Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Upcoming Events
Speech coding with a deep generative model
Date:
Fri, 02/07/2020 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
This is work that was done in collaboration with Janusz Klejsa, Per Hedelin, and Lars Villemoes of the Dolby Sweden office.
Who: Roy Fejgin and Cong Zhou (Dolby)
FREE
Open to the Public
Running DSP algorithms on hardware using Faust and Elk Audio OS
Date:
Sat, 02/08/2020 - 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Classroom
Event Type:
Other 
At the end of the workshop, participants should be able to easily write audio plugins for Elk using few lines of Faust code and control them via MIDI, knobs, buttons, encoders, small displays and control-voltage inputs.
FREE
Open to the Public
CCRMA's Online Classes
CCRMA currently offers several online courses:
Chris Chafe "ONLINE JAMMING AND CONCERT TECHNOLOGY"
Perry Cook and Julius Smith "PHYSICS-BASED SOUND SYNTHESIS FOR GAMES AND INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS"
Jay LeBoeuf "CAREERS IN MEDIA TECHNOLOGY"
Xavier Serra and Julius Smith "AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR MUSIC APPLICATIONS"
Matt Wright (with David Zicarelli) "PROGRAMMING MAX: STRUCTURING INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE FOR DIGITAL ARTS"
Chris Chafe "ONLINE JAMMING AND CONCERT TECHNOLOGY"
Perry Cook and Julius Smith "PHYSICS-BASED SOUND SYNTHESIS FOR GAMES AND INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS"
Jay LeBoeuf "CAREERS IN MEDIA TECHNOLOGY"
Xavier Serra and Julius Smith "AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR MUSIC APPLICATIONS"
Matt Wright (with David Zicarelli) "PROGRAMMING MAX: STRUCTURING INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE FOR DIGITAL ARTS"
Recent Events
Faust Fest: a One Day Faust Workshop
Date:
Sat, 01/18/2020 - 9:30am - 5:30pm
Location:
CCRMA Classroom
Event Type:
Other 
FREE
Open to the Public
Open tools for the development and evaluation of hearing devices
Date:
Thu, 12/12/2019 - 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
There is a wealth of knowledge about how to adjust our hearing, but most of it is locked up in commercial products. Recently the US National Institutes of Health sponsored a research program to develop a suite of hardware and software that are open source. By this means they hope to create a new research ecosystem that can build and test improvements to the current paradigms. And of course the open source ecosystem will make it easier to put new products and ideas into the field.
FREE
Open to the Public
SideLObe | The Furies: A Laptopera (Act I)
Date:
Sat, 12/07/2019 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Date:
Sun, 12/08/2019 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
The Furies: A Laptopera is a retelling of the Greek tragedy Electra. Blending a number of versions of the Electra story including works by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Jean Paul Sartre, this retelling explores central questions regarding how communities escape from cycles of violence, the role of guilt and shame in community identity, personal responsibility, how justice interfaces with cycles of violence, and redemption. The artistic medium of the laptop orchestra both serves to recast the traditional instrumental role in a new kind of operatic medium (the “laptopera”) that reimagines the potential of instrument-building to support dramatic elements and character relationships -- while simultaneously positing critical questions about technology in our lives presently, both in its promise to help us flourish and in its perils to perpetuate and amplify the existing cycles of violence in our world today.
FREE wth RSVP
Open to the Public
Decoding inner speech from intracranial recordings in the human brain
Date:
Mon, 11/25/2019 - 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
FREE
Open to the Public
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Recent News
The Curious Composer: Jonathan Berger
A Q & A with Jonathan Berger is featured in the September/October edition of Psychology Today. Check out the article in the PDF attached. Congratulations, Jonathan!
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Hearables Will Monitor Your Brain and Body to Augment Your Life, by Poppy Crum
Poppy Crum recently published a fascinating article in IEEE's magazine Spectrum on the potential future of wearables/hearables.
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ARTFUL DESIGN — A new (comic) book by Ge Wang!
What is the nature of design, and the meaning it holds in human life? What does it mean to design well -- to design ethically? How can the shaping of technology reflect our values as human beings? These are the questions addressed in Ge Wang's new book, ARTFUL DESIGN (check it out: https://artful.design/).
Technology that Knows What You're Feeling: TED2018 Talk Featuring Dr. Poppy Crum
Very interesting talk by Poppy Crum:
What happens when technology knows more about us than we do? Poppy Crum studies how we express emotions -- and she suggests the end of the poker face is near, as new tech makes it easy to see the signals that give away how we're feeling. In a talk and demo, she shows how "empathetic technology" can read physical signals like body temperature and the chemical composition of our breath to inform on our emotional state. For better or for worse. "If we recognize the power of becoming technological empaths, we get this opportunity where technology can help us bridge the emotional and cognitive divide," Crum says.
What happens when technology knows more about us than we do? Poppy Crum studies how we express emotions -- and she suggests the end of the poker face is near, as new tech makes it easy to see the signals that give away how we're feeling. In a talk and demo, she shows how "empathetic technology" can read physical signals like body temperature and the chemical composition of our breath to inform on our emotional state. For better or for worse. "If we recognize the power of becoming technological empaths, we get this opportunity where technology can help us bridge the emotional and cognitive divide," Crum says.
CCRMA's SLOrk Featured in Wired Magazine
The Aural Magic of Stanford's Laptop Orchestra
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