Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Upcoming Events
New date!!! Pragati Rao on auditory and visual statistical learning in musicians
Date:
Fri, 01/18/2019 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
Seminar Room at the Knoll
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
Presenter: Pragati Rao Mandikal Vasuki
Abstract:
Statistical learning ability helps individuals to extract probabilistic regularities from input signals without conscious awareness. It has been thought that musicians’ prolonged training may be associated with enhancements in the ability to extract statistical information as repeated practice and exposure, primes and sharpens musicians’ intuition for such tasks. Questions whether musicians’ auditory processing or cognitive processing abilities play a role in shaping their statistical learning performance remain to be explored. I will present behavioral and electrophysiological (EEG) data from adults and children that aim to answer some of these questions.
FREE
Open to the Public
Narayan Sankaran on decoding speech and music signals using EEG
Date:
Fri, 01/25/2019 - 10:30am - 1:55pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
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
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
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 
At this week’s CCRMA Hearing Seminar, Helene Bahu and David Romblom from Dysonics in SF will be talking about their methods to estimate HRTFs from simple physical measurements. Can we generate good enough 3d audio using just the size of the head? And what is good enough?
FREE
Open to the Public
Sideband
Date:
Thu, 11/01/2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
Sideband presents a concert of electracoustic works for laptop ensemble. This performance will feature favorite Sideband repertoire pieces alongside world premieres of new works, using voice-on-voice vocoders, non-traditional controllers, wireless networking, graphic and text scores, video, and more.
FREE
Open to the Public
Artful Design Manifestival
Date:
Thu, 11/01/2018 - 4:30pm - Fri, 11/02/2018 - 5:30pm
Location:
Denning House and CCRMA
Event Type:
Other 
See the full schedule at the Artful Design Manifestival website.
FREE
Open to the Public
Recent News
Oakum - Eoin Callery
Released from behind the mixing console CCRMA's Concert Coordinator Eoin Callery has been set free to make an old-timey CD for Bay Area Label Eh? Records. Enjoy some amplified violin bow, guitar, and lots of Supercollider controlled feedback, all available on a small shiny disc and in a new fangled digital Bandcamp form.
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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...
