Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Upcoming Events
Homage to Ligeti | CCRMA 50th Anniversary
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
The New Sound of New Music: Contemporary Composition and Modern Record Production Practices, two part lecture series with Murat Çolak
Nat Condit-Schultz on Tempo, Tactus, Rhythm, Flow: Computational Hip Hop Musicology in Theory and Practice
Learning Interpretable Representations for Controllable Deep Music Generation
Abstract: Recently, the focus on enhancing control over generative AI has grown significantly. In this talk, I will introduce several approaches to enhance controllability through interpretable model design. I will begin by discussing compositional style transfer and representation disentanglement in monophonic, polyphonic, and cross-modality scenarios. Next, I will present a whole-song generation approach that captures long-term music structure via a compositional hierarchy. Throughout the talk, I will showcase demos that illustrate applications of these models for possibilities of human-machine music co-creation.
Recent Events
Exploring Contextual Timbre Representation
[cancelled; rescheduled] SoundSignature: What Type of Music Do You Like?
Total variation in popular rap vocals from 2009-2023
Flo Menezes 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.
Past Live Streamed Events
Recent News
Holly Herndon - Wire Cover
Congratulations to Holly on her cover of this month's Wire! "Holly Herndon - the US sound artist and laptop auteur spreads the faith of the liberating potential of technology."
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