Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
CCRMA Summer Workshops
Summer 2024 Workshops: CCRMA Summer Workshops Announced! There are a wide variety of offerings, some in person, some on line, and some hybrid. Have a look! More will be announced as they're organized, so check back with us frequently!
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There will be opportunities for financial assistance for some workshops - check specific pages for more details.
CCRMA Open House 2024
Upcoming Events
Iran Sanadzadeh: Frames of Reference
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Robert L. White's Cochlear Implants
Join us for a special Stanford Hearing Seminar on the invention of the cochlear implant speech processor. May 31st at 10:30AM in Stanford BMI 1021
AI-based Digital Synthesizer Preset Programming: Parameter Estimation for Sound Matching
Presenter: Soohyun Kim
Stanford Graduate Composers Present: Iran Sanadzadeh
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person
Alex Han - Master's Capstone Concert
Recent Events
Stanford Graduate Composers Present: Manuela Freua & The TANK
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person
John Chowning & Friends
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
CCRMA Open House 2024 Day 2
Come see what we've been doing up at the Knoll!
Thursday, day 1 of the open house, will features lectures, hands-on demonstrations, posters, installations, and musical performances of recent CCRMA research.
Friday, Day 2 of the Open House, is based around perspectives of CCRMA's 50 year history
FULL PROGRAM
DIRECTIONS & ACCESSIBILITY
Caroline Davis: Liberative Joy
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Past Live Streamed Events
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...