Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
CCRMA Summer Workshops
Summer 2026: CCRMA Workshops Announced!
There are a wide variety of offerings, some in person, some on line, and some hybrid. Have a look! More will be announced as they're organized, so check back with us frequently!
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John Chowning Receives Technical GRAMMY Award
We are thrilled to announce that John Chowning, pioneering composer and co-founder of CCRMA, was honored with a Technical GRAMMY® Award by the Recording Academy on January 31st, 2026 at the Special Merit Awards ceremony. This prestigious award recognizes individuals who have made contributions of outstanding technical significance to the recording field. Read the full announcement here.
Upcoming Events
Bucket List: Achievement
Tong Shan (Stanford) - Deriving Auditory Brainstem Responses from Naturalistic Speech and Music
Nathan Turczan: Scale Navigator
Scale Navigator - Abstract
Scale Navigator is a system for exploring, capturing, and sharing harmonic state across composition, performance, and music production contexts. The project is grounded in Dmitri Tymoczko's quadruple hierarchy, in which notes move within chords, chords within scales, and scales within chromatic space. From this perspective, harmonic state can be understood as a snapshot of what is happening at a given moment within that hierarchy. Scale Navigator turns that idea into an interactive system that musicians can navigate, save, and distribute in real time.
Dan Abrams (Stanford) - Autism Spectrum Disorder and Audition
Pat Scandalis: Physical Modeling Synthesis: History, Applications and the Future (AES Talk)
This event is FREE and OPEN to all; RSVP required: Eventbrite
The story of physical modeling spans nearly a thousand years—from early explorations of acoustics to today’s cutting-edge synthesis technologies. We now live in a time when anyone can perform like Jimi Hendrix with just small device in the palm of their hands. It’s a fun and deeply technical topic, drawing on many fields, including physics, acoustics, digital signal processing and music.
This tutorial will explore:
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Recent Events
The Binging
FREE and Open to All | In Person at Bing + Livestream
Roger Schewenke (Meyer Sound) - Active Acoustics: Electro-acoustically changing the measured acoustical properties of a room for perceptual purposes
Active Acoustics: Electro-acoustically changing the measured acoustical properties of a room for perceptual purposes
Dr. Roger Schwenke (Meyer Sound)
MediaFlock 2026 | Multimedia Art Festival
[POSTPONED] Low Frequency Trio Performs New Works by Stanford Graduate Composers
Low Frequency Trio premieres works for bass clarinet, double bass, and piano by Stanford Graduate Composers.
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Past Live Streamed Events
Recent News
John Chowning Receives Technical GRAMMY Award
We are thrilled to announce that John Chowning, pioneering composer and co-founder of CCRMA, was honored with a Technical GRAMMY® Award by the Recording Academy on January 31st, 2026 at the Special Merit Awards ceremony. This prestigious award recognizes individuals who have made contributions of outstanding technical significance to the recording field.
Poppy Crum Joins Advisory Board for Engineering & Technology Magazine's Innovation Awards
JackTrip: Syncing performances online, Stanford News
"Stanford-developed software enables musicians isolated by the coronavirus pandemic to jam together again in real-time ... A longstanding software program for online music playing has been optimized for slower, home-based internet connections."
https://news.stanford.edu/2020/09/18/jacktrip-software-allows-musicians-sync-performances-online/
By Adam Hadhazy
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