Bio - Chris Chafe

Chafe is a composer/ cellist with an interest in using the computer as an aid to music composition and 
performance . He is the on  the Faculty of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, 
Stanford University where he teaches courses in computer music and directs the center. He served as Chair 
of the Department of Music from 1994-97. His doctorate in music composition was completed at Stanford 
in 1983. Prior  degrees in music were from the University of California at San Diego and Antioch College.   
He has done research in automatic music recognition and, at IRCAM in Paris, France in new methods for 
computer sound synthesis based on physical models of musical instrument mechanics. He has performed his 
music in Europe, the  Americas and Asia,  and has several compositions available on compact disc. Currently 
he is resides with his family in Canada while on sabbatical as a resident artist at the Banff Centre.

The celletto is a bodyless electronic cello built by Chafe.