Sessions
Keynote Speaker & Performance
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Mon
Roger B. Dannenberg is a Professor of Computer Science, Art & Music at Carnegie Mellon University, where he received a Ph.D. in 1982. He is internationally known for his research in the field of computer music. His current work includes research on computer accompaniment of live musicians, interactive media, high-level languages for sound synthesis, and computer support of curriculum design. Dr. Dannenberg sometimes poses as a trumpet player and composer, and he has performed in concert halls ranging from the historic Apollo Theater in Harlem to the modern Espace de Projection at IRCAM in Paris. His most recent musical efforts involve real-time computer graphics and computer music systems that interact with live musicians.
Working in the "computer music" field, Roger Dannenberg knows what it means to be interdisciplinary. Along with former student Dominic Mazzoni, Dannenberg created Audacity, a free tool that users are finding helpful at the intersection of computing and music. Audacity can be used any time you're trying to work with audio on a computer, whether turning old LP's into CD's, recording a message for your phone or editing live music you've recorded. Audacity is wildly popular. The open-source audio editor was chosen as one of PC World's 100 Best Products of 2008. Dannenberg and Mazzoni were inspired to create the product while attempting to analyze wave form data. With no adequate tools available, they created their own audio editor, capable of running on researchers' different operating systems.