PARAG CHORDIA 1831 Woodland Ave, East Palo Alto, CA 94303 [email protected] Tel. 650 814 2408 Fax 650 723 8468 Education Stanford University Ph.D. expected June 2004. Candidate in Computer Based Music Theory and Acoustics. Stanford, CA Thesis: “Automatic Transcription of Tabla Music”. Passed Music Department qualifying Aug. 1997 - June 2004 exams on first attempt in tonal analysis, music history and post-tonal analysis. Yale University B.A. in Applied Mathematics. Courses in Pattern Recognition, Computer Music, New Haven, CT Stochastic Processes, Game Theory. Thesis: “Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition: Sept. 1993 - May 1997 Automatic Musical Instrument Identification”. Teaching Experience U.C. Santa Cruz Visiting Lecturer. Music 203H: Area studies in performance practice, South Asia. Santa Cruz, CA Designed a course for listening and analysis of raga, tala and solo tabla through intensive Winter 2004 and innovative structured exercises based on important archival and current recordings. Introduced cognitive and perceptual approaches to raga theory. Syllabus and selected teaching materials at http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/~pchordia/ucsc/. Cogswell College Lecturer. Music Perception and Cognition for Musicians Sunnyvale, CA Responsibilities included course design, lectures and student evaluation. Topics included Fall 2002, Winter 2004 basic acoustics, pitch perception, timbre perception, auditory scene analysis, spatial hearing, scales and consonance, tonality and rhythm perception. Cogswell College Lecturer. World Music Sunnyvale, CA Introduction to World Music focusing on African, Indian and Indonesian music. Designed Fall 2002 course syllabus, lectures, assignments and evaluations. Stanford University Instructor. Fundamentals of Indian Art Music Stanford, CA Designed and taught first ever course on Indian music at Stanford. Created lecture notes Spring 2002 and assignments. Guest artists included Chitravina Ravikiran, Anindo Chatterjee and Tari K h a n f o r l e c t u r e - d e m on s trations and concerts. Stanford University Teaching Assistant. Stanford, CA Fundamentals of Computer Generated Sound (Fall 2001, Fall 1999); Jazz History (Spring Sep. 1999 - May 2000 2001); Research Seminar in Computer Music (Spring 2000); Psychophysics and Cognitive Psychology for Musicians (Winter 2000). Business Experience Bol Records Founder and Director. (bolrecords.com) Founded art music label focused on emerging artists with an emphasis on production Palo Alto, CA quality, particularly sound engineering. Recorded and produced albums for Anindo June 2001 - present Chatterjee (solo tabla), Nayan Ghosh (sitar), the Gundecha Brothers (dhrupad), Tanmoy Bose (solo tabla) and Prattyush Banerjee (sarod). Extensive educational materials accompany each CD. See attached articles: India Today (September 2002) and India Currents (October 2003). Induslive.com VP Technology. Santa Clara, CA Designed and oversaw implementation of Indian internet radio website. Consulted with March 2000 - Jan. 2001 musicians to develop content and produce educational features. Wrote and edited articles on classical Indian music and musicians. Indian Music Experience Parag Chordia Page 2 of 4 Sarod Training under renowned sarod maestro Pandit Buddhadev Das Gutpa, a pivotal figure in June 1994 – present modern performance and scholarship. Training in raga, tala, sarod technique, sargam singing and North Indian music theory and history. Tabla Training in tabla technique, repertoire and development techniques under Michael July 1997-present Robbins, a long-time disciple of one of the most important tabla pedagogues of the past century, Guru Jnan Prakash Ghosh. Gharana Music and Founder, Musical Director, DJ. Carnatic Radio Founded longest running Indian Classical Music program in California. Program entails a KZSU Stanford FM 90.1 three-hour weekly broadcast of North and South Indian art music. Produced frequent September 1998-present educational and thematic programs including live broadcasts, lecture-demonstrations and interviews with artists such as Gundecha Brothers, Tejendra Majumdar, Shubhankar Banerjee, Chitravina Ravikiran, Vinayak Torvi, and Tanmoy Bose. Bol Music Founder and Director San Francisco, CA Organized and promoted concerts by world-renowned musicians including Pandit September 1997-present Buddhadev Das Gupta, Chitravina Ravikiran, Trichy Sankaran, Pandit Ramesh Mishra, Pandit Anindo Chatterjee, Tanmoy Bose and others. Stanford India Festival Music Director Stanford, CA Programming music for a series of concerts and lecture-demonstrations as part of an December 2003 Indian cultural heritage week festival. Working with local Indian arts groups to generate community participation. Dhamaal Co-director of Classical and Folk Music San Francisco, CA Created monthly showcase in San Francisco for young performers of Indian