Recent Events

Date: Fri, 08/07/2026 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm Location: CCRMA Stage Event Type: Concert Join us at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) for an evening of Quantum Computer Music on August 7 @ 7pm. FREE Open to the Public read more

Date: Mon, 06/08/2026 - 3:30pm - 5:30pm Location: CCRMA Classroom [Knoll 217] (ZOOM Link Below) Event Type: DSP Seminar Abstract: Sound synthesis has been a central pursuit in computer music research since its earliest days, giving rise to a lineage of techniques — from FM and wavetable synthesis to physical modeling and spectral methods — that have shaped the landscape of the field for decades. …

Date: Thu, 04/30/2026 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm Location: CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE Event Type: Concert A tapestry of homespun drum machines, synth drones, and Medieval vocal riffs, Delicate Citadel is the fruit of over two years of listening, performing, and reflecting on the relationship between compositional technique and material technology. Recently released as a full-length album, it is presented as…

Date: Mon, 04/27/2026 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm Location: CCRMA Courtyard, CCRMA Stage Event Type: Concert Step into the World of Walker's WOW[1], an evening of works by Walker Smith, other CCRMA friends, and some aliens from planets outside of CCRMA. The performances will be very diverse, but all center on themes of whimsy, humor, absurdity, pineapples, inter/multi-media and crossing traditional perform…

Date: Thu, 04/30/2026 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm Location: CCRMA Classroom (Knoll 217) and Zoom Event Type: Guest Lecture 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…

Date: Thu, 04/23/2026 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm Location: CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE Event Type: Concert CCRMA presents Bucket List performing Mark Applebaum's Achievement . FREE and Open to All  | In Person + Livestream read more

Date: Fri, 04/17/2026 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm Date: Sat, 04/18/2026 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm Location: Bing Concert Hall Studio / CCRMA LIVE Event Type: Concert Jack Distortion, a sound designer, becomes the winter resident engineer at the isolated Overdrive Hotel, hoping to cure his crippling composer's block. He settles in with his wife, Wendy, and his son, Danny, who's plagued by multichannel sonic premoni…

Date: Fri, 03/13/2026 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm Location: CCRMA Courtyard / CCRMA LIVE Event Type: Concert The students in Music 106 (Concert Production) present the final class concert in the CCRMA Courtyard, featuring 665 Garage Band , CCRMA K-Pop Band , Tourmaline Orchid , Peter Li, Emily Kuo , Siqi Chen , and Yi-Chia Wu . FREE and Open to All  |  In Person + Livestream | BYOB (Bring Your Own Blanke…

Date: Wed, 03/11/2026 - 7:30pm - 8:30pm Location: CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE Event Type: Concert Composer and sound artist Davor Vincze presents an evening of immersive electronic and audiovisual works that blur the boundaries between concert music, video art, and interactive technology. The program features Current24 , an AI-generated visual and musical collaboration with the artist collective cur…

Date: Thu, 03/05/2026 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm Location: CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE Event Type: Concert Presented by the M odular ORK estra, The Rise of MORK is a concert performed / composed / improvised by the students of the new " Modular Synthesis " course. They have been working hard all quarter, trying to tame all sorts of analog, hybrid and digital Eurorack modules, and will perform together in the…

Date: Fri, 05/22/2026 - 10:30am - 12:00pm Location: CCRMA Seminar Room Event Type: Hearing Seminar 3D sound is great, when it works. It’s immersive, helping us experience the acoustic world with more realism. ATMOS is a 3D sound representation and playback system that allows us to describe the sound once, and then play it back with different kinds of playback systems, from headphones, to any numb…