Sound Arts Guest Speaker
Jay LeBoeuf, Digidesign
9am - 11am
East End

Jay LeBoeuf is a researcher and leader of External Research Initiatives in Digidesign’s Advanced Technology group.  Digidesign (ProTools) is the leading manufacturer of software and hardware systems for audio recording, editing, mixing, and music creation.  LeBoeuf drives Digidesign’s music information retrieval and Intelligent Tools efforts. 

He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and MA from Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).  He is an active keyboardist, percussionist, and freelance recording and mixing engineer. 

What do next generation music producers REALLY need? 
This lecture will provide a whirlwind tour of where we’ve come from, look at some of the problems, discuss opportunities, and highlight thoughts on where we need to go.  We’ll discuss the “producer’s role”, managing complexity and content, and novel paradigms for audio visualization and manipulation.

Sound Arts Guest Speaker
Ge Wang, Stanford University
2pm - 4pm
East End

Ge Wang received his B.S. in Computer Science in 2000 from Duke University, PhD (soon) in Computer Science (advisor Perry Cook) in 2007 from Princeton University, and is currently an assistant professor at Stanford University in the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). His research interests include interactive software systems for computer music, programming languages, sound synthesis and analysis, music information retrieval, new performance ensembles (laptop orchestras) and paradigms (live coding), visualization, interfaces for human-computer interaction, interactive audio over networks, and methodologies for education at the intersection of computer science and music.

Ge is the chief architect and creator of the ChucK audio programming language. 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. At CCRMA, Ge continues to research and develop ideas and systems for computer music (including ChucK), works on new music, and plans to initiate a Stanford Laptop Orchestra.

Visual Arts Guest Speaker

9am - 11am