Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
CCRMA Summer Workshops
Summer 2024 Workshops: CCRMA Summer Workshops Announced! There are a wide variety of offerings, some in person, some on line, and some hybrid. Have a look! More will be announced as they're organized, so check back with us frequently!
[Check out the schedule] [Register for workshops]
There will be opportunities for financial assistance for some workshops - check specific pages for more details.
Upcoming Events
Prof. Dan Bowling - Music for Mental Health
Date:
Fri, 10/11/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
I'm happy to welcome a new faculty member, Dr. Dan Bowling, to Stanford and the Hearing Seminar. He'll be talking about his research on music and health at the next Hearing Seminar. Please join us.
Who: Dr. Dan Bowling, Stanford Psychiatry's Division of Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences
What: Music and Health: Biological Foundations and Applications
When: Friday October 11th at 10:30AM
Where: CCRMA Seminar Room, Top Floor of the Knoll at Stanford
FREE
Open to the Public
Measuring Acoustic Transfer Functions - Swapan Gandhi and Juan Sierra (Meyer Sound)
Date:
Fri, 10/18/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
Swapan Gandhi and Juan Sierra (Meyer Sound)
FREE
Open to the Public
Faust Day 2024
Date:
Sun, 10/27/2024 - 10:00am - 5:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Classroom
Event Type:
Other 
FREE
Open to the Public
Distractfold
Date:
Sun, 10/27/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
Program:
'Reliq Ens' (2014) - Lee Fraser
'A Thing Made Whole (Coda)' (2023) - Andrew Greenwald
'Castle Terraces in Barry Lyndon (2023) - Zeynep Toraman
FREE
Open to the Public
Distractfold x Graduate Composers
Date:
Fri, 11/01/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
Works by: Celeste Betancur, Seán Ó Dálaigh, Mohammad H. Javaheri, Lemon Guo, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, Calvin Van Zytveld, Mercedes Montemayor Elosua
FREE
Open to the Public
Recent Events
Exploring Contextual Timbre Representation
Date:
Wed, 07/24/2024 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Classroom
Event Type:
Guest Lecture 
FREE
Open to the Public
[cancelled; rescheduled] SoundSignature: What Type of Music Do You Like?
Date:
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Classroom
Event Type:
Guest Lecture 
FREE
Open to the Public
Total variation in popular rap vocals from 2009-2023
Date:
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Classroom
Event Type:
Guest Lecture 
FREE
Open to the Public
Flo Menezes Concert
Date:
Thu, 07/11/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
Flo Menezes' concert brings to the public the North American premiere of four of his acousmatic works, covering a period from 2008 to the present. His music is characterised by spectral, structural and spatial research, resulting in an immersive poetics that the composer defines as maximalist. In a broad panorama that ranges from the posthumous homage to Stockhausen shortly after his death – for whom Flo Menezes was Teaching Assistant on the Kürten Courses and about whom the composer is publishing a trilogy of almost 1000 pages of analyses by the publisher Routledge – to the recent composition made at the EMS in Stockholm, which mixes analogue sounds made on a historic Buchla with granular synthesis, we have a fairly faithful portrait of the diversity of his music.
FREE
Open to the Public
Past Live Streamed Events
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).
