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Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics

Summer Workshops 2016 Announced!

Check out the lineup here

Register for workshops here

Scholarship opportunities for women

Workshops offered this year include: Perceptual Audio Coding,  SuperCollider, New Music Controllers,  Audio Plug-Ins Designed with Faust, Abjad Workshop, The Composed Instrument, Stompbox Design, Mobile EEG for Auditory Research, Designing Musical Games, and Music Information Retrieval More info

Upcoming Events

MARCH MATTNESS - CCRMA in the Bing Concert Hall Studio

Date: 
Fri, 03/11/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Date: 
Sat, 03/12/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location: 
CCRMA Stage
Event Type: 
Concert
On Friday March 11th and Saturday March 12th CCRMA's new Technical Director Matt Wright will curate - MARCH MATTNESS - two evenings of immersive multimedia, electronic, acoustic, and electroacoustic music in the Bing Concert Hall Studio Space. Matt has studied and worked in many of the leading musical research centers throughout the US and for these two evenings he will present an eclectic mix of the works that have influenced and inspired him throughout his career, as well as several of his own genre bending compositions. From instrument designer to computer music researcher, from samba to oud, from network audio concerts to improvising electronic ensembles - these concerts will display the inner workings and idiosyncrasies of Matt's musical mind...

Friday:
FREE
Open to the Public

cmetq - an opera - Christopher Jette, composer and Nathan Krueger, baritone

Date: 
Sun, 03/13/2016 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location: 
CCRMA Stage
Event Type: 
Concert
cmetq contains both singing accompanied by fixed electronics and singing with live electronic processing. The piece examines the etiquette that encompasses communication technology. In addition to this complex web of etiquette, cmetq examines the human emotions tied to etiquette. The story is set in two time periods; the age of the invention of the telephone and the age of mobile communication and social media. The text for this piece was created using two distinct processes.Soliloquies were created to act as commentary on each of the ages and the unfolding stage work. Tweet-length texts were written and tweeted as reactions to readings about technology, etiquette, and their intersection. From the tweets, melodies were improvised and were translated with software.
FREE
Open to the Public

Real Time Audio Signal Processing with MATLAB

Date: 
Thu, 03/31/2016 - 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Location: 
CCRMA Class Room [Knoll 217]
Event Type: 
DSP Seminar

This talk will present the new MATLAB Audio System Toolbox for streaming live audio in and out of MATLAB/Simulink, along with algorithms and tools for processing, tuning, and analyzing such live audio signals. Low-latency processing is possible via ASIO support under Windows or Core Audio support on a Mac.

FREE
Open to the Public
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Recent Events

Michael Schutz - Dynamic sounds and perceptual processes: The surprising role of amplitude envelope in auditory perception

Date: 
Wed, 03/09/2016 - 5:30pm - 6:40pm
Location: 
CCRMA Classroom (Room 217)
Event Type: 
Guest Colloquium

We perceive movie stars voices’ as originating on-screen, even though they actually project from off-screen speakers.  Despite the conflicting spatial information, we experience unity as our perceptual system automatically binds related sights and sounds.  My team researches the process by which information is integrated cross-modally, with a particular focus on the role of amplitude envelope – the “shape” of a sound over time.  We have demonstrated that sounds with naturally decaying envelopes mimicking those produced by impact events integrate in ways at odds with previous findings and theories (Schutz, 2009).  Despite the considerable body of research on audio-visual integration

FREE
Open to the Public

Eve Egoyan and David Rokeby: Collaborative Works for Piano and Live Computer Projection

Date: 
Mon, 03/07/2016 - 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Location: 
CCRMA Stage, The Knoll
Event Type: 
Guest Colloquium
The performance/lecture will feature two works: Surface Tension and Simple Lines of Enquiry/Machine for Taking Time.  In Surface Tension Eve’s performance at the keyboard of a Disklavier is transformed and interpreted by a computer into live visual images projected onto a screen rising from the body of the piano. The visuals respond to a variety of performance parameters including dynamics, pitch, the harmonic relation between pitches, the use of the sustain pedal, and the duration of individual notes. This extends the piano into a visual instrument as well as a musical one. The performance itself is a loosely structured audio-visual improvisation in 5 movements.
FREE
Open to the Public

Roger Linn presents the LinnStrument: a MIDI controller that senses three dimensions of touch for expressive musical performance

Date: 
Wed, 03/02/2016 - 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Location: 
CCRMA Class Room [Knoll 217]
Event Type: 
Guest Colloquium

Electronic music is generally performed on a MIDI keyboard, which consists of little more than an array of on/off switches with velocity, plus a couple of knobs turned sideways for continuous control of pitch and modulation. While this works well for piano-type sounds, it offers poor control over the duration of the note compared to wind or bowed-string instruments. A new class of MIDI controllers called Polyphonic Multidimensional Controllers attempts to solve this problem by offering three dimensions of continuous control for each touch, polyphonically. Typically finger pressure controls note loudness, x-axis movements control note pitch and y-axis movements control note timbre.

FREE
Open to the Public

John Bischoff

Date: 
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: 
CCRMA Stage
Event Type: 
Concert
John Bischoff will present a prepared slideshow outlining his musical history and approach to electronic music, followed by a discussion of recent pieces, both solo and for computer network band. At the conclusion of his talk, he will perform a set of solo works that incorporate a custom analog circuit of his own design. As he activates the circuit, the resulting sounds are analyzed in real-time and used to inform an extended computer-synthesis response. A binding together of the analog and digital realms is the result, the unique characteristics of each medium crossbred and counterpoised in time to form a hybrid sensibility. Works include Circuit Combine, Visibility Study, and Surface Effect.
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Recent News

Jonathan Berger's "My Lai" In the News

All kinds of new buzz in being generated by our own Jonathan Berger's latest opera My Lai. Congratulations, Jonathan and the Kronos Quartet!

"In My Lai, a monodrama for tenor, string quartet, and Vietnamese instruments, composer Jonathan Berger had countless tragic elements at his disposal... In this immersive performance, we had the sense that, rather than defaulting to the story's obvious tragic details, Berger illuminate a single, more subtle element - the outraged bewilderment we often feel in the face of unimaginable horror."

 

Issue 21 of the Csound Journal Released

Issue 21 (Fall 2015) of the Csound Journal has been released! The journal can be read online here:

http://csoundjournal.com/issue21/index.html

This issue of the Csound Journal features an article written by MST student Paul Batchelor, which can be found here:

http://csoundjournal.com/issue21/chuck_sound.html

John Chowning Interview on RWM

#212 John Chowning 25.08.2015 (35' 26'')

Sonifying the world: How life's data becomes music

When Chris Chafe translates data into music, listeners sway to the beat of seizing brains, economic swings and smog.

"Unlike sex or hunger, music doesn’t seem absolutely necessary to everyday survival – yet our musical self was forged deep in human history, in the crucible of evolution by the adaptive pressure of the natural world. That’s an insight that has inspired Chris Chafe, Director of Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (or CCRMA, stylishly pronounced karma).

Twist the Gears of a Massive VR Music Engine with Carillon





Really nice article about a new VR instrument created by Rob Hamilton and Chris Platz. Enjoy!
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