Recent Events

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

The New Sound of New Music: Contemporary Composition and Modern Record Production Practices, two part lecture series with Murat Çolak

anoushka — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 23:48:55 +0000

Date:

Thu, 10/31/2024 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Date:

Thu, 11/07/2024 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Location:

CCRMA classroom

Event Type:

Guest Lecture

Murat Colak is a Turkish-American composer, mastering engineer, mixer, record producer, and educator based in New York City. He’s known for his work in contemporary classical and experimental music, with records on acclaimed labels like KAIROS, Edition Wandelweiser, NEOS, New Focus, Jazzland, Innova, Carrier, and Da Vinci Classics among others.

During his residency at Stanford University's CCRMA, Dr. Colak will present two public lectures. The first will introduce his creative journey, offering insights into his compositional approach and how it intersects with his approach to sound engineering, especially in crafting acoustics for contemporary concert music..

Free

Open to the Public

Homage to Ligeti | CCRMA 50th Anniversary

cobasica — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 21:18:07 +0000

Date:

Sun, 11/03/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm

Location:

Dinkelspiel Auditorium / CCRMA LIVE

Event Type:

Concert

A major concert will kick off the final series of events celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. Join us in Dinkelspiel Auditorium on November 3 at 7:30pm for a program of music by György Ligeti, whose five-month residency at Stanford in 1972 and friendship with John Chowning helped lead to the founding of CCRMA. This all-Ligeti program comprises Atmosphères (featured in the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey) performed by the Stanford Symphony Orchestra; Musica ricercata performed by pianist Roger Xia '24; the electronic composition Artikulation; and the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra featuring violinist Tanja Becker-Bender with the Stanford New Ensemble conducted by Paul Phillips.

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream

Distractfold x Graduate Composers

kimia — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:58:50 +0000

Date:

Fri, 11/01/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage

Event Type:

Concert

Distractfold Ensemble concludes their residency with a concert featuring seven new compositions by Stanford Graduate composers, specifically written and developed for the ensemble.

Works by: Celeste Betancur, Seán Ó Dálaigh, Mohammad H. Javaheri, Lemon Guo, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, Calvin Van Zytveld, Mercedes Montemayor Elosua

FREE

Open to the Public

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