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Research-Creation Series

Focusing on projects that involve both research and creative output; examples might include compositions, multimedia works, orchestrations or arrangements, sonification or visualization projects, creative software development, podcasts, and so forth.

Concentrer sur des projets qui impliquent à la fois la recherche et la production créative; les exemples peuvent inclure des compositions, des œuvres multimédias, des orchestrations ou des arrangements, des projets de sonification ou de visualisation, le développement de logiciels créatifs, des podcasts, etc.

 

Composition Research-Creation

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Space as Timbre (SAT) Research-Creation Project Report
Pedram Diba et al
Space as Timbre (SAT) Research-Creation Project Report
Pedram Diba et al

The primary objective of the Space As Timbre (SAT) project is to conduct meticulous experiments on orchestration solutions and playing techniques, to achieve timbral effects that closely approximate the perceptual characteristics of diverse acoustical spaces. To this end, SAT endeavors to illuminate the intricate interplay between the spectral content of a sound, its resynthesis through orchestration, and the resulting perception of the quality of the acoustical space where the sound seems to have been produced.

Pedram Diba et al
Musicians Auditory Perception (MAP) Interactive Project Report
Musicians Auditory Perception Research Team
Musicians Auditory Perception (MAP) Interactive Project Report
Musicians Auditory Perception Research Team

The purpose of the Musician’s Auditory Perception (MAP) project is to collect qualitative data via sonic ethnography in order to promote and analyze, both literally and metaphorically, (a) sonic collaboration between auditory learners, (b) modes of sound information gathering, and (c) the creative expression of musicians, while disrupting common pedagogic methods that reinforce hierarchical education practices.

Musicians Auditory Perception Research Team
Technology and Timbre
Jorge Ramos
Technology and Timbre
Jorge Ramos

Moving Sources explores the relationship between instrumental orchestration and electronics primarily through the means of spectral analysis and subsequent electronic-informed timbre-blending techniques such as filtering, reverberation, granular synthesis, pitch freezing, envelope generators, noise, delays and spatialization.

Jorge Ramos
Exploring the Virtual Orchestra through Blood, Sweat, and Tears. Part I
Eliazer Kramer
Exploring the Virtual Orchestra through Blood, Sweat, and Tears. Part I
Eliazer Kramer

This article outlines my first attempt at making a virtual orchestration from one of my compositions, Récitatif, chant et danse. In addition, it provides some background on virtual orchestration and discusses the different elements involved in creating one.

Eliazer Kramer
The "Paradoxical Complexity" of Sound Masses
Jason Noble
The "Paradoxical Complexity" of Sound Masses
Jason Noble

Beginning with simple elements of sound, composers can use their expertise to craft compositional systems that may be enormously complex and far beyond the comprehension of most listeners. But by the end, I think it is a magical thing if it comes around to become perceptually simple again: a musical organism with processes, gestures, and gestalts that are readily appreciated and comprehended.

Jason Noble
Seven Beginnings
Jason Noble
Seven Beginnings
Jason Noble

Seven Beginnings (2019), for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, two violins, viola, and cello, was composed as a deliverable of my ACTOR postdoc. The piece builds upon the trend of speech transcription in recent music, with a focus on spectral transcription and cross-modal composition. But far from being a technical étude, it is a very personal piece with a very specific motivation behind its materials and methods.

Jason Noble