Music

ge wang

ChucK: A Computer Music Programming Language

Stanford’s Ge Wang discusses the design, philosophy, and development of ChucK, a computer music programming language intending to provide a different approach, expressiveness, and thinking with respect to time and parallelism in audio programming.

Garrick Ohlsson Chopin

Why Chopin? and Other Questions

Garrick Ohlsson, a highly regarded performer of Chopin’s music, discusses the works of Chopin and plays them to give us greater insight into the pieces he has become so familiar with.

Jennifer Guderman

Rocking Gender: Stereotype and Subversion Among Female Pop Musicians

This lecture at Vanderbilt University takes a look at women such as Janis Joplin and Joan Jett, throughout rock and roll, their style and how they set out in the scene to tackle stereotypes of femininity.

Robert Gupta

Music is medicine, music is sanity

Robert Gupta, a famous violinist in the Los Angeles Philharmonic, gives us an interesting look into why music therapy works for so many people. Music as therapy provides an escape for the many who find solace in notes, rhythms, and melodies.