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
Leslie Famularo on Differentiating and Optimizing an Auditory Model
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New software paradigms such as JAX and PyTorch allow one to specify arbitrary computations in a way that can be differentiated. And if we can differentiate a function we can optimize it. Hurray. How can we express an auditory model in a differentiable fashion?
Recent Events
Exploring Neural Audio Coding Methods
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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
[POSTPONED] Fernando Lopez-Lezcano: Phase Changes
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FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Stanford Graduate Composers Present: Manuela Freua & The TANK
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FREE and Open to the Public | In Person
John Chowning & Friends
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FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
Past Live Streamed Events
Recent News
Palette of sound: Triple CCRMAlite’s excursion through time
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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
How Music Hijacks Our Perception of Time
Holly Herndon's New Single Named Best New Track on Pitchfork
"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...