Stanford Harmonics | |
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Background information | |
Origin | Stanford, California, USA |
Genres | A cappella |
Years active | 1991–present |
Website |
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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[ citation needed] and have developed a live performance style that includes the use of electronic distortion and sound effects.
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, [2] and was selected by the Recorded A Cappella Review Board as one of their Picks of the Decade. [3]
In 2010, the Harmonics won the A Cappella Community Awards for Favorite Mixed Collegiate Group and Favorite Scholastic Album. [4]
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.
The Stanford Harmonics have released ten full-length albums, one "greatest hits" album, and one extended play, alongside numerous singles.
Year | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
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1998 | Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards | Best Mixed Collegiate Album | Escalator Music | Nominated | [5] |
2000 | Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards | Best Mixed Collegiate Album | Insanity Laughs | Nominated | [6] |
Best Mixed Collegiate Arrangement | Jonathan Pilat | Nominated | |||
2002 | Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards | Best Mixed Collegiate Album | Phonoshop | Nominated | [7] |
Best Mixed Collegiate Arrangement | Jonathan Pilat for "We Are In Love" | Runner-up
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2004 | Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards | Best Mixed Collegiate Song | "Lady Marmalade" from Rock Beats Scissors | Runner-up
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2006 | Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards | Best Mixed Collegiate Album | Shadowplay | Nominated | [10] |
Best Mixed Collegiate Solo | Bryan Tan for "The Memory Remains" | Nominated | |||
2009 | Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards | Best Mixed Collegiate Album | Escape Velocity | Won | [2] |
Best Mixed Collegiate Song | "The Sound of Silence" | Won | |||
Best Mixed Collegiate Arrangement [a] | Charlie Forkish for "The Sound of Silence" | Won | |||
Charlie Forkish for "Imagination" | Runner-up
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2010 | Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards | Best Mixed Collegiate Song | "Spiel Met Mir" from Sing Six: Sunny Side Up | Nominated | [11] |
2014 | Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards | Best Mixed Collegiate Album | Midnight Hour | Nominated | [12] |
Best Mixed Collegiate Song | "Somebody to Love" | Nominated | |||
Best Mixed Collegiate Arrangement | Evan Smith for "Somebody to Love" | Nominated | |||
2018 | Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards | Best Electronic / Experimental Album | Fault of Imagination | Nominated | [13] |
2020 | Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards | Best Rock Album | Signal Lost | Won | [14] |
Best Rock Song | "Zombie" from Signal Lost | Nominated | [15] | ||
Best Mixed Collegiate Album | Signal Lost | Nominated | |||
2022 | Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards | Best Mixed Voices Collegiate Solo | Mitchell Zimmerman for "Ever After" (Single) | Nominated | [16] |
2022 | Best of College A Cappella | Featured Single ‘Bad Liar’ | Single | Won | [17] |
The International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) first judged live a cappella performance competitions in 1996.
Year | Level | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | Points | Citation |
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1996 | West Region Semifinal | Best Solo | Zareen Poonen for "Change in My Life' | Runner-up
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2000 | West Region Quarterfinal #1 | Best Group | Harmonics | 2nd
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2002 | West Region Quarterfinal #2 | Best Soloist | Morgan Reed | Runner-up (tie)
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Best Arrangement | Jon Pilat for "Lady Marmalade" | Runner-up (tie)
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2003 | West Region Quarterfinal #3 | Best Group | Harmonics | 3rd
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Best Arrangement | Marcella White Campbell for "Porcelain" | Won
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2004 | West Region Quarterfinal #1 | Outstanding Vocal Percussion | Ben D'Angelo and Daniel Hobert | won
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2021 | West Region Quarterfinal #3 | Best Group | Harmonics | 3rd
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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.
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