Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics

CCRMA Summer Workshops 2014

CCRMA Summer Workshops have been scheduled for 2014. Full schedule, links to detailed sites, and registration information can be found by clicking here. Come join us at CCRMA this summer!

Upcoming Events

CCRMA Winter Concert

Date: 
Fri, 03/14/2014 - 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Location: 
Bing Studio
Event Type: 
Concert
Please join CCRMA faculty, students and staff for the 2014 CCRMA Winter Concert.

Featuring an immersive 24.6 speaker system and an ecelctic mix of live interactive musical systems, richly-textured sound fields and mixed-media works, the concert will take place in the Bing Studio space.

Admission is FREE but tickets are required and can be picked up before the concert in the Bing lobby.

* Please note the 7:30 start time.
FREE
Open to the Public

CCRMA TeleConcert

Date: 
Sat, 03/15/2014 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location: 
Bing Studio
Event Type: 
Concert
CCRMA presents an evening of Distributed Ensembles and New Music from around the world in real time

Live performances from Switzerland, France, Virginia, Newfoundland, Colombia/Brazil and Kansas City connect across the internet as performers around the globe Jack-in to Stanford's Bing Studio and play in real-time with their Stanford counterparts.  The evening will be presented using CCRMA's immersive 24.6 speaker system, surrounding the audience in a spectacularly clear sound field.

FREE
Open to the Public
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Recent Events

Marcus Schmickler: Politics of Frequency - Colloqium and Concert

Date: 
Thu, 03/06/2014 - 5:15pm - 9:00pm
Location: 
CCRMA Stage
Event Type: 
Colloquium

5:15pm: Schmickler’s talk will give an introduction to the piece "Poiltiken der Frequenz" (Politics of Frequency). Following an hypothesis "Music and Economics share a fundamental object: numbers."  Schmickler’s project "Poiltiken der Frequenz" circles around the acoustic rendering of number concepts. Inspired by Alain Badiou’s Le Nombre et les Nombres, the piece attempts to question the apparent immediacy of numbers that allow calculation to govern today’s economy, social sciences and everyday life.

FREE
Open to the Public

Crystal Mooncone

Date: 
Tue, 03/04/2014 - 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Location: 
CCRMA Stage
Event Type: 
Concert
CCRMA is excited to present Crystal Mooncone in a free concert in the CCRMA Stage.

Chris Peck, Jon Moniaci, and Stephen Rush are Crystal Mooncone:

“We use music we find on the streets and in the forests and play them with our laptops. We play accordions, guitars, balloons, organs, and pianos. We play pretty music and we play noise. We care if you listen. We play for dancers and and video and in the dark. We record in canoes, in swamps, and in studios, and perform in Europe, India, and the U.S.” 

Music and more at http://music.mooncone.net/
FREE
Open to the Public

Banging Like an 808? Developing a Physically-Informed, Circuit-Bendable, Digital Model of the Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer

Date: 
Mon, 03/03/2014 - 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Location: 
CCRMA Classroom
Event Type: 
DSP Seminar
Can a digital system provide satisfactory emulations of classic analog musical instruments and effects? Polarized reactions to the impending release (this month!) of Roland's TR-8 Rhythm Performer (a digitally modeled TR-808/909) have reignited this old debate. I've focused my research on creating physically-informed, circuit-bendable, digital models of analog drum machines. At this DSP Seminar, I'll present my methodological framework and analysis/models of one of the 808's most famous sound generators: the bass drum. My digital model, implemented in Cycling 74's Gen~, retain the salient features of the original analog drum machine and allow for accurate emulation of circuit-bending and common 808 mods. This work takes an engineering approach to hacking and circuit bending, clears up misconceptions about the 808's circuitry, and plugs a conspicuous drum-machine-shaped gap in virtual analog research.
FREE
Open to the Public

John La Grou -Studio of the Future: 2020–2050

Date: 
Wed, 02/26/2014 - 5:15pm - 7:00pm
Location: 
CCRMA Classroom, The Knoll 2nd floor, Rm 217
Event Type: 
Colloquium
 A brief look at the evolution of audio electronics, a theory of  innovation, and a sweeping vision for the next forty years of audio  production technology.
Open to the Public
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Recent News

Review: Auditory Hallucinations, Composed

Congratulations to Jonathan Berger for more great reviews of his "Visitations!"

How Music Hijacks Our Perception of Time

Very interesting article by Dr. Jonathan Berger! "One evening, some 40 years ago, I got lost in time. I was at a performance of Schubert’s String Quintet in C major. During the second movement I had the unnerving feeling that time was literally grinding to a halt. The sensation was powerful, visceral, overwhelming. It was a life-changing moment, or, as it felt at the time, a life-changing eon.
 
It has been my goal ever since to compose music that usurps the perceived flow of time and commandeers the sense of how time passes. Although I’ve learned to manipulate subjective time, I still stand in awe of Schubert’s unparalleled power.

Holly Herndon's New Single Named Best New Track on Pitchfork

Congratulations to our own Holly Herndon, once again in the news!

"In reviewing electronic music composer Holly Herndon’s breakout debut, 2012's Movement, we noted her penchant for "Bending one person's voice into phantasmagorias", which continues on her newest, breath-halting single, “Chorus”." Read more, and watch video here...

Turning brain waves into music helps spot seizures

The music is eerie, if not altogether aesthetically pleasing. Like a soundtrack moments before a film's horrifying twist, the sounds of the brain in a state of seizure betrays the plot with little more than a skin-prickling crescendo.
 
This music, the electrical activity of the seizing brain translated to sound, is a merger of art and medicine, the work of Stanford's Dr. Josef Parvizi, an epilepsy specialist, and Chris Chafe, a composer and music researcher. 

Tricking the brain

Most interns don’t deliberately try to deceive executives at their employer’s company, but Dolby intern Jimmy Tobin was asked to do just that.
 
For a reception following a day of meetings for the company’s 90 top leaders, Tobin, a student of symbolic systems at Stanford University, and fellow interns working in the Science Group with Senior Staff Scientist Poppy Crum were asked to create a series of demonstrations of perceptual illusions.
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