Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Upcoming Events
David Romblom and Helene Bahu (Dysonics) Structural Head Models for Interactive 3D Audio
Date:
Fri, 11/09/2018 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
Seminar Room at the Knoll
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
FREE
Open to the Public
IMA
Date:
Tue, 11/13/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
Noise music of Japanese poetry. IMA is the sound project of Nava Dunkelman x Amma Ateria, marching forth with fearless percussion, stark electronics, and filmic poetic vocals. Deconstructing and dissolving heavy music through restraint and release, IMA strives for a balance between meticulous detailed precision of instrumentation.
FREE
Open to the Public
The World According to Sound, Live!
Date:
Mon, 11/26/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett are co-creators of The World According to Sound, a radio show that airs on NPR’s All Things Considered and weekly on individual public radio stations. The Washington Postwrites that “each episode is 90 seconds, containing a neat little story about an evocative, unusual sound rendered in intense aural detail.” The show’s sound-driven approach to radio has been featured on programs like NHPR’s “Overheard,” KQED’s “Earful,” KALW’s “The Spot,” CBC’s “Podcast Playlist,” and a segment on “HowSound” called “Short is Beautiful.”
FREE
Open to the Public
CCRMA's Online Classes
CCRMA currently offers several online courses:
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"
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
Malcolm Slaney (Google) on decoding pitch, rhythmic, imagined, and surprise signals from the brain
Date:
Fri, 10/05/2018 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
Seminar Room at the Knoll
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
I want to discuss the experiments and results from the Auditory Group at the Telluride Neuromorphic Engineering Cognition Workshop. For many years we have been doing experiments to decode the state of the brain from EEG signals. We’ve been wildly successful at decoding auditory attention, but discovering signals related to expectations, pitch and imagined sounds is harder. This year we succeeded.
Who: Malcolm Slaney (Google)
What Decoding pitch, rhythmic, imagined, and surprise signals from the brain
When: Fri, 10/05/2018 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Where: Seminar Room at the Knoll
Why: We want to know how the brain processes more ecological signals
Who: Malcolm Slaney (Google)
What Decoding pitch, rhythmic, imagined, and surprise signals from the brain
When: Fri, 10/05/2018 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Where: Seminar Room at the Knoll
Why: We want to know how the brain processes more ecological signals
FREE
Open to the Public
Puck Quartet Premiers Works by Young Composers
Date:
Wed, 10/03/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
The Puck Quartet, who seeks to bring a capricious spirit and evocative language to music, is premiering the work of three Stanford student composers: Noah Berrie, Andreas Garcia, and Blaine Rister.
FREE
Open to the Public
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Recent News
Jonathan Berger Première
Congratulations to our very own Jonathan Berger for a terrific write-up of the première of a new piece!
"Classical musicians face enormous expectations when they play a standard repertory work. Listeners have strong feelings about favorite pieces, even when they are open to fresh interpretive approaches.
The stakes are even higher with a premiere. Performing a new piece becomes an act of advocacy to pull an audience in.
"Classical musicians face enormous expectations when they play a standard repertory work. Listeners have strong feelings about favorite pieces, even when they are open to fresh interpretive approaches.
The stakes are even higher with a premiere. Performing a new piece becomes an act of advocacy to pull an audience in.
Mystery of 101-year-old master pianist who has dementia
Way to go, Dr. Selfridge-Field! Very interesting article about her work with master musicians suffering from dementia.
From the article: At first glance, she was elderly and delicate – a woman in her 90s with a declining memory. But then she sat down at the piano to play. “Everybody in the room was totally startled,” says Eleanor Selfridge-Field, who researches music and symbols at Stanford University. “She looked so frail. Once she sat down at the piano, she just wasn’t frail at all. She was full of verve.” Read more here...
From the article: At first glance, she was elderly and delicate – a woman in her 90s with a declining memory. But then she sat down at the piano to play. “Everybody in the room was totally startled,” says Eleanor Selfridge-Field, who researches music and symbols at Stanford University. “She looked so frail. Once she sat down at the piano, she just wasn’t frail at all. She was full of verve.” Read more here...
Jonathan Berger's "My Lai" In the News
All kinds of new buzz in being generated by our own Jonathan Berger's latest opera My Lai. Congratulations, Jonathan and the Kronos Quartet!
"In My Lai, a monodrama for tenor, string quartet, and Vietnamese instruments, composer Jonathan Berger had countless tragic elements at his disposal... In this immersive performance, we had the sense that, rather than defaulting to the story's obvious tragic details, Berger illuminate a single, more subtle element - the outraged bewilderment we often feel in the face of unimaginable horror."
"In My Lai, a monodrama for tenor, string quartet, and Vietnamese instruments, composer Jonathan Berger had countless tragic elements at his disposal... In this immersive performance, we had the sense that, rather than defaulting to the story's obvious tragic details, Berger illuminate a single, more subtle element - the outraged bewilderment we often feel in the face of unimaginable horror."
