Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Upcoming Events
IMA
Date:
Tue, 11/13/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
Noise music of Japanese poetry. IMA is the sound project of Nava Dunkelman x Amma Ateria, marching forth with fearless percussion, stark electronics, and filmic poetic vocals. Deconstructing and dissolving heavy music through restraint and release, IMA strives for a balance between meticulous detailed precision of instrumentation.
FREE
Open to the Public
The World According to Sound, Live!
Date:
Mon, 11/26/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett are co-creators of The World According to Sound, a radio show that airs on NPR’s All Things Considered and weekly on individual public radio stations. The Washington Postwrites that “each episode is 90 seconds, containing a neat little story about an evocative, unusual sound rendered in intense aural detail.” The show’s sound-driven approach to radio has been featured on programs like NHPR’s “Overheard,” KQED’s “Earful,” KALW’s “The Spot,” CBC’s “Podcast Playlist,” and a segment on “HowSound” called “Short is Beautiful.”
FREE
Open to the Public
Pragati Rao on auditory and visual statistical learning in musicians
Date:
Fri, 11/30/2018 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
Seminar Room at the Knoll
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
Abstract:
Statistical learning ability helps individuals to extract probabilistic regularities from input signals without conscious awareness. It has been thought that musicians’ prolonged training may be associated with enhancements in the ability to extract statistical information as repeated practice and exposure, primes and sharpens musicians’ intuition for such tasks. Questions whether musicians’ auditory processing or cognitive processing abilities play a role in shaping their statistical learning performance remain to be explored. I will present behavioral and electrophysiological (EEG) data from adults and children that aim to answer some of these questions.
Bio:
FREE
Open to the Public
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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
David Romblom and Helene Bahu (Dysonics) Structural Head Models for Interactive 3D Audio
Date:
Fri, 11/09/2018 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
Seminar Room at the Knoll
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
At this week’s CCRMA Hearing Seminar, Helene Bahu and David Romblom from Dysonics in SF will be talking about their methods to estimate HRTFs from simple physical measurements. Can we generate good enough 3d audio using just the size of the head? And what is good enough?
FREE
Open to the Public
Sideband
Date:
Thu, 11/01/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
Sideband presents a concert of electracoustic works for laptop ensemble. This performance will feature favorite Sideband repertoire pieces alongside world premieres of new works, using voice-on-voice vocoders, non-traditional controllers, wireless networking, graphic and text scores, video, and more.
FREE
Open to the Public
Artful Design Manifestival
Date:
Thu, 11/01/2018 - 4:30pm - Fri, 11/02/2018 - 5:30pm
Location:
Denning House and CCRMA
Event Type:
Other 
See the full schedule at the Artful Design Manifestival website.
FREE
Open to the Public
Sridhar Kalluri on speech-in-noise perception
Date:
Fri, 10/26/2018 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
Seminar Room at the Knoll
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
But overall our ears are not so lucky. Noise and competing sounds mask the sound we want to understand, and our own limitations further degrade the experience. What is it about the auditory system that exasperates the effects of noise, and what can we do about it?
Who: Sridhar Kalluri
What: Improving speech perception in adverse acoustics, what’s hard about it?
When: Friday, October 26, at 10:30AM
Where: CCRMA Seminar Room (Top Floor of the Knoll)
FREE
Open to the Public
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Recent News
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
CCRMA: Award-winning Faculty!
Please join us in contratulating Dr. Poppy Crum upon receiving two recent awards! Her work on tech industry standards, particularly focusing on improving hearing aid technology, and her leadership as a women in the tech world have been recognized by the Consumer Technology Association and the Advanced Imaging Society. Links to articles are below.
Way to go, Poppy!
CTA Honors Five for Outstanding Contributions to Tech Industry Initiatives and Standards
Way to go, Poppy!
CTA Honors Five for Outstanding Contributions to Tech Industry Initiatives and Standards
LISTEN: 1,200 Years of Earth’s Climate, Transformed into Sound
Science podcast featuring work by our fearless leader, Chris Chafe:
"When you sonify data, you experience time in a way you can’t when you look at a chart." Hal Gordon, Graduate student
Oakum - Eoin Callery
Released from behind the mixing console CCRMA's Concert Coordinator Eoin Callery has been set free to make an old-timey CD for Bay Area Label Eh? Records. Enjoy some amplified violin bow, guitar, and lots of Supercollider controlled feedback, all available on a small shiny disc and in a new fangled digital Bandcamp form.
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