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
Harmonicity and Inharmonicity in Instruments of the Percussion/Resonance Family in Interaction with Electronics
Date:
Thu, 07/11/2024 - 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Guest Lecture 
FREE
Open to the Public
Robert L. White's Cochlear Implants - Repeat Seminar
Date:
Tue, 07/02/2024 - 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
Cochlear implants (CI) are amazing. Squirt a little current into a cochlea and you hear a buzzing sound. It is even more amazing that the right currents sound like speech. What was it like to first convey speech to new cochlear implant users?
This is a repeat of the May 31 seminar, for those wishing to join from another time zone. It will be online only and recorded. The recording is avaialble on YouTube at ths URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hoY24bVTZw
This is a repeat of the May 31 seminar, for those wishing to join from another time zone. It will be online only and recorded. The recording is avaialble on YouTube at ths URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hoY24bVTZw
FREE
Open to the Public
Alex Han - Master's Capstone Concert
Date:
Sun, 06/09/2024 - 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage, Listening Room
Event Type:
Concert 
FREE
Open to the Public
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
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!
