Joel LaRue Smith is a pianist, composer, arranger, and educator who seamlessly combines jazz, classical, and Afro-Latin music traditions. He has toured the world extensively and performed alongside artists such as Tito Puente, Ellis Marsalis, Kenny Burrell, Mario Bauza, Junior Cook, and Wayne Andre.

In the second ACTOR / TOR EduFilm, Lab partners Cameron Chameleon and Stephen McAdams (director, ACTOR project) explore cross-modal correspondences between sound and colour.

Dr. Stephanie Shonekan is an ethnomusicologist specializing in popular music of both Africa and the African diaspora, race and identity in music, and protest music. She is the newly appointed Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland

The series will launch with a talk by Dr. Bibian Kalinde entitled, “Unraveling timbre in the music of the marriage ceremony of the Chewa and Bemba in Zambia.”

• Timbre perceptions of vocal vibrato | Theodora Nestorova (McGill University)

• Deep audio learning for novel timbre generation | Ninon Devis (IRCAM)

• Did Messiaen draw from shared crossmodal correspondences within his synesthetic colour system? | Chelsea Komschlies (McGill University)

• Principles of Gestalt psychology as a means for emergent orchestration | Ehsan Fard (Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn)

• Compound figures in my CORE piece "Étude for ensemble" | Louis-Michel Tougas (McGill University)

The Analysis, Creation and Teaching of Orchestration (ACTOR) Project and the Schulich School of Music invite you to a lecture about the the Composer-performer Orchestration Research Ensemble (CORE) project presented by Professors Stephen McAdams (Music Technology) and Guillaume Bourgogne (Orchestral Conducting) on April 8 at 5:00pm EDT as part of the Research Alive Series.

We often reach for crossmodal metaphor to describe music--it sounds warm, or velvety, or rough, spiky, jagged, smooth, glassy, or bright, etc. What if these metaphors were not as subjective as we might think, but had a scientific, neurological basis?