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!
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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
Sami Wurm: Master's Recital
Date:
Sat, 05/25/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
Dinkelspiel Auditorium
Event Type:
Concert 
Sami Wurm debuts master’s capstone — her very first full-length album— Sunshine! She will take the stage with her band The Early Birds: Alex Han on keys, Celeste Betancur on guitar, Archish Arun on bass, and Michael Hayes on drums, along with special guests Elias Applebaum, Anna Gruzas, Terry Feng, Emily Kuo, and Senyuan Fan. Come for a night of unforgettable song, dance, and sunshine :)
FREE and Open to the Public
FREE and Open to the Public
Stanford Graduate Composers Present: Ensemble Linea
Date:
Fri, 05/24/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
Ensemble Linea performs new works by Stanford graduate composers Celeste Gutierrez Betancur, Tatiana Catanzaro, Michael Mulshine, and Seán Ó Dálaigh, as well as Stanford professors Patricia Alessandrini and Erik Ulman.
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person
Exploring Neural Audio Coding Methods
Date:
Fri, 05/24/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
This week at the CCRMA Hearing Seminar Senyuan Fan and Prof. Marina Bosi claim that these implicit methods require less training data and achieve higher compression rates than other approaches. How do they do that?
Who: Senyuan Fan and Marina Bosi
What: Exploring Neural Audio Coding Methods
FREE
Open to the Public
Senyuan Fan will Exploring Implicit Neural Audio Representation
Date:
Fri, 05/24/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar
FREE
Open to the Public
Past Live Streamed Events
Recent News
Palette of sound: Triple CCRMAlite’s excursion through time
The Triple CCRMAlite performance this past Sunday at Bing Concert Hall was a celebration of three important dates for the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA): the 40th anniversary of CCRMA, the 50th anniversary of the first computer program for music on campus, and the 80th birthday of CCRMA founder John Chowning Ph.D. ’66. The program featured a science fair of student research in the lobby, as well as a concert showcasing works from Chowning, French composer Jean-Claude Risset, and former CCRMA Research Associate Bill Schottstaedt.
Read more here...
Read more here...
The creativity of 'karma'
Palo Alto Weekly writer Nick Veronin takes a look at recent work being done at CCRMA and profiles the upcoming "Designing Musical Games::Gaming Musical Design", "New Music Controllers" and "3D Printing for Acoustics" Summer Workshops.
Read more here...
Review: Auditory Hallucinations, Composed
Congratulations to Jonathan Berger for more great reviews of his "Visitations!"
How Music Hijacks Our Perception of Time
Very interesting article by Dr. Jonathan Berger! "One evening, some 40 years ago, I got lost in time. I was at a performance of Schubert’s String Quintet in C major. During the second movement I had the unnerving feeling that time was literally grinding to a halt. The sensation was powerful, visceral, overwhelming. It was a life-changing moment, or, as it felt at the time, a life-changing eon.
It has been my goal ever since to compose music that usurps the perceived flow of time and commandeers the sense of how time passes. Although I’ve learned to manipulate subjective time, I still stand in awe of Schubert’s unparalleled power.
Holly Herndon's New Single Named Best New Track on Pitchfork
Congratulations to our own Holly Herndon, once again in the news!
"In reviewing electronic music composer Holly Herndon’s breakout debut, 2012's Movement, we noted her penchant for "Bending one person's voice into phantasmagorias", which continues on her newest, breath-halting single, “Chorus”." Read more, and watch video here...
