Symposiums
Symposiums
Symposiums hosted by the Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration Project.
Upcoming Events
No symposia are planned at the moment.
Past Events
ACTOR is pleased to announce the ninth ACTOR / CIRMMT Student Symposium, held as a hybrid event on Friday, May 16th, 11:30pm-1:30pm.
ACTOR is pleased to announce the seventh ACTOR / CIRMMT Student Symposium, held as a online event on Friday, March 22nd, 12pm-2pm.
ACTOR is pleased to announce the seventh ACTOR / CIRMMT Student Symposium, held as a hybrid event on Friday, October 20th, 12pm-2pm (Eastern), A-832, Wirth Music Building (McGill Schulich School of Music). The four speakers, all ACTOR members, each presented posters at the TIMBRE 2023 Conference in Thessaloniki in July.
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.
Timbrenauts: Creative Explorations in Timbre Space
Speech as Timbre Models for Orchestration – a Comparative Study Between Cantonese and Québécois French
Masque de Fer
An investigation of choral blending through soundfield capture, acoustic evaluation, and perceptual analysis methods
The Analysis, Creation and Teaching of Orchestration (ACTOR) Project and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research is Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT) will be co-hosting a hybrid symposium on orchestration research on Friday, October 21, 12:00-1:30pm (EST). The event is open to all and will include presentations by ACTOR Postdoctoral Fellows Andrés Gutiérrez Martínez and Ben Duinker followed by a discussion period.
The Performer's Voice in Music Theory/Analysis Research – Ben Duinker
Timbre Topologies - Conception and Exploration of Timbral Similarity, Analogy, and Difference in my Creative Practice – Andrés Gutiérrez Martínez
This online event will consist of four 20-min presentations with 10 minutes of questions for each.
1. Explaining mental representations of sound semantics – Victor Rosi (IRCAM)
2. Musicians Auditory Perception (MAP) Project – Shahrokh Yadegari (University of California, San Diego) [PI] with ACTOR student members Jeanne Côté (McGill University), Pedram Diba (McGill University), Min Seok Peter Ko (UCSD), Sang Song (UCSD), Berk Schneider (UCSD), and Tiange Zhou (UCSD) plus external collaborator Florian Grond (McGill University)
3. Masque de Fer – Martin Daigle (McGill University) and Gabriel Couturier (Université de Montréal)
4. Sounding the interaction of cultures: Orchestration techniques and perceptual effects – Lena Heng (McGill University), and Mengqi Wang (Université de Strasbourg)
The event will include four presentations on the composer-performer collaboration based on the papers listed below. A discussion period will follow.
Composer-performer Orchestration Research Ensembles (CORE) – Stephen McAdams, Eliot Britton, Keith Hamel, Roger Reynolds, Caroline Traube
Documenting Composer-Performer Collaboration on Orchestrational Problem Solving – Yuval Adler, Robert Hasegawa, and Joshua Rosner
Orchestrational thinking and composer-performer relationships in the context of a collaborative creation process – Justine Maillard, Caroline Traube, Lindsey Reymore, Stephen McAdams
E-Rock: Creating Blend, Combining Styles, and Composing through Collaboration – Eliazer Kramer
Le compositeur Fabien Lévy se joindra aux chercheurs de McGill en théorie musicale, composition et perception musicale dans un symposium coparrainé par ACTOR (Analyse, création et enseignement de l'orchestration) et les axes de recherche 3 et 4 du CIRMMT. Levy, auteur de Le compositeur, fils oreille et ses machines à écrire : Déconstruire les grammatologies du musical pour mieux les composer, présentera une conférence matinale sur « l'orchestration fonctionnelle » suivie l'après-midi de présentations plus courtes sur des aspects de la théorie analytique et orchestrale appliquée au premier mouvement de la Huitième de Franz Schubert Symphonie et un atelier pratique d'analyse. Cet atelier est coparrainé par ACTOR, les axes de recherche 3 et 4 du CIRMMT et les domaines de composition et de technologie musicale de l'École de musique Schulich.
Les présentateurs sont la professeure Caroline Traube de l'institution partenaire ACTOR de l'Université de Montréal et les chercheurs postdoctoraux ACTOR Jason Noble et Julie Delisle de l'Université McGill. Après un aperçu général du projet ACTOR, les sujets incluront des projets avancés dans l'enregistrement sonore, les collaborations compositeur-interprète et la théorie et l'analyse de l'orchestration.
