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
Purnima Kamath on Generative Models for Sound Design
Date:
Fri, 09/13/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
Large language models (LLM) such as ChatGPT are making striking changes to how we think about words and intelligence. Generative models (https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/gan/generative) take these ideas a step further by creating new data from a text prompt. Can an LLM and a generative model create new kinds of sounds? It is easy to imagine a system that lets you generate dog sounds, for example. But how would you build a system that lets you ask for a dog sound with a touch of wolf? With steerability or morphing the sound landscapes become much more interesting. Can we control a generative model to make both big and small changes to the sound we generate?
FREE
Open to the Public
Jin Woo Lee on "Differentiable Physical Modeling for Sound Synthesis: From Design to Inverse Problems"
Date:
Fri, 10/04/2024 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Classroom [Knoll 217] (ZOOM Link Below)
Event Type:
DSP Seminar 
Abstract:
Open to the Public
Recent Events
Stanford Graduate Composers Present: Iran Sanadzadeh
Date:
Fri, 06/07/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
Iran Sanadzadeh performs new works by Stanford graduate composers Mike Mulshine, Celeste Betancur Gutierrez, and Nicholas Shaheed.
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person
Intermedia Workshop Final Projects
Date:
Thu, 06/06/2024 - 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA
Event Type:
Other 
Doors open at 6:00pm.
FREE
Open to the Public
AI-based Digital Synthesizer Preset Programming: Parameter Estimation for Sound Matching
Date:
Fri, 05/31/2024 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Classroom [Knoll 217] (ZOOM Link Below)
Event Type:
DSP Seminar 
Presenter: Soohyun Kim
FREE
Open to the Public
Robert L. White's Cochlear Implants
Date:
Fri, 05/31/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
Biomedical Innovations Building, BMI 1021, 240 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
Join us for a special Stanford Hearing Seminar on the invention of the cochlear implant speech processor. May 31st at 10:30AM in Stanford BMI 1021
FREE
Open to the Public
Past Live Streamed Events
Recent News
Twist the Gears of a Massive VR Music Engine with Carillon
Really nice article about a new VR instrument created by Rob Hamilton and Chris Platz. Enjoy!
Behind the Scenes at the Stanford Laptop Orchestra
Really nice article about our very own SLOrk!
THX and Dr. James A. Moorer in the NYTimes
Dr. James A. Moorer updates the THX sound from 30-70 voices, to futher adapt to the advancing spatialization capabilites of theaters.
Read the full article here!
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/as-thx-gets-a-new-trailer-an-interview-with-its-composer/?hpw&rref=movies&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well
Read the full article here!
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/as-thx-gets-a-new-trailer-an-interview-with-its-composer/?hpw&rref=movies&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well
How a University Launched the Electronic Music Revolution
Article about CCRMA and Andrew Nelson's book featured recently on MetroNews:
Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution
The Father of the Digital Synthesizer
Interesting article about our own John Chowining on pricenomics.com. Enjoy!
