Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Upcoming Events
CCRMA Transitions 2024
Due to limited seating, in-person access to these events is based on registration. Reserve your seat here. Please arrive no later than 10 minutes before the show, otherwise your seat may be given away.
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Measuring Acoustic Transfer Functions - Swapan Gandhi and Juan Sierra (Meyer Sound)
Who: Swapan Gandhi and Juan Sierra (Meyer Sound)
What: Transfer Function Measurements When the Reference Signal is Known but not Accessible
When: Friday October 18 at 10:30AM
Faust Day 2024
Distractfold
Program:
'Reliq Ens' (2014) - Lee Fraser
'A Thing Made Whole (Coda)' (2023) - Andrew Greenwald
'Castle Terraces in Barry Lyndon (2023) - Zeynep Toraman
Distractfold x Graduate Composers
Works by: Celeste Betancur, Seán Ó Dálaigh, Mohammad H. Javaheri, Lemon Guo, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, Calvin Van Zytveld, Mercedes Montemayor Elosua
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Recent Events
Prof. Dan Bowling - Music for Mental Health
I'm happy to welcome a new faculty member, Dr. Dan Bowling, to Stanford and the Hearing Seminar. He'll be talking about his research on music and health at the next Hearing Seminar. Please join us.
Who: Dr. Dan Bowling, Stanford Psychiatry's Division of Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences
What: Music and Health: Biological Foundations and Applications
When: Friday October 11th at 10:30AM
Where: CCRMA Seminar Room, Top Floor of the Knoll at Stanford
Jin Woo Lee on "Differentiable Physical Modeling for Sound Synthesis: From Design to Inverse Problems"
Abstract:
Audiovisual Performance | Final Projects | Arts Intensive 2024
In the span of 2.5 weeks, students in this audiovisual performance class worked intensely on several projects. They explored relationships between sound and moving image, programming and physical interaction with audio and video material, remixing audiovisual compositions, and performing with their digital doppelgängers. We are very excited to present their final projects in this live audiovisual concert.
Purnima Kamath on Generative Models for Sound Design
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Past Live Streamed Events
Recent News
CCRMA's alum, Taube noted in Linux Journal article
Algorithmic Music Composition With Linux, Part 1
Jun 01, 2010 By Dave Phillips
....Incidentally, Dr. Taube began the Common Music project in 1989 at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, better known as CCRMA (pronounced just like karma). In 1996 Common Music won 1st prize at the Concours International de Logiciels Musicaux in Brussels, and the system continues its evolution today at the University of Illinois at Champagne/Urbana.
Linux Distribution PlanetCCRMA is "Armed to the Teeth"
"Philosophy and Fancy"
By DAN SAWYER in Linux Journal June 2010
Systems designed for power users tend to be both slick and decadent, armed to the teeth with the kind of tools that would make most end users crawl into a straitjacket and whine for their mommies. The studio distributions, such as PlanetCCRMA and 64 Studio, tend to be this variety....
Ge Wang featured in New York Times story on Apple tablet
"A Playland for Apps in a Tablet World"
By JENNA WORTHAM Published: January 24, 2010
Apple’s move to open up the iPhone to outside programmers in 2008 started a software-writing frenzy. Giant companies and bedroom tinkerers alike rushed to get their applications into the App Store and onto the phone’s 3.5-inch touch screen. Read more.
Jonathan Berger Referenced in New York Times
"Good Enough is the New Great"
by Robert Mackey
....In February, a music professor at Stanford, Jonathan Berger, revealed that he has found evidence that younger listeners have come to prefer lo-fi versions of rock songs to hi-fi ones.... Read More.
CCRMA's Origins featured in New York Times
"Optimism as Artificial Intelligence Pioneers Reunite"
By John Markoff Published: December 7, 2009
STANFORD, Calif. — The personal computer and the technologies that led to the Internet were largely invented in the 1960s and ’70s at three computer research laboratories next to the Stanford University campus. Read more here