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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.

Fall Quarter (2022)

  • 09/28 (Week 1) New Student Introductions
    • Speaker 1
    • Speaker 2
    • Speaker 3: Emily Kuo
    • Speaker 4
    • Speaker 5: Julia Yu
    • Speaker 6: Senyuan Fan
    • Speaker 7: Celeste Betancur
    • Speaker 8
    • Speaker 9: Yiheng Dong
    • Speaker 10 Eito Murakami
    • Speaker 11 Soohyun Kim
    • Speaker 12
    • Speaker 13
    • Speaker 14
    • Speaker 15 Terry Feng
    • Speaker 16
    • Speaker 17
    • Speaker 18
    • Speaker 19
    • Speaker 20
  • 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
    • Speaker 7
    • Speaker 8
    • Speaker 9
    • Speaker 10
    • Speaker 11
    • Speaker 12
    • Speaker 13
    • Speaker 14
    • Speaker 15
  • 10/12 (Week 3) Mara Mills - The History of Pulse Code Modulation (PCM)
  • 10/19 (Week 4) Faculty and Staff Rapid Fire, part 2
    • Speaker 1
    • Speaker 2
    • Speaker 3
    • Speaker 4
    • Speaker 5
    • Speaker 6
    • Speaker 7 Matt Wright
    • Speaker 8 Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
    • Speaker 9
    • Speaker 10
    • Speaker 11
    • Speaker 12
    • Speaker 13
    • Speaker 14
    • Speaker 15
  • 10/26 (Week 5) Romain Michon, Tanguy Risset, Maxime Popoff - something about Plasma/WFS
  • 11/2 (Week 6) - TBD
  • 11/9 (Week 7) - TBD
  • 11/16 (Week 8) - TBD
  • 11/23 (Week 9) - NO SEMINAR (Thanksgiving break)
  • 11/30 (Week 10) - planning session for Winter and Spring colloquium



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