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
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
New music exchange with Japan: A creative Residency and Concerts by the Ensemble Kujoyama
Date:
Thu, 10/12/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Date:
Sat, 10/14/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE
Event Type:
Concert 
CCRMA presents two concerts by the Japanese Ensemble Kujoyama, who is performing in the US for the very first time. The first concert on Thursday, October 12 at 7:30pm will feature the works of ten undergraduate students. The second one, on Saturday, October 14 at 7:30pm, will feature the works of two graduate students, one faculty members, and five Japanese composers.
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Face coverings are strongly recommended. We encourage you to continue wearing masks for the comfort of our audience members, artists, and staff. For more information please visit CCRMA's COVID-19 Policies and the COVID-19 safety protocols for Department of Music events.
Featured composers on 10/12/23:
Analiese Bancroft
Zac Dulkin
Lydia Goedert
Andrew Tin-Lok Lee
Ben Limric
Howard Qin
Renee Qin
Na Young Son
Jenny Xiong
Ryan Yu
Featured composers on 10/14/23:
Noriko Baba
Tatiana Catanzaro
Hajime Komai
Mike Mulshine
François Rose
Kenji Sakai
Toru Takemitsu
Chiharu Wakabayashi
Ensemble Kujoyama
Maki Ota, soprano
Kaori Wakabayashi, flute
Kaori Wakabayashi, flute
Nozomi Ueda clarinet
Mayuko Ishigami, violin
Shoko Fukutomi, cello
Yuri Morimoto, piano
Asuka Hatanaka, percussion
Yoshiaki Onishi, conductor
The members of the Ensemble Kujoyama were first brought together in 2010 for a residency at the Villa Kujoyama, in Kyoto. They regrouped in 2015 and founded the ensemble, which has since then received praises for its high standard and brilliant interpretations (see Samples of three reviewed programs). Devoted to the interpretation of new music, the members of the ensemble are active in Japan and abroad performing not only with the ensemble but also as soloists.
The two concerts are made possible thanks to the support from the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, the Stanford Shenson Fund, Friends of Chamber Music, American Asian Cultural Exchange, the Department of Music, and CCRMA. Also, the ensemble Kujoyama received a traveling grant from the Nomura Foundation and from the Japan Foundation.
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
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Recent Events
Joudi Nox: Wine & Cry
Date:
Thu, 06/08/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE
Event Type:
Concert 
Join us in an evening where Joudi Nox performs a selections of her saddest original songs Opening acts: Elena Sword and Sami Wurm
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream Quarantine Sessions #117 | Guests: Henrik Frisk, Fred Malouf, Chryssie Nanou
Date:
Sun, 06/04/2023 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location:
JackTrip Radio
Event Type:
Concert 
A Distributed Electroacoustic Network Improvisation | Livestream
FREE
Open to the Public
Alicia Zuckerman on emotion without audio
Date:
Fri, 06/02/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
But not everybody hears audio the same way. We at CCRMA have an amazing collection of experience about how to convey audio emotion. What can you do without the audio? What are you trying to convey and what would you like to convey to people who are hard of hearing? How might you do that?
FREE
Open to the Public
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano: Of Dinosaurs and Other Creatures
Date:
Thu, 06/01/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE
Event Type:
Concert 
CCRMA composer, performer, lecturer, and computer systems administrator Fernando Lopez-Lezcano returns with more sounds Of Dinosaurs and Other Creatures (from the Dinosaur Songbook).
Recent News
Jonathan Berger's "My Lai" In the News
All kinds of new buzz in being generated by our own Jonathan Berger's latest opera My Lai. Congratulations, Jonathan and the Kronos Quartet!
"In My Lai, a monodrama for tenor, string quartet, and Vietnamese instruments, composer Jonathan Berger had countless tragic elements at his disposal... In this immersive performance, we had the sense that, rather than defaulting to the story's obvious tragic details, Berger illuminate a single, more subtle element - the outraged bewilderment we often feel in the face of unimaginable horror."
"In My Lai, a monodrama for tenor, string quartet, and Vietnamese instruments, composer Jonathan Berger had countless tragic elements at his disposal... In this immersive performance, we had the sense that, rather than defaulting to the story's obvious tragic details, Berger illuminate a single, more subtle element - the outraged bewilderment we often feel in the face of unimaginable horror."
Issue 21 of the Csound Journal Released
Issue 21 (Fall 2015) of the Csound Journal has been released! The journal can be read online here:
http://csoundjournal.com/issue21/index.html
This issue of the Csound Journal features an article written by MST student Paul Batchelor, which can be found here:
http://csoundjournal.com/issue21/chuck_sound.html
http://csoundjournal.com/issue21/index.html
This issue of the Csound Journal features an article written by MST student Paul Batchelor, which can be found here:
http://csoundjournal.com/issue21/chuck_sound.html
John Chowning Interview on RWM
#212 John Chowning 25.08.2015 (35' 26'')
Sonifying the world: How life's data becomes music
When Chris Chafe translates data into music, listeners sway to the beat of seizing brains, economic swings and smog.
"Unlike sex or hunger, music doesn’t seem absolutely necessary to everyday survival – yet our musical self was forged deep in human history, in the crucible of evolution by the adaptive pressure of the natural world. That’s an insight that has inspired Chris Chafe, Director of Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (or CCRMA, stylishly pronounced karma).
"Unlike sex or hunger, music doesn’t seem absolutely necessary to everyday survival – yet our musical self was forged deep in human history, in the crucible of evolution by the adaptive pressure of the natural world. That’s an insight that has inspired Chris Chafe, Director of Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (or CCRMA, stylishly pronounced karma).
