Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
CCRMA Summer Workshops
Summer 2024 Workshops: CCRMA Summer Workshops Announced! There are a wide variety of offerings, some in person, some on line, and some hybrid. Have a look! More will be announced as they're organized, so check back with us frequently!
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There will be opportunities for financial assistance for some workshops - check specific pages for more details.
CCRMA Open House 2024
Upcoming Events
Robert L. White's Cochlear Implants - Repeat Seminar
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This is a repeat of the May 31 seminar, for those wishing to join from another time zone. It will be online only and recorded.
Total variation in popular rap vocals from 2009-2023
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Investigating Bell Patterns in Candomblé from Historical Field Recordings
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Leveraging Electric Guitar Tones and Effects to Improve Robustness in Guitar Tablature Transcription Modeling
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Dataset distillation for Audio-visual tasks
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Recent Events
Alex Han - Master's Capstone Concert
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Stanford Graduate Composers Present: Iran Sanadzadeh
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FREE and Open to the Public | In Person
Intermedia Workshop Final Projects
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Doors open at 6:00pm.
AI-based Digital Synthesizer Preset Programming: Parameter Estimation for Sound Matching
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Presenter: Soohyun Kim
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Past Live Streamed Events
Recent News
Miriam Kolar and "Haunting Sounds at an Ancient Peruvian Site"
Haunting Sounds at an Ancient Peruvian Site
February 16th, 2012, Dan Ferber, Science Now
... Chavín de Huantar is particularly well suited to the study of ancient uses of sound, says Miriam Kolar, an archeoacoustics researcher at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. That’s because the interior architecture contains elaborate, multilevel mazes with long corridors and staircases that affect acoustics today and are well enough preserved to detect what the original residents must have heard...Chris Chafe and "The Sounds of Science" - Stanford Magazine
The Sounds of Science
January/February 2012, Roberta Kwok, Stanford Magazine
Composer Chris Chafe gives new meaning to synthesizing data.
At first, the music playing on Chris Chafe's laptop sounds like wind blowing through an old window frame. Then it becomes more frantic, reaching higher and higher pitches, with syncopated pops punctuating the wailing. The anxious chattering sounds almost human, like a sped-up movie reel. Suddenly, it slips into a deadened hum...Max Mathews - Friend, Colleague and Inspiration - Passed Away on April 21st.
On April 21st, our friend and colleague Max Mathews passed away. He had been recently hospitalized in San Francisco for pneumonia. Max's presence is so fresh for all at CCRMA and beyond. He was regularly spending much of each week engaged with music, new projects and students here and elsewhere.
Max Mathews: The First Computer Musician - New York Times Opinionator
Article about "A Very Fractal Cat" published in eContact
"A Very Fractal Cat
Of Cats, performers, composers and programmers"
by Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
"This article describes the evolution of a series of pieces for a classically trained pianist, a weighted keys piano controller, several pedals and a computer running a custom SuperCollider program and open source software. It describes the evolution (and the motivation for the evolution) of different versions of the piece through time, rather than focusing on the technical underpinnings of the environment used."