active Learning of Acoustics
*'''5/27/26 (Week 9) MAMST Capstone Presentations 1/2
*'''6/3/26 (Week 10) MAMST Capstone Presentations 2/2
 
= Past - Fall Quarter (2025)=
*'''09/24/25 (Week 1) New Student Introductions
*Speaker 1: Li Ji
*Speaker 2: Ilan Salomon-Jacob
*Speaker 3: Chris
*Speaker 4: Ben
*Speaker 5: Michelle
*Speaker 6: Peter
*Speaker 7: Niccolo Abate
*Speaker 8: Bethanie
*Speaker 9: Simon
*Speaker 10: Gabriel Soule
*Speaker 11: Kiran Bhat
*Speaker 12: Brendan Zelikman
*Speaker 13: Haotian Bao
*Speaker 14: Prim
*Speaker 15: Zac Dulkin
*Speaker 16: Matt Caren
*Speaker 17:
 
*'''10/1/25 (Week 2) Faculty and Staff Lightning Intros (part 1)
*Speaker 1: Chris Chafe
*Speaker 2: Ge Wang
*Speaker 3: Marina Bosi
*Speaker 4: Hassan Estakhrian
*Speaker 5: Madalyn Merkey
*Speaker 6: Julius Smith
*Speaker 7: Constantin Basica
*Speaker 8: Walker Smith (+ Colloq Preview)
*Speaker 9:
*'''10/8/25 (Week 3) Faculty and Staff Lightning Intros (part 2)
*Speaker 0: The Max Lab (Calvin / Summer / Matt)
*Speaker 1: Diana Deutsch (zoom)
*Speaker 2: Takako Fujioka
*Speaker 3: Nils Tonnätt
*Speaker 4: Nando
*Speaker 5: Hongchan Choi
*Speaker 6: Matt Wright
*Speaker 7: Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi
 
*'''10/15/25 (Week 4) [CANCELLED - will plan to reschedule (date TBA)] Jean-Marc Jot (hosted by Walker)
*Creating and distributing immersive audio: from IRCAM Spat to Acoustic Objects
*'''10/22/25 (Week 5) Mark Rau (hosted by Walker)
 
Title:
 
Historic Musical Instruments at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston + The New Music Technology and Computation Program at MIT
 
Abstract:
 
Many one-of-a-kind and historic musical instruments are held in the collections of museums. While the care of curators ensures the instruments are preserved, musicians are rarely able to play the instruments due to the risk of damage to the instrument or harm to the musician. This talk will present a collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston, studying some of the 1300+ musical instruments in their collection. An industrial computed tomography (CT) scanner located at the MFA allows us to capture geometry and relative density information, enabling us to create replicas of the instruments. Non-invasive vibration and acoustic measurements are made, which, when combined with simulations, provide validation for replicas and a platform for synthesis copies. Lastly, I will talk about the new Music Technology and Computation Program at MIT.
 
 
*'''10/29/25 (Week 6) Faculty and Staff Lightning Intros (part 3) + CCRMA Jam Sesh!
*Speaker 1: Jaroslaw Kapuscinski
*Speaker 2: Mark Applebaum
*Speaker 3: Malcom Slaney
*Speaker 4: Pierre Divenyi
*Speaker 5: Jonathan Berger
*Speaker 6: Sasha Leitman
*Speaker 7:
 
 
Afterward...CCRMA Jam Sesh (in the Stage) and CCRMAoke in the Classroom!
 
*'''11/5/25 (Week 7) CCRMA Town Hall (Alex Han)
*'''11/12/25 (Week 8) Satoshi Yamaguchi (hosted by Takako)
*'''11/19/25 (Week 9)''' <span style="color:red">'''R'''</span><span style="color:orange">o</span><span style="color:yellow">y </span> </span><span style="color:green">G. </span></span><span style="color:cyan">B</span><span style="color:blue">i</span><span style="color:purple">v</span> (hosted by Walker)
*'''12/3/25 (Week 10) fuse* in conversation with KIPAC Director Risa Wechsler (hosted by Matt/Stanford Live)
 
= Past - Spring Quarter (2025)=
*'''04/2/25 (Week 1)
*'''04/9/25 (Week 2)
*'''04/16/25 (Week 3) Charles Mason (hosted by Constantin)
*'''04/23/25 (Week 4) Charles Deluga (hosted by Constantin)
**<span style="color:red">—> '''On the CCRMA Stage''' </span>
*'''04/30/25 (Week 5)
*'''05/7/25 (Week 6) Town Hall (hosted by Anna)
*'''05/14/25 (Week 7) No Colloquium (Please attend the [https://ccrma.stanford.edu/ccrma-open-house CCRMA Open House Thursday, May 15] and the GMSF Symposium on Saturday, May 17!)
*'''05/21/25 (Week 8) CCRMAoke/Jam Sesh (Karaoke the Classroom, Jam Session on the Stage)
*'''05/28/25 (Week 9) MA/MST Capstone Presentations
*1. Spark Wu
*2. Matt/Nette "CCRMA Studio Report" (ICMC Presentation Preview)
*'''06/4/25 (Week 10) MA/MST Capstone Presentations
*1. Anna Gruzas
*2. Tristan Peng
*3. Becca Wroblewski
*4. Chengyi Xing
*Walker - Overview of next year's Colloq plans + Student feedback. Please bring your ideas!
**PIZZA!
 
 
Rescheduled to date TBD:
*<span style="color:red">'''R'''</span><span style="color:orange">o</span><span style="color:yellow">y </span> </span><span style="color:green">G. </span></span><span style="color:cyan">B</span><span style="color:blue">i</span> <span style="color:purple">v</span> (hosted by Walker)
*Meghan Sumner, Stanford Linguistics (hosted by Walker)
 
= Past - Winter Quarter (2025)=
 
Zoom link for any hybrid or online colloquia: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/93954711512?pwd=rLzZI9jtbUcNv8XaLMPK2YbBhsKTAT.1
Passsword: 928762
 
*'''01/08/25 (Week 1) Robert Fleitz (hosted by Brian)
*'''01/15/25 (Week 2) Faculty Intros, and guest presentation from Songscription AI
**1. Mark Applebaum (5:30-5:45)
**2. Paul DeMarinis (5:45-6:00)
**3. Eleanor Selfridge-Field (6:00-6:15)
**4. Craig Sapp(6:15-6:30)
**5. Doug James (6:30-6:45)
**6. Andrew Carlins (6:45-7:00), Songscription AI ([http://www.songscription.ai])
*'''01/22/25 (Week 3) Stanford Film/Documentary Presentation (hosted by Héloise)
**Faculty Presentation from Srdan Keca, Exploring Sound and Music in Film
**Student Presentations:
***Lemon Guo, Stanford DMA Composition
***Mercedes Montemayor, Stanford DMA Composition
***Pamela Martinez, Stanford MFA Documentary Media
**<span style="color:red"> Afterward: Mixer with Film/Documentary MFA Cohort! WITH FOOD </span>
 
'''Srđan Keča''' is a Yugoslav-born filmmaker, visual artist and educator living in the U.S.
His documentary films have been selected at leading festivals, including the Berlinale, IDFA and HotDocs, while his video installations have been exhibited at venues like the Venice Biennale of Architecture and the Whitechapel Gallery. His early medium-length films include A Letter to Dad (IDFA 2011, Dokufest 2011 - Best Balkan Documentary) and Mirage (Jihlava IDFF 2012 - Best Central and Eastern European Documentary). Flotel Europa, an archival feature-length film produced and edited by Keča, premiered at the Berlinale in 2015, winning the Tagesspiegel Jury Award, and went on to win awards at numerous festivals including Documenta Madrid, Torino Film Festival, and IndieLisboa. His latest film, the poetic-observational feature Museum of the Revolution premiered at IDFA in 2021, and won awards including the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary at Sarajevo Film Festival and Best Feature at Big Sky Documentary Festival. It has been released theatrically in Europe and North America and broadcast on major networks including Al Jazeera Documentary Channel.
Keča’s work has been praised in Senses of Cinema, Sight & Sound, Variety, Cineuropa, Modern Times Review, and POV Magazine, among others. He is an alum of the Ateliers Varan and UK’s National Filmand Television School (NFTS), and a Sundance Institute grantee. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University and Program Director of Stanford’s M.F.A. in Documentary Film.
 
'''Lemon Guo''' is an interdisciplinary artist, composer, and vocalist from the southeastern coast of China. Drawn to the visceral and evocative nature of the voice, she creates voice-based performances, installations, Virtual Reality films, and other intermedia works that explore things that haunt her and wouldn’t leave her alone. With a background in Chinese folk music, Lemon holds an MFA in Sound Art from Columbia University and is currently a DMA candidate in composition at Stanford University. She has performed and exhibited her works internationally, in places such as Rubin Museum of Art, Sundance Film Festival, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (US), BBC Radio 3 (UK), IDFA (NL), and Siggraph (CA). Lemon created music for director Yi Tang's short film All the Crows in the World, which won Palme d’Or at Festival de Cannes 2021.
 
