2013: CCRMA Ensemble
Chris Chafe: celletto
John Granzow: daxophone
Rob Hamilton: resonance guitar
Robert Morales: flute, voice, and “Escamol” interactive systems
The Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) is a multi-disciplinary facility where composers and researchers work together using computer-based technology both as an artistic medium and as a research tool. The CCRMA Ensemble will perform an improvisation featuring TBA"Escamol" interactive systems, Chris Chafe's multi-channel celletto, the Berdahl Resonance Guitar, and daxophones built by John Granzow.
Chris Chafe (celletto) is a composer, improviser and cellist, developing much of his music alongside computer-based research. He is Director of Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). At IRCAM (Paris) and the Banff Centre (Alberta, Canada), he pursued methods for digital synthesis, music performance and real-time internet collaboration. CCRMA's SoundWIRE project involves live concertizing with musicians around the world. Online collaboration software including jacktrip and research into latency factors continue to evolve. An active performer either on the net or physically present, his music reaches audiences in dozens of countries and sometimes at novel venues, including a simultaneous five-country concert that was hosted at the United Nations in 2009. Chafe's works are available from Centaur Records and various online media.
John Granzow (daxophone) is a Canadian artist, instrument designer and music researcher. He studied classical guitar with Dale Ketcheson and constructed his first instrument (a flamenco guitar) under the instruction of luthier George Rizsany in Nova Scotia. In 2006 he took an interest in auditory perception, and completed a Masters of Science in Psychoacoustics at the University of Lethbridge in the lab of Dr. John Vokey. At the Analogous Fields: Arts and Science residency at the Banff Centre in 2009 John explored instrumentation in artistic and scientific practice with artist Denton Fredrickson. A generative construction process was devised to produce a series of daxophones from a single plank of cherry, each instrument undergoing an imposed mutation with timbral consequences. These daxophones were played in networked performances in Portugal and Italy as well as at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University, where John now pursues his Ph.D in Computer Based Music Theory and Acoustics. In recent research, he investigates applications of computer aided design and digital fabrication to new organologies. Rapid prototyping techniques are leveraged to produce performance-specific musical instruments. Outcomes from this research have been presented at concerts and sound installations in Canada, France, and the United States.
Composer and researcher Rob Hamilton (resonance guitar) is actively engaged in the composition of contemporary electro-acoustic musics, as well as the development of interactive musical systems for performance and composition. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in computer-based Music Theory and Acoustics at Stanford University's CCRMA working with Chris Chafe. His research interests include novel platforms for electro-acoustic composition and performance, mixed-reality performance and procedural game music and audio.
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