Nova Contemporary Music Meeting Stephen McAdams et al Nova Contemporary Music Meeting Stephen McAdams et al

Composer-performer Orchestration Research Ensembles

Throughout the CORE project, the creative processes of exploration, orchestrational problemsolving, and the realization of new music were recorded, documented, and archived for consideration. This presentation will describe the project’s goals, aims and methodological approaches at the five partner institutions, certain facets of which will be detailed in other presentations.

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Nova Contemporary Music Meeting Yuval Adler et al Nova Contemporary Music Meeting Yuval Adler et al

Documenting Composer-Performer Collaboration on Orchestrational Problem Solving

Through score and audio analysis using a perceptually based taxonomy of orchestrational effects, we studied three compositions written by McGill University graduate students in collaboration with the ensemble’s performers. Our analytical approach considered perceptual issues of auditory fusion, segregation, integration, and stratification, focusing largely on the strategies developed by each composer to achieve their desired textural effects.

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