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Upcoming Events
Adam Stanović
Date:
Wed, 04/05/2023 - 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE
Event Type:
Concert 
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Don Slepian: Orchestral Synthesis
Date:
Thu, 04/06/2023 - 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE
Event Type:
Concert 
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person & Livestream
Prateek Verma - Fourier Transforms and Filter-Banks in the Era of Transformers and GPT
Date:
Fri, 04/07/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
Details to follow.
FREE
Open to the Public
Aaron Master (Dolby) - DeepSpace: Dynamic Spatial and Source Cue Based Source Separation for Dialog Enhancement
Date:
Fri, 04/28/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar
FREE
Open to the Public
Antje Ihlefeld - Brain-related hearing loss
Date:
Fri, 05/05/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
Antje Ihlefeld, now at Meta, will be talking about research she has done to better understand the impact of the cortex on hearing and hearing loss.
Details to follow.
FREE
Open to the Public
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CCRMA's Online Classes
CCRMA currently offers several online courses to the general public:
Chris Chafe "ONLINE JAMMING AND CONCERT TECHNOLOGY"Perry Cook and Julius Smith "PHYSICS-BASED SOUND SYNTHESIS FOR GAMES AND INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS"
Jay LeBoeuf "CAREERS IN MEDIA TECHNOLOGY"
Xavier Serra and Julius Smith "AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR MUSIC APPLICATIONS"
Matt Wright (with David Zicarelli) "PROGRAMMING MAX: STRUCTURING INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE FOR DIGITAL ARTS"
Recent Events
Disklavier Workshop Concert | Final Presentation
Date:
Wed, 03/29/2023 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
FREE
Open to the Public
Quarantine Sessions #115+ | Guest: Fred Malouf
Date:
Sun, 03/19/2023 - 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location:
CCRMA LIVE
Event Type:
Concert 
A Distributed Electroacoustic Network Improvisation | Livestream
FREE
Open to the Public
AI for Sound - Mark Plumbley (Surrey)
Date:
Fri, 03/17/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
Who: Prof. Mark Plumbley (Surrey)
What: AI for Sound
When: Fri, 03/17/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Where: CCRMA Seminar Room
Why: AI is good for sound!
FREE
Open to the Public
Jay Afrisando
Date:
Thu, 03/16/2023 - 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE
Event Type:
Concert 
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
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Recent News
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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