Year 3 Workshop | Online
Note from the Director
I would like to welcome to all ACTOR members to the workshop wrapping up our third year of activities. I hope that all ACTOR members managed to maintain their activities in spite of the challenges presented by the pandemic. Many of the collaborative activities of course had to go virtual as did this year's workshop (again!), but everyone rose the challenge as best as circumstances allowed, and this year's slate of workgroups is a testament to the resourcefulness and devotion of our community. We are looking forward to hearing about your work over the course of the workshop and hopefully a return to an in-person meeting in Calgary in 2022.
J'aimerais souhaiter la bienvenue à tous les membres d'ACTOR à l'atelier qui clôture notre troisième année d'activités. J'espère que tous les membres d'ACTOR ont réussi à maintenir leurs activités malgré les défis posés par la pandémie. De nombreuses activités de collaboration ont bien sûr dû devenir virtuelles comme l'atelier de cette année (encore !), mais chacun a relevé le défi aussi bien que les circonstances le permettaient, et la liste des groupes de travail de cette année est un témoignage de l'ingéniosité et du dévouement de notre communauté. Nous sommes impatients d'entendre parler de vos travaux au cours de l'atelier, avec l'espoir de revenir à une réunion en personne à Calgary en 2022.
Stephen McAdams
About the workshop
The Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration (ACTOR) partnership involves musicians, humanists, scientists and engineers to deepen the understanding of the many roles that timbre plays in music in interaction with all the other musical parameters. Every year, this group of timbre aficionados gets together to have updates on the three main axes of the project (i.e., Analysis, Tool development, and Output innovation) which translates into research projects, technological development, artistic productions, and pedagogical initiatives. Aside from building the ACTOR community, facilitating networking, and fostering collaboration, the annual workshop also includes presentations given by student members during the plenary session and reports of activities presented by the Project Director, Professor Stephen McAdams, the Training and Mentoring Committee (TMC), and the Knowledge Mobilization Committee (KMC). Due to the circumstances, the ACTOR Y3 Annual Workshop will be held online via Zoom again this year.
Schedule
*All times are listed in EDT
| Time | Monday (July 12th) | Tuesday (July 13th) | Wednesday (July 14th) | Thursday (July 15th) | Friday (July 16th) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM | Workgroup 5 | ||||
| Plenary Session | Workgroup 2 | Workgroup 8 | |||
| 10:00 AM | Workgroup 11 | ||||
| 11:00 AM | |||||
| Workgroup 3 | Workgroup 6 | Workgroup 9 | |||
| 12:00 PM | Closing Session | ||||
| 1:00 PM | |||||
| 2:00 PM | Workgroup 1 | Workgroup 4 | Workgroup 7 | Workgroup 10 | |
| 3:00 PM |
Workgroups
Here is a complete list of workgroups and their respective leaders. Links to supporting materials and Zoom links will be posted as they become available.
*Please note that the links to supporting materials will take you to ACTOR’s repository. If you experience problems accessing it, contact actor-project.music@mcgill.ca
Orchestration analysis taxonomies and the Orchestration Analysis and Research database – Orch.A.R.D (Stephen McAdams). All links here
Diversity working group (Robert Hasegawa). All links here
Artificial intelligence and computational tools for orchestration (Philippe Esling). All links here
Computer-aided and target-based orchestration – Orchidea (Carmine Cella). All links here
Acoustics of musical performance rooms (Malte Kob). All links here
Composer-performer orchestration research ensembles – CORE (Stephen McAdams). All links here
OrchView (Félix Baril). All links here
Timbre and Orchestration Resource – TOR (Kit Soden). All links here
Timbre semantics (Caroline Traube and Zachary Wallmark). All links here
Voice working group (Juanita Marchand Knight). All links here
Timbre and orchestration analysis (Robert Hasegawa). All links here
Timbre Course Design (Alex Rehding and Emily Dolan). All links here
Plenary Session (July 12, 2021)
09:30-09:40 – Director’s Report, Stephen McAdams
09:40-09:50 – TMC Report, Nathalie Hérold
09:50-10:00 – KMC Report, Catherine Guastavino
10:00-10:15 – break
Student Presentations
10:15-10:40 – A psyche space – possibilities of incorporating psyche into compositional process (Anqi Liu, UCSD)
10:40-11:05 – Technology and timbre – An autoethnography on the influence of electronics on the composer’s orchestration practice (Jorge Ramos, RCM)
11:05-11:30 – Cross-cultural orchestration in contemporary music : adaptation of traditional Middle Eastern playing techniques to Western instruments (Showan Tavakol, UdM)
11:30-11:45 – break
11:45-12:10 – Timbre and orchestration of big bands and jazz orchestras (Joshua Rosner, McGill)
12:10-12:35 – Investigating timbral attribute perception using Best-Worst Scaling (Victor Rosi, IRCAM)
12:35-01:00 – Evaluation and reconstruction of a blended string ensemble: Recent developments & findings (Jithin Thilakan, Detmold)
01:00-01:25 – The anatomy of a mix: Creating sound recording pedagogical material for TOR from ODESSA musical excerpts (Kathleen Zhang, McGill)
For the complete abstracts visit ACTOR Y3 Student Presentations
Closing Session (July 16, 2021)
01:30-01:40 Opening remarks, Stephen McAdams
01:40-02:10 Lightning talks from working groups 1-6 (5’ each)
02:10-02:25 break
02:25-03:25 Lightning talks from working groups 7-12 (5’ each)
03:25-03:30 Final remarks, Stephen McAdams
Information
Follow the links below for information (these links are private, for ACTOR Members only)
· General Admin documents: Director’s report, KMC report, and TMC report — See All Links Page (for private docs and links)