'''Mercedes Montemayor''' (b. Monterrey, Mexico) is a composer and music producer with exceptional talent for creating innovative and avant-garde music. From an early age, Mercedes showed a deep interest in music, leading her to immerse herself in the world of composition and music production. Her work spans a wide range of genres, from classical to electronic and ambient music, influenced by artists such as Ryuichi Sakamoto, whose work has been a constant source of inspiration for her.
Mercedes has excelled in the field of experimental music, creating complex and immersive soundscapes that invite introspection and emotion. Her focus on sonic exploration and her ability to innovate in music production have been key to her career. In addition to her work as a composer, Mercedes also works as a sound engineer, allowing her to combine artistic vision with technical precision in her productions.
Her experience includes a standout performance at Mutek Mexico in October 2023, where she presented her work to an international audience. She has also completed an internship at WSDG (Walters-Storyk Design Group), a firm specializing in architectural acoustics, where she gained valuable technical and practical knowledge in designing sound spaces.
Mercedes has collaborated with various artists and projects, including the visual artist Miriam Medrez (February 2022), contributing her expertise in integrating experimental elements into contemporary music. Her dedication to continuous evolution in her field is evident in her works and collaborations.
Starting in the fall of 2024, Mercedes began her Doctorate in Musical Arts (DMA) in Composition at Stanford University, where she is continuing to develop her career and explore new frontiers in experimental music and composition.
 
'''Pamela Martinez''' is a Venezuelan filmmaker and a second-year MFA graduate in the Documentary Media Program at Stanford. She is interested in issues of gender, systems of care, migration, and transitional justice. Among her latest works is Illegal Alien: the Prelude (2023), is an art exhibition that intertwines sociological inquiry and film to explore Venezuelan women's physical and psychological migratory pathways.
 
*'''01/29/25 (Week 4) Musician Injury Seminar (Hosted by Walker)
**<span style="color:red">—> '''In Campbell Hall (Braun)''' </span>
**Joint presentation with piano forum.
*'''02/05/25 (Week 5) Neko3 (hosted by Anna Golubkova)
**<span style="color:red"> AFTERWARD: CCRMAoke (CCMRA Karaoke) (Hosted by Walker + Anna Gruzas) </span>
*'''02/12/25 (Week 6) William Sethares (Hosted by Walker)
*'''02/19/25 (Week 7) CCRMA Town Hall - STUDENT ONLY meeting (Hosted by Anna)
*'''02/26/25 (Week 8) CANCELLED -- Niloufar Shiri (hosted by Kimia)
*'''03/05/25 (Week 9) *No colloquium*
**Originally was going to have Meghan Sumner, Stanford Linguistics (hosted by Walker). This will be rescheduled to the Spring quarter (date TBD).
*'''03/12/25 (Week 10) Georg Hajdu (hosted by Constantin)
 
= Past - Autumn Quarter (2024)=
*'''09/25/24 (Week 1) New Student Introductions
**Speaker 1:  Emily Saletan
**Speaker 2: Mateo Larrea
**Speaker 3: Katie Pieschala
**Speaker 4: Walker Smith
**Speaker 5: Gregg Oliva
**Speaker 6: Siqi Chen
**Speaker 7: Lejun Min
**Speaker 8: Shenran Wang
**Speaker 9: Nathan Sariowan
**Speaker 10: Saurav Chala
**Speaker 11: Udbhav Venkataraman
**Speaker 12: Heloise Garry
**Speaker 13: Calvin McCormack
**Speaker 14: Summer Krinsky
**Speaker 15: Nancy Rico-Mineros
**Speaker 16: Tae Kyu Kim
**Speaker 17: Stuart Sul
 
*'''10/02/23 (Week 2) - Faculty and Staff Rapid Fire (part 1)
**Speaker 1: Jonathan Berger
**Speaker 2: Ge Wang
**Speaker 3: Marina Bosi
**Speaker 4: Chris Chafe
**Speaker 5: Sasha Leitman
**Speaker 6: Madalyn Merkey
**Speaker 7: Hassan Estakhrian
**Speaker 8: Kunwoo Kim
**Speaker 9: Nando
**Non-Speaker NaN: Celeste (recruiting slorkers, super short :) )
 
*'''10/09/23 (Week 3) - POSTPONED TO WEEK 4 or later
 
*'''10/16/23 (Week 4) - Transitions!
 
*'''10/23/23 (Week 5) - Faculty and Staff Rapid Fire (part 2) and CCRMA History
**Speaker 1:
**Speaker 2: Julius Smith (confirmed)
**Speaker 3: Matt Wright (confirmed)
**Speaker 4: Constantin Basica (confirmed)
**Speaker 5: Takako Fujioka (confirmed)
**Speaker 6: Nils Tonnätt (confirmed)
**Speaker 7:
**Speaker NaN: Celeste
 
*'''10/30/23 (Week 6) - Ligeti theme / concert preview (https://ccrma.stanford.edu/events/homage-ligeti-ccrma-50th-anniversary)
** Matt Wright (introduction)
** Jonathan Berger (brief anecdote)
** A word from some performers
** Georg Hajdu
** Martin Bresnick (about Ligeti's time at pre-CCRMA and his compositions Atmosphères and Musica ricercata)
** John Chowning (about Ligeti's 1972 visit to Stanford and more of the CCRMA/Ligeti connections)
 
*'''11/06/23 (Week 7) -
 
*'''11/13/23 (Week 8) - [no colloquium]
 
*'''11/20/23 (Week 9) - CCRMA TOWN HALL
 
*'''11/27/23 (Week T) - NO SEMINAR (Thanksgiving break)
 
*'''12/4/23 (Week 10) - Vilbjørg Broch (hosted by Constantin) <span style="color:red">—> Moved to December 5, 6-7pm in the Stage, right before Vilbjørg's concert at 7:30pm</span>
 
 
 
= Past - Spring Quarter (2024)=
(Organizer/host please put your name in parentheses after each speaker or week)
 
*'''4/3 (Week 1) Sasha Leitman: Creative Work and Research
*'''4/10 (Week 2) Zoran Cvetkovic (Chris Chafe)
*'''4/17 (Week 3) CCRMA Town Hall
*'''4/24 (Week 4) Marco Fusi in the Stage, followed by Special Social Event (wear clothes you don't mind getting stained) - Nette will send specifics later :)
*'''5/1 (Week 5) Professor Emily Howard (PRISM) (Patricia)
*'''5/8 (Week 6) rapid fire 5 minute presentations (Chris Chafe)
**Speaker 1: Ge Wang
**Speaker 2: Kunwoo Kim
**Speaker 3: Matt Wright
**Speaker 4: Julius Smith
**Speaker 5: Chris Chafe
**Speaker 6: Vidya Rangasayee
**Speaker 7: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano (aka: nando)
**Speaker 8: Marina Bosi
*'''5/15 (Week 7) (The [https://ccrma.stanford.edu/ccrma-open-house Open House] is tomorrow - let's skip Colloquium this week)
*'''5/22 (Week 8) Lara Weaver - Sonic Arts Research Centre - SARC (Patricia)
*'''5/29 (Week 9) Capstone projects in Neuromusic lab (Takako Fujioka)
*'''6/5 (Week 10) Capstone project presentations
**Speaker 1: Eito Murakami
**Speaker 2: Ryan Wixen
**Speaker 3: Terry Feng
**Speaker 4: Sneha Shah
<br />
 
= Past - Winter Quarter (2024)=
*'''1/10/24 (Week 1) - CCRMA Trivia Night (hosts: Nette & Marise)
*'''1/17/24 (Week 2) - Ali "AMAC" McGuire                   
- Making music is the easiest part of the journey. Navigating a business that pushes to exploit your love and offers you the world at your fingertips is the challenge. Where do you start? How do you set boundaries? How do you make money? How do you avoid the toxic traits that are so often totted as success? Come prepared with any questions that you may went to dive into- from your worries and fears to anything else. In this talk AMAC is going to share her experiences succeeding and failing in the music industry to give you an inside look at what you can expect after you graduate and take your shot.
*'''1/24/24 (Week 3) - [missed week]
*'''1/31/24 (Week 4) - Pedro Gonzalez
*'''2/7/24 (Week 5) - Sasha Leitman Colloquium on Materials and Resources for Maker Projects and PCB Work for Maker and Creative Projects (host: Nette)
*'''2/14/24 (Week 6) - Miya Masaoka
*'''2/21/24 (Week 7) - Ed Newton-Rex
*'''2/28/24 (Week 8) - [CANCELLED] Nando (Lopez-Lezcano) - Modular synthesis workflows, or "why did you turn that knob clockwise now?"
*'''3/6/24 (Week 9) - David Monacchi -- Stage -- (host: Chris Chafe)
*'''3/13/24 (Week 10) - Richard Hoover of Santa Cruz Guitars (host: Mark Rau)
 
