Year 6 Workshop | Vancouver, Canada

Jul. 15

ACTOR Y6 Workshop

July 15-17, 2024

School of Music
University of British Columbia

Welcome | About | Schedule | Information

“I‘m looking forward very much to welcoming ACTOR members to our Y6 workshop at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Many thanks to our collaborators at UBC for their hard work towards hosting the conference, and also to Keith Hamel who’s taking care of our local arrangements and André Martins de Oliveira who has been working tirelessly as Project Coordinator. This workshop will wrap up the sixth year of our partnership, and there are many activities to report on and progress to celebrate. I’m particularly encouraged by the many collaborative activities that took place over the last year among faculty and student members across different ACTOR institutions, ensuring that this year’s slate of workgroups will once again demonstrate the resourcefulness and devotion of our research-creation community. As the seven-year ACTOR project begins to draw to a close, Stephen McAdams and I are exploring a second edition with an expanded focus on research creation and expanded study of global musical approaches to timbre and orchestration. I look forward to seeing everyone either in person or virtually and hearing about your work over the course of the workshop! ”

— Bob Hasegawa

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 and orchestration play in music in interaction with all the other musical parameters. Every year, this group of orchestrational aficionados gets together to have updates on the progress made by its various workgroups and to plan on the year to come. 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, the Training and Mentoring Committee (TMC), and the Knowledge Mobilization Committee (KMC). This year, the workshop will be preceded by a three-day edition of the Timbre and Orchestration Summer School (TOSS), led by postdoctoral fellows Andrés Gutiérrez Martínez, Ben Duinker, and Kit Soden. The ACTOR Y6 Workshop will be held in a hybrid format (online/in person), in Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada). We anticipate that this format will enable a greater number of members to participate.

More info:
Workgroup Leaders | Student Presentations | Note-Takers | Travel and Accom

The Y6 Annual Workshop will be hosted by the School of Music of the University of British Columbia, located at 6361 Memorial Rd., Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2. Most activities will be held in the main building, in rooms 462, 475, 113, and the Roy Barnett Recital Hall.

Contact: +1 604 822-3113

More information: www.music.ubc.ca

(PDF version will be available closer to the start date)

July 15 (Monday)

* All times are listed in PDT (UTC/GMT - 7 hours)

8:45 Welcome Coffee
9:00 Opening remarks
9:15 Student Presentations
11:00 TOSS Poster Session
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Lightning Talks
2:20 Student Grant Presentations
3:20 Coffee break
3:50 Admin session
4:50 ACTOR 2.0
5:40 Closing Remarks
7:00 Dinner

July 16 (Tuesday)

8:45 Welcome Coffee
9:00 Timbre and Orchestration Analysis | Orchidea Sessions
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Interdisciplinary Studies | Room Acoustic Sessions
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Host Highlight Session
3:00 Coffee break
3:30 AI | Timbre in Afrological Music Sessions
6:00 Dinner
7:30 Concert

July 17 (Wednesday)

8:45 Welcome Coffee
9:00 Orchestration Pedagogy | Timbre Semantics Sessions
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Voice | CORE Sessions
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Diversity Session
3:00 Coffee break
3:30 Wrap-up Session
5:00 Closing remarks
6:00 Dinner

Concert

Information about the host’s concert will be posted here.

All 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 in Sharepoint. If you experience problems accessing it, contact actor-project.music@mcgill.ca

Acoustics of musical performance rooms (Malte Kob, Martha de Francisco). [Room_Acoustics]
Artificial intelligence and computational tools for orchestration (Philippe Esling) [AI]
Arts, Humanities, and Interdisciplinary Methodologies (Moe Touizrar, Jason Noble, and Rebecca Moranis) [Interdisciplinary_Methodologies]
Composer-performer orchestration research ensembles – CORE (Stephen McAdams, Roger Reynolds, Caroline Traube). [CORE]
Computer-aided and target-based orchestration – Orchidea (Carmine Cella). [Orchidea]
Diversity workgroup (Robert Hasegawa). [Diversity]
Orchestration Pedagogy [Orchestration_Pedagogy]
Timbre and orchestration analysis (Robert Hasegawa). [Timbre_Orchestration_Analysis]
Timbre in Afrological Music Workgroup (Jason Winikoff, Juanita Marchand Knight, Joshua Rosner, Danielle Davis, and Chidi Obijiaku) [Timbre_Afrological_Music]
Timbre semantics (Lindsey Reymore, Jason Noble). [Timbre_Semantics]
Timbre, Orchestration, and the Human Voice (Juanita Marchand Knight). [Voice]