Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
CCRMA Seeks Facilities Specialist
Happy late summer to all! The staff at CCRMA are *elated* to announce that we are searching for a new person to join our team. Please feel free to ask questions of any of us about the position.
Detailed job posting and application can be found here: https://careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/facilities-specialist-1-on-site-2...
COVID Policies
See CCRMA's COVID policies for 2023.
Upcoming Events
Schallfeld
Date:
Thu, 09/28/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
Dinkelspiel Auditorium
Event Type:
Concert 
Schallfeld performs new works by Stanford graduate composers Tatiana Catanzaro, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, Mike Mulshine, Seán Ó Dálaigh, and Julie Zhu.
FREE and Open to the Public Laura Gwilliams on Decoding the Semantics of Audio in the Brain
Date:
Fri, 10/06/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
FREE
Open to the Public
Josh McDermott (MIT) on Auditory Brain Models
Date:
Thu, 10/12/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
Details to follow.
FREE
Open to the Public
New music exchange with Japan: A creative Residency and Concerts by the Ensemble Kujoyama
Date:
Thu, 10/12/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Date:
Sat, 10/14/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE
Event Type:
Concert 
CCRMA presents two concerts by the Japanese Ensemble Kujoyama, who is performing in the US for the very first time. The first concert on Thursday, October 12 at 7:30pm will feature the works of ten undergraduate students. The second one, on Saturday, October 14 at 7:30pm, will feature the works of two graduate students, one faculty members, and five Japanese composers.
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Face coverings are strongly recommended. We encourage you to continue wearing masks for the comfort of our audience members, artists, and staff. For more information please visit CCRMA's COVID-19 Policies and the COVID-19 safety protocols for Department of Music events.
Featured composers on 10/12/23:
Analiese Bancroft
Zac Dulkin
Lydia Goedert
Andrew Tin-Lok Lee
Ben Limric
Howard Qin
Renee Qin
Na Young Son
Jenny Xiong
Ryan Yu
Featured composers on 10/14/23:
Noriko Baba
Tatiana Catanzaro
Hajime Komai
Mike Mulshine
François Rose
Kenji Sakai
Toru Takemitsu
Chiharu Wakabayashi
Ensemble Kujoyama
Maki Ota, soprano
Kaori Wakabayashi, flute
Kaori Wakabayashi, flute
Nozomi Ueda clarinet
Mayuko Ishigami, violin
Shoko Fukutomi, cello
Yuri Morimoto, piano
Asuka Hatanaka, percussion
Yoshiaki Onishi, conductor
The members of the Ensemble Kujoyama were first brought together in 2010 for a residency at the Villa Kujoyama, in Kyoto. They regrouped in 2015 and founded the ensemble, which has since then received praises for its high standard and brilliant interpretations (see Samples of three reviewed programs). Devoted to the interpretation of new music, the members of the ensemble are active in Japan and abroad performing not only with the ensemble but also as soloists.
The two concerts are made possible thanks to the support from the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, the Stanford Shenson Fund, Friends of Chamber Music, American Asian Cultural Exchange, the Department of Music, and CCRMA. Also, the ensemble Kujoyama received a traveling grant from the Nomura Foundation and from the Japan Foundation.
Karlheinz Brandenberg - Spatial Sound - HRTFs vs. Room Reverb
Date:
Fri, 10/20/2023 - 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
Note special time.
FREE
Open to the Public
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Recent Events
Audiovisual Performance | Final Projects | Arts Intensive 2023
Date:
Wed, 09/20/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE
Event Type:
Concert 
FREE and Open to the Public | Livestream
UnStumm: Conversation of Moving Image and Sound | Arts Intensive
Date:
Sat, 09/16/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE
Event Type:
Concert 
The Stanford Arts Intensive program and CCRMA present UnStumm as part of the Audiovisual Performance class.
UnStumm – conversation of moving image and sound is a project for real-time film and music (Echtzeitfilm) for cross-disciplinary and cross cultural collaboration between video artists and musicians from Germany and other countries. It aims to create an environment of cultural and creative exchange, where a common complex artistic language is invented and used to communicate narratives, and textures, colliding, combining, and attracting worlds of sight and sound. Since 2016 UnStumm has performed in 12 countries worldwide. Collaborations have taken place with more than 65 live video artists, musicians, and dancers. In their performance, UnStumm will combine an in-situ performance with their Augmented Voyage app, making it a mixed reality performance. The audience will experience this performance in space, while using the app at the same time to follow UnStumm's movements between different layers of projection and reality.
UnStumm – conversation of moving image and sound is a project for real-time film and music (Echtzeitfilm) for cross-disciplinary and cross cultural collaboration between video artists and musicians from Germany and other countries. It aims to create an environment of cultural and creative exchange, where a common complex artistic language is invented and used to communicate narratives, and textures, colliding, combining, and attracting worlds of sight and sound. Since 2016 UnStumm has performed in 12 countries worldwide. Collaborations have taken place with more than 65 live video artists, musicians, and dancers. In their performance, UnStumm will combine an in-situ performance with their Augmented Voyage app, making it a mixed reality performance. The audience will experience this performance in space, while using the app at the same time to follow UnStumm's movements between different layers of projection and reality.
[CANCELLED!] TEMPO VS. PITCH: UNDERSTANDING SELF-SUPERVISED TEMPO ESTIMATION
Date:
Fri, 08/25/2023 - 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location:
Classroom
Event Type:
Guest Lecture 
Giovana Morais (NYU) joins us to talk about her recent ICASSP paper. ABSTRACT: Self-supervision methods learn representations by solving pretext tasks that do not require human-generated labels, alleviating the need for time-consuming annotations. These methods have been applied in computer vision, natural language processing, environ- mental sound analysis, and recently in music information retrieval, e.g. for pitch estimation. Particularly in the context of music, there are few insights about the fragility of these models regarding differ- ent distributions of data, and how they could be mitigated. In this paper, we explore these questions by dissecting a self-supervised model for pitch estimation adapted for tempo estimation via rigor- ous experimentation with synthetic data.
FREE
Open to the Public
Sound localization using a deep graph signal-processing model for acoustic imaging
Date:
Wed, 08/23/2023 - 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Event Type:
Guest Lecture 
ABSTRACT:
Our research explores ways to leverage the architecture of DeepWave, originally used as an acoustic camera, to enable precise localization of sound sources. While DeepWave inherently generates spherical maps in the form of sound intensity fields, it has not been utilized for determining precise localization coordinates of sound sources.
FREE
Open to the Public
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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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