NEWS
Composition prize for CIRMMT student member Anthony Tan
CIRMMT is very happy to announce that student member Anthony Tan, a Master's student in Composition at the Schulich School of Music, is one of the prize winners in the Contemptronics 08 Competition of the Hamburger Klangwerktage 2008 Festival in Hamburg.
Prof. Marcelo Wanderley presents prestigious Vollmer Fries lecture
Lecture presented at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as part of the Art_X initiative
Qualisys features CIRMMT on their website
Qyalisys has featured CIRMMT and CIRMMT on its website with a customer story on how users benefit from Qualisys motion capture systems.
Recent CIRMMT grants
Several major grants have been awarded to CIRMMT members over the past year, making possible the establishment of new cutting-edge audio and music research laboratories.
Réussite musicale à McGill
CIRMMT is featured in Le Devoir on October 28, 2006.
CIRMMT at RITMO
CIRMMT members take part in motion capture workshop at RITMO in Oslo, Norway.
CIRMMT Student Travel Support: Round 4 applications due December 10th 2010
The deadline for applications for CIRMMT travel funding, for travel between January 1st and March 31st, is December 10th.
Two CIRMMT members named Fellows of Royal Society of Canada
CIRMMT members Caroline Palmer and Robert Zatorre have been elected as new Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada.
Rythmopolis receives 'Musical Event of the Year' award
CIRMMT member Fabrice Marandola receives the 23rd Opus Award for Rythmopolis.
Rythmopolis: A successful 1st edition
A brief overview of the first edition of the series of events held at Place des Arts on September 6-8
Rythmopolis: A 360˚ spectacle
News about Rythmopolis: ICI Musique and CISM radio station
Same Song, Different Meaning
McGill neurologist Robert Zatorre's research is cited in an article exploring the neuropsychology of music. "...When Zatorre asked people to listen to their favorite pieces of music as he ran brain scans on them -- people selected whatever kinds of music sent chills down their spine -- he found that music activated very ancient parts of the brain." Washington Post
CIRMMT awards Agile Seed funding!
CIRMMT has just announced the recipient of the Agile Seeding funding for round 1 of 2019-20.
ServerGRIS now available for download
The Groupe de Recherche en Immersion Spatiale (GRIS) announces the launch of their new software for multichannel spatial sound.
Sylvie Gibet: Visiting scholar from VALORIA, Université de Bretagne Sud, France
CIRMMT is hosting visiting scholar Sylvie Gibet from January 9-14, 2012.
'Sounds in the city' reaches Boston
CIRMMT members Edda Bild and Daniel Steele present project concerning the development and impact of urban soundscapes in Boston.
CIRMMT students participate in Spark Festival 2009
The Digital Orchestra Project was presented at the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts in February 2009. Festival participants included current CIRMMT students Erika Donald and Xenia Pestova. Xenia performed former CIRMMT student Bryan Jacob's piece "Song from the Moment."
CIRMMT member Luis Rodrigues featured on Concorida website with 'Spiri - A robot in sync with music'
Luis Rodrigues, associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Compute Engineering at Concordia, and his students have collaborated with Canadian tech company Pleiades to work on a project involving a flying robot, Spiri, who responds to music and other forms of command.
Spiri drone named top three in Consumer Electronics Show 2015
Spiri, a Pleiades robot whose control system was developed at Concordia University with CIRMMT Regular member Luis Rodrigues, was considered one of the top three drones at the Consumer Electronics Show 2015 by Bloomberg.
CIRMMT Receives SSHRC funding to participate in Integra project
The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media and Technology has received funding from the International Opportunities Fund of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.