Project Blog

Welcome to the Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration’s Project Blog!

This blog is open to all ACTOR members, as well as to invited authors, to share their research, ideas, musings, reports, conference summaries, project updates and more…

Project Updates

Project Blog
Metaphors we listen with
Zachary Wallmark & Charalampos Saitis
Metaphors we listen with
Zachary Wallmark & Charalampos Saitis
Zachary Wallmark & Charalampos Saitis
Using OrchPlay to investigate musical instrument identification
Simon Jacobsen
Using OrchPlay to investigate musical instrument identification
Simon Jacobsen
Simon Jacobsen
A report on the University of California San Diego Fall 2022 ACTOR and its continuation into 2023
Roger Reynolds
A report on the University of California San Diego Fall 2022 ACTOR and its continuation into 2023
Roger Reynolds
Roger Reynolds
ACTOR and TOR Websites
Kit Soden
ACTOR and TOR Websites
Kit Soden
Kit Soden
Y4 | Director's Report 2021-22
Stephen McAdams
Y4 | Director's Report 2021-22
Stephen McAdams
Stephen McAdams
Student Grant Updates: An investigation of choral blending through soundfield capture, acoustic evaluation, and perceptual analysis methods
Ying-Ying Zhang & Jithin Thilakan
Student Grant Updates: An investigation of choral blending through soundfield capture, acoustic evaluation, and perceptual analysis methods
Ying-Ying Zhang & Jithin Thilakan
Ying-Ying Zhang & Jithin Thilakan
Student Grant Updates: Sounding the interaction of cultures: Orchestration techniques and perceptual effects
Lena Heng & Mengqi Wang
Student Grant Updates: Sounding the interaction of cultures: Orchestration techniques and perceptual effects
Lena Heng & Mengqi Wang
Lena Heng & Mengqi Wang
Student Grant Updates: Masque de Fer
Martin Daigle & Gabriel Couturier
Student Grant Updates: Masque de Fer
Martin Daigle & Gabriel Couturier
Martin Daigle & Gabriel Couturier
Recording of an album for guitar and electronics
Jason Noble
Recording of an album for guitar and electronics
Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Bringing OrchView out of Beta
Félix Baril
Bringing OrchView out of Beta
Félix Baril
Félix Baril
Popular Music Subgroup Update
Popular Music Subgroup Update
Composer-performer Orchestration Research Ensembles (CORE) - Round 2: 2021-2023
Stephen McAdams
Composer-performer Orchestration Research Ensembles (CORE) - Round 2: 2021-2023
Stephen McAdams
Stephen McAdams
Y3 | Director's Report 2020-21
Stephen McAdams
Y3 | Director's Report 2020-21
Stephen McAdams
Stephen McAdams
Puckette-Reynolds Project 2019-2022
Miller Puckette and Roger Reynolds
Puckette-Reynolds Project 2019-2022
Miller Puckette and Roger Reynolds
Miller Puckette and Roger Reynolds
Timbre and Orchestration Taxonomies Workshop Report
Taxonomies Research Team
Timbre and Orchestration Taxonomies Workshop Report
Taxonomies Research Team
Taxonomies Research Team
Y2 | Director's Report 2019-20
Stephen McAdams
Y2 | Director's Report 2019-20
Stephen McAdams
Stephen McAdams
Music Performance Markup: Infrastructure for a Data Standard for Musical Performance Modelling
Axel Berndt
Music Performance Markup: Infrastructure for a Data Standard for Musical Performance Modelling
Axel Berndt
Axel Berndt

Postdoc Blogs

Conference Summaries