Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Upcoming Events
CCRMA Transitions 2024
Date:
Wed, 10/16/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Date:
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Event Type:
Concert 
CCRMA celebrates the start of the 2024 season with its annual Transitions concerts. Feast your ears on immersive 3D sounds played on our 56.8 speaker dome in the Stage. CCRMA students, faculty, staff, and alumni joined by special guest performers will present live performances, fixed media electronic music, and audiovisual works. Each evening’s program will feature different artists
Due to limited seating, in-person access to these events is based on registration. Reserve your seat here. Please arrive no later than 10 minutes before the show, otherwise your seat may be given away.
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Measuring Acoustic Transfer Functions - Swapan Gandhi and Juan Sierra (Meyer Sound)
Date:
Fri, 10/18/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
We often want to characterize an audio system but we might not have access to the underlying input signal, This occurs in common devices that have their own clocks and unknown latency. Our friends at Meyer Sound have this problem and are proposing a solution based on a "virtual referece." Grounded in their experience measuring and tuning room acoustics, they will share with us details of their method and a live demonstration of its use to characterize some popular consumer audio devices.
Who: Swapan Gandhi and Juan Sierra (Meyer Sound)
What: Transfer Function Measurements When the Reference Signal is Known but not Accessible
When: Friday October 18 at 10:30AM
Who: Swapan Gandhi and Juan Sierra (Meyer Sound)
What: Transfer Function Measurements When the Reference Signal is Known but not Accessible
When: Friday October 18 at 10:30AM
FREE
Open to the Public
Faust Day 2024
Date:
Sun, 10/27/2024 - 10:00am - 5:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Classroom
Event Type:
Other 
FREE
Open to the Public
Distractfold
Date:
Sun, 10/27/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
Program:
'Reliq Ens' (2014) - Lee Fraser
'A Thing Made Whole (Coda)' (2023) - Andrew Greenwald
'Castle Terraces in Barry Lyndon (2023) - Zeynep Toraman
FREE
Open to the Public
Distractfold x Graduate Composers
Date:
Fri, 11/01/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
Works by: Celeste Betancur, Seán Ó Dálaigh, Mohammad H. Javaheri, Lemon Guo, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, Calvin Van Zytveld, Mercedes Montemayor Elosua
FREE
Open to the Public
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Recent Events
Dynamical mechanisms of how an RNN keeps a beat, uncovered with a low-dimensional reduced model
Date:
Wed, 07/31/2024 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Classroom
Event Type:
Guest Lecture 
FREE
Open to the Public
Text-to-Audio GenAI: Opportunities and Challenges in Music Production and Audio Content Generation
Date:
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Event Type:
Guest Lecture 
FREE
Open to the Public
Dataset distillation for Audio-visual tasks
Date:
Mon, 07/29/2024 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Classroom
Event Type:
Guest Lecture 
FREE
Open to the Public
Leveraging Electric Guitar Tones and Effects to Improve Robustness in Guitar Tablature Transcription Modeling
Date:
Fri, 07/26/2024 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Classroom
Event Type:
Guest Lecture 
FREE
Open to the Public
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.
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Jonathan Berger Première
Congratulations to our very own Jonathan Berger for a terrific write-up of the première of a new piece!
"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.
"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
Way to go, Dr. Selfridge-Field! Very interesting article about her work with master musicians suffering from 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...
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...
