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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

Demo of Personalized 3d Sound System

malcolm — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 16:10:05 +0000

Date:

Fri, 08/16/2024 - 12:00pm - 6:00pm

Location:

DoubleTree Hotel, 275 South Airport Blvd, South San Francisco, California

Event Type:

Hearing Seminar

How do we reproduce personalized 3D sound? Karlheinz Brandenburg (one of the authors of the MP3 standard) argues that a generic HRTF (head-related transfer function) is sufficient as long as you simulate the room reverb. This is a rather bold statement, because the standard answer says that getting the correct HRTF is most important. Do we need to match the room or the pinnae?

FREE

Open to the Public

Leslie Famularo on Differentiating and Optimizing an Auditory Model

malcolm — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 22:52:36 +0000

Date:

Fri, 08/09/2024 - 12:00am - 12:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Seminar Room

Event Type:

Hearing Seminar

One of the shortcomings of current AI work is the inability to tie the results back to known physics. This is useful both to help explain the results, but also to constrain the optimal solution to known physical properties of the system. Neural networks are hard. They are big, often times the result is inscruttable. What can be done?

New software paradigms such as JAX and PyTorch allow one to specify arbitrary computations in a way that can be differentiated. And if we can differentiate a function we can optimize it. Hurray. How can we express an auditory model in a differentiable fashion?

FREE

Open to the Public

4D Audio-Visual Learning: A Visual Perspective of Sound Propagation and Production

iran — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 17:55:22 +0000

Date:

Thu, 08/01/2024 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Classroom

Event Type:

Guest Lecture

Changan Chen (Stanford) joins us to discuss his research.

FREE

Open to the Public

Dynamical mechanisms of how an RNN keeps a beat, uncovered with a low-dimensional reduced model

iran — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 12:59:49 +0000

Date:

Wed, 07/31/2024 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Classroom

Event Type:

Guest Lecture

Klavdia Zemlianova (Columbia) joins us to discuss her research.

FREE

Open to the Public