classical and August 2001- present folk music. Articles on Dhamaal in SF Bay Guardian and San Jose Mercury news. India Community Center Co-Chair Music Festival Working with Anil Godhawani to direct planning of festival logistics and programming August 2002-present for proposed large-scale Indian music festival featuring leading Hindustani and Carnatic musicians, such as Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Pandit Jasraj, T.N. Seshagopalan, Chitravina Ravikiran, Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta, Pandit Anindo Chatterjee and others. Invited Lectures April 2004 Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology E u r o p e an Society for Cognitive Sciences of Music and Department of Musicology at the University of Graz, Austria “ B e a t and tala induction in tabla music” January 2004 Frontiers in Speech and Music Research Conference Sangeet Research Academy, Annamalai, India “A Bayesian approach to incorporating musical information in automatic transcription s y s t e m s ” November 2003 Sangeet Research Academy, Kolkata, India “Automatic transcription of Indian music” “ Understanding emotion in raga music, a survey of current cognitive approaches” October 2003 Sangit Mahabharti Research Academy, Mumbai, India “New directions in tabla reserarch” February 2003 Stanford University, Stanford, CA (with Professor Mark Applebaum) “East meets West: Structural similarities in Indian and Western Art Music” Awards and grants Parag Chordia Page 3 of 4 Fall 1998 - Fall 2004 Stanford Graduate Fellowship and Assistantship Fall 2004 Stanford Music Department Travel Grant Spring 1997 Sudler Performing Arts Grant Supported joint sarod and dance recital at Yale University. Spring 1996 Mellon Grant Supported research on sarod performance practice Spring 1996 Chase Coggins Memorial Fund, Supported one year of intensive sarod training in India Current Projects Digital Archive Project Working to create Indian classical music digital music archive for teaching. Working with copyright lawyer and archivists to ensure accessibility for educational institutions. Sarod Training CD Working with Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta and Prattyush Banerjee to create comprehensive teaching resource for sarod music, including video of sarod techniques. Extensive raga coverage, with gats, tans, and practice techniques for each raga. Languages and Skills Hindi (written and spoken), C, Java, Perl, HTML, Latin, German (written) Interests Hiking, backpacking, rock climbing, surfing, travel Publications Chordia, Parag (2004). ªRobust Sa identificationº. Journal of the Sangeet Research Academy. Vol. 18. Chordia, Parag & Ravikiran, N. (2004). ªMicro -Pitch structure of Indian art musicº. Journal of the Sangeet Research Academy. Vol. 18. Chordia, Parag (2003). ªAutomatic transcription and representation of solo ta bla musicº. Computing in Musicology. Vol. 13. Chordia, Parag (2001). Automatic raga identification. CCRMA Technical Report. Chordia, Parag (2000). A new tabla representation system. CCRMA Technical Report. Chordia, Parag (1999). Representation of North Indian classical music. CCRMA Technical Report. Chordia, Parag.“Anindo Chatterjee: Future Tabla.º India West, (May 16, 2002) Chordia, Parag.“Buddhadev Das Gupta: Kolkata Modernist.º India Currents, (June 2001) Academic References Parag Chordia Page 4 of 4 Chris Chafe, PhD Professor of Music, Stanford University Dept. of Music, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. (650) 723-4971 x305 (650) 858-0432 [email protected] Jonathan Berger, PhD Professor of Music, Stanford University Dept. of Music, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. (650) 723-4971 x301 [email protected] Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Director CCARH (Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities) PhD Consulting Professor, Music CCARH, Braun #129 Stanford, CA 94305-3076 (650) 725-9242 [email protected] Indian Music References Buddhadev Das Gupta Director Sangeet Research Academy Instrumental Division C.I.T. Scheme 147, Kolkata 700 029, West Bengal India (011) 91 33 2464 3962 [email protected] Anindo Chatterjee 24 N. S. C. Bose Road, Sunshine Apartment, Flat No-501 Kolkata 700 040, West Bengal, India (011) 91 33 2471 5262 (011) 91 33 2421 1199 [email protected] Chitravina Ravikiran 105, II Cross Street, VGP Layout - Part I,Palavakkam, Chennai 600 041 India. (011) 91 44 2451 1133 (011) 91 44 2448 2999, [email protected] Nayan Ghosh Director Sangit Mahabharati Research Academy Mon-ami, 4-Iris Park, Silver Beach Road, Juhu, Mumbai 400 049 India (011) 91 22 2624 5901 Community References Nagesh Avadhany Chairman and Director of Basant Bahar (Bay Area’s oldest Indian classical music society) 1564 Stemil Way, Milpitas, CA 95035 (408) 946-2946 Anil Godhwani India Community Center Founder and Director 555 Los Coches St, Milpitas, CA 95035 (408) 934-1130 .