Recent Events

Schallfeld

cobasica — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 06:07:45 +0000

Date:

Thu, 09/28/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:

Dinkelspiel Auditorium

Event Type:

Concert

Schallfeld performs new works by Stanford graduate composers Tatiana Catanzaro, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, Mike Mulshine, Seán Ó Dálaigh, and Julie Zhu.

FREE and Open to the Public

Audiovisual Performance | Final Projects | Arts Intensive 2023

cobasica — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 06:35:16 +0000

Date:

Wed, 09/20/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE

Event Type:

Concert

The students in the Audiovisual Performance class have worked (hard!) on several projects that included relationships between sound and moving image, programming and physical interaction with audio and video material, as well as remixing audiovisual compositions and performing with their digital doppelgängers. We are very excited to present their final projects in this live audiovisual show, which will explore various concepts and aesthetics ranging from memory and nostalgia to the political and poetic uses of technology.

FREE and Open to the Public | Livestream

UnStumm: Conversation of Moving Image and Sound | Arts Intensive

cobasica — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 21:00:54 +0000

Date:

Sat, 09/16/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE

Event Type:

Concert

The Stanford Arts Intensive program and CCRMA present UnStumm as part of the Audiovisual Performance class.

UnStumm – conversation of moving image and sound is a project for real-time film and music (Echtzeitfilm) for cross-disciplinary and cross cultural collaboration between video artists and musicians from Germany and other countries. It aims to create an environment of cultural and creative exchange, where a common complex artistic language is invented and used to communicate narratives, and textures, colliding, combining, and attracting worlds of sight and sound. Since 2016 UnStumm has performed in 12 countries worldwide. Collaborations have taken place with more than 65 live video artists, musicians, and dancers. In their performance, UnStumm will combine an in-situ performance with their Augmented Voyage app, making it a mixed reality performance. The audience will experience this performance in space, while using the app at the same time to follow UnStumm's movements between different layers of projection and reality.

[CANCELLED!] TEMPO VS. PITCH: UNDERSTANDING SELF-SUPERVISED TEMPO ESTIMATION

iran — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:36:42 +0000

Date:

Fri, 08/25/2023 - 11:00am - 12:00pm

Location:

Classroom

Event Type:

Guest Lecture

Giovana Morais (NYU) joins us to talk about her recent ICASSP paper. ABSTRACT: Self-supervision methods learn representations by solving pretext tasks that do not require human-generated labels, alleviating the need for time-consuming annotations. These methods have been applied in computer vision, natural language processing, environ- mental sound analysis, and recently in music information retrieval, e.g. for pitch estimation. Particularly in the context of music, there are few insights about the fragility of these models regarding differ- ent distributions of data, and how they could be mitigated. In this paper, we explore these questions by dissecting a self-supervised model for pitch estimation adapted for tempo estimation via rigor- ous experimentation with synthetic data.

FREE

Open to the Public

Sound localization using a deep graph signal-processing model for acoustic imaging

iran — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 22:28:16 +0000

Date:

Wed, 08/23/2023 - 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Event Type:

Guest Lecture

Adrian S. Roman (USC) joins us to discuss his ongoing project.

ABSTRACT:

Our research explores ways to leverage the architecture of DeepWave, originally used as an acoustic camera, to enable precise localization of sound sources. While DeepWave inherently generates spherical maps in the form of sound intensity fields, it has not been utilized for determining precise localization coordinates of sound sources.

FREE

Open to the Public

EXPLORING APPROACHES TO MULTI-TASK AUTOMATIC SYNTHESIZER PROGRAMMING

iran — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 23:17:10 +0000

Date:

Mon, 08/21/2023 - 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Location:

Classroom

Event Type:

Guest Lecture

Daniel Faronbi (NYU) joins us to talk about his recent ICASSP paper

Automatic Synthesizer Programming is the task of transform-
ing an audio signal that was generated from a virtual instru-
ment, into the parameters of a sound synthesizer that would
generate this signal. In the past, this could only be done for
one virtual instrument. In this paper, we expand the current
literature by exploring approaches to automatic synthesizer
programming for multiple virtual instruments. Two different
approaches to multi-task automatic synthesizer programming
are presented. We find that the joint-decoder approach per-
forms best. We also evaluate the performance of this model

FREE

Open to the Public

Retrieving musical information from neural data: how cognitive features enrich acoustic ones

iran — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 17:27:56 +0000

Date:

Fri, 08/18/2023 - 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Location:

Classroom

Event Type:

Guest Lecture

Ellie Abrams (NYU) joins us to talk about her recent ISMIR paper

Various features, from low-level acoustics, to higher-level
statistical regularities, to memory associations, contribute
to the experience of musical enjoyment and pleasure. Re-
cent work suggests that musical surprisal, that is, the un-
expectedness of a musical event given its context, may di-
rectly predict listeners’ experiences of pleasure and enjoy-
ment during music listening. Understanding how surprisal
shapes listeners’ preferences for certain musical pieces has
implications for music recommender systems, which are
typically content- (both acoustic or semantic) or metadata-

FREE

Open to the Public

Insights into Soundscape Synthesis and Energy consumption of Sound Event Detection systems

iran — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 04:28:27 +0000

Date:

Thu, 08/17/2023 - 10:00am - 11:00am

Location:

Classroom

Event Type:

Guest Lecture

Francesca Ronchini (Politecnico di Milano) joins us to discuss her PhD research:

FREE

Open to the Public

The Sound of AI Accelerator

iran — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:57:42 +0000

Date:

Wed, 08/16/2023 - 11:00am - 12:00pm

Location:

Classroom

Event Type:

Guest Lecture

"The Sound of AI Accelerator: From Idea to Music AI Startup"

Are you interested in starting a music AI company? In this talk, Valerio will introduce The Sound of AI Accelerator, the first startup accelerator focused on music, audio, and voice AI.

FREE

Open to the Public

Deep learning for symbolic music representations

iran — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 05:48:06 +0000

Date:

Tue, 08/15/2023 - 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Location:

Classroom

Event Type:

Guest Lecture

Néstor Nápoles López (McGill) joins us to discuss his PhD research

Abstract: The talk will discuss the specific challenges of symbolic music representations for deep learning, with a particular emphasis on harmony and tonal analysis (although the methods discussed are applicable to other domains too). Valuable resources will be provided, including access to symbolic music datasets, essential software libraries, effective workflows, and practical insights for symbolic music data manipulation. The talk will also briefly discuss popular papers on the topic, as well as Néstor's research.

FREE

Open to the Public