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
[cancelled; rescheduled] SoundSignature: What Type of Music Do You Like?
Total variation in popular rap vocals from 2009-2023
Flo Menezes Concert
Flo Menezes' concert brings to the public the North American premiere of four of his acousmatic works, covering a period from 2008 to the present. His music is characterised by spectral, structural and spatial research, resulting in an immersive poetics that the composer defines as maximalist. In a broad panorama that ranges from the posthumous homage to Stockhausen shortly after his death – for whom Flo Menezes was Teaching Assistant on the Kürten Courses and about whom the composer is publishing a trilogy of almost 1000 pages of analyses by the publisher Routledge – to the recent composition made at the EMS in Stockholm, which mixes analogue sounds made on a historic Buchla with granular synthesis, we have a fairly faithful portrait of the diversity of his music.
Harmonicity and Inharmonicity in Instruments of the Percussion/Resonance Family in Interaction with Electronics
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Past Live Streamed Events
Recent News
New York Times features Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra
"Pocket to Stage, Music in the Key of iPhone"
by Claire Miller and Miguel Helft
PALO ALTO, Calif. — An expectant hush fell over the audience as the director of the chamber ensemble, Ge Wang, came out and asked them to turn off their cellphones. The seven other musicians, dressed in black, filed in and took their positions in a circle... read full story here.
Stanford News profiles Ge Wang's Mobile Music research
"Stanford Researcher Use Cell Phones to Make Music"
by Cynthia Haven, March 2009
By transforming multi-touch screens, built-in accelerometers, built-in microphones, GPS, data networks and computation into powerful and yet mobile chamber meta-instruments—"all these technologies packed into this single device"—the cell phone is "perhaps one of the most intimate and personal devices man has ever known, but also one of the most ubiquitous" ...
SLOrk and Ge Wang featured on Apple Pro
"Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk): Musical Macs"
by Dustin Driver, December 2008
Feature story on the Stanford Laptop Orchestra by Apple Pro. read full story here.
Fernando published in eContact!
"Sharing the Source: A very brief history of computing at CCRMA"
by Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
"In 1964 the first sounds created by computers at Stanford were being calculated by John Chowning and David Poole on an IBM 7090 using Music IV, and played through a shared disk in a PDP1 using the vector scope D/A converters. It was the Computer Music Project."