 
 
= Past - Autumn Quarter (2023)=
*'''09/27/23 (Week 1) New Student Introductions
*'''09/27/23 (Week 1) New Student Introductions
**Speaker 1: Richard Lee
**Speaker 1: Richard Lee
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*'''11/22/23 (Week T) - NO SEMINAR (Thanksgiving break)
*'''11/22/23 (Week T) - NO SEMINAR (Thanksgiving break)
*'''11/29/23 (Week 9) - Planning session for Winter and Spring colloquium - bring your ideas!
*'''11/29/23 (Week 9) - Planning session for Winter and Spring colloquium - bring your ideas!
*'''12/5/23 (Week 10) - Georg Essl: weird guest lecture / presentation without cause
*'''12/5/23 (Week 10) - Georg Essl: Looking at Sound Synthesis through the Lens of Topology
 
** Topology is the science of connectivity. Topological topics have increasingly become part of digital signal processing and sound synthesis in recent years. In this talk I will discuss topology in the context of familiar sound synthesis methods and digital signal foundations. Ultimately the goal is to show that thinking topologically about making algorithmic noises, is interesting, fruitful, and different -- making it worth a closer look.
= Future - Winter Quarter (2024)=
*'''1/10/24 (Week 1) - CCRMA Trivia Night (hosts: Nette & Marise)
*'''1/17/24 (Week 2) - Ali "AMAC" McGuire                   
- Making music is the easiest part of the journey. Navigating a business that pushes to exploit your love and offers you the world at your fingertips is the challenge. Where do you start? How do you set boundaries? How do you make money? How do you avoid the toxic traits that are so often totted as success? Come prepared with any questions that you may went to dive into- from your worries and fears to anything else. In this talk AMAC is going to share her experiences succeeding and failing in the music industry to give you an inside look at what you can expect after you graduate and take your shot.  
*'''1/24/24 (Week 3) - Sasha Leitman (host: Nette)
*'''1/31/24 (Week 4) - Ed Newton-Rex
*'''2/7/24 (Week 5) - TBD
*'''2/14/24 (Week 6) - Miya Masaoka
*'''2/21/24 (Week 7) - TBD
*'''2/28/24 (Week 8) - Nando (Lopez-Lezcano) - Modular synthesis workflows, or "why did you turn that knob clockwise now?" (could move to a different week if needed, and if it is still possible)
*'''3/6/24 (Week 9) - TBD
*'''3/13/24 (Week 10) - TBD
 
= Future Spring Quarter (2024)=
*'''4/3 (Week 1)
*'''4/10 (Week 2)
*'''4/17 (Week 3) - maybe do something in Bing while CCRMA has the GRAIL set up?
*'''4/24 (Week 4)
*'''5/1 (Week 5) 
*'''5/8 (Week 6)
*'''5/15 (Week 7)
*'''5/22 (Week 8)
*'''5/29 (Week 9)
*'''6/5 (Week 10)
<br />


= Past - Spring Quarter (2023)=
= Past - Spring Quarter (2023)=

Latest revision as of 00:52, 12 February 2026

Wednesday 5:30pm PT (CCRMA Classroom & Zoom)

The CCRMA Colloquium is a weekly gathering of CCRMA students, faculty, staff, and guests. It is an opportunity for members of the CCRMA community and invited speakers to share the work that they are doing in the fields of Computer Music, Audio Signal Processing and Music Information Retrieval, Psychoacoustics, and related fields. The colloquium traditionally happens every Wednesday during the academic year from 5:30 – 7:00pm and meets in the CCRMA Classroom, Knoll 217, often also with a Zoom presence.

Walker Smith and this wiki page are organizing 2025-26 colloquia, with support from Nette and Matt.

Current - Winter Quarter (2026)

  • 01/07/26 (Week 1) Nathalie Joachim and Owen Dalby (hosted by Walker)

Composer, flutist, and vocalist Nathalie Joachim presents Fanm d’Ayiti in an open rehearsal format with Decoda (Owen Dalby, Clara Lyon, Meena Bhasin, and Hannah Collins) for Stanford’s CCRMA Colloquium. Through a talk-and-play demonstration, Joachim will trace the work’s compositional genesis, drawing connections between Haitian musical traditions, contemporary classical practice, and her broader artistic inquiry into history, identity, and voice. The session invites listeners into the creative process, illuminating how Fanm d’Ayiti situates personal narrative within collective cultural memory and Joachim’s evolving body of work.

Nathalie Joachim is a Grammy-nominated composer, flutist, and vocalist whose music bridges classical traditions with experimental, electronic, and vernacular forms. A former member of the acclaimed ensemble Eighth Blackbird, she is a co-founder of the duo Flutronix and a leading voice in interdisciplinary performance. Joachim’s works have been presented by Carnegie Hall, the New York Philharmonic, and major festivals worldwide. She is currently Associate Professor of Composition at Princeton University.

  • 01/14/26 (Week 2) CANCELLED Internship Opportunities (hosted by Jonathan Berger)
  • 01/21/26 (Week 3) TAPSxCCRMA Event (hosted by Héloïse Garry)

Michael Rau is a live performance director specializing in new plays, opera, and digital media projects. He has directed projects internationally in Germany, the UK, Brazil, Ireland, Denmark, Mexico, Canada, Australia and the Czech Republic. He has created work in New York City at Lincoln Center, The Public Theater, PS122, HERE Arts Center, Ars Nova, The Bushwick Starr, The Brick, 59E59, 3LD, and Dixon Place. Regionally, his work has been seen the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival, and the Humana Festival at Actors Theater of Louisville. His work with composer Kate Soper has been performed at the Seattle Symphony, Smith College, and The New York Festival of Song at the Dimenna Center. He has developed new plays at the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Playwrights Realm and the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. His production of "temping" was selected by the Guardian and the Telegraph as one of the best productions of the 2022 and 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the piece was featured twice in New York Times He is a recipient of a 2021 Artists + Machine Intelligence Research Award from Google, as well as fellowships from the Likhachev Foundation, the Kennedy Center, and the National New Play Network. He has been a resident artist at the Orchard Project, E|MERGE, and the Tribeca Performing Arts Center. Rau is a Forward/Story fellow and a speaker at Books in Browsers, Performing Robots and StoryCode. He is a fellow of the Akademie für Theater und Digitalität and a resident of Stochaistic Labs. He has been an assistant director for Francesca Zambello, John Turturro, Robert Woodruff and associate director for Anne Bogart, Les Waters, and Ivo Van Hove. He is a New York Theater Workshop Usual Suspect and a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and received his MFA in Theater Directing from Columbia University. At Stanford, he is an affiliate faculty member with the Stanford Institute for Human Centered Artificial Intelligence.

Jarosław Kapuściński is an intermedia composer and pianist born in Poland. He studied piano and composition at the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw and furthered his education in multimedia and intermedia art during doctoral studies at the University of California, San Diego, and a residency at Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. Kapuściński presented his works at numerous gallery and concert venues worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, National Arts Centre in Canada, EMPAC, ZKM and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He has also received awards for his intermedia art at the Film sur l'Art Festival in Paris, the VideoArt Festival in Locarno, and the International Festival of New Cinema and New Media in Montréal. Apart from his career as a composer and performer, Kapuściński has lectured internationally and held positions at institutions such as McGill University in Montreal and the Conservatory of Music at the University of the Pacific. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Composition at Stanford University.

Maxine Carlisle is a dancer, completing her PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies at Stanford. After training in ballet, yoga and improvisation at Sydney Dance Company in 2016, she freelanced across disciplines, and co-founded the dance collective SXAE with Eliza Cooper, Mitchell Christie, Allie Graham and Strickland Young. At the same time, she completed a Bachelor of Arts in English (Honours, 1st Class) from the University of Sydney. Maxine owes her fascination for physical listening to Thomas Bradley, who is strongly influenced by Japanese “butoh.” Erring back and forth between theory and practice, she completed an MA in English from New York University (2025) with a focus on transdisciplinary concepts. Maxine continues to work closely and diligently with NYU Associate Professor Dr. Wendy Lee and the Consent Lab. Currently, Maxine is working on the gap between language and movement, and it’s here, in this kind of silence, that she finds her love of dance.

Pauline Mornet is an artist-scholar and current PhD candidate in Performance Studies at Stanford University. Their work uses performance-based practices to explore questions of migration and memory. She holds a Master of Arts in Performance Studies from New York University. Pauline has published in Performance Research Journal with her essay ‘Intimate Archives: Love Letters in Wartime Europe’ exploring an archive of love letters sent during the Second World War. Pauline is also a RAISE scholar working on the migratory experience of recent Hong Kong exiles, and co-artistic director of the Nitery Experimental Theater in Stanford, CA. They have previously been artist in residence at Kebbel Villa, Germany, and they collaborated on the art installation HEARTH which is currently exhibited at the Djerassi Artist Residency Center, CA.

