Stanford University, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, records, 1967-2001.

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Stanford University, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, records, 1967-2001.

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Correspondence, grant files, research files, patents, concert programs, articles, clippings, photographs, and other records. Collection also includes electronic media, video and audiotapes, architectural drawings, radio-baton, and a computer. People represented in these records include John Chowning, John R. Pierce, Max V. Mathews, and John M. Grey; there are files pertaining to the Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique (1975-1990) and to the Catgut Acoustical Society (1991-1994).

40 linear feet.

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6760664

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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IRCAM (Research institute : France)

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Stanford University. Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics

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The Stanford University 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. Areas of ongoing interest at CCRMA include: composition, applications hardware, applications software, synthesis techniques and algorithms, physical modeling, real-time controllers, signal processing, digital recording and editing, psychoacoustics and mu...

Catgut acoustical society

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Mathews, Max V.

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Biographical Note Max V. Mathews, often cited as "the father of computer music," was born in Columbus, NE on November 13, 1926. After training as a radio technician in the Navy, he attended the California Institute of Technology, where he received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1950. He received a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1954. Mathews joined the Bell Labs acoustical and behavioral ...

Grey, John M

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Chowning, John M.

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John M. Chowning, professor emeritus of music at Stanford, developed the technique for creating digital sounds in the late 1960s which was patented and then licensed to Yamaha in 1973. He earned his bachelor of music at Wittenberg University in 1959, studied composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and earned his Ph.D. at Stanford in 1966. He was the founding director in 1975 of Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. From the description of John M. Chowning...

Pierce, John R. (John Robinson), 1910-2002

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Electrical engineer, musical acoustics. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84491512 From the description of Papers, 1936-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83715362 John R. Pierce earned all three of his degrees at the California Institute of Technology: B.S. in 1933, M.S. in 1934, and Ph.D. in 1936. He worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1936 to 1971, where his work included electronic tubes, microwave communications, and psycho...