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Ge Wang

Ge Wang is a Chinese-American professor, musician, computer scientist, designer, and author. He is best known for inventing the ChucK audio programming language and for being the co-founder, chief technology officer (CTO), and chief creative officer (CCO) of Smule, a company making iPhone and iPad music apps.

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Ge Wang
王戈 (Wáng Gē)
Ge Wang Portrait
Ge Wang
Born (1977-11-02) November 2, 1977
Beijing, China
Other nameGary
Alma mater
Known for
Scientific career
Fields
  • Computer Music
  • Musical Interaction Design
  • Mobile Music
  • CS+Music Education
Institutions
ThesisThe ChucK Audio Programming Language (2008)
Perry R. Cook
Websiteccrma.stanford.edu/~ge/

Ge Wang (born November 2, 1977) is a Chinese-American professor, musician, computer scientist, designer, and author. He is best known for inventing the ChucK audio programming language1 and for being the co-founder, chief technology officer (CTO), and chief creative officer (CCO) of Smule, a company making iPhone and iPad music apps.234567

Career

Wang is also known for creating the Princeton Laptop Orchestra and later founded Stanford Laptop Orchestra,23 as well as the Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra.48

He is the designer of the Ocarina9 and Magic Piano iPhone apps. He is currently an associate professor at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).24

Book

He is the author of Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime (A MusiComic Manifesto),10 a book on design and technology, art and life, created entirely in the format of a photo comic book, published by Stanford University Press in 2018.

References

References

  1. Wang, Ge (2008). The ChucK Audio Programming Language: A Strongly-timed and On-the-fly Environ/mentality (Ph.D.). Princeton University.
  2. "Ge Wang: The iPhone's Music Man – IEEE Spectrum". IEEE. September 2009. Retrieved November 12, 2011.
  3. Greenemeier, Larry. "Is That Ocarina Music Coming from Your iPhone?". Scientific American. Retrieved November 12, 2011.
  4. Cain, Claire (December 9, 2009). "From Pocket to Stage, Music in the Key of iPhone". The New York Times. Retrieved November 12, 2011.
  5. Walker, Rob (November 23, 2011). "The Machine That Makes You Musical". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved June 6, 2015.
  6. Graham, Jefferson (November 10, 2010). "Smule adds Magic Fiddle to its Ocarina and Magic Piano apps". USA Today. Retrieved November 12, 2011.
  7. Laptop maestro makes music apt for the iPhone, The Sydney Morning Herald
  8. "Stanford Laptop Orchestra makes music with Macs – SFGate". Articles.sfgate.com. June 1, 2010. Retrieved November 12, 2011.
  9. Wang, Ge (2014). "Ocarina: Designing the iPhone's Magic Flute". Computer Music Journal. 38 (2): 8–21. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.566.5805. doi:10.1162/COMJ_a_00236. S2CID 14050437.
  10. Wang, Ge (2018). Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime (A MusiComic Manifesto). Stanford University Press. p. 488. ISBN 978-1-5036-0052-2.
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