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Mission Statement
Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of ORchestration
(ACTOR)
The ACTOR Partnership proposes to enhance attention to timbre and orchestration by bringing its musical use to the forefront of scholarship, practice, and public awareness with world-class artists, humanists, and scientists. This Partnership links North American and European orchestration practice and pedagogy, stimulates the development of new creativity-enhancing digital tools for learning, creating, and studying orchestration practice in concert, club, film, and video-game music, and sensitizes young audiences to the wonders and complexities of high-quality music.
ACTOR aims to transform music scholarship both through the application of novel analytical tools to uncover the untheorized mysteries in over four centuries of music and through the development of sound-based music analysis tools that can be applied to un-notated music or recordings of notated music.
ACTOR will transform research in the fields of musicology, music theory, music psychology, popular music studies and ethnomusicology where the role of timbre in music has been either ignored or only rarely addressed systematically.
ACTOR will enhance the education of composers, arrangers and orchestrators by providing technological tools for learning the associations between symbolic representations in scores and the sonic result.
ACTOR will create tools to enhance musical creativity related to timbre and orchestration in the many genres of music on stage and at home through computer-aided orchestration environments that integrate cutting-edge signal-processing and machine-learning techniques. To achieve these aims, ACTOR activities are structured into three axes of research dealing with Analysis, Technological Tool Development and Innovative Outputs in several domains.
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Structure of ACTOR research and creation
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ACTOR Members:
Berndt, Axel
Grothe, Timo
Hadjakos, Aristotelis
Kob, Malte
Saccomano, Mark
Student Members:
Heitmann, Merit
Nemitz, Nicole
Thilakan, Jithin
ACTOR Members:
Cordero, Victor
Jarrell, Michael
Naón, Luis
Nouno, Gilbert
Student Researchers:
Garcia-Vitoria, Marc
ACTOR Members:
Agon, Carlos
Assayag, Gérard
Donin, Nicolas
Esling, Philippe
Féron, François-Xavier
Gatinet, Brice
Noisternig, Markus
Susini, Patrick
Warusfel, Olivier
Student Researchers:
Devis, Nino
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT)
Project Director:
McAdams, Stephen
Assistant Director:
Hasegawa, Robert
Project Coordinator:
Martins de Oliveira, Andre
ACTOR Members:
Biamonte, Nicole
Bouliane, Denys
de Francisco, Martha
Depalle, Philippe
Duinker, Ben
Fujinaga, Ichiro
Guastavino, Catherine
Gutiérrez Martínez, Andrés
Philippe Leroux
Rea, John (Retired)
Student Researchers:
Adler, Yuval
Daigle, Martin
Fraisse, Valérian
Grazioli, Gianluca
Heng, Lena
Hottle, Rachel
Huang, Yifan
Huynh, Erica
Kemp, Noa
Komschlies, Chelsea
Lacopo, Emmanuel Jacob
Lavastre, Benjamin
Lussier, Kelsey
Macnab-Séguin, Philippe
Nestorova, Theodora
Nguyen, Minh Tram
Régnier, Jonas
Rosner, Joshua
Roth, Jade
Tatar, Jeremy
Tougas, Louis-Michel
Zhang, Ying-Ying
Zhu, Linglan
Mao,Jiawen
Chang, Joseph
Oikonomidis, Michail
Wolschleger, Amanda
Yin Hei Lee, Jason
ACTOR Members:
Hamel, Keith
Pritchard, Bob
Tenzer, Michael
VanHandel, Leigh
Student Researchers:
Bergeron-Dumaine, Holly
Winikoff, Jason
Xu, Darren
ACTOR Members:
Boyd, Jeffrey
Eagle, David
Radford, Laurie
Sallis, Friedemann
Student researchers:
ACTOR Members:
Caetano, Marcelo
Puckette, Miller
Reynolds, Roger
Steiger, Rand
Yadegari, Sharokh
Student Researchers:
Chung, Matthew
De-filippo, Stephen
Ko, Min Seok (Peter)
Konick, Zachary
Liu, Anqi
Schneider, Berk
Sit, Janet
Song, Sang
ACTOR Members:
Britton, Elliot
Lee, Sherry
Lockhart, Ellen
McClelland, Ryan
McLean, Don (Retired)
Newsome, Gregory
Palej, Nobert
Tan, Daphne
Student Researchers:
Romao, Vanessa
Weinfeld, Joshua
Hildebrand, Nolan
Mendes Martins, Maria-Eduarda
ACTOR Members:
Bengio, Yoshua
de Médicis, François
Goldman, Jonathan
Lavoie, Jean-Michaël
Leblanc, Jimmie
Michaud, Pierre
Rivest, Jean-François
Sokolovic, Ana
Traube, Caroline
Student Researchers:
Joshua Bucchi
Showan Tavakol
Viktor Lazarov
Gabriel Couturier
Alessandro Garino
Simon Grégorcic
Tomás Díaz Villegas
Elise Poulin
Darko Dimitrijević
Kit Soden
Benjamin Pastrana Mankovitz
Luis Ernesto Peña Laguna
Matthieu Galliker
Hans Martin
Pauline Patie
Kjel Sidloski
Leïla Barbedette
ACTOR Members:
Michel, Pierre
Schneider, Mathieu
Ayari, Mondher
Student Researchers:
Iochem, Florian
Larrosa, Nicolas Medero
Wang, Mengqi
