Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
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The Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA, pronounced "karma") is a multi-disciplinary facility where composers and researchers work together using computer-based technology both as an artistic medium and as a research tool. CCRMA is located on the campus of Stanford University [ map]which is an hour south of San Francisco, California.

Areas of ongoing interest at CCRMA include: Composition, Synthesis Techniques and Algorithms, Physical Modeling, Signal Processing, Digital Recording and Editing, Psychoacoustics and Musical Acoustics, Real-Time Applications and Controllers, Collaborative Works with other Art Disciplines and Music Manuscripting by Computer.

CCRMA activities include academic courses, seminars, small interest group meetings, summer workshops and colloquia. Concerts of computer music are presented several times each year with an annual outdoor computer music festival in July. In-house technical reports and recordings are available, and public demonstrations of ongoing work at CCRMA are held periodically. See the overview page for an extensive list of current CCRMA activities.

• General Information:
  • CCRMA Overview: current activities in composition, research and teaching.
  • CCRMA Events: upcoming concerts, colloquia and seminars.
  • CCRMAlites: personal home pages of faculty, staff, students, and visiting scholars.
  • CCRMA Publications articles/recordings by CCRMA authors/composers.

  

• Courses and Workshops:
  • 151: Psychoacoustics and Cognitive Psychology for Musicians.
  • 154: Introduction to Computer and Electronic Music
  • 220b: Algorithmic Composition Techniques
  • 420: Short-Time Fourier Transform Theory and Audio Applications
  • 421: Signal Processing Methods in Musical Acoustics
    
  • 1996 Summer Workshops

  

• Software:
  • Anonymous FTP server
  • Software and Hardware section of the CCRMA overview.
  • Computer music software packages available through CCRMA
    • SynthBuilder
    • MusicKit 4.1
    • CM (Common Music)
    • CLM (Common Lisp Music)
    • CMN (Common Music Notation)

  

• Facilities:
  • Description of CCRMA facilities.
  • The Catgut Musical Acoustics Research Library: a collection of resources in musical acoustics research.
  • The Center for Computer-Assisted Research in the Humanities: development of data resources for applications in music research and allied areas of humanities study.
  • Department of Music the home page of Stanford University Department of Music
  • Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound. The Archive houses more than 200,000 recordings and over 4,000 print and manuscript items including an extensive reference collection of books and periodicals on the history and development of the sound recording industry and its major figures.
  • Electroacoustic Music Centers on the Web.

  

• Local Interest:
  • Computer Music Tutorials for CM and CLM by Nicky Hind.
  • 3D Strange Attractors and Similar Objects and Line Integral Convolution Paintings by Tim Stilson.

  

• Articles about CCRMA:
  • Making a Synthesizer Sing Like Pavarotti by Don Clark, Wall Street Journal, May 6, 1994.
  • Wave of the Future: The story of the next generation in sound technology, By Bob Johnstone in WIRED Online, 1993.

CCRMA, Department of Music, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-8180 United States of America Phone: (415)723-4971 FAX: (415)723-8468 E-mail: info@ccrma.stanford.edu

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