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
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Upcoming Events
Electronic Sound Poetry
Date:
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE
Event Type:
Concert 
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Diana Deutsch on Two Perceptual Puzzles: Audio Illusions and Perfect Pitch
Date:
Fri, 12/01/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
I'm very happy to welcome Prof. Diana Deutsch to Stanford, CCRMA and the Hearing Seminar. Diana has illustrious career at the intersection of speech and music perception. Perhaps most interestingly, how does music gets perceived as speech, and speech perceived as music. We usually think of them as different kinds of signals, perception and uses. What do these types of signals tell us about how the auditory system is organized.
Who: Dr. Diana Deutsch (CCRMA and UCSD)
What: Two Perceptual Puzzles: Audio Illusions and Perfect Pitch
FREE
Open to the Public
Recent Events
Research Seminar: Romain Michon -- Facilitating the Programming of FPGAs for Real-Time Audio DSP: An Update on the Syfala and PLASMA Projects
Date:
Thu, 10/19/2023 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Classroom
Event Type:
Other 
FREE
Open to the Public
New Music Exchange with Japan: 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 
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Josh McDermott (MIT) on New Models of Human Hearing via Machine Learning
Date:
Thu, 10/12/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
But perhaps we can do better by ignoring the details and modeling the auditory system as a black box, via a deep neural network (DNN). We can train the model using data from psychoacoustic tests. Ignoring details like the basilar membrane transmission line, and inner and outer hair cells, and all sorts of brain structures, can a DNN provide a good enough model? Can we use these models to design auditory prosthetics?
FREE
Open to the Public
Laura Gwilliams on Computational architecture of speech comprehension
Date:
Fri, 10/06/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
I'm really happy to welcome Prof. Laura Gwilliams to Stanford and the Hearing Seminar.
FREE
Open to the Public
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).
