Recent Events

Diana Deutsch on Two Perceptual Puzzles: Audio Illusions and Perfect Pitch

malcolm — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 01:24:29 +0000

Date:

Fri, 12/01/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Seminar Room

Event Type:

Hearing Seminar

POSTPONED. I'm sorry, but we will have to postpone a visit from Diana Deutsch till January 19th.

I'm very happy to welcome Prof. Diana Deutsch to Stanford, CCRMA and the Hearing Seminar. Diana has illustrious career at the intersection of speech and music perception. Perhaps most interestingly, how does music gets perceived as speech, and speech perceived as music. We usually think of them as different kinds of signals, perception and uses. What do these types of signals tell us about how the auditory system is organized.

Who: Dr. Diana Deutsch (CCRMA and UCSD)
What: Two Perceptual Puzzles: Audio Illusions and Perfect Pitch

FREE

Open to the Public

Electronic Sound Poetry

cobasica — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 04:19:02 +0000

Date:

Thu, 11/30/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE

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 | In Person + Livestream

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano: D&D&D

cobasica — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 03:40:58 +0000

Date:

Fri, 11/17/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE

Event Type:

Concert

Another long trip into the universe of modular synthesis in the form of multiple interconnected Dinosaurs and other creatures, old and new, big and small. What were tunnels, caves and dungeons is now a multi-dimensional maze of colored patch cables, each one connecting processing blocks together, the last ones feeding loudspeakers through complex software. Chance has an influence in the sonic adventures to be had, as a minor twist of a knob, or the push of a forgotten button can open unexpected realms of sound and noise. While detailed planning of the journey seems futile if you look at the spaguetti of sound, it is always there as the backbone of the quest. There could be Dungeons, or maybe this is just Dance Dance Dinosaur...

Alexa Burrell

cobasica — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 03:30:10 +0000

Date:

Thu, 11/16/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE

Event Type:

Concert

A mercurial mixed-media artist, Alexa Burrell creates immersive video and sound installations that center complex Black femme experiences, environmental change and speculative documentation.

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream

Brian Baumbusch: "Polytempo Music" - A new interactive VR music application

cobasica — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 04:32:16 +0000

Date:

Wed, 11/15/2023 - 5:30pm - 7:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Classroom / Zoom

Event Type:

Guest Colloquium

"Polytempo Music" is a 48-minute composition by Brian Baumbusch expanding on the polytempo structures developed by Conlon Nancarrow in the mid-20th century. It was recorded by the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players between Nov. 2022 and June 2023, and is being built into an interactive VR music application using the game engine Unity to present the music in an immersive 3D spatial audio-visual environment using a newly designed spatial audio animation paradigm. Dr. Baumbusch will lecture on the various milestones of working on this project between 2020-2023, including fundraising, composition process, engraving software engineering, audio engineering, and VR app development and C# scripting in Unity.

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Zoom

Terry Longshore: balance | flow

cobasica — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 03:21:45 +0000

Date:

Tue, 11/14/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE

Event Type:

Concert

Terry Longshore's balance | flow is a solo intermedia percussion performance of music by a diverse body of composers integrating live performance with digital audio, video, and integrated lighting. The music and visuals are immersive and inspirational and draw from the artist's own works, new commissions, and established works in his repertoire.

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream

Neil Rolnick: Mashups & Laptop Solos

cobasica — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 03:11:26 +0000

Date:

Fri, 11/10/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE

Event Type:

Concert

Neil Rolnick will be performing a program of his original compositions and mashups for laptop computer. The concert will include pieces ranging from the late 1980s, through to his response to the Covid pandemic.

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream

Generative AI for Music and Audio

jos — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 12:36:05 +0000

Date:

Fri, 11/10/2023 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Classroon [Knoll 217]

Event Type:

DSP Seminar

Abstract: Generative AI has been transforming the way we interact with technology and consume content. In this talk, I will briefly introduce the three main directions of my research centered around generative AI for music and audio: 1) multitrack music generation, 2) assistive music creation tools, and 3) multimodal learning for audio and music. I will then zoom into my recent work on learning text-queried sound separation and text-to-audio synthesis from videos using pretrained language-vision models. Finally, I will close this talk by discussing the challenges and future directions of generative AI for music and audio.

FREE

Open to the Public

L'Itinéraire: Spectral Streams

cobasica — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 03:06:06 +0000

Date:

Sat, 10/28/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE

Event Type:

Concert

Ensemble l’Itinéraire performs works by Kaija Saariaho, Grégoire Lorieux, Tristan Murail, Edmund Campion, and CCRMA Professor Patricia Alessandrini.

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream

Robotic Hearing Systems for Autonomous Vehicles

malcolm — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 23:38:23 +0000

Date:

Fri, 10/27/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Seminar Room

Event Type:

Hearing Seminar

How do we teach an autonomous vehicle to hear? This is an interesting problem both because we expect our cars to hear as well as we do and keep us all safe. We must do it in busy city soundscapes and at 60 mph. All the while preserving the privacy of people not connected with the car.

Dr. Xuan Zhong is trained in hearing science and has been working for self-driving car companies for several years.

Who: Dr. Xuan Zhong
What: Building Ears for Robots: Machine Hearing in the Age of Autonomy
When: Friday October 27 at 10:30AM
Where: CCRMA Seminar Room
Why: We will have self-driving cars someday, and we want them to hear us

FREE

Open to the Public