Recent Events

Tristan Peng's Piano Recital

pengt — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 09:14:38 +0000

Date:

Fri, 11/15/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage

Event Type:

Concert

Tristan Peng's Piano Recital

Recital Program

Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 28
Bach Toccata in E Minor, BWV 914
Chopin Nocturnes Op. 48
Ravel Miroirs

FREE

Open to the Public

Juhan Nam, "My Journey Toward Musically Intelligent Machines"

soohyun — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 09:05:04 +0000

Date:

Fri, 11/15/2024 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Classroom [Knoll 217] (ZOOM Link Below)

Event Type:

Guest Lecture

Abstract
Creating intelligent machines that can listen to, play, and even making music has been a longstanding human ambition. Recent advancements in AI, especially through deep learning, have brought us closer to realizing this vision. In this talk, I will share my personal journey in developing musically intelligent machines, beginning with my PhD research on music representation learning during the early days of deep learning, and continuing with my collaborative work with students over the past decade at KAIST. Key topics will include bridging music audio with language, human-AI music ensemble performances, and neural audio processing.

Open to the Public

Concepts and Control: Understanding Creativity in Deep Music Generation

lejun — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 20:09:22 +0000

Date:

Fri, 11/15/2024 - 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Location:

CCRMA Classroom [Knoll 217] (ZOOM Link Below)

Event Type:

DSP Seminar

Abstract: Recently, generative AI has achieved impressive results in music generation. Yet, the challenge remains: how can these models be meaningfully applied in real-world music creation, for both professional and amateur musicians? We argue that what’s missing is an interpretable generative architecture—one that captures music concepts and their relations, which can be so finely nuanced that they defy straightforward description. In this talk, I will explore various approaches to creating such an architecture, demonstrating how it enhances control and interaction in music generation.

FREE

Open to the Public

Nat Condit-Schultz on Tempo, Tactus, Rhythm, Flow: Computational Hip Hop Musicology in Theory and Practice

malcolm — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 05:12:09 +0000

Date:

Fri, 11/15/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Seminar Room

Event Type:

Hearing Seminar

Computational musicology is not just for classical music. In this talk, I will review a variety of computational investigations of hip hop based on my dataset, the Musical Corpus of Flow (MCFlow). Using MCFlow, we can characterize the "norms" of rap flow and investigate how they have changed historically, including changes in tempo and the density of rhyme over time. I will also discuss the methodological challenges of computational musicology in general, and hip-hop/pop musicology specifically, and demonstrate tools and methods I have developed.

FREE

Open to the Public

The New Sound of New Music: Contemporary Composition and Modern Record Production Practices, two part lecture series with Murat Çolak

anoushka — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 23:48:55 +0000

Date:

Thu, 10/31/2024 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Date:

Thu, 11/07/2024 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Location:

CCRMA classroom

Event Type:

Guest Lecture

Murat Colak is a Turkish-American composer, mastering engineer, mixer, record producer, and educator based in New York City. He’s known for his work in contemporary classical and experimental music, with records on acclaimed labels like KAIROS, Edition Wandelweiser, NEOS, New Focus, Jazzland, Innova, Carrier, and Da Vinci Classics among others.

During his residency at Stanford University's CCRMA, Dr. Colak will present two public lectures. The first will introduce his creative journey, offering insights into his compositional approach and how it intersects with his approach to sound engineering, especially in crafting acoustics for contemporary concert music..

Free

Open to the Public

Homage to Ligeti | CCRMA 50th Anniversary

cobasica — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 21:18:07 +0000

Date:

Sun, 11/03/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm

Location:

Dinkelspiel Auditorium / CCRMA LIVE

Event Type:

Concert

A major concert will kick off the final series of events celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. Join us in Dinkelspiel Auditorium on November 3 at 7:30pm for a program of music by György Ligeti, whose five-month residency at Stanford in 1972 and friendship with John Chowning helped lead to the founding of CCRMA. This all-Ligeti program comprises Atmosphères (featured in the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey) performed by the Stanford Symphony Orchestra; Musica ricercata performed by pianist Roger Xia '24; the electronic composition Artikulation; and the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra featuring violinist Tanja Becker-Bender with the Stanford New Ensemble conducted by Paul Phillips.

FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream

Distractfold x Graduate Composers

kimia — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:58:50 +0000

Date:

Fri, 11/01/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage

Event Type:

Concert

Distractfold Ensemble concludes their residency with a concert featuring seven new compositions by Stanford Graduate composers, specifically written and developed for the ensemble.

Works by: Celeste Betancur, Seán Ó Dálaigh, Mohammad H. Javaheri, Lemon Guo, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, Calvin Van Zytveld, Mercedes Montemayor Elosua

FREE

Open to the Public

Gerald Schuller: Perceptual and higher-level loss and distance functions for machine learning in audio and acoustics

malcolm — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:31:33 +0000

Date:

Thu, 10/31/2024 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Classroom / Zoom

Event Type:

Hearing Seminar

Prof. Gerald Schuller will report on the potential transformative role of perceptual loss functions and distance metrics in enhancing audio and acoustic machine learning models, and their applications. He will cover theoretical foundations of perceptual loss functions, which mimic human auditory perception, and also more abstract, higher-level representations, and explore how these functions, along with novel distance metrics, significantly improve the performance of audio processing tasks. Applications involving loss functions for room impulse responses, audio similarity, and audio representations for cochlear implants will be discussed.

Prof. Marina Bosi will be hosting his visit.

Join us in Zoom if you cannot make it in person!

FREE

Open to the Public

Distractfold

kimia — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:47:09 +0000

Date:

Sun, 10/27/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Stage

Event Type:

Concert

Distractfold Ensemble begins their residency at Stanford University with a concert featuring works by Lee Fraser, Zeynep Toraman, and Bára Gísladóttir.

Program:
'Reliq Ens' (2014) - Lee Fraser
'Rage Agains the Reply Guy' (2021) - Bára Gísladóttir
'Castle Terraces in Barry Lyndon (2023) - Zeynep Toraman

FREE

Open to the Public

Faust Day 2024

rmichon — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:56:25 +0000

Date:

Sun, 10/27/2024 - 10:00am - 5:00pm

Location:

CCRMA Classroom

Event Type:

Other

Faust Day 2024 will take place at CCRMA on October 27th, 2024. This one day event targets both beginners and advanced users of the Faust programming language (https://faust.grame.fr). Morning sessions (10:00am - 12:30pm) will be dedicated to introductory tutorials on Faust (see this as "Faust 101"). Afternoon sessions (01:30pm - 05:00pm) will focus on advanced applications and ongoing research around Faust.

FREE

Open to the Public