ACTOR Research Team 11/5/19 ACTOR Research Team 11/5/19

CIRMMT—ACTOR Symposium on Orchestration Research, November 2019

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

Timbre and Orchestration Resource 7/13/19 Timbre and Orchestration Resource 7/13/19

Dorothea Lincke: Acoustic characterisation of concert halls illustrated by the Salle Claude-Champagne

Timbre and Orchestration Resource 7/13/19 Timbre and Orchestration Resource 7/13/19

Nicolas Farmer: Seeing new colors: Devices of Scriabinian and post- Scriabinian orchestration

Philippe Esling 6/22/19 Philippe Esling 6/22/19

01'30 en Stravinsky avec Philippe Esling, chercheur

Stephen McAdams 6/22/19 Stephen McAdams 6/22/19

Three pillars of ACTOR: Perceptual

Philippe Esling 6/22/19 Philippe Esling 6/22/19

Three pillars of ACTOR: Technological

Robert Hasegawa 6/22/19 Robert Hasegawa 6/22/19

Three pillars of ACTOR: Analytical/Creative

Caroline Traube 6/22/19 Caroline Traube 6/22/19

ODESSA project

ACTOR Research Team 6/22/19 ACTOR Research Team 6/22/19

Questions with Esling, Hasegawa, McAdams and Naón

Yan Maresz 6/22/19 Yan Maresz 6/22/19

Yan Maresz: Compositional approaches

ACTOR Research Team 6/22/19 ACTOR Research Team 6/22/19

Orchestration from the conductor’s podium

Carmine Cella 6/22/19 Carmine Cella 6/22/19

Carmine Emanuele Cella: Computer-assisted orchestration

Pierre Michel 6/22/19 Pierre Michel 6/22/19

Pierre Michel: Musicological and analytical approaches

John Rea 3/13/19 John Rea 3/13/19

Secrets, lies, and memory sticks in the art of composition

Step into the mysterious world of composition as John Rea unveils secrets in the art of writing music, how these secrets may lead to lies, and what happens when a composer’s memory starts playing tricks… The presentation will also include a live performance by pianist Stéphane Lémelin.

Lena Heng 1/30/19 Lena Heng 1/30/19

Semiology beyond the score; Making meanings from gestures, timbres, and tropes in Chinese music

Lena Heng is currently a PhD student in the interdisciplinary stream, and their research addresses how people perceive and make sense of music. Lena’s research interests include music perception and cognition, timbral functions in musical communication, and musical semiology and hermeneutics. Originally from Singapore, Heng plays erhu with the Ding Yi Music Company in Singapore. Lena will illustrate their research to the audience during this presentation with a live performance on the Chinese erhu.