Afterwards: Reception/Mixer with food and drinks!

  • 01/28/26 (Week 4) Arshia Cont (hosted by Matt/Chris/Jarek): From Real-Time Musical Interaction to Scalable Semantic Data for Music AI

This talk presents a trajectory from real-time musical interaction systems to the construction of scalable semantic data for music AI applications. The work originates at the intersection of mixed electronic music composition, computer music research, and industry-facing AI music systems, and has evolved through sustained real-world deployment.

Starting with Antescofo, a system designed for real-time audio–score alignment and interaction, and continuing through its industrial deployment in Metronaut, we have spent several years operating alignment technology at production scale. Originally developed for score-following and interactive performance, Antescofo has been continuously deployed in a large body of mixed electronic music, including works by composers such as Pierre Boulez, Philippe Manoury, Marco Stroppa, Jonathan Harvey, as well as many contemporary creations today. In parallel, its industrial extension through Metronaut has brought related alignment technologies to millions of practicing amateur musicians worldwide.

Originally conceived for real-time interaction and performance, this framework has more recently been extended to educational contexts involving highly error-prone audio, large temporal deviations, and expressive variability. This shift revealed that audio–score alignment can function as more than an evaluation or interaction tool: it becomes a semantic layer that transforms paired audio and notation into structured, high-value training data. At scale, this process effectively converts musical performances into interpretable representations capturing timing, structure, deviation, and intent.

We will show how this semantic data has been leveraged to train and fine-tune music AI models, including piano transcription systems that surpass current benchmarks while operating in real time. These results suggest that alignment-driven semantic extraction provides a powerful alternative to purely signal- or annotation-driven approaches.

The talk concludes by discussing the broader implications of this paradigm for music AI, where production-ready musical intelligence systems can act as foundational infrastructure for training, evaluation, and interaction across multiple applications.


Arshia Cont is a researcher and engineer working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, real-time musical interaction, and passionate of contemporary music creation.

He received a PhD in computer music and artificial intelligence from the University of California in 2008, for which he was awarded the French Academy of Sciences Prize. He subsequently joined IRCAM in Paris, where he developed core algorithms for real-time audio–score alignment and interaction. He is best known for Antescofo, a system for automatic accompaniment and predictive musical interaction that has been continuously deployed in mixed electronic music for over a decade, including works by composers such as Pierre Boulez, Philippe Manoury, Kaija Saariaho, Marco Stroppa, and Jonathan Harvey, and performed by major orchestras and ensembles worldwide.

From 2008 to 2016, he led a joint Inria–IRCAM research team focused on machine learning and real-time musical systems. During this period, he also served as General Manager of Musical Creation at IRCAM, where he founded the IRCAM Artist Residency Program, contributed to the modernization of the IRCAM Forum, and actively advocated for a strong and sustained coupling between artistic creation and research.

Alongside his research activity, he has been deeply and actively engaged in contemporary music creation, working closely with composers, performers, and ensembles to integrate advanced technologies into artistic practice.

Since 2016, he has been the co-founder of Metronaut, a platform extending audio–score alignment technologies to large-scale music practice and education. He is also president of the Ensemble Itinéraire and collaborates regularly with instrument makers including Pleyel, Buffet Crampon, and Selmer.

  • 02/04/26 (Week 5) CCRMA Jam Session in the Stage (hosted by Walker/Alex) [confirmed!]
  • 02/11/26 (Week 6) Marco Fusi (hosted by Sean O'Dalaigh)

This presentation explores interpretative and creative strategies for performing Luigi Nono’s “La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura” (1988–1989). After briefly reflecting on Nono’s creative process with Gidon Kremer, including observations from sketches, drafts, and the final score, the focus will be on how the finalized performing materials can be articulated in today’s performances. We will examine the evolving dialogue between sound projectionist and violinist, shaped by artistic visions and diverse technological setups (octophonic, wave field synthesis). By the end, we will propose an understanding that Nono’s score invites creative participation—offering performers today a living space for self-determination and artistic choices.

  • 02/18/26 (Week 7) Mari Kimura Mastery over Novelty: MUGIC® - a lasting tool for musicianship and Nolan Miranda Audience Participation in Performance Environments

Mastery over Novelty: MUGIC® - a lasting tool for musicianship: This lecture explores a pivotal shift in the relationship between technology and the performing arts—from chasing novelty to cultivating mastery. Violinist, composer, and technologist Mari Kimura presents MUGIC® (Music/User Gesture Interface Control), a groundbreaking motion sensor designed to deepen, not replace, musicianship.  Unlike many fleeting tech innovations, MUGIC® is a lightweight, wearable device that captures expressive gestures in real time, converting them into control data for sound, visuals, and interactive media. Designed with performers in mind, it emphasizes expressivity, accessibility, and longevity—offering a sustainable model for integrating technology into the arts, education, and therapeutic practices. Drawing from over a decade of development and real-world application—from interdisciplinary curricula to stages such as Lincoln Center, the Venice Biennale, and Expo 2025 Osaka—Kimura showcases how mastering a robust, intuitive tool fosters deeper expression and long-term artistic growth.

Audience Participation in Performance Environments: In this talk, I will investigate the effects of audience participation on the intended message, narrative arc, and viewer reception of performance. (Volunteers required.)

  • 02/25/26 (Week 8) Akash Thakkar (hosted by Andrew Zhu Aday)

Akash Thakkar is an award-winning sound designer based in Seattle. His portfolio includes contributions to critically lauded titles such as "Hyper Light Drifter," "Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye," "Concrete Genie,” and the Peabody-Winning “We Are OFK," among others.

Beyond his creative work, Akash is dedicated to educating and empowering the next generation of audio professionals. He frequently shares his expertise through international speaking engagements and educational content for aspiring sound designers. Akash is also a vocal advocate for fair compensation in the gaming industry, actively working to ensure audio professionals receive appropriate recognition for their contributions.

Ryan Ike is a two-time BAFTA-nominated composer and sound designer, currently living in Seattle, Washington. He's written for award winning games like "West of Loathing," "Where the Water Tastes Like Wine," and "Wizard With a Gun."

When not making audio, Ryan is likely preparing talks and online content on how to navigate the game industry. At events like PAX West, Indiecade, and GDC, he’s given talks designed to help people start or further their work in games, with an emphasis on emotional and mental health.


  • 03/04/26 (Week 9) CCRMA Town Hall (hosted by Alex)
  • 03/11/26 (Week 10)

Future - Spring Quarter (2026)

  • 4/1/26 (Week 1) HOLD: Walker
  • 4/8/26 (Week 2) Carmine-Emanuele Cella (CNMAT Co-director) presentation
  • 4/15/26 (Week 3)
  • 4/22/26 (Week 4) John La Grou (hosted by Walker/Chris Chafe)

Title: Moving from 120dB to 170dB: Audio's Fourth Paradigm Shift

Abstract: HDR-A is a revolutionary new multi-path audio architecture that dramatically reduces systemic noise, delivering 170dB of dynamic range and linearity. In this lecture, we'll review the theory of triple-patented HDR-A architecture and how it can be applied to microphones, preamps, ADCs, DACs, and power amplifiers, resulting in a 170dB audio capture and delivery ecosystem. We'll briefly review the first three audio paradigm shifts (electric, tape, digital) and reveal why HDR-A is the single greatest performance improvement in the 140 year history of audio.

Bio: Husband, father, renaissance spirit. One of three original startup members of Multitech Electronics in Mountain View (1984). After three years of intensive growth, the company name was changed to Acer America. Defined and led the OEM foundation for what is today the world's third largest personal computer company. Founder and chair of POW-r Consortium, the leading audio bit reduction algorithms - used on aprox 1/3 of all streaming and downloaded music (licensed by Apple Logic, ProTools-Avid, Ableton, Sonar, Samplitude, Pyramix, etc.). "If you listen to music, you listen to POW-r." Founder and CEO of Millennia Media, a leader in design of audio electronics for critical music production. Millennia has received over 35 key industry awards and was recently inducted into the Technology Hall of Fame (2019). Millennia products are embraced by a who's who in popular music, film scoring, and critical acoustic music production. Founder at imersiv, the fourth paradigm of audio architecture. This multi-patented design topology boldly re-imagines music production with a 40nV noise floor and 170dB dynamic range - from microphone to power amplifier, and everything in-between. Co-founder and patent-holder at SafePlug, one of "10 World Changing Ideas" (Scientific American). Innovative electrical products which save lives, save energy, and make the Smart Home smarter - winner of the 2009 and 2012 CES Top Home Innovation Award, a WSIE 2012 Global Hot 100 Company, and CE Pro 2014 Automation Device of the Year. Co-founded Compathos Foundation with Thea, my truelove and muse of four decades. Compathos is a non-profit social action community that invites us to understand ourselves and our world through the eyes of the most vulnerable. Director and Chair at our El Dorado County (CA) Food Bank. Executive producer of Drawn From Water, a multi-award-winning investigative documentary film highlighting the plight of Ethiopia's mingi children (music by Sigur Ros, streaming on Amazon and Netflix). A 2018 Edmund Hillary Fellow and frequent speaker at colleges and technical conferences. My 2009 TED Talk, translated into 30+ languages, has been featured in Fast Company, cNet, Engadget, PopSci, TechCrunch, and dozens of other e-zines and publications. I serve on university and foundation boards and was creator and co-editor of the Wikiklesia Project: a 500-page, forty-author open-source anthology exploring the intersections of spirituality and technology - recipient of the SNCR Award for New Media. Avocations include progressive music (guitarist in the 2012 Thomas Dolby TED House Band) and ultra-premium wine making in the California Foothills. Listed in Board Options, maintaining lifelong professional affiliations with: Audio Engineering Society (AES) and the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (Voting Member, Grammy Awards).

