Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Upcoming Events
Gerald Schuller - Latest updates on perceptual coding from the Asilomar Workshop
Prof. Marina Bosi will be hosting his visit.
What is new in perceptual coding and what are people thinking about?
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
Nat Condit-Schultz from Georgia Tech
Hosted by Takako Fujioka and Craig Sapp.
Learning Interpretable Representations for Controllable Deep Music Generation
Abstract: Recently, the focus on enhancing control over generative AI has grown significantly. In this talk, I will introduce several approaches to enhance controllability through interpretable model design. I will begin by discussing compositional style transfer and representation disentanglement in monophonic, polyphonic, and cross-modality scenarios. Next, I will present a whole-song generation approach that captures long-term music structure via a compositional hierarchy. Throughout the talk, I will showcase demos that illustrate applications of these models for possibilities of human-machine music co-creation.
Recent Events
Lobe Concert: Goodbye Sam & Nolan!
Lobe is Ethan Buck, Sam Silverstein, Nolan Miranda, Daiki Nakajima, Michael Hayes, and Mark Rau in spirit
Tech: Sami Wurm
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Demo of Personalized 3d Sound System
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
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...