Stanford Harmonics Explained

Stanford Harmonics
Background:group_or_band
Origin:Stanford, California, USA
Genre:A cappella
Years Active:1991 - present

The Stanford Harmonics are a co-ed a cappella group from Stanford University. Known for their alternative rock repertoire and award-winning recordings, the Harmonics have garnered international recognition for their performances and have been featured on BOCA, Sing, and Voices Only a cappella compilations. The Harmonics are one of the few collegiate a cappella groups that own their own wireless microphone equipment and have developed a live performance style that includes the use of electronic distortion and sound effects.

History

The group's third release, Insanity Laughs (1999), was received as a "breakthrough album" for the unprecedented mixing of its drum-like vocal percussion.[1]

In 2009, their landmark studio album, Escape Velocity, won three Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards, including Best Mixed Collegiate Album, and was selected by the Recorded A Cappella Review Board as one of their Picks of the Decade.[2]

In 2010, the Harmonics won the A Cappella Community Awards for Favorite Mixed Collegiate Group and Favorite Scholastic Album.[3]

In 2020, the album "Signal Lost" by the Harmonics won Best Rock Album from the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards.

As of 2024, they are recording their newest album, a concept album centered around grief, to be released in 2025.

Recordings

The Stanford Harmonics have released ten full-length albums, one "greatest hits" album, and one extended play, alongside numerous singles.

Awards and nominations

|-| 1998| Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards| Best Mixed Collegiate Album| Escalator Music| | [4] |-| rowspan="2" | 2000| rowspan="2" | Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards| Best Mixed Collegiate Album| Insanity Laughs| | rowspan="2" | [5] |-| Best Mixed Collegiate Arrangement| Jonathan Pilat| |-| rowspan="2" | 2002| rowspan="2" | Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards| Best Mixed Collegiate Album| Phonoshop| | [6] |-| Best Mixed Collegiate Arrangement| Jonathan Pilat for "We Are In Love"| style="background: #F4F2B0" | | [7] |-| 2004| Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards| Best Mixed Collegiate Song| "Lady Marmalade" from Rock Beats Scissors| style="background: #F4F2B0" | | [8] |-| rowspan="2" | 2006| rowspan="2" | Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards| Best Mixed Collegiate Album| Shadowplay| | rowspan="2" | [9] |-| Best Mixed Collegiate Solo| Bryan Tan for "The Memory Remains"| |-| rowspan="4" | 2009| rowspan="4" | Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards| Best Mixed Collegiate Album| Escape Velocity| | rowspan="4" | [10] |-| Best Mixed Collegiate Song| "The Sound of Silence"| |-| rowspan="2" | Best Mixed Collegiate Arrangement| Charlie Forkish for "The Sound of Silence"| |-| Charlie Forkish for "Imagination"| style="background: #F4F2B0" |

|-| 2010| Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards| Best Mixed Collegiate Song| "Spiel Met Mir" from Sing Six: Sunny Side Up| | [11] |-| rowspan="3" | 2014| rowspan="3" | Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards| Best Mixed Collegiate Album| Midnight Hour| | rowspan="3" | [12] |-| Best Mixed Collegiate Song| "Somebody to Love"| |-| Best Mixed Collegiate Arrangement| Evan Smith for "Somebody to Love"| |-| 2018| Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards| Best Electronic / Experimental Album| Fault of Imagination| | [13] |-| rowspan="3" | 2020| rowspan="3" | Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards| Best Rock Album| Signal Lost| | rowspan="1" | [14] |-| Best Rock Song| "Zombie" from Signal Lost| | rowspan="2" | [15] |-| Best Mixed Collegiate Album| Signal Lost| |-| 2022| Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards| Best Mixed Voices Collegiate Solo| Mitchell Zimmerman for "Ever After" (Single)| | [16] |-| 2022| Best of College A Cappella| Featured Single ‘Bad Liar’| Single| | [17]

ICCA results

The International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) first judged live a cappella performance competitions in 1996.

YearLevelCategoryRecipient(s)ResultPointsclass=unsortable Citation
1996West Region SemifinalBest SoloZareen Poonen for "Change in My Life'
2000West Region Quarterfinal #1Best GroupHarmonics
2002West Region Quarterfinal #2Best SoloistMorgan Reed
Best ArrangementJon Pilat for "Lady Marmalade"
2003West Region Quarterfinal #3Best GroupHarmonics
Best ArrangementMarcella White Campbell for "Porcelain"
2004West Region Quarterfinal #1Outstanding Vocal PercussionBen D'Angelo and Daniel Hobert
2021West Region Quarterfinal #3Best GroupHarmonics

Notable members

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Mickey Rapkin . Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory . 2012 . Penguin . 9781592408214 . The breakthrough album, he says, was the 1999 Stanford Harmonics disc, Insanity Laughs. 'That's when vocal percussion really started to sound more like a drum set than vocals,' Bill says. . registration . 2018-01-04.
  2. Web site: RARB. RARB Picks of the Decade. 2010-05-05.
  3. Web site: CASA. 2010 A Cappella Community Award Winners. 2018-01-04.
  4. Web site: 1998 Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award Nominees . . 13 February 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190618135349/http://www.casa.org/cara1998n . 18 June 2019 . unfit.
  5. Web site: 2000 Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award Nominees . . 13 February 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190614060526/http://www.casa.org/cara2000n . 14 June 2019 . unfit.
  6. Web site: 2002 Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award Nominees . . 13 February 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191027074611/http://www.casa.org/cara2002n . 27 October 2019 . unfit.
  7. Web site: 2002 Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award Winners . . 13 February 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190614230906/http://www.casa.org/cara2002w . 14 June 2019 . unfit.
  8. Web site: 2004 Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award Winners . . 13 February 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190811050244/http://www.casa.org/cara2004w . 11 August 2019 . unfit.
  9. Web site: 2006 Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award Nominees . . 13 February 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190616210924/http://www.casa.org/cara2006n . 16 June 2019 . unfit.
  10. Web site: 2009 Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award Winners . . 13 February 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190614071700/http://www.casa.org/cara2009w . 14 June 2019 . unfit.
  11. Web site: 2010 Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award Nominees . . 13 February 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190618143942/http://www.casa.org/cara2010n . 18 June 2019 . unfit.
  12. Web site: 2014 Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award Nominees . . 13 February 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190911090431/https://www.casa.org/cara2014n . 11 September 2019 . unfit.
  13. Web site: 2018 Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award Nominees . . 13 February 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190911112332/https://www.casa.org/cara2018n . 11 September 2019 . unfit.
  14. Web site: Chen . Jessica . 2020 Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards Results . 5 April 2020. . Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards . 5 April 2020.
  15. Web site: Chen . Jessica . 2020 Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards Nominees . 17 February 2020 . . Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards . 17 February 2020.
  16. Web site: 2022 Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award Nominees . . March 2022 . 5 March 2022.
  17. Web site: 2022 Best of College A Cappella 2022 Collection . Best of College A Cappella . 5 March 2022.

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