https://imersiv.com

  • 4/29/26 (Week 5) CCRMA Town Hall (hosted by Alex)
  • 5/6/26 (Week 6) preparation for CCRMA Open House 2026 not to mention SLOrktastic Chamber Music 2026
  • 5/13/26 (Week 7) HOLD: Barbara Nerness (hosted by Walker)
  • 5/20/26 (Week 8) Richard Lee - Design of Audio-Haptic Systems for Active Learning of Acoustics
  • 5/27/26 (Week 9) MAMST Capstone Presentations 1/2
  • 6/3/26 (Week 10) MAMST Capstone Presentations 2/2

Past - Fall Quarter (2025)

  • 09/24/25 (Week 1) New Student Introductions
  • Speaker 1: Li Ji
  • Speaker 2: Ilan Salomon-Jacob
  • Speaker 3: Chris
  • Speaker 4: Ben
  • Speaker 5: Michelle
  • Speaker 6: Peter
  • Speaker 7: Niccolo Abate
  • Speaker 8: Bethanie
  • Speaker 9: Simon
  • Speaker 10: Gabriel Soule
  • Speaker 11: Kiran Bhat
  • Speaker 12: Brendan Zelikman
  • Speaker 13: Haotian Bao
  • Speaker 14: Prim
  • Speaker 15: Zac Dulkin
  • Speaker 16: Matt Caren
  • Speaker 17:
  • 10/1/25 (Week 2) Faculty and Staff Lightning Intros (part 1)
  • Speaker 1: Chris Chafe
  • Speaker 2: Ge Wang
  • Speaker 3: Marina Bosi
  • Speaker 4: Hassan Estakhrian
  • Speaker 5: Madalyn Merkey
  • Speaker 6: Julius Smith
  • Speaker 7: Constantin Basica
  • Speaker 8: Walker Smith (+ Colloq Preview)
  • Speaker 9:
  • 10/8/25 (Week 3) Faculty and Staff Lightning Intros (part 2)
  • Speaker 0: The Max Lab (Calvin / Summer / Matt)
  • Speaker 1: Diana Deutsch (zoom)
  • Speaker 2: Takako Fujioka
  • Speaker 3: Nils Tonnätt
  • Speaker 4: Nando
  • Speaker 5: Hongchan Choi
  • Speaker 6: Matt Wright
  • Speaker 7: Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi
  • 10/15/25 (Week 4) [CANCELLED - will plan to reschedule (date TBA)] Jean-Marc Jot (hosted by Walker)
  • Creating and distributing immersive audio: from IRCAM Spat to Acoustic Objects
  • 10/22/25 (Week 5) Mark Rau (hosted by Walker)

Title:

Historic Musical Instruments at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston + The New Music Technology and Computation Program at MIT

Abstract:

Many one-of-a-kind and historic musical instruments are held in the collections of museums. While the care of curators ensures the instruments are preserved, musicians are rarely able to play the instruments due to the risk of damage to the instrument or harm to the musician. This talk will present a collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston, studying some of the 1300+ musical instruments in their collection. An industrial computed tomography (CT) scanner located at the MFA allows us to capture geometry and relative density information, enabling us to create replicas of the instruments. Non-invasive vibration and acoustic measurements are made, which, when combined with simulations, provide validation for replicas and a platform for synthesis copies. Lastly, I will talk about the new Music Technology and Computation Program at MIT.


  • 10/29/25 (Week 6) Faculty and Staff Lightning Intros (part 3) + CCRMA Jam Sesh!
  • Speaker 1: Jaroslaw Kapuscinski
  • Speaker 2: Mark Applebaum
  • Speaker 3: Malcom Slaney
  • Speaker 4: Pierre Divenyi
  • Speaker 5: Jonathan Berger
  • Speaker 6: Sasha Leitman
  • Speaker 7:


Afterward...CCRMA Jam Sesh (in the Stage) and CCRMAoke in the Classroom!

  • 11/5/25 (Week 7) CCRMA Town Hall (Alex Han)
  • 11/12/25 (Week 8) Satoshi Yamaguchi (hosted by Takako)
  • 11/19/25 (Week 9) Roy G. Biv (hosted by Walker)
  • 12/3/25 (Week 10) fuse* in conversation with KIPAC Director Risa Wechsler (hosted by Matt/Stanford Live)

Past - Spring Quarter (2025)

  • 04/2/25 (Week 1)
  • 04/9/25 (Week 2)
  • 04/16/25 (Week 3) Charles Mason (hosted by Constantin)
  • 04/23/25 (Week 4) Charles Deluga (hosted by Constantin)
    • —> On the CCRMA Stage
  • 04/30/25 (Week 5)
  • 05/7/25 (Week 6) Town Hall (hosted by Anna)
  • 05/14/25 (Week 7) No Colloquium (Please attend the CCRMA Open House Thursday, May 15 and the GMSF Symposium on Saturday, May 17!)
  • 05/21/25 (Week 8) CCRMAoke/Jam Sesh (Karaoke the Classroom, Jam Session on the Stage)
  • 05/28/25 (Week 9) MA/MST Capstone Presentations
  • 1. Spark Wu
  • 2. Matt/Nette "CCRMA Studio Report" (ICMC Presentation Preview)
  • 06/4/25 (Week 10) MA/MST Capstone Presentations
  • 1. Anna Gruzas
  • 2. Tristan Peng
  • 3. Becca Wroblewski
  • 4. Chengyi Xing
  • Walker - Overview of next year's Colloq plans + Student feedback. Please bring your ideas!
    • PIZZA!


Rescheduled to date TBD:

  • Roy G. Bi v (hosted by Walker)
  • Meghan Sumner, Stanford Linguistics (hosted by Walker)

Past - Winter Quarter (2025)

Zoom link for any hybrid or online colloquia: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/93954711512?pwd=rLzZI9jtbUcNv8XaLMPK2YbBhsKTAT.1 Passsword: 928762

  • 01/08/25 (Week 1) Robert Fleitz (hosted by Brian)
  • 01/15/25 (Week 2) Faculty Intros, and guest presentation from Songscription AI
    • 1. Mark Applebaum (5:30-5:45)
    • 2. Paul DeMarinis (5:45-6:00)
    • 3. Eleanor Selfridge-Field (6:00-6:15)
    • 4. Craig Sapp(6:15-6:30)
    • 5. Doug James (6:30-6:45)
    • 6. Andrew Carlins (6:45-7:00), Songscription AI ([1])
  • 01/22/25 (Week 3) Stanford Film/Documentary Presentation (hosted by Héloise)
    • Faculty Presentation from Srdan Keca, Exploring Sound and Music in Film
    • Student Presentations:
      • Lemon Guo, Stanford DMA Composition
      • Mercedes Montemayor, Stanford DMA Composition
      • Pamela Martinez, Stanford MFA Documentary Media
    • Afterward: Mixer with Film/Documentary MFA Cohort! WITH FOOD

Srđan Keča is a Yugoslav-born filmmaker, visual artist and educator living in the U.S. His documentary films have been selected at leading festivals, including the Berlinale, IDFA and HotDocs, while his video installations have been exhibited at venues like the Venice Biennale of Architecture and the Whitechapel Gallery. His early medium-length films include A Letter to Dad (IDFA 2011, Dokufest 2011 - Best Balkan Documentary) and Mirage (Jihlava IDFF 2012 - Best Central and Eastern European Documentary). Flotel Europa, an archival feature-length film produced and edited by Keča, premiered at the Berlinale in 2015, winning the Tagesspiegel Jury Award, and went on to win awards at numerous festivals including Documenta Madrid, Torino Film Festival, and IndieLisboa. His latest film, the poetic-observational feature Museum of the Revolution premiered at IDFA in 2021, and won awards including the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary at Sarajevo Film Festival and Best Feature at Big Sky Documentary Festival. It has been released theatrically in Europe and North America and broadcast on major networks including Al Jazeera Documentary Channel. Keča’s work has been praised in Senses of Cinema, Sight & Sound, Variety, Cineuropa, Modern Times Review, and POV Magazine, among others. He is an alum of the Ateliers Varan and UK’s National Filmand Television School (NFTS), and a Sundance Institute grantee. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University and Program Director of Stanford’s M.F.A. in Documentary Film.

