Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Upcoming Events
Homage to Ligeti | CCRMA 50th Anniversary
Date:
Sun, 11/03/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Event Type:
Concert 
A major concert will kick off the final series of events celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. Join us in Dinkelspiel Auditorium on November 3 at 7:30pm for a program of music by György Ligeti, whose five-month residency at Stanford in 1972 and friendship with John Chowning helped lead to the founding of CCRMA. This all-Ligeti program comprises Atmosphères (featured in the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey) performed by the Stanford Symphony Orchestra; Musica ricercata performed by pianist Roger Xia '24; the electronic composition Artikulation; and the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra featuring violinist Tanja Becker-Bender with the Stanford New Ensemble conducted by Paul Phillips.
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
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Recent Events
Lobe Concert: Goodbye Sam & Nolan!
Date:
Sat, 08/31/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE
Event Type:
Concert 
Join Lobe for some groovy modern jazz originals (including the Beatles and Studio Ghibli... kind of?) as they say goodbye to Sam and Nolan!
Lobe is Ethan Buck, Sam Silverstein, Nolan Miranda, Daiki Nakajima, Michael Hayes, and Mark Rau in spirit
Tech: Sami Wurm
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Lobe is Ethan Buck, Sam Silverstein, Nolan Miranda, Daiki Nakajima, Michael Hayes, and Mark Rau in spirit
Tech: Sami Wurm
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Demo of Personalized 3d Sound System
Date:
Fri, 08/16/2024 - 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Location:
DoubleTree Hotel, 275 South Airport Blvd, South San Francisco, California
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
FREE
Open to the Public
Leslie Famularo on Differentiating and Optimizing an Auditory Model
Date:
Fri, 08/09/2024 - 12:00am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
One of the shortcomings of current AI work is the inability to tie the results back to known physics. This is useful both to help explain the results, but also to constrain the optimal solution to known physical properties of the system. Neural networks are hard. They are big, often times the result is inscruttable. What can be done?
New software paradigms such as JAX and PyTorch allow one to specify arbitrary computations in a way that can be differentiated. And if we can differentiate a function we can optimize it. Hurray. How can we express an auditory model in a differentiable fashion?
New software paradigms such as JAX and PyTorch allow one to specify arbitrary computations in a way that can be differentiated. And if we can differentiate a function we can optimize it. Hurray. How can we express an auditory model in a differentiable fashion?
FREE
Open to the Public
4D Audio-Visual Learning: A Visual Perspective of Sound Propagation and Production
Date:
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Classroom
Event Type:
Guest Lecture 
FREE
Open to the Public
Past Live Streamed Events
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
