Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Upcoming Events
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
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
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
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 from Georgia Tech
Date:
Fri, 11/15/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar Hosted by Takako Fujioka and Craig Sapp.
FREE
Open to the Public
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Recent Events
Distractfold
Date:
Sun, 10/27/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
Program:
'Reliq Ens' (2014) - Lee Fraser
'Rage Agains the Reply Guy' (2021) - Bára Gísladóttir
'Castle Terraces in Barry Lyndon (2023) - Zeynep Toraman
FREE
Open to the Public
Faust Day 2024
Date:
Sun, 10/27/2024 - 10:00am - 5:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Classroom
Event Type:
Other 
FREE
Open to the Public
Measuring Acoustic Transfer Functions - Swapan Gandhi and Juan Sierra (Meyer Sound)
Date:
Fri, 10/18/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
We often want to characterize an audio system but we might not have access to the underlying input signal, This occurs in common devices that have their own clocks and unknown latency. Our friends at Meyer Sound have this problem and are proposing a solution based on a "virtual referece." Grounded in their experience measuring and tuning room acoustics, they will share with us details of their method and a live demonstration of its use to characterize some popular consumer audio devices.
Who: Swapan Gandhi and Juan Sierra (Meyer Sound)
What: Transfer Function Measurements When the Reference Signal is Known but not Accessible
When: Friday October 18 at 10:30AM
Who: Swapan Gandhi and Juan Sierra (Meyer Sound)
What: Transfer Function Measurements When the Reference Signal is Known but not Accessible
When: Friday October 18 at 10:30AM
FREE
Open to the Public
CCRMA Transitions 2024
Date:
Wed, 10/16/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Date:
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Event Type:
Concert 
CCRMA celebrates the start of the 2024 season with its annual Transitions concerts. Feast your ears on immersive 3D sounds played on our 56.8 speaker dome in the Stage. CCRMA students, faculty, staff, and alumni joined by special guest performers will present live performances, fixed media electronic music, and audiovisual works. Each evening’s program will feature different artists.
Due to limited seating, in-person access to these events is based on registration. Reserve your seat here. Please arrive no later than 10 minutes before the show, otherwise your seat may be given away.
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
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Recent News
Trimpin and Gurs Zyklus - San Francisco Classical Voice
Trimpin and The Gurs Zyklus
May 3, 2011, Georgia Rowe, San Francisco Classical Voice
With some new works, inspiration comes in a flash. Others develop over a lifetime. As Trimpin prepares to unveil his latest music-theater work at Stanford Lively Arts this month, he says it has been a work in progress for the better part of 50 years.
Read More
Trimpin and Gurs Zyklus in the Palo Alto Weekly
Instruments of memory
Max Mathews Featured in Stanford Report
Max Mathews, 'father of computer music,' dies at 84
May 2, 2011, Cynthia Haven, Stanford Report
In 1957, Max Mathews invented a program that allowed a mainframe computer to play a 17-second musical composition. The technical breakthrough is still reverberating. Read More
Max Mathews Featured in New York Times
Max Mathews, Pioneer in Making Computer Music, Dies at 84
April 23, 2011, William Grimes, New York Times
Max Mathews, often called the father of computer music, died on Thursday in San Francisco. He was 84.Read More
Max Mathews Has Passed Away
On April 21st, our friend and colleague Max Mathews passed away. He had been recently hospitalized in San Francisco for pneumonia.
Max's presence is so fresh for all at CCRMA and beyond. He was regularly spending much of each week engaged with music, new projects and students here and elsewhere. Plans are being set for a remembrance at CCRMA on May 29th.
Our sympathies and fond regards go out to Max's family.
Max's presence is so fresh for all at CCRMA and beyond. He was regularly spending much of each week engaged with music, new projects and students here and elsewhere. Plans are being set for a remembrance at CCRMA on May 29th.
Our sympathies and fond regards go out to Max's family.
