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CCRMA WAVE (Wall for AudioVisual Expression) presents
Upcoming Events
Les Atlas (UW) - Better clipping for audio spectrogram DNNs

Prof. Les Atlas, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington
Rajna Swaminathan, Ganavya Doraiswamy, Myra Melford

FREE and Open to the Public
Antje Ihlefeld - Audio Augmented Reality

Jay Afrisando

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
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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
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano: The Love Songs of Dreaming Dinosaurs

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Meta-AF: Meta-Learning for Adaptive Filters

Gopal Anumanchipalli (UCB) - Neural computations in Humans for Speech

Only Now

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
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...