Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Upcoming Events
Nat Condit-Schultz on Tempo, Tactus, Rhythm, Flow: Computational Hip Hop Musicology in Theory and Practice
Date:
Fri, 11/15/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
Computational musicology is not just for classical music. In this talk, I will review a variety of computational investigations of hip hop based on my dataset, the Musical Corpus of Flow (MCFlow). Using MCFlow, we can characterize the "norms" of rap flow and investigate how they have changed historically, including changes in tempo and the density of rhyme over time. I will also discuss the methodological challenges of computational musicology in general, and hip-hop/pop musicology specifically, and demonstrate tools and methods I have developed.
FREE
Open to the Public
Concepts and Control: Understanding Creativity in Deep Music Generation
Date:
Fri, 11/15/2024 - 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location:
CCRMA Classroom [Knoll 217] (ZOOM Link Below)
Event Type:
DSP Seminar 
Abstract: Recently, generative AI has achieved impressive results in music generation. Yet, the challenge remains: how can these models be meaningfully applied in real-world music creation, for both professional and amateur musicians? We argue that what’s missing is an interpretable generative architecture—one that captures music concepts and their relations, which can be so finely nuanced that they defy straightforward description. In this talk, I will explore various approaches to creating such an architecture, demonstrating how it enhances control and interaction in music generation.
FREE
Open to the Public
Juhan Nam, "My Journey Toward Musically Intelligent Machines"
Date:
Fri, 11/15/2024 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Classroom [Knoll 217] (ZOOM Link Below)
Event Type:
Guest Lecture 
Creating intelligent machines that can listen to, play, and even making music has been a longstanding human ambition. Recent advancements in AI, especially through deep learning, have brought us closer to realizing this vision. In this talk, I will share my personal journey in developing musically intelligent machines, beginning with my PhD research on music representation learning during the early days of deep learning, and continuing with my collaborative work with students over the past decade at KAIST. Key topics will include bridging music audio with language, human-AI music ensemble performances, and neural audio processing.
Bio
Open to the Public
Tristan Peng's Piano Recital
Date:
Fri, 11/15/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
Recital Program
- Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 28
- Bach Toccata in E Minor, BWV 914
- Chopin Nocturnes Op. 48
- Ravel Miroirs
FREE
Open to the Public
Foreign/Domestic
Date:
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE
Event Type:
Concert 
CCRMA presents a live performance by Foreign/Domestic.
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Recent Events
The New Sound of New Music: Contemporary Composition and Modern Record Production Practices, two part lecture series with Murat Çolak
Date:
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Date:
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
CCRMA classroom
Event Type:
Guest Lecture 
Murat Colak is a Turkish-American composer, mastering engineer, mixer, record producer, and educator based in New York City. He’s known for his work in contemporary classical and experimental music, with records on acclaimed labels like KAIROS, Edition Wandelweiser, NEOS, New Focus, Jazzland, Innova, Carrier, and Da Vinci Classics among others.
During his residency at Stanford University's CCRMA, Dr. Colak will present two public lectures. The first will introduce his creative journey, offering insights into his compositional approach and how it intersects with his approach to sound engineering, especially in crafting acoustics for contemporary concert music..
Free
Open to the Public
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
Distractfold x Graduate Composers
Date:
Fri, 11/01/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
Works by: Celeste Betancur, Seán Ó Dálaigh, Mohammad H. Javaheri, Lemon Guo, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, Calvin Van Zytveld, Mercedes Montemayor Elosua
FREE
Open to the Public
Gerald Schuller: Perceptual and higher-level loss and distance functions for machine learning in audio and acoustics
Date:
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Classroom / Zoom
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
Prof. Gerald Schuller will report on the potential transformative role of perceptual loss functions and distance metrics in enhancing audio and acoustic machine learning models, and their applications. He will cover theoretical foundations of perceptual loss functions, which mimic human auditory perception, and also more abstract, higher-level representations, and explore how these functions, along with novel distance metrics, significantly improve the performance of audio processing tasks. Applications involving loss functions for room impulse responses, audio similarity, and audio representations for cochlear implants will be discussed.
Prof. Marina Bosi will be hosting his visit.
Join us in Zoom if you cannot make it in person!
FREE
Open to the Public
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Recent News
Trimpin and Gurs Zyklus - San Francisco Classical Voice
Trimpin and The Gurs Zyklus
May 3, 2011, Georgia Rowe, San Francisco Classical Voice
With some new works, inspiration comes in a flash. Others develop over a lifetime. As Trimpin prepares to unveil his latest music-theater work at Stanford Lively Arts this month, he says it has been a work in progress for the better part of 50 years.
Read More
Trimpin and Gurs Zyklus in the Palo Alto Weekly
Instruments of memory
Max Mathews Featured in Stanford Report
Max Mathews, 'father of computer music,' dies at 84
May 2, 2011, Cynthia Haven, Stanford Report
In 1957, Max Mathews invented a program that allowed a mainframe computer to play a 17-second musical composition. The technical breakthrough is still reverberating. Read More
Max Mathews Featured in New York Times
Max Mathews, Pioneer in Making Computer Music, Dies at 84
April 23, 2011, William Grimes, New York Times
Max Mathews, often called the father of computer music, died on Thursday in San Francisco. He was 84.Read More
Max Mathews Has Passed Away
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. Plans are being set for a remembrance at CCRMA on May 29th.
Our sympathies and fond regards go out to Max's family.
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. Plans are being set for a remembrance at CCRMA on May 29th.
Our sympathies and fond regards go out to Max's family.
