Recent Events

Date: Fri, 05/08/2026 - 10:00am - 6:00pm Location: Throughout the Knoll Event Type: Other Come see what we've been doing up at the Knoll! Join us for lectures, hands-on demonstrations, posters, installations, and musical performances of recent CCRMA research including sound synthesis, music in AI, online music-making, data-driven research in music cognition, and a musical instrument petting zoo.…

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: Fri, 05/22/2026 - 1:00pm - Sat, 05/23/2026 - 4:00pm Location: CCRMA Stage Event Type: Other Join us for an afternoon of talks examining how the acoustics of ritual and sacred spaces affect our experiences. The talks can be attended via CCRMA Live as well—register here (no registration for the live stream is necessary). Further details can be found here: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/trt/sympos…

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, 04/10/2026 - 10:00am - 5:00pm Location: CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE Event Type: Concert MediaFlock 2026 is a one-day art festival featuring multimedia art pieces from CCRMA students and guest artists from other California universities. Join us on April 10th to celebrate 30+ pieces of live performances, fixed media, and installations presented in the CCRMA building! Please visit https://cc…

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…

Date: Fri, 05/01/2026 - 10:00am - 11:30am Location: CCRMA Seminar Room Event Type: Hearing Seminar We don’t normally think of audition and autism in the same sentence. Autism, or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), is a neurodevelopmental condition affecting how individuals communicate, interact, and perceive the world. It is characterized by challenges with social skills, communication, and repetiti…

Date: Fri, 04/24/2026 - 10:30am - 12:00pm Location: CCRMA Seminar Room Event Type: Hearing Seminar The auditory brainstem response (ABR) is a basic auditory signal. An ABR test is performed on nearly all infants to make sure there is a functioning auditory system. The clinical test is not perfect, but if there is no response additional tests lead to a cochlear implant before the newborn losses …

Date: Fri, 04/10/2026 - 10:30am - 12:00pm Location: Lathrop 282 Event Type: Hearing Seminar Active Acoustics: Electro-acoustically changing the measured acoustical properties of a room for perceptual purposes Dr. Roger Schwenke (Meyer Sound) FREE Open to the Public read more

Date: Fri, 03/06/2026 - 10:30am - 12:00pm Location: CCRMA Seminar Room Event Type: Hearing Seminar What is special about a musical key? From a mathematical point of view it’s just a simple linear transformation. But why does music in one key sound happy and another sad? Craig Sapp is hosting this week’s CCRMA Hearing Seminar to led by Prof. Chris White (UMass Amherst). How the heck do we perceiv…

Date: Fri, 03/06/2026 - 7:30pm - 8:30pm Location: CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE Event Type: Concert The students in Music 106 present a concert by DOSIROCK. FREE and Open to All  | In Person + Livestream read more

Date: Sat, 04/04/2026 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm Location: CCRMA Stage Event Type: Concert POSTPONED: This concert has been postponed and will happen at a later date. Low Frequency Trio premieres works for bass clarinet, double bass, and piano by Stanford Graduate Composers. FREE Open to the Public read more

Date: Fri, 03/13/2026 - 10:30am - 12:00pm Location: CCRMA Seminar Room Event Type: Hearing Seminar Illusions as Windows into the Neural Mechanisms of Auditory and Audiovisual Perception Open to the Public read more

Date: Mon, 05/18/2026 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm Event Type: Guest Lecture 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…