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
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Upcoming Events
Robotic Hearing Systems for Autonomous Vehicles
Date:
Fri, 10/27/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
Details to follow.
FREE
Open to the Public
Brian Baumbusch: "Polytempo Music" - A new interactive VR music application
Date:
Wed, 11/15/2023 - 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Classroom / Zoom
Event Type:
Guest Colloquium 
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Zoom
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Recent Events
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
EXPLORING APPROACHES TO MULTI-TASK AUTOMATIC SYNTHESIZER PROGRAMMING
Date:
Mon, 08/21/2023 - 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location:
Classroom
Event Type:
Guest Lecture 
Automatic Synthesizer Programming is the task of transform-
ing an audio signal that was generated from a virtual instru-
ment, into the parameters of a sound synthesizer that would
generate this signal. In the past, this could only be done for
one virtual instrument. In this paper, we expand the current
literature by exploring approaches to automatic synthesizer
programming for multiple virtual instruments. Two different
approaches to multi-task automatic synthesizer programming
are presented. We find that the joint-decoder approach per-
forms best. We also evaluate the performance of this model
FREE
Open to the Public
Retrieving musical information from neural data: how cognitive features enrich acoustic ones
Date:
Fri, 08/18/2023 - 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location:
Classroom
Event Type:
Guest Lecture 
Various features, from low-level acoustics, to higher-level
statistical regularities, to memory associations, contribute
to the experience of musical enjoyment and pleasure. Re-
cent work suggests that musical surprisal, that is, the un-
expectedness of a musical event given its context, may di-
rectly predict listeners’ experiences of pleasure and enjoy-
ment during music listening. Understanding how surprisal
shapes listeners’ preferences for certain musical pieces has
implications for music recommender systems, which are
typically content- (both acoustic or semantic) or metadata-
FREE
Open to the Public
Insights into Soundscape Synthesis and Energy consumption of Sound Event Detection systems
Date:
Thu, 08/17/2023 - 10:00am - 11:00am
Location:
Classroom
Event Type:
Guest Lecture 
FREE
Open to the Public
Recent News
Hearables Will Monitor Your Brain and Body to Augment Your Life, by Poppy Crum
Poppy Crum recently published a fascinating article in IEEE's magazine Spectrum on the potential future of wearables/hearables.
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ARTFUL DESIGN — A new (comic) book by Ge Wang!
What is the nature of design, and the meaning it holds in human life? What does it mean to design well -- to design ethically? How can the shaping of technology reflect our values as human beings? These are the questions addressed in Ge Wang's new book, ARTFUL DESIGN (check it out: https://artful.design/).
Technology that Knows What You're Feeling: TED2018 Talk Featuring Dr. Poppy Crum
Very interesting talk by Poppy Crum:
What happens when technology knows more about us than we do? Poppy Crum studies how we express emotions -- and she suggests the end of the poker face is near, as new tech makes it easy to see the signals that give away how we're feeling. In a talk and demo, she shows how "empathetic technology" can read physical signals like body temperature and the chemical composition of our breath to inform on our emotional state. For better or for worse. "If we recognize the power of becoming technological empaths, we get this opportunity where technology can help us bridge the emotional and cognitive divide," Crum says.
What happens when technology knows more about us than we do? Poppy Crum studies how we express emotions -- and she suggests the end of the poker face is near, as new tech makes it easy to see the signals that give away how we're feeling. In a talk and demo, she shows how "empathetic technology" can read physical signals like body temperature and the chemical composition of our breath to inform on our emotional state. For better or for worse. "If we recognize the power of becoming technological empaths, we get this opportunity where technology can help us bridge the emotional and cognitive divide," Crum says.
CCRMA's SLOrk Featured in Wired Magazine
The Aural Magic of Stanford's Laptop Orchestra
CCRMA: Award-winning Faculty!
Please join us in contratulating Dr. Poppy Crum upon receiving two recent awards! Her work on tech industry standards, particularly focusing on improving hearing aid technology, and her leadership as a women in the tech world have been recognized by the Consumer Technology Association and the Advanced Imaging Society. Links to articles are below.
Way to go, Poppy!
CTA Honors Five for Outstanding Contributions to Tech Industry Initiatives and Standards
Way to go, Poppy!
CTA Honors Five for Outstanding Contributions to Tech Industry Initiatives and Standards
