Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Due to the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) and to help each other protect the health of our communities, all Department of Music / CCRMA concerts are canceled, effective immediately through at least May 3, 2020. Depending on the unfolding situation, this date may change.
Please check back later for updates on rescheduled events.
We believe it is our responsibility to take reasonable steps that help inhibit, rather than accelerate, the spread of COVID-19 on our campus. To learn more about Stanford’s response, visit: http://healthalerts.stanford.edu.
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Summer Workshops 2020 Announced!
Summer 2020 just got a whole lot cooler: our amazing lineup of computer music workshops has been announced! Check out the schedule here
There will be opportunities for financial assistance for some workshops - check specific workshop pages for more details.
CCRMA WAVE (Wall for AudioVisual Expression)
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Eoin Callery: Sea Shanty. Over.
February 24 - March 27
The exhibition is open to the public Mon-Fri 9am-5pm in the Lobby
Upcoming Events
[CANCELED] Technology and the Post Human
Date:
Fri, 04/03/2020 - 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
What if our physical bodies become nothing more than a shell to host our technologies? Are technological advances reducing what makes someone an individual? Will complete distributed intelligence lead to absolute homogeneity? Works featured in this concert series address such philosophical questions of our Internet Age.
FREE
Open to the Public
[CANCELED] CCRMA Open House 2020
Date:
Fri, 04/17/2020 - 10:00am - 5:00pm
Location:
CCRMA, the Knoll
Event Type:
Other Unfortunately the CCRMA Open House 2020 has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. More info: https://music.stanford.edu/news/concert-cancellations-extended-may-15
Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) would like to invite you to our annual Open House on Friday April 17 2020, 10am-5pm. Please join us for demonstrations, lectures, performances and posters that present some of our latest research projects.
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
[CANCELED] Premiere of The Furies: A Laptopera
Date:
Sun, 03/15/2020 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Date:
Mon, 03/16/2020 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
FREE
Open to the Public
[CANCELED / Binaural Streaming] Vilbjørg Broch: Speaking in Mute Silence
Date:
Tue, 03/10/2020 - 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
Live binaural streaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4rJ7VH0mu4 (use headphones for best results!)
CCRMA Visiting Scholar Vilbjørg Broch presents a concert with computer generated immersive audio works and voice. Exploring 3D projections of higher dimensional algebraic and geometric structures for spatialisation and synthesis. Symmetry groups, nonperiodic order and the massa confusa. The concert will be woven together with text fragments from the collection of dreams which appear in C.G. Jung's Psychology and Alchemy.
FREE
Open to the Public
[CANCELED] Jocelyn Ho + fff ensemble: Women's Labor
Date:
Sun, 03/08/2020 - 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
FREE
Open to the Public
[CANCELED/STREAMING] Salt Itinerary | New Op-Era by the Miso Ensemble
Date:
Fri, 03/06/2020 - 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
Salt Itinerary multimedia opera transcends theatrical and music conventions. A New form of Opera, Electroacoustic Theatre, Musical Theatre, Sound Poetry? Reflecting on Art and Madness, it revolves around languages, words as meaning and words as sound. Both are used as an extension of the body and melted in the construction of the staging as a tangible projection of the resonance of the words through sound and image. Live audio and video electronic processing and diffusion of the voice, poetry, gestures, music and the drawings creates a polyphony of senses and a counterpoint of meanings. Molding sounds, lights, pictures and movements as if being drawn, painted or carved, Salt Itinerary is a powerful, engaging and challenging combination of music and drama by one performer that shapes new grounds in electronic music and breaks boundaries between music, theatre, opera.
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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