Lemon Guo is an interdisciplinary artist, composer, and vocalist from the southeastern coast of China. Drawn to the visceral and evocative nature of the voice, she creates voice-based performances, installations, Virtual Reality films, and other intermedia works that explore things that haunt her and wouldn’t leave her alone. With a background in Chinese folk music, Lemon holds an MFA in Sound Art from Columbia University and is currently a DMA candidate in composition at Stanford University. She has performed and exhibited her works internationally, in places such as Rubin Museum of Art, Sundance Film Festival, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (US), BBC Radio 3 (UK), IDFA (NL), and Siggraph (CA). Lemon created music for director Yi Tang's short film All the Crows in the World, which won Palme d’Or at Festival de Cannes 2021.

Mercedes Montemayor (b. Monterrey, Mexico) is a composer and music producer with exceptional talent for creating innovative and avant-garde music. From an early age, Mercedes showed a deep interest in music, leading her to immerse herself in the world of composition and music production. Her work spans a wide range of genres, from classical to electronic and ambient music, influenced by artists such as Ryuichi Sakamoto, whose work has been a constant source of inspiration for her. Mercedes has excelled in the field of experimental music, creating complex and immersive soundscapes that invite introspection and emotion. Her focus on sonic exploration and her ability to innovate in music production have been key to her career. In addition to her work as a composer, Mercedes also works as a sound engineer, allowing her to combine artistic vision with technical precision in her productions. Her experience includes a standout performance at Mutek Mexico in October 2023, where she presented her work to an international audience. She has also completed an internship at WSDG (Walters-Storyk Design Group), a firm specializing in architectural acoustics, where she gained valuable technical and practical knowledge in designing sound spaces. Mercedes has collaborated with various artists and projects, including the visual artist Miriam Medrez (February 2022), contributing her expertise in integrating experimental elements into contemporary music. Her dedication to continuous evolution in her field is evident in her works and collaborations. Starting in the fall of 2024, Mercedes began her Doctorate in Musical Arts (DMA) in Composition at Stanford University, where she is continuing to develop her career and explore new frontiers in experimental music and composition.

Pamela Martinez is a Venezuelan filmmaker and a second-year MFA graduate in the Documentary Media Program at Stanford. She is interested in issues of gender, systems of care, migration, and transitional justice. Among her latest works is Illegal Alien: the Prelude (2023), is an art exhibition that intertwines sociological inquiry and film to explore Venezuelan women's physical and psychological migratory pathways.

  • 01/29/25 (Week 4) Musician Injury Seminar (Hosted by Walker)
    • —> In Campbell Hall (Braun)
    • Joint presentation with piano forum.
  • 02/05/25 (Week 5) Neko3 (hosted by Anna Golubkova)
    • AFTERWARD: CCRMAoke (CCMRA Karaoke) (Hosted by Walker + Anna Gruzas)
  • 02/12/25 (Week 6) William Sethares (Hosted by Walker)
  • 02/19/25 (Week 7) CCRMA Town Hall - STUDENT ONLY meeting (Hosted by Anna)
  • 02/26/25 (Week 8) CANCELLED -- Niloufar Shiri (hosted by Kimia)
  • 03/05/25 (Week 9) *No colloquium*
    • Originally was going to have Meghan Sumner, Stanford Linguistics (hosted by Walker). This will be rescheduled to the Spring quarter (date TBD).
  • 03/12/25 (Week 10) Georg Hajdu (hosted by Constantin)

Past - Autumn Quarter (2024)

  • 09/25/24 (Week 1) New Student Introductions
    • Speaker 1: Emily Saletan
    • Speaker 2: Mateo Larrea
    • Speaker 3: Katie Pieschala
    • Speaker 4: Walker Smith
    • Speaker 5: Gregg Oliva
    • Speaker 6: Siqi Chen
    • Speaker 7: Lejun Min
    • Speaker 8: Shenran Wang
    • Speaker 9: Nathan Sariowan
    • Speaker 10: Saurav Chala
    • Speaker 11: Udbhav Venkataraman
    • Speaker 12: Heloise Garry
    • Speaker 13: Calvin McCormack
    • Speaker 14: Summer Krinsky
    • Speaker 15: Nancy Rico-Mineros
    • Speaker 16: Tae Kyu Kim
    • Speaker 17: Stuart Sul
  • 10/02/23 (Week 2) - Faculty and Staff Rapid Fire (part 1)
    • Speaker 1: Jonathan Berger
    • Speaker 2: Ge Wang
    • Speaker 3: Marina Bosi
    • Speaker 4: Chris Chafe
    • Speaker 5: Sasha Leitman
    • Speaker 6: Madalyn Merkey
    • Speaker 7: Hassan Estakhrian
    • Speaker 8: Kunwoo Kim
    • Speaker 9: Nando
    • Non-Speaker NaN: Celeste (recruiting slorkers, super short :) )
  • 10/09/23 (Week 3) - POSTPONED TO WEEK 4 or later
  • 10/16/23 (Week 4) - Transitions!
  • 10/23/23 (Week 5) - Faculty and Staff Rapid Fire (part 2) and CCRMA History
    • Speaker 1:
    • Speaker 2: Julius Smith (confirmed)
    • Speaker 3: Matt Wright (confirmed)
    • Speaker 4: Constantin Basica (confirmed)
    • Speaker 5: Takako Fujioka (confirmed)
    • Speaker 6: Nils Tonnätt (confirmed)
    • Speaker 7:
    • Speaker NaN: Celeste
  • 10/30/23 (Week 6) - Ligeti theme / concert preview (https://ccrma.stanford.edu/events/homage-ligeti-ccrma-50th-anniversary)
    • Matt Wright (introduction)
    • Jonathan Berger (brief anecdote)
    • A word from some performers
    • Georg Hajdu
    • Martin Bresnick (about Ligeti's time at pre-CCRMA and his compositions Atmosphères and Musica ricercata)
    • John Chowning (about Ligeti's 1972 visit to Stanford and more of the CCRMA/Ligeti connections)
  • 11/06/23 (Week 7) -
  • 11/13/23 (Week 8) - [no colloquium]
  • 11/20/23 (Week 9) - CCRMA TOWN HALL
  • 11/27/23 (Week T) - NO SEMINAR (Thanksgiving break)
  • 12/4/23 (Week 10) - Vilbjørg Broch (hosted by Constantin) —> Moved to December 5, 6-7pm in the Stage, right before Vilbjørg's concert at 7:30pm


Past - Spring Quarter (2024)

(Organizer/host please put your name in parentheses after each speaker or week)

  • 4/3 (Week 1) Sasha Leitman: Creative Work and Research
  • 4/10 (Week 2) Zoran Cvetkovic (Chris Chafe)
  • 4/17 (Week 3) CCRMA Town Hall
  • 4/24 (Week 4) Marco Fusi in the Stage, followed by Special Social Event (wear clothes you don't mind getting stained) - Nette will send specifics later :)
  • 5/1 (Week 5) Professor Emily Howard (PRISM) (Patricia)
  • 5/8 (Week 6) rapid fire 5 minute presentations (Chris Chafe)
    • Speaker 1: Ge Wang
    • Speaker 2: Kunwoo Kim
    • Speaker 3: Matt Wright
    • Speaker 4: Julius Smith
    • Speaker 5: Chris Chafe
    • Speaker 6: Vidya Rangasayee
    • Speaker 7: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano (aka: nando)
    • Speaker 8: Marina Bosi
  • 5/15 (Week 7) (The Open House is tomorrow - let's skip Colloquium this week)
  • 5/22 (Week 8) Lara Weaver - Sonic Arts Research Centre - SARC (Patricia)
  • 5/29 (Week 9) Capstone projects in Neuromusic lab (Takako Fujioka)
  • 6/5 (Week 10) Capstone project presentations
    • Speaker 1: Eito Murakami
    • Speaker 2: Ryan Wixen
    • Speaker 3: Terry Feng
    • Speaker 4: Sneha Shah


Past - Winter Quarter (2024)

  • 1/10/24 (Week 1) - CCRMA Trivia Night (hosts: Nette & Marise)
  • 1/17/24 (Week 2) - Ali "AMAC" McGuire

- Making music is the easiest part of the journey. Navigating a business that pushes to exploit your love and offers you the world at your fingertips is the challenge. Where do you start? How do you set boundaries? How do you make money? How do you avoid the toxic traits that are so often totted as success? Come prepared with any questions that you may went to dive into- from your worries and fears to anything else. In this talk AMAC is going to share her experiences succeeding and failing in the music industry to give you an inside look at what you can expect after you graduate and take your shot.

