Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
CCRMA Summer Workshops
Summer 2023 Workshops: we are excited to offer workshops at CCRMA this year! 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!
[Check out the schedule] [Register for workshops]
There will be opportunities for financial assistance for some workshops - check specific pages for more details.
COVID Policies
See CCRMA's COVID policies for 2023.
CCRMA WAVE (Wall for AudioVisual Expression) presents
Upcoming Events
Joudi Nox: Wine & Cry
Date:
Thu, 06/08/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE
Event Type:
Concert 
Join us in an evening where Joudi Nox performs a selections of her saddest original songs Opening acts: Elena Sword and Sami Wurm
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream 
CCRMA's Online Classes
CCRMA currently offers several online courses to the general public:
Chris Chafe "ONLINE JAMMING AND CONCERT TECHNOLOGY"Perry Cook and Julius Smith "PHYSICS-BASED SOUND SYNTHESIS FOR GAMES AND INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS"
Jay LeBoeuf "CAREERS IN MEDIA TECHNOLOGY"
Xavier Serra and Julius Smith "AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR MUSIC APPLICATIONS"
Matt Wright (with David Zicarelli) "PROGRAMMING MAX: STRUCTURING INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE FOR DIGITAL ARTS"
Recent Events
Faust Day @ CCRMA: What's Up With Faust in 2023?
Date:
Sat, 05/20/2023 - 9:00am - 5:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Classroom + Online
Event Type:
Other 
- giving an overview of the most recent developments in the Faust programming language (https://faust.grame.fr),
- giving an introductory tutorial for those who never used Faust.
Here's an overview of the program (PST time zone):
09:00 - 10:00: Welcome and introduction to Faust (Romain Michon, Inria/GRAME-CNCM/CCRMA)
10:00 - 11:00: Overview of recent developments in the Faust compiler: where is Faust going as a language? (Yann Orlarey, Father of Faust)
FREE
Open to the Public
Samuel J. Yang (Google) - ML meets hearing - Clarity Enhancement Challenge
Date:
Fri, 05/19/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
The Clarity Enhancement Challenge is a (successful) attempt to harness machine-learning technology to make our hearing better. The Clarity team provides data and benchmarks, and all of us get to apply our best technology to solve the problem. In past years they have offered competitions to improve hearing and to measure speech intelligibility.
Free
Open to the Public
Hassan Estakhrian: Butterflies in Disguise
Date:
Thu, 05/18/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE
Event Type:
Concert 
Hassan Estakhrian presents his album Butterflies in Disguise.
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream Iran Sanadzadeh: Ocean, Again
Date:
Fri, 05/12/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE
Event Type:
Concert 
Performing on the Terpsichora Pressure-Sensitive Floors, an electronic instrument controlled by whole-body movement, Iran Sanadzadeh performs from her upcoming debut album, Ocean, Again. This performance uses the gestural vocabulary learned on the instrument to control a large number of sonic parameters with few controls. The sonic aesthetic, minimal in starting material, weaves dichotomies resulting from unintuitive mappings on the instrument to find new sound associations. This work wonders if between the embodied feeling of movement and sonic stasis, small actions and rapid change, new experiences of musical structure might be formed.
Pre-show talk with the artist at 6pm
The Terpsichora Floors: Design and Performance from Interface to Instrument
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream Pre-show talk with the artist at 6pm
The Terpsichora Floors: Design and Performance from Interface to Instrument
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...
