From physical modeling and <:FAUST:> to GeoShred

Can a multi-touch screen app be an expressive musical instrument? Is it possible to bend, stretch and manipulate a guitar sound using a touch screen? What technologies are behind GeoShred and how does it work? What mobile touch screen instruments can we expect in the future?

In our upcoming meetup we will explore GeoShred - a powerful, expressive, realistic musical instrument for multi-touch surfaces, and the technology behind it.

We will e-meet GeoShred and FAUST developers:

Dr. Julius O. Smith III, CCRMA, Stanford University. Dr. Smith will tell us about his research work and the development of GeoShred that is based on his next generation Physical Modeling research.

Gregory Pat Scandalis, CCRMA, Stanford University and CEO at moforte. Mr. Scandalis will join us for a Q&A session about GeoShred.

Mr. Romain Michon, CCRMA, Stanford University. As a member in the development team of the FAUST language, Mr. Michon will give an introduction to FAUST programing language, that was used to create GeoShred.

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19:00 - 19:30 - Mingling and networking.

19:30 - 19:45 - GeoShred presentation and demo.

19:45 - 20:15 - Gregory Pat Scandalis - online Q&A session.

Prof. Julius O. Smith III - a virtual interview.

20:15 - 21:00 - Mr. Romain Michon - an introduction to FAUST language followed by a Q&A session.

21:00 - - Dr. Julius O. Smith - Q&A session

21:30 +- - GeoShred JAM?

<: about FAUST :>

Faust (http://faust.grame.fr (http://faust.grame.fr/)) is a functional programming language for realtime digital signal processing (DSP) that generates highly efficient DSP code in a variety of languages (C, C++, LLVM, asmjs, JAVA and more) that later can be compiled into a different forms using a system of wrappers. These wrappers, called architecture files, describe how to adapt the DSP computation to the external world. Therefore, it is easy to go from Faust to standalone applications for different kinds of platforms, Web applications, audio plug-ins, externals for music programming languages, and so on. During this lecture, an overview of the functionality of Faust will be given. The syntax of the language will be briefly presented and the integration of the code generated by Faust to other projects such as plug-ins, mobile phone apps, etc. will be highlighted.

<: About Prof. Julius O. Smith III :>

Prof. Julius Smith teaches a music signal-processing course sequence and supervises related research at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). and founding consultant at moforte. He is formally a professor of music and associate professor (by courtesy) of electrical engineering at Stanford University. In 1975, he received his BS/EE degree from Rice University, where he got a solid grounding in the field of digital signal processing and modeling for control. In 1983, he received the PhD/EE degree from Stanford University, specializing in techniques for digital filter design and system identification, with app to violin modeling. His work history includes the Signal Processing Department at Electromagnetic Systems Laboratories, Inc., working on systems for digital communications, the Adaptive Systems Department at Systems Control Technology, Inc., working on research problems in adaptive filtering and spectral estimation, and NeXT Computer, Inc., where he was responsible for sound, music, and signal processing software for the NeXT computer workstation. In addition, he was a founding consultant for Staccato Systems, Inc., and Shazam Entertainment Ltd., where he co-developed the core technology. Prof. Smith is a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society and the Acoustical Society of America. He is the author of four online books and numerous research publications in his field.

<: About Mr. Gregory Pat Scandalis :>

Pat Scandalis, CTO and acting CEO at moforte has worked for a number of Silicon Valley High Tech Companies. He has held lead engineering positions at National Semiconductor, Teradyne, Apple and Sun. He has spent the past 18 years working in Digital Media. He was an Audio DSP researcher at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). He co-founded and was the VP of engineering for Staccato Systems, a successful spinout of Stanford/CCRMA that was sold to Analog Devices in 2001. He has held VP positions at TuneTo.com, Jarrah Systems and Liquid Digital Media. He most recently ran Liquid Digital Media, which developed and operated all online digital music e-commerce properties for Walmart. He holds a BSc in Physics from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and is currently a visiting scholar at CCRMA, Stanford University.

<: About Mr. Romain Michon :>

Romain Michon ( https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~rmichon ) is a PhD candidate at Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. His research focuses on physical modeling of musical instruments, new lutherie, digital fabrication, FAUST and the use of mobile platforms as musical instruments. As a musician, Romain plays saxophone and piano, he is also a tenor, and above all, he likes to rock on the BladeAxe ( https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~rmichon/bladeaxe )! His music has been performed in Europe, America and Asia.Romain holds bachelor's and Master’s degrees in musicology and computer science from Saint-Etienne University (France) and NUIM (Ireland) where he studied under the supervision of Laurent Pottier, Yann Orlarey and Victor Lazzarini. He also graduated from Saint-Etienne and Lyon conservatoire (France) in saxophone performance, singing, choir conducting and electroacoustic music studies. he has been consulting as a software \ DSP and mechanical engineer for several institutions and companies such as for GRAME (France) on the FAUST project (http://faust.grame.fr (http://faust.grame.fr/)), IRCAM (France), CIEREC (France), Renault (USA/France), MoForte (USA), etc. He contributed to the development of Faust in many ways by writing several libraries for physical modeling and audio effects as well a wide range of architecture files. He teaches workshops on Faust every summer at Stanford University (USA).