  • 1/24/24 (Week 3) - [missed week]
  • 1/31/24 (Week 4) - Pedro Gonzalez
  • 2/7/24 (Week 5) - Sasha Leitman Colloquium on Materials and Resources for Maker Projects and PCB Work for Maker and Creative Projects (host: Nette)
  • 2/14/24 (Week 6) - Miya Masaoka
  • 2/21/24 (Week 7) - Ed Newton-Rex
  • 2/28/24 (Week 8) - [CANCELLED] Nando (Lopez-Lezcano) - Modular synthesis workflows, or "why did you turn that knob clockwise now?"
  • 3/6/24 (Week 9) - David Monacchi -- Stage -- (host: Chris Chafe)
  • 3/13/24 (Week 10) - Richard Hoover of Santa Cruz Guitars (host: Mark Rau)


Past - Autumn Quarter (2023)

  • 09/27/23 (Week 1) New Student Introductions
    • Speaker 1: Richard Lee
    • Speaker 2: Anna Gruzas
    • Speaker 3: Rochelle Tham
    • Speaker 4: Becca Wroblewski
    • Speaker 5: Logan Kibler
    • Speaker 6: Spark Wu
    • Speaker 7: Tristan Peng
    • Speaker 8: Ryan Wixen
    • Speaker 9: Asger Langhoff
    • Speaker 10: Signe Henriksen
    • Speaker 11: Ningxin Zhang
    • Speaker 12: Chengyi Xing
    • Speaker 13: Brian Brown
    • Speaker 14: Richard Berrebi
    • Speaker 15: Max Jardetzky
  • 10/04/23 (Week 2) - Faculty and Staff Rapid Fire (part 1)
    • Speaker 1: Takako
    • Speaker 2: Ge
    • Speaker 3: Matt Wright
    • Speaker 4: Marina
    • Speaker 5: Julius
    • Speaker 6: Eleanor
    • Speaker 7: Craig
    • Speaker 8: Nando
  • 10/11/23 (Week 3) - Faculty and Staff Rapid Fire (part 2) and CCRMA History
    • Speaker 1: Chris Chafe
    • Speaker 2: Jarek Kapuscinski
    • Speaker 3: Scott Oshiro
    • Speaker 4: Constantin Basica
    • Speaker 5: Patricia
    • Speaker 6: Hongchan Choi
    • Presentation: history of CCRMA and The Knoll (Matt Wright / John Chowning / Nette Worthey)
  • 10/18/23 (Week 4) - Two completely different talks (sequence TBD):
    • Fernando Lopez-Lezcano -- Free What?? -- a look at the worldwide movement that created free/libre operating systems and software
    • Satoshi Yamaguchi (Keio Research Institute at SFC, RADWIMPS) -- Drummer's Dystonia: Incidence and Affected Limb in 1003 Japanese Drummers.
  • 10/25/23 (Week 5) - Matthew Goodheart talk on transducer-activated instruments (host: Matt Wright)
  • 11/01/23 (Week 6) - Fernando Lopez-Lezcano -- Modular Synthesis Workflows, or The Modules I Loved
  • 11/08/23 (Week 7) - CCRMA Town Hall
  • 11/15/23 (Week 8) - Brian Baumbusch: "Polytempo Music" - A new interactive VR music application (host: Constantin)
  • 11/22/23 (Week T) - NO SEMINAR (Thanksgiving break)
  • 11/29/23 (Week 9) - Planning session for Winter and Spring colloquium - bring your ideas!
  • 12/5/23 (Week 10) - Georg Essl: Looking at Sound Synthesis through the Lens of Topology
    • Topology is the science of connectivity. Topological topics have increasingly become part of digital signal processing and sound synthesis in recent years. In this talk I will discuss topology in the context of familiar sound synthesis methods and digital signal foundations. Ultimately the goal is to show that thinking topologically about making algorithmic noises, is interesting, fruitful, and different -- making it worth a closer look.

Past - Spring Quarter (2023)

  • 4/19 (Week 3) - Skills Share (Matt organizing)
  • 4/26 (Week 4) - Suzanne Dikker & Aurie Hsu (Julia Mills & Alex Han)
  • 5/3 (Week 5) - Conference-style talks. This includes longer form presentations or lectures. Reach out to Mike (mulshine@stanford.edu) to sign up.
  • 5/10 (Week 6) - CCRMA Town Hall (Kunwoo, Nette, & Matt)
  • 5/17 (Week 7) - Gareth Loy -- Introduction to the Player programming language
  • 5/24 (Week 8) - CANCELED: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano -- Modular Synthesis Workflows, or The Modules I Loved
  • 5/31 (Week 9) - Zehao Wang (new researcher visitor from UCSD / Miller Puckette) -- Real-time sound synthesis for 2-D plates using FDTD methods (Julius)
  • 6/7 (Week 10) - MST Capstone Project showcase! (Nette)


Past - Winter Quarter (2023)

  • 1/11 (Week 1) - Kanru Hua, CEO of Synthesizer V, Japan (https://dreamtonics.com/en/synthesizerv/)(Contact: MAMST Student Benny (Shicheng) Zhang
  • 1/18 (Week 2) - Game and International Snacks Night (Nette & Kunwoo)
  • 1/25 (Week 3) - Community-wide rapid-fire talks! Share your recent thoughts, explorations, work, hobbies. Get to know what your peers are up to. Everyone is invited to share.
    • Speaker 1: Mike Mulshine
    • Speaker 2: Ge Wang
    • Speaker 3: Jarek Kapuscinski and Eito Murakami
    • Speaker 4: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
    • Speaker 5: Chris Chafe
    • Speaker 6: Julius Smith 1 minute announcement of Music 423 Thursdays 4:30 pm in Seminar Room - 20 min update tomorrow (there)
    • Speaker 7: Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi
    • Speaker 8: Travis Skare
    • Speaker 9: Matt Wright
    • Speaker 10: Julie Zhu
    • Speaker 11: Nima Farzaneh
    • Speaker 12:
  • 2/1 (Week 4) - Skills Share (Matt / democratic)
  • 2/8 (Week 5) - Laura Steenberge meet in Listening Room (Chris Chafe)
  • 2/15 (Week 6) - Scott Oshiro [quantum music] / Mischa Dohler [Ericsson, low-latency XR] (Chris Chafe)
  • 2/22 (Week 7) - Webchuck (Chris Chafe + lots of webchuck contributors)
  • 3/1 (Week 8) - Luna Valentin cave acoustics / Music Business talk from Anne Van Der Erve from Warner Music Benelux
  • 3/8 (Week 9) - Per Bloland: MaxOrch and Orchidea
  • 3/15 (Week 10) - Jay Afrisando (Constantin)


Past - Autumn Quarter (2022)

  • 09/28 (Week 1) New Student Introductions
    • Speaker 1: Sneha Shah
    • Speaker 2: Josh Mitchell
    • Speaker 3: Emily Kuo
    • Speaker 4: Balazs & Truls
    • Speaker 5: Julia Yu
    • Speaker 6: Senyuan Fan
    • Speaker 7: Celeste Betancur
    • Speaker 8: Victoria Litton
    • Speaker 9: Yiheng Dong
    • Speaker 10 Eito Murakami
    • Speaker 11 Soohyun Kim
    • Speaker 12 Luna Valentin
    • Speaker 13 Terry Feng
    • Speaker 14 Alex Han
    • Speaker 15 Benny Zhang
    • Speaker 16 Sami Wurm
    • Speaker 17 Neha Rajagopalan
  • 10/05 (Week 2) Faculty and Staff Rapid Fire
    • Speaker 1 Chris Chafe
    • Speaker 2 Ge Wang
    • Speaker 3 Patricia Alessandrini
    • Speaker 4 Marina Bosi
    • Speaker 5 Julius Smith
    • Speaker 6 Jarek Kapuściński
    • Speaker 7
    • Speaker 8
    • Speaker 9
    • Speaker 10 Mark Rau
    • Speaker 11
    • Speaker 12
    • Speaker 13
    • Speaker 14
    • Speaker 15
  • 10/12 (Week 3) WINGS and Peer Mentoring in Music (Mara Mills visit postponed to Spring)
  • 10/19 (Week 4) Faculty and Staff Rapid Fire, part 2
    • Speaker 1 Takako Fujioka
    • Speaker 2 Eleanor Selfridge-Field
    • Speaker 3 Craig Stuart Sapp
    • Speaker 4 Craig Stuart Sapp
    • Speaker 5 Poppy Crum
    • Speaker 6 Jonathan Berger
    • Speaker 7 Matt Wright
    • Speaker 8 Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
    • Speaker 9 Constantin Basica
    • Speaker 10 Stephanie Sherriff
    • Speaker 11
    • Speaker 12
    • Speaker 13
    • Speaker 14
    • Speaker 15
  • 11/2 (Week 6) - TBD
  • 11/9 (Week 7) - Pizza & Pegagody: Assignments and Evaluations
  • 11/16 (Week 8) - Student-only Town Hall
  • 11/23 (Week 9) - NO SEMINAR (Thanksgiving break)
  • 11/30 (Week 10) - planning session for Winter and Spring colloquium



