Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
CCRMA Summer Workshops
Summer 2024 Workshops: CCRMA Summer Workshops Announced! There are a wide variety of offerings, some in person, some on line, and some hybrid. Have a look! More will be announced as they're organized, so check back with us frequently!
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There will be opportunities for financial assistance for some workshops - check specific pages for more details.
CCRMA Open House 2024
Upcoming Events
Exploring Contextual Timbre Representation
Investigating Bell Patterns in Candomblé from Historical Field Recordings
Leveraging Electric Guitar Tones and Effects to Improve Robustness in Guitar Tablature Transcription Modeling
Dataset distillation for Audio-visual tasks
Text-to-Audio GenAI: Opportunities and Challenges in Music Production and Audio Content Generation
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Recent Events
AI-based Digital Synthesizer Preset Programming: Parameter Estimation for Sound Matching
Presenter: Soohyun Kim
Robert L. White's Cochlear Implants
Join us for a special Stanford Hearing Seminar on the invention of the cochlear implant speech processor. May 31st at 10:30AM in Stanford BMI 1021
Iran Sanadzadeh: Frames of Reference
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
NeuralNote: An Audio-to-MIDI Plugin Using Machine Learning
Abstract: NeuralNote is an open-source audio-to-MIDI VST/AU plugin that uses machine learning for accurate audio-to-MIDI transcription. This talk will begin with an in-depth look at BasicPitch, the machine learning model from Spotify that powers NeuralNote. We will explore its internal workings and how it processes audio to generate MIDI data. Next, we will cover the integration of BasicPitch into the NeuralNote plugin, implemented in C++ using the JUCE framework. We will discuss the challenges of incorporating neural network inference in audio plugins, focusing on real-time processing, thread safety, and performance. A comparison of the ONNXRuntime and RTNeural libraries will highlight the options for neural network integration in this domain.
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...