Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
CCRMA WAVE (Wall for AudioVisual Expression)
September 23 - November 1
The exhibition is open to the public Mon-Fri 9am-5pm in the Lobby
Upcoming Events
Žibuoklė Martinaitytė: In Search of Lost Beauty...
Date:
Fri, 10/25/2019 - 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
FREE
Open to the Public
Timothy Weaver: HYLAEA ReSpoken
Date:
Thu, 10/31/2019 - 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
HYLAEA ReSpoken is a collection of live cinema (sound/moving image) movements that seeks to reanimate the residues of lost ecological memory. The project enriches the transcoding of bio- and ecoinformatic data to soundscape thru the re-witnessing of endangered and extinct habitats and uncertain biodiversity.
FREE
Open to the Public
Ellen Phan and Nisa Karnsomport
Date:
Thu, 11/14/2019 - 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
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
ENS EKT
Date:
Thu, 10/17/2019 - 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
ENS EKT features the experimental musical inventions of Paul Stapleton (Californian born, Belfast-based) placed in dialogue with the circular breathed multiphonics and harmonic textures of Simon Rose (English born, Berlin-based) and the resonant gestural and spectrally focused playing of Adam Pultz Melbye (Danish born, Berlin-based). The group explores emergent timbral, dynamic and social musical structures through improvisation. Having worked together more frequently in duo settings (see below), the trio configuration offers an opportunity to explore new modes of interactions in part facilitated by purpose built technologies that intertwine metallic, wooden and electronic resonances in real time.
FREE
Open to the Public
Auditory Separation of a Conversation from Background via Attentional Gating
Date:
Fri, 10/11/2019 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
The latest speech enhancement work has the potential to dramatically change the way we hear the world around us. This new work has dramatically improved the quality and latency of these algorithms, and it has the potential to change the way we hear the world around us, whether we have normal hearing or need assistance. These new systems build highly sophisticated models of speech, and can pick out the speech signal from the noise. Oh, yes.
FREE
Open to the Public
CCRMA Modulations 2019: In Memoriam Carr Wilkerson
Date:
Sat, 10/05/2019 - 7:30pm - Sun, 10/06/2019 - 12:00am
Location:
CCRMA Courtyard
Event Type:
Concert 
CCRMA presents a Modulations concert in loving memory of longtime CCRMA staff member Carr Wilkerson (1966-2019). Carr was responsible for organizing CCRMA's previous Modulations festivals. Friends of Carr will present live performances and fixed media works of electronic music.
FREE
Open to the Public
Alain de Cheveigne on cleaning up brain data for analysis and decoding
Date:
Fri, 10/04/2019 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
Brain signals as measured by EEG, MEG or even ECoG are inherently noisy. Not only are there only a few dozen sensors to measure billions of different neural sources, the electrical environment can change during an experiment. One would like techniques that can pull the signal out of the noise. This can be done with smart forms of noise control, de-trending and signal averaging.
Alain de Cheveigne will be at CCRMA on Friday to discuss a panoply of techniques to enable you to find the signals you care about.
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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