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!
[Check out the schedule] [Register for workshops]
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
Date:
Thu, 04/23/2026 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Event Type:
Concert 
CCRMA presents Bucket List performing Mark Applebaum's Achievement.
FREE and Open to All | In Person + Livestream
Tong Shan (Stanford) - Deriving Auditory Brainstem Responses from Naturalistic Speech and Music
Date:
Fri, 04/24/2026 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
FREE
Open to the Public
Walker's WOW
Date:
Mon, 04/27/2026 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Location:
CCRMA Courtyard, CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert 
FREE
Open to the Public
Nathan Turczan: Scale Navigator
Date:
Thu, 04/30/2026 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Classroom (Knoll 217) and Zoom
Event Type:
Guest Lecture 
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.
FREE
Open to the Public
Sean Russell Hallowell: Delicate Citadel
Date:
Thu, 04/30/2026 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
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 a continuous audiovisual composition, blending granular loops and macroscopic gestures to bring divergent domains of perception into resonance.
FREE and Open to All | In Person + Livestream
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Recent Events
The Binging
Date:
Fri, 04/17/2026 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Date:
Sat, 04/18/2026 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Event Type:
Concert 
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
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
MediaFlock 2026 | Multimedia Art Festival
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://ccrma.stanford.edu/mediaflock for more information.
FREE
Open to the Public
[POSTPONED] Low Frequency Trio Performs New Works by Stanford Graduate Composers
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.
Low Frequency Trio premieres works for bass clarinet, double bass, and piano by Stanford Graduate Composers.
FREE
Open to the Public
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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
Congratulations to Poppy Crum for joing the Advisory Board for the Engineering & Technology Magazine's Innovation Awards! Check out the interview here, in which she discusses her path from a professional violinist to her position today as a neuroscientist and technologist.
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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