Recent Events

Junhyeok Lee (from JHU), "Differentiable Phase Augmentation for Speech Synthesis"

soohyun — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 22:37:01 +0000

Date:

Fri, 01/10/2025 - 4:30pm - 6:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Classroom (Knoll 217) / Zoom

Event Type:

DSP Seminar

Abstract
One of the most important goals of generative models is achieving a one-to-many mapping. In audio signals, the phase is a key component that contributes to one-to-many mapping, particularly in vocoder tasks. However, current audio generative models often overlook this aspect. In this seminar, we will discuss the application of domain knowledge from digital signal processing to deep generative modeling, including concepts such as the Fourier transform, Jensen-Shannon sampling, Nyquist frequency, quantization, and others.

FREE

Open to the Public

Gradients of Control | Robert Fleitz Piano Recital

dozier — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 01:18:11 +0000

Date:

Wed, 01/08/2025 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage

Event Type:

Concert

The relationship between composer, performer, audience, and score is a delicate and malleable web—not only in these agents' realities, but in the perceptions that are placed on each of them by the other. These imagines versions, shaped by tradition and context, blur the boundaries between intention and interpretation. In this recital, the solo piano becomes a focal point for exploring how composers and performers negotiate control over musical materials. The scores on this program move from improvisation, to control, and back again; questioning what it means to have "freedom" in a work of composed music, and inviting the listener to examine their own role in the process of meaning- and memory-making.

The program features works by Camila Agosto, Manaka Kataoka, Linda Leimane, Rytis Mažulis, Jeffrey Mumford, Lou Sheppard, Julie Zhu and Raimonda Žiūkaitė

FREE

Open to the Public

“What am I doing with my music?”: Musical hybridity in material, time, and life

walksmit — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 22:41:46 +0000

Date:

Wed, 01/08/2025 - 5:30pm - 6:45pm

Location:

CCRMA Classroom (Knoll 217)

Event Type:

Guest Colloquium

We live in a fragmented world, where algorithms both shape and narrow notions of genre and style, yet paradoxically grant us unprecedented access to a vast multiplicity of musical forms. In Western Classical music, however, there is often a deliberate ignorance of these dynamics—a problematic attachment to an idealized 'purity' of form.

My research focuses on the semiotics of musical hybridity: What opportunities and challenges arise in a quest of meaning-creation for listeners, performers, and composers when a single work encompasses multiple musical styles?

FREE

Open to the Public

Victor Arul | Composition Forum | Harvard x Stanford Student Exchange

cobasica — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 20:03:32 +0000

Date:

Tue, 01/07/2025 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage / Zoom

Event Type:

Guest Lecture

The Graduate Composition Forum presents Victor Arul as part of the Harvard x Stanford Student Exchange.

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Zoom

Composers from Afar | CCRMA 50th Anniversary

cobasica — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 08:29:50 +0000

Date:

Fri, 12/06/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE

Event Type:

Concert

CCRMA presents the final event in its 50th Anniversary Concert Series. Composers from Afar remembers pieces by Visiting Artists who have worked on computer music at CCRMA over the years, including Natasha Barrett, Vilbjørg Broch, Ludger Brümmer, Tine Surel Lange, Stéphane Roy, and Marco Trevisani.

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream

Vilbjørg Broch: Reflections

cobasica — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 18:44:01 +0000

Date:

Thu, 12/05/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE

Event Type:

Concert

CCRMA Visiting Scholar/Composer Vilbjørg Broch presents a concert of new works.

6-7pm Pre-Show Talk

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream

Stanford Cinematheque: FILM BODIES

cobasica — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 18:46:44 +0000

Date:

Wed, 12/04/2024 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Location:

Oshman Hall | McMurtry Building

Event Type:

Concert

The ½ Core+ improvises a live electroacoustic accompaniment to films by Stan Brakhage and Carolee Schneemann in FILM BODIES at Stanford Cinematheque.

The ½ Core+ is Constantin Basica, Chris Chafe, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, and Fernando Lopez-Lezcano.

FREE | Open to Stanford Affiliates Only | Oshman Hall, McMurtry Building, 355 Roth Way, Stanford, CA 94305

Electronic Sound Poetry

cobasica — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 05:43:02 +0000

Date:

Tue, 12/03/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage

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

Foreign/Domestic

cobasica — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 22:49:44 +0000

Date:

Thu, 11/21/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE

Event Type:

Concert

CCRMA presents a live performance by Foreign/Domestic.

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream

Koubeh

nfarzan — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:43:22 +0000

Date:

Sat, 11/16/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage

Event Type:

Concert

Koubeh is a New York-based band that mixes Iranian melodies with a fusion of global beats and original riffs.

FREE

Open to the Public