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The Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group

http://electronicmusic.meetup.com/152/calendar/6921818/

- Jaron Lanier on intersections of computer music, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and biomimicry: 

- Chris Chafe on networked audio applications: 

- Lightning talk by Ge Wang on the instantiation of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) and upcoming Laptop Orchestra of the Left (L.O.L.): 

Thanks to Ex'pression College for the Digital Arts for hosting our event this month! Please note that you must RSVP this month as there will be a sign in list at Ex'pression College. RSVP here: 

Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group Organizer

noah [the at sign] listenlabs [a dot] com

Chris Chafe is a composer / cellist / music researcher with an interest in computer music composition and interactive performance. He has been a long-term denizen of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford University where he directs the center and teaches computer music courses. His doctorate in music composition was completed at Stanford in 1983 with prior degrees in music from the University of California at San Diego and Antioch College. Two year-long research periods were spent at IRCAM, and the Banff Center for the Arts developing methods for computer sound synthesis based on physical models of musical instrument mechanics. Current projects include the "SoundWIRE" experiments for musical collaboration and network evaluation using high-speed internets for high-quality sound. He has performed his music in Europe, the Americas and Asia, and composed soundtracks for documentary films. Two recent discs of his works are available from Centaur Records. In Spring 2001, a collaboration with artist Greg Niemeyer entitled Ping was exhibited at SF MOMA and online via the Walker Art Center. A second collaboration, Oxygen Flute, was created for the San Jose Museum of Art. A CD of music from both installations is also available. "Organum" is their present project, a completely synthetic animation being developed for digital planetariums and individual game play.

Jaron Lanier is a computer scientist, composer, visual artist, and author. His current appointments include Interdisciplinary Scholar-in-Residence, CET, UC Berkeley.

Lanier's interests include biomimetic information architectures, user interfaces, heterogeneous scientific simulations, advanced information systems for medicine, and computational approaches to the fundamentals of physics. He collaborates with a wide range of scientists in fields related to these interests. Lanier's name is also often associated with Virtual Reality research. Indeed, he did coin the term 'Virtual Reality' and has pioneered numerous technologies in this field.

"Jaron's World" is his monthly column in Discover Magazine, and is devoted to his own wide ranging ideas and research. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Discover, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Harpers Magazine, The Sciences, Wired Magazine (where he was a founding contributing editor), and Scientific American. He has edited special "future" issues of SPIN and Civilization magazines.

As a musician, Lanier has been active in the world of new "classical" music since the late seventies. He is a pianist and a specialist in unusual musical instruments, especially the wind and string instruments of Asia. He maintains one of the largest and most varied collections of actively played rare instruments in the world. Lanier has performed with artists as diverse as Philip Glass, Ornette Coleman, George Clinton, Vernon Reid, Terry Riley, Duncan Sheik, Pauline Oliveros, and Stanley Jordan. Current recording projects include his "acoustic techno" duet with Sean Lennon and an album of duets with flautist Robert Dick.

He also writes chamber and orchestral music. Current commissions include an opera that will premier in Busan, South Korea. Recent commissions include: "Earthquake!", a ballet which premiered at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco in April, 2006; "Little Shimmers" for the TroMetrik ensemble, which premiered at ODC in San Francisco in April, 2006; "Daredevil" for the ArrayMusic chamber ensemble, which was premiered in Toronto in 2006; amongst many more. His CD "Instruments of Change" was released on Point/Polygram in 1994.

Lanier has also pioneered the use of Virtual Reality in musical stage performance with his band Chromatophoria, which has toured around the world as a headline act in venues such as the Montreux Jazz Festival. He plays virtual instruments and uses real instruments to guide events in virtual worlds.

Ge Wang received his B.S. in 2000 in Computer Science from Duke University and PhD in 2007 studying with Perry Cook in Computer Science at Princeton University, and is an assistant professor at Stanford University in the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). Ge conducts research in real-time software systems for computer music, programming languages, visualization, new performance ensembles (e.g., laptop orchestras) and paradigms (e.g., live coding), interfaces for human-computer interaction, pedagogical methodologies at the intersection of computer science and computer music. Ge is the chief architect of the ChucK audio programming language and the Audicle environment. He is a founding developer and co-director of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk), and a co-creator of the TAPESTREA sound design environment. Ge composes and performs via various electro-acoustic and computer-mediated means.

The Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group
Thursday, April 3rd, 7:30 - 9:30PM
@ Ex'pression College for Digital Arts (http://www.expression.edu/)
6601 Shellmound St, Emeryville, CA 94608
RSVP Here: http://electronicmusic.meetup.com/152/calendar/6921818/

Presenters:
- Jaron Lanier on intersections of computer music, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and biomimicry: http://www.jaronlanier.com/
- Chris Chafe on networked audio applications: http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~cc/
- Lightning talk by Ge Wang on the instantiation of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) and upcoming Laptop Orchestra of the Left (L.O.L.): http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~ge/

Thanks to Ex'pression College for the Digital Arts for hosting our event this month! Please note that you must RSVP this month as there will be a sign in list at Ex'pression College. RSVP here: http://electronicmusic.meetup.com/152/calendar/6921818/

All the best,
Noah Thorp
Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group Organizer
http://electronicmusic.meetup.com/152/
noah [the at sign] listenlabs [a dot] com

CHRIS CHAFE 
Chris Chafe is a composer / cellist / music researcher with an interest in computer music composition and interactive performance. He has been a long-term denizen of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford University where he directs the center and teaches computer music courses. His doctorate in music composition was completed at Stanford in 1983 with prior degrees in music from the University of California at San Diego and Antioch College. Two year-long research periods were spent at IRCAM, and the Banff Center for the Arts developing methods for computer sound synthesis based on physical models of musical instrument mechanics. Current projects include the "SoundWIRE" experiments for musical collaboration and network evaluation using high-speed internets for high-quality sound. He has performed his music in Europe, the Americas and Asia, and composed soundtracks for documentary films. Two recent discs of his works are available from Centaur Records. In Spring 2001, a collaboration with artist Greg Niemeyer entitled Ping was exhibited at SF MOMA and online via the Walker Art Center. A second collaboration, Oxygen Flute, was created for the San Jose Museum of Art. A CD of music from both installations is also available. "Organum" is their present project, a completely synthetic animation being developed for digital planetariums and individual game play.

JARON LANIER 
Jaron Lanier is a computer scientist, composer, visual artist, and author.  His current appointments include Interdisciplinary Scholar-in-Residence, CET, UC Berkeley.

Lanier's interests include biomimetic information architectures, user interfaces, heterogeneous scientific simulations, advanced information systems for medicine, and computational approaches to the fundamentals of physics.  He collaborates with a wide range of scientists in fields related to these interests. Lanier's name is also often associated with Virtual Reality research.  Indeed, he did coin the term 'Virtual Reality' and has pioneered numerous technologies in this field.

He also writes chamber and orchestral music. Current commissions include an opera that will premier in Busan, South Korea.  Recent commissions include: "Earthquake!", a ballet which premiered at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco in April, 2006; "Little Shimmers" for the TroMetrik ensemble, which premiered at ODC in San Francisco in April, 2006; "Daredevil" for the ArrayMusic chamber ensemble, which was premiered in Toronto in 2006; amongst many more.  His CD "Instruments of Change" was released on Point/Polygram in 1994.

Lanier has also pioneered the use of Virtual Reality in musical stage  performance with his band Chromatophoria, which has toured around the world as a headline act in venues such as the Montreux Jazz Festival. He plays virtual instruments and uses real instruments to guide events in virtual worlds.

For a full bio of Jaron: http://www.jaronlanier.com/general.html

GE WANG 
Ge Wang received his B.S. in 2000 in Computer Science from Duke University and PhD in 2007 studying with Perry Cook in Computer Science at Princeton University, and is an assistant professor at Stanford University in the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). Ge conducts research in real-time software systems for computer music, programming languages, visualization, new performance ensembles (e.g., laptop orchestras) and paradigms (e.g., live coding), interfaces for human-computer interaction, pedagogical methodologies at the intersection of computer science and computer music. Ge is the chief architect of the ChucK audio programming language and the Audicle environment. He is a founding developer and co-director of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk), and a co-creator of the TAPESTREA sound design environment. Ge composes and performs via various electro-acoustic and computer-mediated means.


Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group @ Ex'pression, Thursday April 3rd