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!
[Check out the schedule] [Register for workshops]
There will be opportunities for financial assistance for some workshops - check specific pages for more details.
CCRMA Open House 2024
Upcoming Events
Dataset distillation for Audio-visual tasks
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Text-to-Audio GenAI: Opportunities and Challenges in Music Production and Audio Content Generation
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Dynamical mechanisms of how an RNN keeps a beat, uncovered with a low-dimensional reduced model
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4D Audio-Visual Learning: A Visual Perspective of Sound Propagation and Production
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Recent Events
Leveraging Electric Guitar Tones and Effects to Improve Robustness in Guitar Tablature Transcription Modeling
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Investigating Bell Patterns in Candomblé from Historical Field Recordings
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Exploring Contextual Timbre Representation
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[cancelled; rescheduled] SoundSignature: What Type of Music Do You Like?
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Past Live Streamed Events
Recent News
Chavin research featured in the Stanford Report
Ancient shells meet high-tech: Stanford researchers study the sound of pre-Incan conches
February 7, 2011, Cynthia Haven, Stanford Report
Archaeologists and acousticians strike an unusual partnership to understand the mesmerizing role of conches in the temple culture around Peru's Chavín...
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CCRMA Researchers featured in Science News
Ancient trumpets played eerie notes
November 18, 2010 By Marissa Cevallos
Scientists analyze tunes from 3,000-year-old conch-shell instruments for insight into pre-Inca civilizationChris Chafe and Greg Niemeyer featured on Wired.com
Smog Musicians Turn Pollution Data Into Jagged Melodies
By Hugh Hart Published: October 7, 2010
There’s nothing like a whomping dose of volatile organic compounds to fire up a whacked-out free-jazz composition. That’s the only conclusion to be reached after listening to soundscapes designed by two California professors who draw musical inspiration from an unlikely muse: smog. read more
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