Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Welcome To, Welcome Back!
Welcome! Things are gearing up for our 2016-17 Academic Year, and we are looking forward to seeing returning students and meeting new ones in the coming weeks.
Take a look at our Upcoming Events list - there are already tons of exciting things planned for this year, and more will be added as we go forward.
Upcoming Events
Caballito Negro
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Recent Events
Guest Lecture: Nori Jacoby "Perceptual Priors in Music and Speech Revealed by Iterated Learning"
Bio:
Nori Jacoby studies the role of culture in auditory perception. His current work uses iterated learning alongside classical psychophysical methods to characterize perceptual biases in music and speech rhythms in various populations ranging from Westerners to the Tsimané, an Amazonian foraging-farming society in Bolivia. He is also working on computational modeling of synchronization and entrainment in jembe drum ensembles in Mali. Nori completed a Ph.D.
The Happy Valley Band - Machine Learning Like You've Never Heard Before!
Their debut album ORGANVM PERCEPTVM, five years in the making, will be out on Santa Cruz label Indexical in 2016. For more info, visit indexical.org.
Video: vimeo.com/159568524
Waveforms: An Interdiscplinary Arts Showcase
Bryan Day - Robotic Instruments
Bryan is an improviser, instrument inventor, illustrator and installation artist based in Richmond, CA. His work involves combining elements of the natural and man-made world using field recordings, custom audio generation software and homemade instruments. Day’s work explores the parallels between the patterns and systems in nature to those in contemporary society.
Day has toured throughout the US, Europe, Japan, Korea, Argentina and Mexico, performing both solo as Sistrum and Eloine and in the Shelf Life and Seeded Plain ensembles.
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Recent News
How a University Launched the Electronic Music Revolution
Article about CCRMA and Andrew Nelson's book featured recently on MetroNews:
Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution
The Father of the Digital Synthesizer
Interesting article about our own John Chowining on pricenomics.com. Enjoy!
Holly Herndon - Wire Cover
'Congratulations to Holly on her cover of this month's Wire! "Holly Herndon - the US sound artist and laptop auteur spreads the faith of the liberating potential of technology."
If you're a subscriber, read more here: http://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/374
CCRMA is Hiring: Temporary Position Available
Job Title: Audio Visual Engineer
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