The Analysis, Creation and Teaching of Orchestration (ACTOR) Project and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research is Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT) co-host a hybrid (in person/virtual) symposium on orchestration research on Wednesday, November 17, 4:30-6:30pm (EDT). The event includes four presentations on the composer-performer collaboration based on work by Stephen McAdams, Eliot Britton, Keith Hamel, Roger Reynolds, Caroline Traube, Yuval Adler, Robert Hasegawa, Joshua Rosner, Justine Maillard, Lindsey Reymore, and Eliazer Kramer.

Composer Fabien Lévy joins McGill researchers in music theory, composition, and music perception in a symposium co-sponsored by ACTOR (Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration) and CIRMMT Research Axes 3 and 4. Levy, author of Le compositeur, son oreille et ses machines à écrire: Déconstruire les grammatologies du musical pour mieux les composer, will present a morning lecture on “functional orchestration” followed in the afternoon by shorter presentations on aspects of analytical and orchestrational theory applied to the first movement of Franz Schubert’s Eighth Symphony and a hands-on analytical workshop. This workshop is co-sponsored by ACTOR, CIRMMT Research Axes 3 and 4, and the Schulich School of Music’s Composition and Music Technology Areas.

Presenting are Professor Caroline Traube from ACTOR partner institution Université de Montréal, Professor Martha de Francisco from McGill University, and ACTOR postdoctoral researchers Jason Noble and Julie Delisle. Following a general overview of the ACTOR Project, topics include advanced projects in sound recording, composer-performer collaborations, and orchestration theory and analysis. November 5th, 2019. https://www.cirmmt.org/activities/special/ACTOR_symposium