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.
CCRMA WAVE (Wall for AudioVisual Expression) presents
Upcoming Events
Schallfeld
Date:
Thu, 09/28/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
Dinkelspiel Auditorium
Event Type:
Concert 
Schallfeld performs new works by Stanford graduate composers Tatiana Catanzaro, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, Mike Mulshine, Seán Ó Dálaigh, and Julie Zhu.
FREE and Open to the Public Laura Gwilliams on Decoding the Semantics of Audio in the Brain
Date:
Fri, 10/06/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
FREE
Open to the Public
Josh McDermott (MIT) on Auditory Brain Models
Date:
Thu, 10/12/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
Details to follow.
FREE
Open to the Public
Karlheinz Brandenberg - Spatial Sound - HRTFs vs. Room Reverb
Date:
Fri, 10/20/2023 - 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
Note special time.
FREE
Open to the Public
Robotic Hearing Systems for Autonomous Vehicles
Date:
Fri, 10/27/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
Details to follow.
FREE
Open to the Public
Recent Events
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
Elena Stalnaker's Senior Recital - Works by Women (c.1150-2023)
Date:
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 7:30pm - 8:45pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage (3rd floor, the Knoll)
Event Type:
Concert 
Featuring: Tamami Honma (collaborative pianist), Julia Yu (soprano), Jenny Xiong (piano, composition), Camila Wickman (piano), Emily Saletan (piano), Elizabeth Nguyen (viola), Gaby Li (cello), Aaron Hodges (drums)
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...
