Martha de Francisco is a record producer and recording engineer (Tonmeister) specializing in Classical music. She is a professor for Sound Recording at McGill University in Montreal. An internationally acknowledged leader in the field of sound recording and record production, she has recorded with some of the greatest classical musicians of our time for the major record labels and in the best concert halls.

Associate Project Director

Project Coordinator

Project Director

Jason Noble is a composer and researcher whose work focuses on meaning in contemporary music. He currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship at the Université de Montréal, funded by FQRSC. Previously he worked as a postdoctoral researcher with the ACTOR project (Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration). His PhD from McGill University was funded by the prestigious Vanier Scholarship (SSHRC).

Dr. Lindsey Reymore
Postdoctoral fellow, McGill University, Music Research
lindsey.reymore@mail.mcgill.ca

Research interests: music analysis, timbre semantics, cognitive linguistics of timbre, crossmodal correspondences, cross-cultural research, music perception/cognition, corpus studies of orchestration, timbre in pop music, instrument-specific absolute pitch

Skills: experimental design, R, Bash/humdrum (basic), oboe performance, music theory

Current ACTOR projects: Timbre semantics, Orchview beta-testing, Executive Committee, Knowledge Mobilization Committee, Voice Working Group, Diversity Working Group, CORE Analysis Working Group, newsletter editor, social media.

Yadegari is currently on the faculty of the department of Music at UC San Diego, and the director of the Sonic Arts Research and Development group and the Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences (IDEAS) at the Qualcomm Institute (UC San Diego's branch of California Institute for Telecommunication and Information Technology).