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
Date:
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Date:
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
CCRMA classroom
Event Type:
Guest Lecture 
Murat Colak is a Turkish-American composer, mastering engineer, mixer, record producer, and educator based in New York City. He’s known for his work in contemporary classical and experimental music, with records on acclaimed labels like KAIROS, Edition Wandelweiser, NEOS, New Focus, Jazzland, Innova, Carrier, and Da Vinci Classics among others.
During his residency at Stanford University's CCRMA, Dr. Colak will present two public lectures. The first will introduce his creative journey, offering insights into his compositional approach and how it intersects with his approach to sound engineering, especially in crafting acoustics for contemporary concert music..
Free
Open to the Public
Nat Condit-Schultz on Tempo, Tactus, Rhythm, Flow: Computational Hip Hop Musicology in Theory and Practice
Date:
Fri, 11/15/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
Computational musicology is not just for classical music. In this talk, I will review a variety of computational investigations of hip hop based on my dataset, the Musical Corpus of Flow (MCFlow). Using MCFlow, we can characterize the "norms" of rap flow and investigate how they have changed historically, including changes in tempo and the density of rhyme over time. I will also discuss the methodological challenges of computational musicology in general, and hip-hop/pop musicology specifically, and demonstrate tools and methods I have developed.
FREE
Open to the Public
Concepts and Control: Understanding Creativity in Deep Music Generation
Date:
Fri, 11/15/2024 - 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location:
CCRMA Classroom [Knoll 217] (ZOOM Link Below)
Event Type:
DSP Seminar 
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.
FREE
Open to the Public
Recent Events
Homage to Ligeti | CCRMA 50th Anniversary
Date:
Sun, 11/03/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Event Type:
Concert 
A major concert will kick off the final series of events celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. Join us in Dinkelspiel Auditorium on November 3 at 7:30pm for a program of music by György Ligeti, whose five-month residency at Stanford in 1972 and friendship with John Chowning helped lead to the founding of CCRMA. This all-Ligeti program comprises Atmosphères (featured in the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey) performed by the Stanford Symphony Orchestra; Musica ricercata performed by pianist Roger Xia '24; the electronic composition Artikulation; and the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra featuring violinist Tanja Becker-Bender with the Stanford New Ensemble conducted by Paul Phillips.
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Distractfold x Graduate Composers
Date:
Fri, 11/01/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
Works by: Celeste Betancur, Seán Ó Dálaigh, Mohammad H. Javaheri, Lemon Guo, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, Calvin Van Zytveld, Mercedes Montemayor Elosua
FREE
Open to the Public
The New Sound of New Music: Contemporary Composition and Modern Record Production Practices, two part lecture series with Murat Çolak
Date:
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Date:
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
CCRMA classroom
Event Type:
Guest Lecture Murat Colak is a Turkish-American composer, mastering engineer, mixer, record producer, and educator based in New York City. He’s known for his work in contemporary classical and experimental music, with records on acclaimed labels like KAIROS, Edition Wandelweiser, NEOS, New Focus, Jazzland, Innova, Carrier, and Da Vinci Classics among others.
During his residency at Stanford University's CCRMA, Dr. Colak will present two public lectures. The first will introduce his creative journey, offering insights into his compositional approach and how it intersects with his approach to sound engineering, especially in crafting acoustics for contemporary concert music..
Free
Open to the Public
Gerald Schuller: Perceptual and higher-level loss and distance functions for machine learning in audio and acoustics
Date:
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Classroom / Zoom
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
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!
FREE
Open to the Public
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Poppy Crum Joins Advisory Board for Engineering & Technology Magazine's Innovation Awards
Congratulations to Poppy Crum for joing the Advisory Board for the Engineering & Technology Magazine's Innovation Awards! Check out the interview here, in which she discusses her path from a professional violinist to her position today as a neuroscientist and technologist.
JackTrip: Syncing performances online, Stanford News
"Stanford-developed software enables musicians isolated by the coronavirus pandemic to jam together again in real-time ... A longstanding software program for online music playing has been optimized for slower, home-based internet connections."
https://news.stanford.edu/2020/09/18/jacktrip-software-allows-musicians-sync-performances-online/
By Adam Hadhazy
The Curious Composer: Jonathan Berger
A Q & A with Jonathan Berger is featured in the September/October edition of Psychology Today. Check out the article in the PDF attached. Congratulations, Jonathan!
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