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Chris Chafe is a Professor, composer, improvisor and cellist, and the Director of Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). He develops much of his music alongside computer-based research, and pursues methods for digital synthesis and network music performance. An active performer in both physical and virtual spaces, Chris’ music reaches audiences in a range of venues, including gallery and museum installations, and even works performed by the horns of large ships in the port of St. Johns, Newfoundland. He has many active collaborative research projects, working with scientists and medical professionals in the ‘sonification’ of a wide range of data sets—from paleo ice core data to neurological electrical fields. He has been a Visiting Professor at UBC, Politecnico di Torino and the Technical University of Berlin, and an Artist in Residence at The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.