Recent Events

NeuralNote: An Audio-to-MIDI Plugin Using Machine Learning

jos — Thu, 23 May 2024 22:58:02 +0000

Date:

Tue, 05/28/2024 - 4:30pm - 6:50pm

Location:

CCRMA Classroom [Knoll 217] and Zoom

Event Type:

Guest Lecture

Abstract: NeuralNote is an open-source audio-to-MIDI VST/AU plugin that uses machine learning for accurate audio-to-MIDI transcription. This talk will begin with an in-depth look at BasicPitch, the machine learning model from Spotify that powers NeuralNote. We will explore its internal workings and how it processes audio to generate MIDI data. Next, we will cover the integration of BasicPitch into the NeuralNote plugin, implemented in C++ using the JUCE framework. We will discuss the challenges of incorporating neural network inference in audio plugins, focusing on real-time processing, thread safety, and performance. A comparison of the ONNXRuntime and RTNeural libraries will highlight the options for neural network integration in this domain.

FREE

Open to the Public

Guillermo Galindo: Nexo Organico/Organic Nexus

cobasica — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 21:54:47 +0000

Date:

Mon, 05/27/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE

Event Type:

Concert

CCRMA presents Guillermo Galindo performing live to a black and white post-apocalyptic animation film.

Special Guest: William Winant

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream

Josh Mitchell: Master's Recital

cobasica — Sat, 25 May 2024 16:34:03 +0000

Date:

Sun, 05/26/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage

Event Type:

Concert

In the broader context of the English language, to bifurcate is simply to split into multiple parts or branches. In the specific context of nonlinear dynamics and chaos theory, however, a bifurcation is what happens when a very small, smooth shift in one parameter of a system causes it to abruptly change how it acts. Many interesting things can happen at these bifurcation points, including surprising and beautiful transitions between order and chaos. When presented in a musical context, these systems offer many creative ways to explore the many ways we encounter changes over time in the world around us.

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream

Sami Wurm: Master's Recital

cobasica — Mon, 20 May 2024 04:50:37 +0000

Date:

Sat, 05/25/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:

Dinkelspiel Auditorium

Event Type:

Concert

Sami Wurm debuts master’s capstone — her very first full-length album— Sunshine! She will take the stage with her band The Early Birds: Alex Han on keys, Celeste Betancur on guitar, Archish Arun on bass, and Michael Hayes on drums, along with special guests Elias Applebaum, Anna Gruzas, Terry Feng, Emily Kuo, and Senyuan Fan. Come for a night of unforgettable song, dance, and sunshine :)

FREE and Open to the Public

Stanford Graduate Composers Present: Ensemble Linea

cobasica — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 07:00:22 +0000

Date:

Fri, 05/24/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage

Event Type:

Concert

Ensemble Linea performs new works by Stanford graduate composers Celeste Gutierrez Betancur, Tatiana Catanzaro, Michael Mulshine, and Seán Ó Dálaigh, as well as Stanford professors Patricia Alessandrini and Erik Ulman.

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person

Exploring Neural Audio Coding Methods

malcolm — Wed, 08 May 2024 20:33:18 +0000

Date:

Fri, 05/24/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Seminar Room

Event Type:

Hearing Seminar

Deep neural networks are good at doing many things, such as classification, predictions, and regression. But perhaps their most impressive accomplishment is to learn an *implicit* representation of a signal. Instead of just predicting a value, a DNN can learn the underlying function f(x) that generates the data. Given a position request (x) it returns the “true” value of the function, even for places it has not seen.

This week at the CCRMA Hearing Seminar Senyuan Fan and Prof. Marina Bosi claim that these implicit methods require less training data and achieve higher compression rates than other approaches. How do they do that?

Who: Senyuan Fan and Marina Bosi
What: Exploring Neural Audio Coding Methods

FREE

Open to the Public

Senyuan Fan will Exploring Implicit Neural Audio Representation

malcolm — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 23:24:21 +0000

Date:

Fri, 05/24/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Seminar Room

Event Type:

Hearing Seminar

Details to follow. Presentation with Marina Bosi.

FREE

Open to the Public

[POSTPONED] Fernando Lopez-Lezcano: Phase Changes

cobasica — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 21:25:47 +0000

Date:

Thu, 05/23/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE

Event Type:

Concert

CCRMA's own Fernando Lopez-Lezcano returns to the Stage for a live performance with his modular synthesizers and other bleeps-and-blops-making devices.

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream

Stanford Graduate Composers Present: Manuela Freua & The TANK

cobasica — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 06:00:31 +0000

Date:

Sat, 05/18/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage

Event Type:

Concert

From May 4-9, 2024, nine Stanford graduate composers & soprano Manuela Freua will travel to The TANK in Rangely, Colorado to record new works in a seven-story water tower converted to recording studio and concert venue. Composers writing for Manuela Freua at The TANK: Anna Golubkova, Tatiana Catanzaro, Mike Mulshine, Brian Brown, Barbara Nerness, Lemon Guo. Composers writing for The TANK space: Seán O Dalaigh, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, Celeste Betancur.

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person

John Chowning & Friends

cobasica — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 03:22:14 +0000

Date:

Fri, 05/17/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE

Event Type:

Concert

The second day of our Open House ends with a special 50th Anniversary concert curated by John Chowning.

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream