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!
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There will be opportunities for financial assistance for some workshops - check specific pages for more details.
CCRMA Open House 2024
Upcoming Events
Exploring Contextual Timbre Representation
Investigating Bell Patterns in Candomblé from Historical Field Recordings
Leveraging Electric Guitar Tones and Effects to Improve Robustness in Guitar Tablature Transcription Modeling
Dataset distillation for Audio-visual tasks
Text-to-Audio GenAI: Opportunities and Challenges in Music Production and Audio Content Generation
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Recent Events
[cancelled; rescheduled] SoundSignature: What Type of Music Do You Like?
Total variation in popular rap vocals from 2009-2023
Flo Menezes Concert
Flo Menezes' concert brings to the public the North American premiere of four of his acousmatic works, covering a period from 2008 to the present. His music is characterised by spectral, structural and spatial research, resulting in an immersive poetics that the composer defines as maximalist. In a broad panorama that ranges from the posthumous homage to Stockhausen shortly after his death – for whom Flo Menezes was Teaching Assistant on the Kürten Courses and about whom the composer is publishing a trilogy of almost 1000 pages of analyses by the publisher Routledge – to the recent composition made at the EMS in Stockholm, which mixes analogue sounds made on a historic Buchla with granular synthesis, we have a fairly faithful portrait of the diversity of his music.
Harmonicity and Inharmonicity in Instruments of the Percussion/Resonance Family in Interaction with Electronics
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Past Live Streamed Events
Recent News
CCRMA's alum, Taube noted in Linux Journal article
Algorithmic Music Composition With Linux, Part 1
Jun 01, 2010 By Dave Phillips
....Incidentally, Dr. Taube began the Common Music project in 1989 at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, better known as CCRMA (pronounced just like karma). In 1996 Common Music won 1st prize at the Concours International de Logiciels Musicaux in Brussels, and the system continues its evolution today at the University of Illinois at Champagne/Urbana.
Linux Distribution PlanetCCRMA is "Armed to the Teeth"
"Philosophy and Fancy"
By DAN SAWYER in Linux Journal June 2010
Systems designed for power users tend to be both slick and decadent, armed to the teeth with the kind of tools that would make most end users crawl into a straitjacket and whine for their mommies. The studio distributions, such as PlanetCCRMA and 64 Studio, tend to be this variety....
Ge Wang featured in New York Times story on Apple tablet
"A Playland for Apps in a Tablet World"
By JENNA WORTHAM Published: January 24, 2010
Apple’s move to open up the iPhone to outside programmers in 2008 started a software-writing frenzy. Giant companies and bedroom tinkerers alike rushed to get their applications into the App Store and onto the phone’s 3.5-inch touch screen. Read more.
Jonathan Berger Referenced in New York Times
"Good Enough is the New Great"
by Robert Mackey
....In February, a music professor at Stanford, Jonathan Berger, revealed that he has found evidence that younger listeners have come to prefer lo-fi versions of rock songs to hi-fi ones.... Read More.
CCRMA's Origins featured in New York Times
"Optimism as Artificial Intelligence Pioneers Reunite"
By John Markoff Published: December 7, 2009
STANFORD, Calif. — The personal computer and the technologies that led to the Internet were largely invented in the 1960s and ’70s at three computer research laboratories next to the Stanford University campus. Read more here