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

[Noah Thorp]

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/

Hope to see you there.

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

BIOS

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.

"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.

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.