Symposiums and Workshops ACTOR Research Team Symposiums and Workshops ACTOR Research Team

CV Workshop

On September 26, at 1:00pm (EDT), the ACTOR Training and Mentoring Committee(TMC) hosted an online workshop on CVs and cover letters with professors Robert Hasegawa (McGill University), Pierre Michel (Université de Strasbourg), Lindsey Reymore (Arizona State University), and Caroline Traube (Université de Montréal).

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Symposiums and Workshops Eliazer Kramer Symposiums and Workshops Eliazer Kramer

Virtual Orchestration: A New Aesthetic

Composers for film and video games generally make use of digital audio workstations (Pro Tools, Cubase, etc.) to complete their work. Sample libraries, virtual instruments, and extensive programming in their chosen software allow them to produce realistic sounding mock-ups that serve either as placeholders until their music has been recorded or, in some cases, as the final product itself.

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Individual Conference Presentations Lindsey Reymore Individual Conference Presentations Lindsey Reymore

Timbre semantics, orchestration, and music analysis: Timbre Trait Analysis

In this video made for the 2020 meeting of Music Theory Midwest, Reymore describes some of her timbre research: building a cognitive linguistic model of timbre qualia, using the model to construct profiles for orchestral instruments, and applying these findings in analysis of the first movement of Mahler's first symphony, where Reymore looks at form and at the climactic breakthrough, or Durchbruch, moment.

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