Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
COVID Policies
See CCRMA's COVID policies for 2023.
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CCRMA WAVE (Wall for AudioVisual Expression) presents
Upcoming Events
Disklavier Workshop Concert | Final Presentation

Don Slepian: Orchestral Synthesis

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person & Livestream
Prateek Verma - Fourier Transforms and Filter-Banks in the Era of Transformers and GPT

Details to follow.
Antje Ihlefeld - Brain-related hearing loss

Antje Ihlefeld, now at Meta, will be talking about research she has done to better understand the impact of the cortex on hearing and hearing loss.
Details to follow.
Aaron Master (Dolby) - DeepSpace: Dynamic Spatial and Source Cue Based Source Separation for Dialog Enhancement
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
Amma Ateria: CONCUSSSSION

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Quarantine Sessions #114 | Guests: Fred Malouf and Chryssie Nanou

Annette Vande Gorne: Haïkus

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Ludovic Bellier - Decoding a Pink Floyd song from the human brain

There has been a lot of work to decode speech signals from brain signal using intracranial EEG (ECoG), MEG and EEG. But what about music? Does the brain respond the same way? Arguably speech is easier, since it is both one-dimensional and for many studies there is a single source. In addition speech is likely to engage the motor system, providing another set of neurons from which to decode the basic speech signal. Music is more challenging: multiple acoustic objects, driving the emotional centers of the brain. What does it mean to decode music? Which parts of the brain respond with a signal we can decode in real time?
Who: Ludovic Bellier
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...