Recent Events

Gerald Schuller: Perceptual and higher-level loss and distance functions for machine learning in audio and acoustics

malcolm — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:31:33 +0000

Date:

Thu, 10/31/2024 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Classroom / Zoom

Event Type:

Hearing Seminar

Prof. Gerald Schuller will report on the potential transformative role of perceptual loss functions and distance metrics in enhancing audio and acoustic machine learning models, and their applications. He will cover theoretical foundations of perceptual loss functions, which mimic human auditory perception, and also more abstract, higher-level representations, and explore how these functions, along with novel distance metrics, significantly improve the performance of audio processing tasks. Applications involving loss functions for room impulse responses, audio similarity, and audio representations for cochlear implants will be discussed.

Prof. Marina Bosi will be hosting his visit.

Join us in Zoom if you cannot make it in person!

FREE

Open to the Public

Distractfold

kimia — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:47:09 +0000

Date:

Sun, 10/27/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage

Event Type:

Concert

Distractfold Ensemble begins their residency at Stanford University with a concert featuring works by Lee Fraser, Zeynep Toraman, and Bára Gísladóttir.

Program:
'Reliq Ens' (2014) - Lee Fraser
'Rage Agains the Reply Guy' (2021) - Bára Gísladóttir
'Castle Terraces in Barry Lyndon (2023) - Zeynep Toraman

FREE

Open to the Public

Faust Day 2024

rmichon — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:56:25 +0000

Date:

Sun, 10/27/2024 - 10:00am - 5:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Classroom

Event Type:

Other

Faust Day 2024 will take place at CCRMA on October 27th, 2024. This one day event targets both beginners and advanced users of the Faust programming language (https://faust.grame.fr). Morning sessions (10:00am - 12:30pm) will be dedicated to introductory tutorials on Faust (see this as "Faust 101"). Afternoon sessions (01:30pm - 05:00pm) will focus on advanced applications and ongoing research around Faust.

FREE

Open to the Public

Measuring Acoustic Transfer Functions - Swapan Gandhi and Juan Sierra (Meyer Sound)

malcolm — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:30:21 +0000

Date:

Fri, 10/18/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Seminar Room

Event Type:

Hearing Seminar

We often want to characterize an audio system but we might not have access to the underlying input signal, This occurs in common devices that have their own clocks and unknown latency. Our friends at Meyer Sound have this problem and are proposing a solution based on a "virtual referece." Grounded in their experience measuring and tuning room acoustics, they will share with us details of their method and a live demonstration of its use to characterize some popular consumer audio devices.

Who: Swapan Gandhi and Juan Sierra (Meyer Sound)
What: Transfer Function Measurements When the Reference Signal is Known but not Accessible
When: Friday October 18 at 10:30AM

FREE

Open to the Public

CCRMA Transitions 2024

cobasica — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 23:20:36 +0000

Date:

Wed, 10/16/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm

Date:

Thu, 10/17/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE

Event Type:

Concert

CCRMA celebrates the start of the 2024 season with its annual Transitions concerts. Feast your ears on immersive 3D sounds played on our 56.8 speaker dome in the Stage. CCRMA students, faculty, staff, and alumni joined by special guest performers will present live performances, fixed media electronic music, and audiovisual works. Each evening’s program will feature different artists.

Due to limited seating, in-person access to these events is based on registration. Reserve your seat here. Please arrive no later than 10 minutes before the show, otherwise your seat may be given away.

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream

Prof. Dan Bowling - Music for Mental Health

malcolm — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:39:28 +0000

Date:

Fri, 10/11/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Seminar Room

Event Type:

Hearing Seminar

We all agree that music is good for our mental state. Music has many benefits, but certainly one of the primary is to convey an emotional message. Does it also improve our health? How might we quantify these advantages, especially when it comes to health issues.

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

Jin Woo Lee on "Differentiable Physical Modeling for Sound Synthesis: From Design to Inverse Problems"

soohyun — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 16:53:30 +0000

Date:

Fri, 10/04/2024 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Classroom [Knoll 217] (ZOOM Link Below)

Event Type:

DSP Seminar

Jin Woo Lee is a PhD Candidate at Seoul National University advised by Prof. Kyogu Lee (CCRMA PhD 2008). His research interests are focused on (1) physical modeling for musical instrument sound synthesis and (2) differentiable rendering for immersive and efficient sound simulation. His recent works broadly cover topics in musical sound synthesis, spatial audio rendering, loudspeaker control, and speech quality analysis. He has interned at Meta Reality Labs Research and Supertone. Prior to his PhD, Jin conducted research in computational fluid dynamics during his undergraduate years in Mechanical Engineering from POSTECH. For more information, please visit personal website (http://jnwoo.com/).

Abstract:

Open to the Public

Audiovisual Performance | Final Projects | Arts Intensive 2024

hest — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 04:06:43 +0000

Date:

Wed, 09/18/2024 - 7:30pm - 8:30pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE

Event Type:

Concert

In the span of 2.5 weeks, students in this audiovisual performance class worked intensely on several projects. They explored relationships between sound and moving image, programming and physical interaction with audio and video material, remixing audiovisual compositions, and performing with their digital doppelgängers. We are very excited to present their final projects in this live audiovisual concert.

Purnima Kamath on Generative Models for Sound Design

malcolm — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 04:53:37 +0000

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

Lobe Concert: Goodbye Sam & Nolan!

cobasica — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 13:21:43 +0000

Date:

Sat, 08/31/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE

Event Type:

Concert

Join Lobe for some groovy modern jazz originals (including the Beatles and Studio Ghibli... kind of?) as they say goodbye to Sam and Nolan!

Lobe is Ethan Buck, Sam Silverstein, Nolan Miranda, Daiki Nakajima, Michael Hayes, and Mark Rau in spirit

Tech: Sami Wurm

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream