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
Ensemble Adapter
Date:
Sun, 02/11/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE
Event Type:
Concert 
FREE
Open to the Public
Recent Events
Karlheinz Brandenberg - Spatial Sound - HRTFs vs. Room Reverb
Date:
Fri, 10/20/2023 - 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage (Next to the Seminar Room)
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
New data from Karlheinz Brandenburg suggests that matching the room reverb is more important than the user's custom HRTFs. Karlheinz Brandenburg and his colleagues will lead the discussion, illustrated with new data. Could this be true? What do you think?
Who: Karlheinz Brandenburg
What: Spatial sound - HRTFs vs. Room Reverb
When: Friday October 20th at 1:30PM <<< Note special time
FREE
Open to the Public
Carole Kim: Cascade | Dilate Ensemble and Oguri
Date:
Thu, 10/19/2023 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Location:
Montalvo Arts Center
Event Type:
Concert 
In this first ever collaboration between Montalvo Arts Center and CCRMA, Carole Kim’s projection/experimental sound installation Cascade will be activated by the artist together with Dilate Ensemble and Oguri.
This event takes place at Montalvo Arts Center with FREE access for all Stanford affiliates! Registration is required—get your free ticket here.
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
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).
