Thanks to Stanford CCRMA for hosting BArCMuT!

Presentations will include:
- Ge Wang (Stanford CCRMA Assistant Professor and Smule CTO) will give a tour of TAPESTREA ( http://taps.cs.prince... ).
- Jorge Herrera (Stanford CCRMA graduate student) will demonstrate Flash Audio synthesis approaches.
- Lucas Kuzma of The Strange Agency ( http://thestrangeagen... ) will present his series of music applications for the iPhone. In addition to showcasing current and forthcoming apps, the talk will address making music on a mobile platform, and give a basic introduction to working with Audio Units on the iPhone.
- SHARE San Jose - http://share-sj.org... - is a group of technology-oriented musicians and visualists that meets monthly to jam, experiment, and talk. Tim Thompson will describe the group's activities since its inception almost two years ago.

More about Ge's Tapestrea Talk:
This presentation is an introduction to TAPESTREA (or taps for short), a new software framework/paradigm to facilitate the creation of new sound from existing sound components, through interactive analysis, transformation, and re-synthesis. It leverages methods for sinusoidal modeling, transient detection, and stochastic background modeling to extract sonic "templates" from recorded sounds, which can be independently transformed and recombined into new sound scenes.

TAPESTREA is the research of Ananya Misra, who recently received her Ph.D. from the Computer Science department at Princeton University. Ananya also holds degree in Computer Science and Math from Bryn Mawr College. She currently works at Google in New York - we hope to bring her out to present TAPS in full someday! http://taps.cs.prince...

More on Jorge's Talk:
Is it possible to collaboratively synthesize sounds in real-time using nothing but a browser and a residential internet connection? This is the question that Herrera is trying to answer with the ActionScript based synthesizer he developed: The Horgie.

On one hand, The Horgie provides a framework for sound synthesis in Adobe Actionscript, which is going to be published as open-source. But it also propose an easy to understand and use User Interface, which allows quick sound crafting regardless of performers previous musical experience. This project is in its early stages, so an overview of the application and a simple UI are going to be presented.

All the best,
Noah Thorp
Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group Organizer
http://www.barcmut.or...

NOTE
I often get emails by non Bay Area computer music technologists requesting that more BArCMuT materials be put online. If you have a digital camera and like taking pictures, bring it along and post photos your photos to the meetup page. If you would like to shoot video for public consumption send me an email. If you write a blog post you can link it from the event page at http://www.barcmut.or...

BIOS
Lucas Kuzma was first compiled in Gliwice, Poland and subsequently extended with internet protocols in Ohio in the early 1990s. He was further developed in San Francisco during the dot com era, processing interactive design for clients like Absolut, Adobe, Macromedia, Adidas and HP. Showing some wear, he downloaded updates in design and media art from UCLA as well as in music technology from the MTG in Barcelona. Recently, he has been restarted in Los Angeles with the launch of "The Strange Agency" version, which produces experimental art and music applications for the iPhone ( http://thestrangeagen... ). The complete, pro version of Lucas Kuzma will be released in Tokyo (late 2009) with an interactive design and mobile applications kernel in addition to the original programmer/artist/musician package.

Tim Thompson develops artistic software for both music and visuals, often involving the use of unusual controllers. Known for his development of the KeyKit programming environment for MIDI experimentation, he has more recently been inspired by Burning Man, where his interactive installations include a 12-foot high lyre, an antique radio, and (this year) an 11-foot high monolith. Tim's home page - http://timthompson.co... - documents the variety of his activities.

Ge Wang is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University in the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), and researches interactive software systems for computer music, programming languages, mobile music, and education at the intersection of computer science and music. Ge is the author of the ChucK audio programming language, the founder and director of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk), and of the Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra (MoPhO). Ge is Co-founder, CTO, and Chief Creative Officer of Smule, and the designer of the iPhone's Ocarina.

Jorge Herrera is a PhD student at CCRMA, Stanford University, working in the Music, Computing and Design group directed by Professor Ge Wang. He earned a BS and MS en Electrical Engineering from Universidad Catolica de Chile and recently he finished the MA/MST at CCRMA. During the last few years he has worked in web application development for different industries in Chile. Two years ago he decided to make music the main subject of his professional life. His research interests at CCRMA are computer interactive systems for computer music and, more generally, social music.