Past - Spring Quarter (2022)

  • 03/30 - Spring Welcome Dinner at Treehouse
  • 04/06 - In-House Project and Research Updates (Everyone is encouraged to present)
  • 04/13 - BREAK
  • 04/19* Tuesday - Installation by J. Mills
  • 04/27 - Mara Mills (Virtual Talk)
  • 05/04 - Inclusive Teaching Workshop (Lloyd May & CTL)
  • 05/11 - BREAK
  • 05/18 - BREAK
  • 05/25 - BREAK
  • 06/01 - BREAK


  • Future Colloquiums already booked:
  • 10/12 Mara Mills - History of PCM

Past - Winter Quarter (2022)

  • 01/05 - BREAK
  • 01/26 - Walker Davis & Alex Mitchell from boomy
  • 02/02 - Social Event and Student-Only Meeting
  • 02/16 - Unofficial Social and Welcome to WasteLAnd!
  • 02/23 - Break
  • 03/02 - Rapid Fire and Conference Style Talks (Sign-ups are open!)
    • (Conference Style = 15 minutes, Rapid Fire = 5 minutes)
    • Speaker 1: Tamilore Awosile (10 mins)
    • Speaker 2: Frank Mondelli (Conference Style)
    • Speaker 3: Lloyd May (Rapid Fire)
    • Speaker 4: Julia Mills (Conference Style)
    • Speaker 5: Nima Farzaneh (Conference Style)
  • 03/09 - CCRMA Town Hall
  • 03/16 - Break

Past - Autumn Quarter (2021)

  • 9/22 New Student Introductions
    • Speaker 1: Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi
    • Speaker 2: Taylor Goss
    • Speaker 3: Julia Mills
    • Speaker 4: Kiran Gandhi
    • Speaker 5: Dirk Roosenburg
    • Speaker 6: Aaron Hodges
    • Speaker 7: Nick Shaheed
    • Speaker 8: Nima Farzaneh
    • Speaker 9: Noah Berrie
    • Speaker 10: Angela Lee
  • 10/13 Faculty/Staff Introductions Part 2
    • Speaker 1: Constantin
    • Speaker 2: Nando
    • Speaker 3: Jonathan (B)
    • Speaker 4: Jarek
    • Speaker 5: Nick
    • Speaker 6: Chris C
    • Speaker 7: Patricia
    • Speaker 8: Marina
  • 10/20 - CCRMA Town Hall
  • 10/27 BREAK
  • 11/03 Social Event (TBD)
  • 11/10 Rapid Fire & Conference Style (Sign-ups are open!)
    • (Conference Style = 15 minutes, Rapid Fire = 5 minutes)
    • Speaker 1: Lloyd May (Rapid Fire)
    • Speaker 2: Chris Chafe (Rapid Fire via zoom, assuming my internet works after the storm)
    • Speaker 3: Mark Rau (Rapid Fire)
    • Speaker 4: Champ Darabundit (Conference)
    • Speaker 5: Eleanor Selfridge-Field (Rapid Fire)
    • Speaker 6: Crag Stuart Sapp (Rapid Fire)
  • 11/17 BREAK
  • 12/1 Special Guest Talks: Nils Tonnätt & Victoria Shen

Past - Spring Quarter (2021)

  • 3/31: Town Hall
  • 4/07: CCRMA Open House Prep
  • 4/14:
  • 4/21: 12pm - CCRMA Colloquium Phase Shift -1.88 degrees (social hang)
  • 4/28: Avneesh Sarwate: Digital Audiovisual Interactive Media
  • 5/05: Break! Rapid-Fire Talks Postponed to 5/19
  • 5/12: Jeff Snyder: "Unusual Embedded Instruments"
  • 5/19: Rapid Fire & Conference Style Talks - sign up here via your CCRMA login
    • Rapid Fire Signups (5 min)
      • Speaker 1: CC waveguide mesh, part 2, realtime wavefield output
      • Speaker 2:
      • Speaker 3:
      • Speaker 4:
      • Speaker 5: Ge "ChucK: new features, new bugs, new worlds (ChucKTrip?)"
      • Speaker 6:
      • Speaker 7:
      • Speaker 8:
    • Conference Style Signups (15 min)
      • Speaker 1: Marise van Zyl (rapid fire)
      • Speaker 2: Prateek Verma
      • Speaker 3: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
  • 5/26: Allison Parrish: Poet and Programmer
  • 6/02: Sasha Leitman: Physical Interaction Design for Music

Past - Winter Quarter (2021)

  • 1/13: Break
  • 1/20: Informal Hangout / Dance Party
  • 1/27:
  • 2/03:
  • 2/10: CCRMA Town !!
  • 2/17: Rapid-Fire Talks (5 min) - sign up here via your CCRMA login
    • Speaker 1: Kunwoo Kim
    • Speaker 2: John Chowning
    • Speaker 3: Noah Fram
    • Speaker 4: Camille Noufi
    • Speaker 5: Barbara Nerness
    • Speaker 6: (maybe) Julie Zhu
    • Speaker 7: Chris Chafe
    • Speaker 8: Lloyd May
    • Speaker 9: Mike Mulshine
    • Speaker 10: Ge Wang
    • Speaker 11: Jatin (hopefully)
    • Speaker 12: Alex Chechile
    • Speaker 13: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
    • Speaker 14:
    • Speaker 15:
  • 2/24:
  • 3/03: Conference Style Talks (15-20 min) - sign up here via your CCRMA login
    • Speaker 1: Ty Sadlier
    • Speaker 2: Travis Skare
    • Speaker 3: Constantin Basica & Prateek Verma
    • Speaker 4:
  • 3/10: Sasha Leitman
  • 3/17: Break

Past - Autumn Quarter (2020)

In person colloquiua will not be held for the 2020 Autumn Quarter. All events will be held remotely.

  • 9/16 New Student Introductions
    • Speaker 1: Lloyd May
    • Speaker 2: Andrew Zhu
    • Speaker 3: Kathleen Yuan
    • Speaker 4: Marise van Zyl
    • Speaker 5: Hannah Choi
    • Speaker 6: Joss Saltzman
    • Speaker 7: Champ Darabundit
    • Speaker 8: Clara Allison
    • Speaker 9: David Braun
    • Speaker 10: Austin Zambito-Valente
  • 9/23 Faculty/Staff Introductions
    • Speaker 1: Jonathan Berger
    • Speaker 2: Ge Wang
    • Speaker 3: Takako Fujioka
    • Speaker 4: Seán O Dalaigh (new DMA)
    • Speaker 5: Eleanor Selfridge-Field
    • Speaker 6: Craig Stuart Sapp
    • Speaker 7: Blair Kaneshiro
  • 9/30 Faculty/Staff Introductions
    • Speaker 1: Patricia Alessandrini (via video)
    • Speaker 2: Julius Smith
    • Speaker 3: Marina Bosi
    • Speaker 4: Nando (aka Fernando Lopez-Lezcano)
    • Speaker 5: Stephanie Sherriff
    • Speaker 6: Constantin Basica
    • Speaker 7: Matt Wright
    • Speaker 8: Chris Chafe
  • 10/7 - Break
  • 10/14 - Town Hall
  • 10/21 - Adjunct Faculty Talks
    • Speaker 1: Malcolm Slaney
    • Speaker 2: Poppy Crum
    • Speaker 3: Paul Demarinis
    • Speaker 4: Jonathan Abel
    • Speaker 5: Doug James
  • 11/4 - Break
  • 11/18 - Mona Shahnavaz

ABSTRACT & BIO: Mona is an enthusiastic musician, whose focus and passion has been to share the joy of music with others. In 2018, a successful outcome of her innovative music program designed for senior citizens was the turning point for her to decide to change the course of learning piano in a less complex route. Her engineering background helped her to start working on the idea that bridges the gap between music and technology.

The approach to fingering in music has always been and still is one of the major elements of success for keyboard players. Correct fingering assists the performer in delivering a better technical and musical performance. This research presents the best technique to generate fingering for any sequence of music notes. Dynamic programming and mathematics are major parts of this paper, they work alongside rules set by pianists to calculate the most practical fingerings for any musical passage.

The ultimate goal is to facilitate the process of playing the piano using an AR platform. This is helpful for scaling music instructors and allows for efficient teaching. Through solving this problem, virtual instructions would be more productive and impactful. Success of this research applied in the AR field can be applied to robotic tasks in educational programs, video games, and medical fields.

  • 11/25 - THANKSGIVING WEEK - Break
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