Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Upcoming Events
Faust Day 2024
Distractfold
Program:
'Reliq Ens' (2014) - Lee Fraser
'A Thing Made Whole (Coda)' (2023) - Andrew Greenwald
'Castle Terraces in Barry Lyndon (2023) - Zeynep Toraman
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
Homage to Ligeti | CCRMA 50th Anniversary
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Recent Events
Leslie Famularo on Differentiating and Optimizing an Auditory Model
New software paradigms such as JAX and PyTorch allow one to specify arbitrary computations in a way that can be differentiated. And if we can differentiate a function we can optimize it. Hurray. How can we express an auditory model in a differentiable fashion?
4D Audio-Visual Learning: A Visual Perspective of Sound Propagation and Production
Dynamical mechanisms of how an RNN keeps a beat, uncovered with a low-dimensional reduced model
Text-to-Audio GenAI: Opportunities and Challenges in Music Production and Audio Content Generation
Past Live Streamed Events
Recent News
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.
Jonathan Berger Première
"Classical musicians face enormous expectations when they play a standard repertory work. Listeners have strong feelings about favorite pieces, even when they are open to fresh interpretive approaches.
The stakes are even higher with a premiere. Performing a new piece becomes an act of advocacy to pull an audience in.
Mystery of 101-year-old master pianist who has dementia
From the article: At first glance, she was elderly and delicate – a woman in her 90s with a declining memory. But then she sat down at the piano to play. “Everybody in the room was totally startled,” says Eleanor Selfridge-Field, who researches music and symbols at Stanford University. “She looked so frail. Once she sat down at the piano, she just wasn’t frail at all. She was full of verve.” Read more here...