Christopher David Chafe, born 1952 in Bern, Switzerland, is a musician, scientist, and the director of the

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Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (

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). He is Duca Family Professor at Stanford University, holding a

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in music composition from Stanford University (1983), a

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in music composition from

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, and a

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in music from

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. He won a Net Challenge Prize from the

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and

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in 2000, and a

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research award in 1999. He has been performing with the Tintinnabulate ensemble at

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. He is currently the department chair of Stanford University's music department.

Patents

* US No. 6,801,939 (2004) "Method for Evaluating Quality of Service of a Digital Network Connection" * US No. 5,508,473 (1996) "Music Synthesizer and Method for Simulating Period Synchronous Noise Associated with Air Flows in Wind Instruments" * US No. 5,157,216 (1992) "Musical Synthesizer System and Method Using Pulsed Noise for Simulating the Noise Component of Musical Tones"

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20070609203534/http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~cc/ * https://music.stanford.edu/people/chris-chafe 1952 births Stanford University Department of Music faculty Living people Swiss musicologists {{Musicologist-stub