Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics

CCRMA Summer Workshops 2014

CCRMA Summer Workshops have been scheduled for 2014. Full schedule, links to detailed sites, and registration information can be found by clicking here. Come join us at CCRMA this summer!

Upcoming Events

CCRMA Winter Concert

Date: 
Fri, 03/14/2014 - 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Location: 
Bing Studio
Event Type: 
Concert
Please join CCRMA faculty, students and staff for the 2014 CCRMA Winter Concert.

Featuring an immersive 24.6 speaker system and an ecelctic mix of live interactive musical systems, richly-textured sound fields and mixed-media works, the concert will take place in the Bing Studio space.

Admission is FREE but tickets are required and can be picked up before the concert in the Bing lobby.

* Please note the 7:30 start time.
FREE
Open to the Public

CCRMA TeleConcert

Date: 
Sat, 03/15/2014 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location: 
Bing Studio
Event Type: 
Concert
CCRMA presents an evening of Distributed Ensembles and New Music from around the world in real time

Live performances from Switzerland, France, Virginia, Newfoundland, Colombia/Brazil and Kansas City connect across the internet as performers around the globe Jack-in to Stanford's Bing Studio and play in real-time with their Stanford counterparts.  The evening will be presented using CCRMA's immersive 24.6 speaker system, surrounding the audience in a spectacularly clear sound field.

FREE
Open to the Public
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Recent Events

Tim Westergren: Pandora 101

Date: 
Thu, 02/06/2014 - 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Location: 
CCRMA Stage
Event Type: 
Guest Lecture
We are excited to announce that Pandora’s founder, Tim Westergren, will be hosting a talk with Stanford students. Tim will talk about his personal "road to Pandora" and how it grew into the #1 music streaming service in the country. So come learn about Pandora’s history, mission for listeners and artists, and future career opportunities from the man who started it all. We would love to hear what’s on your mind, so come with your questions, ideas, and thoughts…everything is fair game!
FREE
Open to the Public

Camille Utterback

Date: 
Wed, 02/05/2014 - 5:15pm - 7:00pm
Location: 
The Knoll Classroom
Event Type: 
Colloquium
From Falling Text to Custom Glass - Adventures in Interactive Art

http://camilleutterback.com
FREE
Open to the Public

Visitations: Chamber operas by Jonathan Berger

Date: 
Thu, 01/30/2014 - 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Location: 
CCRMA Stage
Event Type: 
Other
Join us for a video screening of Jonathan Berger's chamber operas: Visitations. 

Jonathan Berger's operas deal with hallucination and haunting. The work, for 5 voices, chamber orchestra and ambisonic sound received its New York premiere at the Prototype Festival last week.  http://visitations.stanford.edu

FREE
Open to the Public

Reza Ali: Computational Design - Creative Engineering

Date: 
Wed, 01/29/2014 - 5:15pm - 7:00pm
Location: 
CCRMA Stage
Event Type: 
Colloquium

Please join us for this Wednesday's Colloq with Reza Ali (http://www.syedrezaali.com): Modulation's 2014 Guest Visual Artist.

FREE
Open to the Public
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Recent News

Press Buzz for Jonathan Berger

What a great collection of articles about Jonathan Berger and his opera première and the Music and the Brain Symposium! Enjoy.

I Care if You Listen April 11, 2013
I Care if You Listen April 25, 2013
I Care if You Listen April 27, 2013
KDFC State of the Arts (SOTA) April 8, 2013

Bleeding-Edge Musical Innovation, Live from CCRMA; Full Report, Monolake + Tarik Barri Live

Create Digital Music featured recent events and people at CCRMA centered on the Modulations event series.  Thanks to CCRMA community member and CDM writer Gina Collecchia for the great writeup.

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2013/05/bleeding-edge-musical-innovation-l...

Prix Ars Electronica 2013 Awards: Carlson/Henke

Contratulations to CCRMA community members Chris Carlson and Robert Henke for their Prix Ars Electronica Awards in Digital Musics and Sound Art.

Music Gaming and Neuroplasticity at CCRMA

Students in Music 257, taught by Stanford consultin professor and Dolby Labs Senior Staff Scientist Poppy Crum, studied musical games with an eye toward increasing neuroplasticity. Take a look at this video.

This is Your Brain on Opera

New York Times article: Jonathan Berger's "Visitations" Premiére at Stanford.
PALO ALTO, Calif. — I attended two performances of Jonathan Berger’s “Visitations” at the Bing Concert Hall at Stanford last week here. On Friday evening I sat in the primary motor cortex. The following night, my seat was located off to the side, in Broca’s area.
“Visitations,” a double bill of one-act operas about auditory hallucinations, mixes digital sounds with live voices and a chamber ensemble.
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