Recent Events

Composers from Afar | CCRMA 50th Anniversary

cobasica — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 08:29:50 +0000

Date:

Fri, 12/06/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE

Event Type:

Concert

CCRMA presents the final event in its 50th Anniversary Concert Series. Composers from Afar remembers pieces by Visiting Artists who have worked on computer music at CCRMA over the years, including Natasha Barrett, Vilbjørg Broch, Ludger Brümmer, Tine Surel Lange, Stéphane Roy, and Marco Trevisani.

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream

Vilbjørg Broch: Reflections

cobasica — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 18:44:01 +0000

Date:

Thu, 12/05/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE

Event Type:

Concert

CCRMA Visiting Scholar/Composer Vilbjørg Broch presents a concert of new works.

6-7pm Pre-Show Talk

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream

Stanford Cinematheque: FILM BODIES

cobasica — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 18:46:44 +0000

Date:

Wed, 12/04/2024 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Location:

Oshman Hall | McMurtry Building

Event Type:

Concert

The ½ Core+ improvises a live electroacoustic accompaniment to films by Stan Brakhage and Carolee Schneemann in FILM BODIES at Stanford Cinematheque.

The ½ Core+ is Constantin Basica, Chris Chafe, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, and Fernando Lopez-Lezcano.

FREE | Open to Stanford Affiliates Only | Oshman Hall, McMurtry Building, 355 Roth Way, Stanford, CA 94305

Electronic Sound Poetry

cobasica — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 05:43:02 +0000

Date:

Tue, 12/03/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage

Event Type:

Concert

The composers, poets, lyricists, rappers, computer musicians, and intermedia experimentalists of Mark Applebaum’s Electronic Sound Poetry class present original electronic works, musique concrète soundscapes, songs, audio essays, multi-channel pieces, works with video, and live performances employing vocal sounds produced by singing, speaking, speech synthesis, and digitally processed and collaged words.

FREE and Open to the Public

Foreign/Domestic

cobasica — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 22:49:44 +0000

Date:

Thu, 11/21/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE

Event Type:

Concert

CCRMA presents a live performance by Foreign/Domestic.

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream

Koubeh

nfarzan — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:43:22 +0000

Date:

Sat, 11/16/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage

Event Type:

Concert

Koubeh is a New York-based band that mixes Iranian melodies with a fusion of global beats and original riffs.

FREE

Open to the Public

Tristan Peng's Piano Recital

pengt — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 09:14:38 +0000

Date:

Fri, 11/15/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage

Event Type:

Concert

Tristan Peng's Piano Recital

Recital Program

Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 28
Bach Toccata in E Minor, BWV 914
Chopin Nocturnes Op. 48
Ravel Miroirs

FREE

Open to the Public

Juhan Nam, "My Journey Toward Musically Intelligent Machines"

soohyun — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 09:05:04 +0000

Date:

Fri, 11/15/2024 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Classroom [Knoll 217] (ZOOM Link Below)

Event Type:

Guest Lecture

Abstract
Creating intelligent machines that can listen to, play, and even making music has been a longstanding human ambition. Recent advancements in AI, especially through deep learning, have brought us closer to realizing this vision. In this talk, I will share my personal journey in developing musically intelligent machines, beginning with my PhD research on music representation learning during the early days of deep learning, and continuing with my collaborative work with students over the past decade at KAIST. Key topics will include bridging music audio with language, human-AI music ensemble performances, and neural audio processing.

Open to the Public

Concepts and Control: Understanding Creativity in Deep Music Generation

lejun — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 20:09:22 +0000

Date:

Fri, 11/15/2024 - 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Location:

CCRMA Classroom [Knoll 217] (ZOOM Link Below)

Event Type:

DSP Seminar

Abstract: Recently, generative AI has achieved impressive results in music generation. Yet, the challenge remains: how can these models be meaningfully applied in real-world music creation, for both professional and amateur musicians? We argue that what’s missing is an interpretable generative architecture—one that captures music concepts and their relations, which can be so finely nuanced that they defy straightforward description. In this talk, I will explore various approaches to creating such an architecture, demonstrating how it enhances control and interaction in music generation.

FREE

Open to the Public

Nat Condit-Schultz on Tempo, Tactus, Rhythm, Flow: Computational Hip Hop Musicology in Theory and Practice

malcolm — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 05:12:09 +0000

Date:

Fri, 11/15/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Seminar Room

Event Type:

Hearing Seminar

Computational musicology is not just for classical music. In this talk, I will review a variety of computational investigations of hip hop based on my dataset, the Musical Corpus of Flow (MCFlow). Using MCFlow, we can characterize the "norms" of rap flow and investigate how they have changed historically, including changes in tempo and the density of rhyme over time. I will also discuss the methodological challenges of computational musicology in general, and hip-hop/pop musicology specifically, and demonstrate tools and methods I have developed.

FREE

Open to the Public