Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Upcoming Events
The New Sound of New Music: Contemporary Composition and Modern Record Production Practices, two part lecture series with Murat Çolak
Nat Condit-Schultz on Tempo, Tactus, Rhythm, Flow: Computational Hip Hop Musicology in Theory and Practice
Concepts and Control: Understanding Creativity in Deep Music Generation
Abstract: Recently, generative AI has achieved impressive results in music generation. Yet, the challenge remains: how can these models be meaningfully applied in real-world music creation, for both professional and amateur musicians? We argue that what’s missing is an interpretable generative architecture—one that captures music concepts and their relations, which can be so finely nuanced that they defy straightforward description. In this talk, I will explore various approaches to creating such an architecture, demonstrating how it enhances control and interaction in music generation.
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FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Recent Events
Homage to Ligeti | CCRMA 50th Anniversary
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Distractfold x Graduate Composers
Works by: Celeste Betancur, Seán Ó Dálaigh, Mohammad H. Javaheri, Lemon Guo, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, Calvin Van Zytveld, Mercedes Montemayor Elosua
The New Sound of New Music: Contemporary Composition and Modern Record Production Practices, two part lecture series with Murat Çolak
Gerald Schuller: Perceptual and higher-level loss and distance functions for machine learning in audio and acoustics
Prof. Gerald Schuller will report on the potential transformative role of perceptual loss functions and distance metrics in enhancing audio and acoustic machine learning models, and their applications. He will cover theoretical foundations of perceptual loss functions, which mimic human auditory perception, and also more abstract, higher-level representations, and explore how these functions, along with novel distance metrics, significantly improve the performance of audio processing tasks. Applications involving loss functions for room impulse responses, audio similarity, and audio representations for cochlear implants will be discussed.
Prof. Marina Bosi will be hosting his visit.
Join us in Zoom if you cannot make it in person!
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Recent News
Emerging Talents: Michael Wilson, Keyboard Magazine
Emerging Talents: Michael Wilson
August 29th, 2012, Gina Collecchia, Keyboard Magazine
What’s on in the mind of someone with years of experience on the keyboard and a computer science degree from CalTech under his belt? Musical software, of course! We had the opportunity to sit down with Michael Wilson, a graduate student at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) and learn about his creative process...
Mansion of Music, The Stanford Daily
Mansion of Music
May 1st, 2012, Raymond Luong, The Stanford Daily
It has been described by Stanford students as everything from a Spanish mansion to a Gothic fortress and even a haunted castle, but these misconceptions strike far from the truth. Perched on top of a hill behind Florence Moore Hall, this mysterious Stanford landmark is none other than the Knoll, currently home to Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA, pronounced “karma”).
Chris Carlson and Borderlands, Amazing-Looking Granular Sampler
Borderlands, Amazing-Looking Granular Sampler, and Beautiful Sound
April 19th, 2012, Peter Kirn, Create Digital Music
How do you visualize the invisible? How do expose a process with multiple parameters in a way that’s straightforward and musically intuitive? Can messing about with granular sound feel like touching that sound – something untouchable? Creator Chris Carlson is publishing source code and a presentation for the NIME conference.Mike Gao's Elaborate Musical Inventions: The Creators Project
