Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Department of Music at Stanford Seeks Composition Faculty
We are pleased to announce that the Department of Music is searching for a composition faculty member to join our professoriate. This person will be able to collaborate closely with CCRMA faculty, students, staff, and facilities while teaching composition in Braun Music Center and the Knoll. Detailed job posting and application can be found here: https://music.stanford.edu/news/faculty-position-available-assistant-pro...
Upcoming Events
Richard F. Lyon (Google): Using machine learning and cochlear models to personalize and optimize hearing aids
Date:
Fri, 11/06/2026 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
FREE
Open to the Public
Richard F. Lyon (Google) - Using machine learning and cochlear models to personalize and optimize hearing aids
Date:
Fri, 11/06/2026 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
FREE
Open to the Public
Immersive Listening Session with AES
Date:
Thu, 11/12/2026 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE
Event Type:
Concert 
FREE
Open to the Public
Sound, Voice, Strings: Compositions for Traditional East Asian Instruments
Date:
Tue, 11/17/2026 - 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
An evening of new music for stringed traditional East Asian instruments. Featuring Katherine Whatley (koto and voice), Southeast of Rain (pipa, voice, electronics), and Stella Da Yun Song (haegeum).
FREE
Open to the Public
Proloy Das on EEG and MEG source localization
Date:
Fri, 11/20/2026 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
Source localization is often used in EEG and MEG studies to assign a signal to specific regions in the brain, not just a surface electrode location. These algorithms make a number of assumptions. How do these algorithms localize a signal, and how much should we trust the results?
For information see Proloy's lab page: proloydas.net/
FREE
Open to the Public
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Recent Events
Bernhard Ross on gamma oscillations during listening to speech
Date:
Fri, 10/30/2026 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
Oscillations are a long standing theory or explanation of how our auditory system groups together the sounds we need to understand. How is that we figure out that these frequencies are a vowel, and these other frequencies are part of a door knock? Are oscillations the cause, the method, or an epiphenomena?
Who: Bernhard Ross (Toronto)
What: Fast EEG/MEG rhythms (gamma) underlying brain processes of auditory perception
When: Friday October 30 at 10:30AM
FREE
Open to the Public
Estelle Song (Meta) - When Sound and Vision Move Out of Step: Introducing Motion Onset Asynchrony in Spatial Audio and Immersive Media
Date:
Fri, 10/23/2026 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
FREE
Open to the Public
Spatial Composition: The New Frontier | Presentation & demonstration by Julius Dobos
Date:
Thu, 10/22/2026 - 11:30am - 1:20pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Guest Colloquium 
FREE
Open to the Public
Bill Fontana: Imaginary Acoustic Visions | Seeing with My Ears and Hearing with My Eyes
Date:
Mon, 10/19/2026 - 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Event Type:
Guest Lecture 
Bill Fontana will give a presentation on Imaginary Acoustic Visions and play examples of his sound sculptures.
The event is FREE and open to the public. But RSVP if you'd like pizza after the talk!
The event is FREE and open to the public. But RSVP if you'd like pizza after the talk!
FREE
Open to the Public
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Past Live Streamed Events
Recent News
Marina Bosi to Deliver the Richard Heyser Memorial Lecture at AES Show Nashville 2026
Marina Bosi will present the Richard Heyser Memorial Lecture at the Audio Engineering Society (AES) Show in Nashville on Saturday, October 31, 2026.
Her lecture, “Making Every Bit Count: From Psychoacoustics to the Technologies Enabling the Digital Music Revolution,” will explore how our understanding of human hearing, together with advances in digital signal processing helped make the digital music revolution possible.
The lecture will highlight the fundamental ideas and technologies that have shaped modern digital audio and the way we experience music.
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Gareth Loy, CCRMA Fixture for 50+ years, died on May 28, 2026
Our friend and colleague, Gareth Loy passed away on May 28, 2026. He was one of the original souls at CCRMA in the '70s, combining his musical and technical skills to create new kinds of music.File Attachment:
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.
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