Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Welcome To, Welcome Back!
Welcome! Things are gearing up for our 2016-17 Academic Year, and we are looking forward to seeing returning students and meeting new ones in the coming weeks.
Take a look at our Upcoming Events list - there are already tons of exciting things planned for this year, and more will be added as we go forward.
Upcoming Events
Slim Essid on Analysing Audio and EEG data with Nonnegative Matrix Factorisation
Date:
Fri, 09/30/2016 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
Slim Essid will be at CCRMA to talk about using NMF to analyze audio signals for auditory scene analysis, and to decompose EEG signals into their independent sources. Both important tasks.
FREE
Open to the Public
CCRMA Transitions 2016
Date:
Wed, 10/05/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Date:
Thu, 10/06/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Courtyard
Event Type:
Concert 
FREE
Open to the Public
Laetitia Sonami
Date:
Thu, 10/13/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
FREE
Open to the Public
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Recent Events
Guest Lecture: Nori Jacoby "Perceptual Priors in Music and Speech Revealed by Iterated Learning"
Date:
Wed, 08/17/2016 - 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar room
Event Type:
Guest Lecture 
Bio:
Nori Jacoby studies the role of culture in auditory perception. His current work uses iterated learning alongside classical psychophysical methods to characterize perceptual biases in music and speech rhythms in various populations ranging from Westerners to the Tsimané, an Amazonian foraging-farming society in Bolivia. He is also working on computational modeling of synchronization and entrainment in jembe drum ensembles in Mali. Nori completed a Ph.D.
FREE
Open to the Public
The Happy Valley Band - Machine Learning Like You've Never Heard Before!
Date:
Sat, 06/04/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
Their debut album ORGANVM PERCEPTVM, five years in the making, will be out on Santa Cruz label Indexical in 2016. For more info, visit indexical.org.
Video: vimeo.com/159568524
FREE
Open to the Public
Waveforms: An Interdiscplinary Arts Showcase
Date:
Thu, 06/02/2016 - 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Location:
Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
Free
Open to the Public
Bryan Day - Robotic Instruments
Date:
Tue, 05/31/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
Bryan is an improviser, instrument inventor, illustrator and installation artist based in Richmond, CA. His work involves combining elements of the natural and man-made world using field recordings, custom audio generation software and homemade instruments. Day’s work explores the parallels between the patterns and systems in nature to those in contemporary society.
Day has toured throughout the US, Europe, Japan, Korea, Argentina and Mexico, performing both solo as Sistrum and Eloine and in the Shelf Life and Seeded Plain ensembles.
FREE
Open to the Public
Recent News
Mystery of 101-year-old master pianist who has dementia
Way to go, Dr. Selfridge-Field! Very interesting article about her work with master musicians suffering from dementia.
From the article: At first glance, she was elderly and delicate – a woman in her 90s with a declining memory. But then she sat down at the piano to play. “Everybody in the room was totally startled,” says Eleanor Selfridge-Field, who researches music and symbols at Stanford University. “She looked so frail. Once she sat down at the piano, she just wasn’t frail at all. She was full of verve.” Read more here...
From the article: At first glance, she was elderly and delicate – a woman in her 90s with a declining memory. But then she sat down at the piano to play. “Everybody in the room was totally startled,” says Eleanor Selfridge-Field, who researches music and symbols at Stanford University. “She looked so frail. Once she sat down at the piano, she just wasn’t frail at all. She was full of verve.” Read more here...
Jonathan Berger's "My Lai" In the News
All kinds of new buzz in being generated by our own Jonathan Berger's latest opera My Lai. Congratulations, Jonathan and the Kronos Quartet!
"In My Lai, a monodrama for tenor, string quartet, and Vietnamese instruments, composer Jonathan Berger had countless tragic elements at his disposal... In this immersive performance, we had the sense that, rather than defaulting to the story's obvious tragic details, Berger illuminate a single, more subtle element - the outraged bewilderment we often feel in the face of unimaginable horror."
"In My Lai, a monodrama for tenor, string quartet, and Vietnamese instruments, composer Jonathan Berger had countless tragic elements at his disposal... In this immersive performance, we had the sense that, rather than defaulting to the story's obvious tragic details, Berger illuminate a single, more subtle element - the outraged bewilderment we often feel in the face of unimaginable horror."
Issue 21 of the Csound Journal Released
Issue 21 (Fall 2015) of the Csound Journal has been released! The journal can be read online here:
http://csoundjournal.com/issue21/index.html
This issue of the Csound Journal features an article written by MST student Paul Batchelor, which can be found here:
http://csoundjournal.com/issue21/chuck_sound.html
http://csoundjournal.com/issue21/index.html
This issue of the Csound Journal features an article written by MST student Paul Batchelor, which can be found here:
http://csoundjournal.com/issue21/chuck_sound.html
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