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
Exploring Contextual Timbre Representation
Investigating Bell Patterns in Candomblé from Historical Field Recordings
Leveraging Electric Guitar Tones and Effects to Improve Robustness in Guitar Tablature Transcription Modeling
Dataset distillation for Audio-visual tasks
Text-to-Audio GenAI: Opportunities and Challenges in Music Production and Audio Content Generation
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Recent Events
[cancelled; rescheduled] SoundSignature: What Type of Music Do You Like?
Total variation in popular rap vocals from 2009-2023
Flo Menezes Concert
Flo Menezes' concert brings to the public the North American premiere of four of his acousmatic works, covering a period from 2008 to the present. His music is characterised by spectral, structural and spatial research, resulting in an immersive poetics that the composer defines as maximalist. In a broad panorama that ranges from the posthumous homage to Stockhausen shortly after his death – for whom Flo Menezes was Teaching Assistant on the Kürten Courses and about whom the composer is publishing a trilogy of almost 1000 pages of analyses by the publisher Routledge – to the recent composition made at the EMS in Stockholm, which mixes analogue sounds made on a historic Buchla with granular synthesis, we have a fairly faithful portrait of the diversity of his music.
Harmonicity and Inharmonicity in Instruments of the Percussion/Resonance Family in Interaction with Electronics
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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."