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
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
Dataset distillation for Audio-visual tasks
Leveraging Electric Guitar Tones and Effects to Improve Robustness in Guitar Tablature Transcription Modeling
Past Live Streamed Events
Recent News
Jonathan Berger's "My Lai" In the News
"In My Lai, a monodrama for tenor, string quartet, and Vietnamese instruments, composer Jonathan Berger had countless tragic elements at his disposal... In this immersive performance, we had the sense that, rather than defaulting to the story's obvious tragic details, Berger illuminate a single, more subtle element - the outraged bewilderment we often feel in the face of unimaginable horror."
Issue 21 of the Csound Journal Released
http://csoundjournal.com/issue21/index.html
This issue of the Csound Journal features an article written by MST student Paul Batchelor, which can be found here:
http://csoundjournal.com/issue21/chuck_sound.html
John Chowning Interview on RWM
Sonifying the world: How life's data becomes music
"Unlike sex or hunger, music doesn’t seem absolutely necessary to everyday survival – yet our musical self was forged deep in human history, in the crucible of evolution by the adaptive pressure of the natural world. That’s an insight that has inspired Chris Chafe, Director of Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (or CCRMA, stylishly pronounced karma).