Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Upcoming Events
Chris Brown & Thea Farhadian | Solos and Duo Performance
Date:
Wed, 01/15/2025 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE
Event Type:
Concert 
CCRMA presents a live performance by Chris Brown and Thea Farhadian.
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Jill Kries - How the brain encodes speech and language with aging and aphasia
Date:
Fri, 01/17/2025 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
FREE
Open to the Public
Recent Events
Electronic Sound Poetry
Date:
Tue, 12/03/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
FREE and Open to the Public
Foreign/Domestic
Date:
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE
Event Type:
Concert 
CCRMA presents a live performance by Foreign/Domestic.
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Koubeh
Date:
Sat, 11/16/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
Koubeh is a New York-based band that mixes Iranian melodies with a fusion of global beats and original riffs.
FREE
Open to the Public
Tristan Peng's Piano Recital
Date:
Fri, 11/15/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
Recital Program
- Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 28
- Bach Toccata in E Minor, BWV 914
- Chopin Nocturnes Op. 48
- Ravel Miroirs
FREE
Open to the Public
Past Live Streamed Events
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...
