Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
CCRMA Open House 2019
We are in the midst of planning our Open House, which will be held on Friday March 1, 2019. Join us as we present lectures, hands-on demonstrations, posters, and musical performances of recent CCRMA research. Come explore the historic Knoll and see what we've been cooking up!
The Open House will run from 10am-1pm, and 2-5pm. The detailed schedule and list of events are being frequently updated, so keep your eyes on https://ccrma.stanford.edu/ccrma-open-house for the latest info on what will be on offer. Hope to see you there!
Upcoming Events
Linux Audio Conference 2019 Concerts
Date:
Sat, 03/23/2019 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Date:
Sat, 03/23/2019 - 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Date:
Sun, 03/24/2019 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Date:
Sun, 03/24/2019 - 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Date:
Mon, 03/25/2019 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage / CCRMA Courtyard
Event Type:
Concert 
After seven years outside of the United States, Linux Audio Conference (LAC) is coming back to Stanford University on March 23-26, 2019 for its 17th edition! LAC is the international conference about Free/Open-Source Software for music, sound, and other media with GNU/Linux as the main platform.
Electroacoustic music and multimedia performances by participants at the conference will be presented in five concerts:
CCRMA Stage
Saturday, March 23, 6pm and 8pm
Sunday, March 24, 6pm and 8pm
CCRMA Courtyard
Monday, March 25, 8pm
CCRMA Stage
Saturday, March 23, 6pm and 8pm
Sunday, March 24, 6pm and 8pm
CCRMA Courtyard
Monday, March 25, 8pm
FREE
Open to the Public
Amnon Wolman: Barrier, Stop for inspection
Date:
Wed, 03/27/2019 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
Barrier, Stop for inspection was commissioned for the 2018 Warsaw Autumn Festival, and employs sounds, texts and images. The text, about the activity of remembering, was written in June 2018, and was translated to Polish by Halina Cieplińska. It appears both in English and in Polish orally and visually in fixed times during the piece. Most other materials, musical and visual, are performed and controlled during the live performance.
A memory that I create right now.
FREE
Open to the Public
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CCRMA's Online Classes
CCRMA currently offers several online courses:
Chris Chafe "ONLINE JAMMING AND CONCERT TECHNOLOGY"
Perry Cook and Julius Smith "PHYSICS-BASED SOUND SYNTHESIS FOR GAMES AND INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS"
Jay LeBoeuf "CAREERS IN MEDIA TECHNOLOGY"
Xavier Serra and Julius Smith "AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR MUSIC APPLICATIONS"
Matt Wright (with David Zicarelli) "PROGRAMMING MAX: STRUCTURING INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE FOR DIGITAL ARTS"
Chris Chafe "ONLINE JAMMING AND CONCERT TECHNOLOGY"
Perry Cook and Julius Smith "PHYSICS-BASED SOUND SYNTHESIS FOR GAMES AND INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS"
Jay LeBoeuf "CAREERS IN MEDIA TECHNOLOGY"
Xavier Serra and Julius Smith "AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR MUSIC APPLICATIONS"
Matt Wright (with David Zicarelli) "PROGRAMMING MAX: STRUCTURING INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE FOR DIGITAL ARTS"
Recent Events
Odeya Nini: A Solo Voice
Date:
Thu, 01/24/2019 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
Evolving over the last seven years, A Solo Voice, composed and performed by Odeya Nini, is an investigation of resonance, extended vocal techniques, performance, and pure expression, exploring the relationship between mind and body and the various landscapes it can yield. The work is a series of malleable compositions and improvisations that include field recordings and theatrical elements, aiming to dissociate the voice from its traditional attributes and create a new logic of song that is not only heard but seen through movement and action.
FREE
Open to the Public
Gadi Sassoon: Multiverse
Date:
Wed, 01/23/2019 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
Gadi Sassoon performs Multiverse in a multichannel setup at CCRMA.
FREE
Open to the Public
Laetitia Sonami: Ideas & Machines
Date:
Tue, 01/22/2019 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Guest Lecture 
Laetitia Sonami, composer, sound installation artist and technologist, discusses her forty yearlong musical trajectories and encounters and questions her abilities to think out of the machine.
Sonami studied with Eliane Radigue, Robert Ashley, David Behrman and Joel Chadabe - She moved from France to the United States in the late seventies to pursue her interest in electronic music, away from the more conservative French institutions of the time.
FREE
Open to the Public
Faust Fest: a One Day Faust Workshop
Date:
Sat, 01/19/2019 - 9:30am - 5:30pm
Location:
CCRMA Classroom
Event Type:
Other 
FREE
Open to the Public
Recent News
Jonathan Berger's "My Lai" In the News
All kinds of new buzz in being generated by our own Jonathan Berger's latest opera My Lai. Congratulations, Jonathan and the Kronos Quartet!
"In My Lai, a monodrama for tenor, string quartet, and Vietnamese instruments, composer Jonathan Berger had countless tragic elements at his disposal... In this immersive performance, we had the sense that, rather than defaulting to the story's obvious tragic details, Berger illuminate a single, more subtle element - the outraged bewilderment we often feel in the face of unimaginable horror."
"In My Lai, a monodrama for tenor, string quartet, and Vietnamese instruments, composer Jonathan Berger had countless tragic elements at his disposal... In this immersive performance, we had the sense that, rather than defaulting to the story's obvious tragic details, Berger illuminate a single, more subtle element - the outraged bewilderment we often feel in the face of unimaginable horror."
Issue 21 of the Csound Journal Released
Issue 21 (Fall 2015) of the Csound Journal has been released! The journal can be read online here:
http://csoundjournal.com/issue21/index.html
This issue of the Csound Journal features an article written by MST student Paul Batchelor, which can be found here:
http://csoundjournal.com/issue21/chuck_sound.html
http://csoundjournal.com/issue21/index.html
This issue of the Csound Journal features an article written by MST student Paul Batchelor, which can be found here:
http://csoundjournal.com/issue21/chuck_sound.html
John Chowning Interview on RWM
#212 John Chowning 25.08.2015 (35' 26'')
Sonifying the world: How life's data becomes music
When Chris Chafe translates data into music, listeners sway to the beat of seizing brains, economic swings and smog.
"Unlike sex or hunger, music doesn’t seem absolutely necessary to everyday survival – yet our musical self was forged deep in human history, in the crucible of evolution by the adaptive pressure of the natural world. That’s an insight that has inspired Chris Chafe, Director of Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (or CCRMA, stylishly pronounced karma).
"Unlike sex or hunger, music doesn’t seem absolutely necessary to everyday survival – yet our musical self was forged deep in human history, in the crucible of evolution by the adaptive pressure of the natural world. That’s an insight that has inspired Chris Chafe, Director of Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (or CCRMA, stylishly pronounced karma).
Twist the Gears of a Massive VR Music Engine with Carillon
Really nice article about a new VR instrument created by Rob Hamilton and Chris Platz. Enjoy!
