A History of the CCRMA Hearing Seminar

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Malcolm Slaney

Stanford CCRMA

May 17, 2024

Topics and Audience

Music

Engineering

Psychology

Neuroscience

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Both academic and industrial

Undergraduates and Post Grads

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By the numbers

Years: 35

Mailing list: > 400 people

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Attendance: 10-30 people per week

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Seminars since 1990: 500!!!

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https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~malcolm/hearing-seminar.html

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Focus

Discussion!

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Discussion!!

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Discussion!!!

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Bernard Mont-Reynaud

Richard O. Duda

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1990’s 2000’s 2010’s

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Academic Visitors

Aalborg

Bielefeld

Boston

CNRS

Caltech

Cambridge

Columbia

Connecticut

Cornell

Edinburgh

Ilmenu

Harvard

Helsinki

IRCAM

Illinois

Johns Hopkins

MIT

Maryland

McGill

McMaster

Minnesota

Montreal

NYU

Northwestern

Ohio State

Oldenburg

Oregon

Paris Telcom

Plymouth

Purdue

Queen Mary

Saarland

Southampton

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Surry

T. U. Denmark

U. British Columbia

U. College London

U. of Leipzig

U. of Sydney

U. of Washington

UC Davis

UCLA

UCSC

UCSD

UCSF

UNLV

Victoria

Waterloo

York

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Industrial Speakers

AT&T

Apple

Cypress Semiconductor

Dolby

Earlens

FX PAL

Google

Gracenote

Hitachi

IBM

Interval Research

Microsoft

NASA

NHK

NTT

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Oticon

Ricoh

SGI

SRI

Studer

Sennheiser

Shaam

Sony

Sound ID

Starkey

Synaptics

USWest

VA

Xerox

Yahoo!

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The Start

Earl Schubert

Psychoacoustics

Stanford Medicine

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Bernard Mont-Reynaud

Knuth student

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Erv Hafter

UCB Ear Club

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Malcolm’s Mentor

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Their advantages

Built in audience

Friendly atmosphere

Lee’s dinners

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John Pierce

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AT&T (first satellite)

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JPL, Chief Scientist

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Stanford, Professor

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1969

Towards the end of his life he’d sometimes fall asleep in the seminar and he’d still ask brilliant questions!

Al Bregman

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Auditory Scene Analysis

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Sabbatical at CCRMA

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CASA - Computational �Auditory Scene Analysis at CCRMA

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Auditory Stream Analysis

Coherent Harmonics

Common Onsets

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Notable Directions

Audio emotion (Anne Fernald’s Lab)

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Auditory stream analysis

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Binaural sound (Duda and then UC Davis)

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Music information retrieval

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Transaural Audio

Panels

Audio Quality

Compression…

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Immersive audio quality

Augmented reality

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Cochlear implant history

Started at Stanford

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Social Networking

One long term partner

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One crash-and-burn

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Why are we successful?

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The audience and the discussion

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