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...
COVID Policies
See CCRMA's COVID policies for 2023.
Upcoming Events
Terry Longshore: balance | flow
Date:
Tue, 11/14/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE
Event Type:
Concert 
Terry Longshore's balance | flow is a solo intermedia percussion performance of music by a diverse body of composers integrating live performance with digital audio, video, and integrated lighting. The music and visuals are immersive and inspirational and draw from the artist's own works, new commissions, and established works in his repertoire.
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Brian Baumbusch: "Polytempo Music" - A new interactive VR music application
Date:
Wed, 11/15/2023 - 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Classroom / Zoom
Event Type:
Guest Colloquium 
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Zoom
Alexa Burrell
Date:
Thu, 11/16/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE
Event Type:
Concert 
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano: D&D&D
Date:
Fri, 11/17/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE
Event Type:
Concert 
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Electronic Sound Poetry
Date:
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
FREE and Open to the Public
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Recent Events
The Sound of AI Accelerator
Date:
Wed, 08/16/2023 - 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location:
Classroom
Event Type:
Guest Lecture 
"The Sound of AI Accelerator: From Idea to Music AI Startup"
Are you interested in starting a music AI company? In this talk, Valerio will introduce The Sound of AI Accelerator, the first startup accelerator focused on music, audio, and voice AI.
FREE
Open to the Public
Deep learning for symbolic music representations
Date:
Tue, 08/15/2023 - 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location:
Classroom
Event Type:
Guest Lecture 
Abstract: The talk will discuss the specific challenges of symbolic music representations for deep learning, with a particular emphasis on harmony and tonal analysis (although the methods discussed are applicable to other domains too). Valuable resources will be provided, including access to symbolic music datasets, essential software libraries, effective workflows, and practical insights for symbolic music data manipulation. The talk will also briefly discuss popular papers on the topic, as well as Néstor's research.
FREE
Open to the Public
TOTAL VARIATION IN VOCALS OVER TIME
Date:
Mon, 08/14/2023 - 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location:
Classroom
Event Type:
Guest Lecture 
FREE
Open to the Public
EGFxSet: ELECTRIC GUITAR TONES PROCESSED THROUGH REAL EFFECTS OF DISTORTION, MODULATION, DELAY AND REVERB
Date:
Fri, 08/11/2023 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location:
Classroom
Event Type:
Guest Lecture 
EGFxSet contains recordings of all clean tones in a Stratocaster guitar, with augmentations by processing through twelve electric guitar effects. Similar datasets apply effects using software, EGFxSet in contrast uses real guitar effects hardware, making it relevant to develop MIR tools with applications on real music. Annotations include all guitar and effect parameters controlled during our dataset recording. EGFxSet contains 8970 unique, annotated guitar tones, and is published with full open-access rights.
FREE
Open to the Public
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...
