6th CIRMMT-ACTOR Symposium on Orchestration Research

Location: McGill A-832 and Zoom

The Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration (ACTOR) Project and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT) will be co-hosting a hybrid symposium on orchestration research on Friday, March 17, 12:00-2:00 pm (EST). The event is open to all and will include four presentations by ACTOR Student Members, each followed by a discussion period. Presentations are based on the following ACTOR Collaborative Student Projects:

• 12:00-12:30pm – Timbrenauts: Creative Explorations in Timbre Space – Yuval Adler (McGill University) and Berk Schneider (University of California San Diego)

• 12:30-01:00pm – An Investigation of Choral Blending through Soundfield Capture, Acoustic Evaluation, and Perceptual Analysis Methods – Kathleen Ying-Ying Zhang (McGill University) and Jithin Thilakan(Detmold University of Music)

• 01:00-01:30pm – Masque de Fer – Martin Daigle (McGill University) and Gabriel Couturier (Université de Montréal)

• 01:30-02:00pm – Speech as Timbre Models for Orchestration – A Comparative Study Between Cantonese and Québécois French – Darren Xu (University of British Columbia) and Louis-Michel Tougas (McGill University)

https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/81982160295

Meeting ID: 819 8216 0295