Recent Events

Disklavier Workshop Concert | Final Presentation

emgraber — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 16:52:36 +0000

Date:

Wed, 03/29/2023 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage

Event Type:

Concert

The participants of the Disklavier Workshop present their works for Disklavier on World Piano Day! This short concert will feature original compositional experiments and past works created for Disklavier and other interactive technologies.

FREE

Open to the Public

Quarantine Sessions #115+ | Guest: Fred Malouf

cobasica — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 18:21:18 +0000

Date:

Sun, 03/19/2023 - 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Location:

CCRMA LIVE

Event Type:

Concert

A Distributed Electroacoustic Network Improvisation | Livestream

FREE

Open to the Public

AI for Sound - Mark Plumbley (Surrey)

malcolm — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 22:08:20 +0000

Date:

Fri, 03/17/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Seminar Room

Event Type:

Hearing Seminar

I’m very excited to announce that Prof. Mark Plumbley from the University of Surrey (UK) will be visiting CCRMA on Friday and will lead the discussion of AI for sound. Mark has published ground breaking papers on audio scene classification, audio auto encoders and inpainting, spare representations, musical beat tracking and transcription. All good applications for signal processing and artificial intelligence.

Who: Prof. Mark Plumbley (Surrey)
What: AI for Sound
When: Fri, 03/17/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Where: CCRMA Seminar Room
Why: AI is good for sound!

FREE

Open to the Public

Jay Afrisando

cobasica — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 06:30:06 +0000

Date:

Thu, 03/16/2023 - 7:30pm - 8:30pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE

Event Type:

Concert

Jay Afrisando will present his multisensory works that advance the notions of aural diversity and his multimedia and spatial audio works created between 2017-2020.

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream

Jay Afrisando: Music-making in Aurally Diverse Communities

cobasica — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 20:30:11 +0000

Date:

Wed, 03/15/2023 - 5:30pm - 7:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Classroom / Zoom

Event Type:

Guest Colloquium

What type of hearing are we referring to when talking about listening, music, and sonic practices? Are sound and music something that only ‘normal’ hearing people can experience and conceptualize? As we live in a society where “normalism” and “normate template” have underlined how the world is constructed, the idea of aural diversity seems far-fetched. In reality, we all are aurally diverse and have dynamic hearings throughout our lives. Furthermore, hearing differences do not preclude opportunities for musical experiences—diverse embodiments allow visual, tactile, and imagination to play central parts in shaping aural experiences. In this Colloquium talk, Jay Afrisando will share his various approaches to advancing the notions of aural diversity through his arts-research practices since 2018. In contemplating the application of aural diversity in his work, this talk aims to embrace a more inclusive music and listening culture and center humanity’s diversity in sonic arts cultures and scholarship.

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Zoom

Hannes Muesch - Speech Intelligibility

malcolm — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 04:12:06 +0000

Date:

Fri, 03/10/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Seminar Room

Event Type:

Hearing Seminar

Continuing this quarter's theme of quality, Hannes Muesch (Dolby) will talk about his approach to measure and predict the intelligibility of speech signals. Speech after all is a very important part of our hearing---we want to maintain speech intelligibility and restore it when needed.

FREE

Open to the Public

Centering Disability in Online Musical Experiences

cobasica — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 06:08:01 +0000

Date:

Thu, 03/09/2023 - 12:00pm - 6:30pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE / Zoom

Event Type:

Other

Stanford composer, sound artist, educator, and researcher Patricia Alessandrini, along with co-coordinators Joudi Abou-Ayed and Lloyd May, host the hybrid event Centering Disability in Online Musical Experiences.

FREE

Open to the Public

Rajna Swaminathan, with Ganavya & Myra Melford

cobasica — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 06:26:52 +0000

Date:

Fri, 03/03/2023 - 7:30pm - 8:30pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage

Event Type:

Concert

Rajna Swaminathan leads this trio in collaboration with Ganavya and Myra Melford, bringing together compositions by each of the artists alongside experimental interpretations of traditional songs and standards. The performance will feature dynamic improvisations that explore a broad spectrum of South Asian and African diasporic musical sensibilities.

FREE and Open to the Public

Les Atlas (UW) - Better clipping for audio spectrogram DNNs

malcolm — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 04:08:58 +0000

Date:

Fri, 03/03/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Seminar Room

Event Type:

Hearing Seminar

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are everywhere, and have enabled all sorts of amazing solutions. Speech recognition and translation, all sorts of image applications, and now ChatGPT3 (aka a stochastic parrot that hallucinates).

But audio has always been troublesome with these networks. What the heck do you do with that damn phase? Sometimes you can just throw it away, but if you keep it the phase doesn’t work the way that normal numbers do (like image intensity). And complex numbers aren’t any easier. Networks like TasNet avoid the phase problem by learning multiple overlapping “wavelets”.

FREE

Open to the Public

Amma Ateria: CONCUSSSSION

cobasica — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 22:02:11 +0000

Date:

Thu, 03/02/2023 - 7:30pm - 8:30pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE

Event Type:

Concert

CCRMA presents a live performance of CONCUSSSSION by Amma Ateria.

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream