Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
CCRMA Seeks Facilities Specialist
Happy late summer to all! The staff at CCRMA are *elated* to announce that we are searching for a new person to join our team. Please feel free to ask questions of any of us about the position.
Detailed job posting and application can be found here: https://careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/facilities-specialist-1-on-site-2...
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Upcoming Events
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Recent Events
L'Itinéraire: Spectral Streams

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Robotic Hearing Systems for Autonomous Vehicles

Dr. Xuan Zhong is trained in hearing science and has been working for self-driving car companies for several years.
Who: Dr. Xuan Zhong
What: Building Ears for Robots: Machine Hearing in the Age of Autonomy
When: Friday October 27 at 10:30AM
Where: CCRMA Seminar Room
Why: We will have self-driving cars someday, and we want them to hear us
Matthew Goodheart: New Works for Transducer-Actuated Instruments

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Workshop: SyFaLa (Faust -> FPGA)

This workshop will be given by members of the Emeraude Team (Inria, France)
Recent News
LISTEN: 1,200 Years of Earth’s Climate, Transformed into Sound

Science podcast featuring work by our fearless leader, Chris Chafe:
"When you sonify data, you experience time in a way you can’t when you look at a chart." Hal Gordon, Graduate student
Oakum - Eoin Callery
Released from behind the mixing console CCRMA's Concert Coordinator Eoin Callery has been set free to make an old-timey CD for Bay Area Label Eh? Records. Enjoy some amplified violin bow, guitar, and lots of Supercollider controlled feedback, all available on a small shiny disc and in a new fangled digital Bandcamp form.

Jonathan Berger Première
"Classical musicians face enormous expectations when they play a standard repertory work. Listeners have strong feelings about favorite pieces, even when they are open to fresh interpretive approaches.
The stakes are even higher with a premiere. Performing a new piece becomes an act of advocacy to pull an audience in.
Mystery of 101-year-old master pianist who has dementia
From the article: At first glance, she was elderly and delicate – a woman in her 90s with a declining memory. But then she sat down at the piano to play. “Everybody in the room was totally startled,” says Eleanor Selfridge-Field, who researches music and symbols at Stanford University. “She looked so frail. Once she sat down at the piano, she just wasn’t frail at all. She was full of verve.” Read more here...