Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
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
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 
Low Frequency Trio premieres works for bass clarinet, double bass, and piano by Stanford Graduate Composers.
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
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:
Lathrow 282 Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
FREE
Open to the Public
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
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
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Recent Events
Music 106 Final Concert
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 Blanket/Beverage)
Kristina Backer (UCMerced) - Neural Mechanisms of Auditory and Audiovisual Perception
Date:
Fri, 03/13/2026 - 10:30am - 12:00pm Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
Open to the Public
Davor Vincze
Date:
Wed, 03/11/2026 - 7:30pm - 8:30pm 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 current.cam, originally created for the transdisciplinary work manteia (2024). This is followed by We’re in this together, a 4-channel electronic piece developed for NIME 2025, inviting the audience to participate via smartphones in shaping the sonic outcome. The concert concludes with a live set by Vincze in which he will use his voice to create generative soundscapes. The concert offers a playful yet intricate exploration of the recent electronic and interdisciplinary works by Vincze.
FREE and Open to All | In Person + Livestream
DOSIROCK
Date:
Fri, 03/06/2026 - 7:30pm - 8:30pm Event Type:
Concert 
The students in Music 106 present a concert by DOSIROCK.
FREE and Open to All | In Person + Livestream
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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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