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✤ Best known as the developer of the MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) specification in 1981; considered the "Father of MIDI",

✤ Responsible for the Prophet 5, the first commercial polyphonic synthesizer, first musical instrument with an embedded microprocessor,

✤ Became President of an R&D division of Yamaha where he started the Korg R&D in California which produced the commercially successful Korg Wavestation (a vector synthesis) synthesizer and other technology,

✤ Founder of Dave Smith Instruments in 2002

✤ In 2013, won the Technical Grammy Award, a Grammy Special Merit Award for outstanding technical significance to the recording field.

DAVE

SMITH

CREATOR OF MIDI

& DAVE SMITH INSTRUMENTS

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER

(via Skype)

ABOUT DAVE SMITH

ROGER DANNEN-BERG

CREATOR OF AUDACITY

GUEST

SPEAKER

Roger B. Dannenberg is Professor of Computer Science, Art & Music at Carnegie Mellon University, where he teaches and conducts research in computer music. He is best known for Audacity, an open source audio editor that has been downloaded over 250M times, patents on computer accompaniment that formed the technical basis for SmartMusic, and languages for computer music including Nyquist. Dannenberg is also a trumpet player and recently composed the opera La Mare dels Peixos with Jorge Sastre.

Presentation: Audacity and Other Audaciousness

Abstract: Audacity, the open source audio editor, is one of the best known things to come out of my lab at Carnegie Mellon, but it is just one step along the way of exploring the intersection of computer science and music. I'll describe the origins and maybe future of Audacity and talk about other projects, including various projects to integrate computers into live performance, programming languages for music synthesis, automatic generation of pop music, music education, and applications of machine learning to music.

ABOUT ROGER DANNENBERG

ROGER DANNENBERG