Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics

CCRMA Summer Workshops 2014

CCRMA Summer Workshops have been scheduled for 2014. Full schedule, links to detailed sites, and registration information can be found by clicking here. Come join us at CCRMA this summer!

Upcoming Events

CCRMA Winter Concert

Date: 
Fri, 03/14/2014 - 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Location: 
Bing Studio
Event Type: 
Concert
Please join CCRMA faculty, students and staff for the 2014 CCRMA Winter Concert.

Featuring an immersive 24.6 speaker system and an ecelctic mix of live interactive musical systems, richly-textured sound fields and mixed-media works, the concert will take place in the Bing Studio space.

Admission is FREE but tickets are required and can be picked up before the concert in the Bing lobby.

* Please note the 7:30 start time.
FREE
Open to the Public

CCRMA TeleConcert

Date: 
Sat, 03/15/2014 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location: 
Bing Studio
Event Type: 
Concert
CCRMA presents an evening of Distributed Ensembles and New Music from around the world in real time

Live performances from Switzerland, France, Virginia, Newfoundland, Colombia/Brazil and Kansas City connect across the internet as performers around the globe Jack-in to Stanford's Bing Studio and play in real-time with their Stanford counterparts.  The evening will be presented using CCRMA's immersive 24.6 speaker system, surrounding the audience in a spectacularly clear sound field.

FREE
Open to the Public
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Recent Events

Music and the Brain 2014

Date: 
Sat, 02/22/2014 - 10:00am - Sun, 02/23/2014 - 1:00pm
Location: 
CCRMA Stage
Event Type: 
Other
Please join us for an exciting weekend of talks exploring music, transcendence and spirituality. This year’s Music and the Brain Symposium focuses on music’s role in stimulating transcendent experiences.  What are the neural correlates of ‘transcendence’?  What role does culture play? 
 
We have gathered an extraordinarily diverse group of researchers, scholars and artists to explore these topics.
 
The symposium is free and open to the public. Advance registration is not required - however, seating is limited.

Program details and schedule, along with abstracts, can be found here.
FREE
Open to the Public

Natural Artefacts

Date: 
Thu, 02/20/2014 - 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Location: 
CCRMA Stage
Event Type: 
Concert
Natural Artefacts, made its start from collaboration over several years between the composer Per Anders Nilsson and the musicians Susanna Lindeborg and Ove Johansson. The trio is developing a concept where the computer and electronics act as a completely integrated musical instrument. The sound is a unique mix between live electronics, jazz, impro and new music. Here they collaborate with Gino Robair on drums and percussion. Natural Artafacts has been performing in USA at CNMAT, Berkeley California, Sonic circuit X festival in Berklee Boston, Buffalo University and EMF New York. Per Anders Nilsson has a background as jazz musician but is now a professor at the Academy of Music and Drama at Gothenburg University.
FREE
Open to the Public

Marc Weidenbaum: Cultural Afterlife Is a Form of Change: Two Decades of Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II

Date: 
Wed, 02/19/2014 - 5:15pm - 7:00pm
Location: 
Knoll Classroom
Event Type: 
Colloquium
The Talk: Marc Weidenbaum will discuss his new book in the 33 1/3 series published by Bloomsbury, Selected Ambient Works Volume II, which is about the Aphex Twin (aka Richard D. James) album by that name. He will focus on the "cultural afterlife" that the album has experienced in the two decades since its initial release on the Warp and Sire labels in 1994. Faithful to Brian Eno’s definition of ambient music, Selected Ambient Works Volume II was intentionally functional: it furnished chill-out rooms, the sanctuaries amid intense raves.
FREE
Open to the Public

Jack Conte: Unbreaking Content Monetization: Why Ad Revenue Sucks at Making Creators Money

Date: 
Wed, 02/12/2014 - 5:15pm - 7:00pm
Location: 
CCRMA Classroom
Event Type: 
Colloquium

YouTubers are getting rich from ad revenue, right? Jack Conte's video catalog gets a million hits per month, and that generates less than $50 of ad revenue to help him pay the bills.  As an independent musician (and the balder, less attractive half of indie duo Pomplamoose), Jack will be telling us about his robotic music video projects, the currently broken content monetization systems, and the emergence of the Creative Middle Class.  If you don't like art (or puppies, or candy... just saying....) then come to learn about Jack's recent startup, Patreon, and its mission to make small business creativity a sustainable endeavor.

FREE
Open to the Public
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