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...
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Upcoming Events
Schallfeld

Laura Gwilliams on Decoding the Semantics of Audio in the Brain

Josh McDermott (MIT) on Auditory Brain Models

Details to follow.
New music exchange with Japan: A creative Residency and Concerts by the Ensemble Kujoyama

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
Ensemble Kujoyama
Kaori Wakabayashi, flute
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

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Recent Events
Joudi Nox: Wine & Cry

Quarantine Sessions #117 | Guests: Henrik Frisk, Fred Malouf, Chryssie Nanou

Alicia Zuckerman on emotion without audio

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?
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano: Of Dinosaurs and Other Creatures

Recent News
Jonathan Berger's "My Lai" In the News
"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
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
Sonifying the world: How life's data becomes music
"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).