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2024-2025
Student Award Recipients (Group Projects)
- Alberto Acquilino & Champ Darabundit (CIRMMT supervisors: Stephen McAdams & Caroline Traube & Gary Scavone)
- Project Title: Perceptual dimensions of trumpet efficiency
- Vincent Cusson & Ying-Ying Zhang (CIRMMT supervisors: Marcelo Wanderley & Martha de Francisco)
- Project Title: Assessing the interrelation between acoustic features of the eTube instrument and an agent’s machine listening
- Oren Gurevitch, Jérémie Martineau & Yassine Mrabet (CIRMMT supervisors: Suresh Krishna, Myriam Boucher, Rachel Bouserhal)
- Project Title: Towards a better scientific understanding of phenomenological experience: detailed psychophysiological characterization of the state of immersion by absorption in music performers during music performance
- Yifan Huang, Jonas Regnier & Eto Sun (CIRMMT supervisors: Stephen McAdams, Phlilppe Leroux & Philippe Depalle)
- Project Title: BlendIt: An AI and perception-based project to promote blend in mixed music composition/performance
- Noa Kemp & Gabrielle Caux (CIRMMT supervisors: Catherine Guastavino, Suresh Krishna & Myriam Boucher)
- Project Title: Les effets perceptifs de mouvements à travers le geste musical spatialisé: méthodes compositionnelles immersives pour induire la vection auditive.
- Ninad Puranik & Travis West (CIRMMT supervisors: Gary Scavone & Marcelo Wanderley)
- Project Title: Harmonium Continuum: a keyboard interface for melodic expressions in Hindustani music using traditional harmonium gestures
Student Award Recipients (Single Projects)
- Miranda Jackson (CIRMMT supervisors: Gary Scavone & Jérémie Voix)
- Project Title: An active mute for the trumpet
- Xinyi Zhang (CIRMMT supervisor: Rachel Bouserhal)
- Project Title: Speech Production in Challenging Listening Conditions
2023-2024
- Yohaï-Eliel Berreby & Amanda Pruss (CIRMMT supervisors: Suresh Krishna & Fabrice Marandola)
- Project Title: Eye and pupil-tracking to understand attentional processing during music performance
- Martin Daigle & Emmanuel Lacopo (CIRMMT supervisors: Fabrice Marandola & John Hollenbeck)
- Project Title: Real-time Timbral Analysis for Musical and Visual Augmentation
- Tommy Davis & Maxwell Gentili-Morin (CIRMMT supervisors: Robert Hasegawa & Marcelo Wanderley)
- Project Title: eTube: updating controller and sensors for expanded agent communication
- Maryse Gagnon-Legault & Pierre-Luc Lecours (CIRMMT supervisors: Dominic Thibault & Nicolas Bernier)
- Project Title: Interprétation et apprentissage de la synthèse modulaire: projet de création d'une série d'études visant l'apprentissage de l'instrument et de sa notation
- Nicola Giannini & Jean-Philippe Jullin (CIRMMT supervisors: Robert Normandeau & Dominic Thibault)
- Project Title: MapSpat, un outil numérique qui permet de spatialiser le son en temps réel à l'aide de l'analyse des descripteurs audio
- Yifan Huang, Christopher Keach & Jonas Regniere (CIRMMT supervisors: Stephen McAdams & Robert Hasegawa)
- Project Title: Emotion studies on daily life sound in music composition and performance
- Stuart Jackson & Ezra Teboul (CIRMMT supervisors: Fabrice Marandola & Philippe-Aubert Gauthier)
- Project Title: Cybersonic Reeds: Reconstructing and Comparing Gordon Mumma's Mesa (1966) in Hardware and Software
- Benjamin Labastre, Maël Oudin & Linglan Zhu (CIRMMT supervisors: Philippe Leroux, Jonathan Wild & Stephen McAdams)
- Project Title: Mixed Writing for Digital Instruments: Creation, Analysis and Perception
- Theodora Nestorova & Ziyue Piao (CIRMMT supervisors: Isabelle Cossette, Gary Scavone & Marcelo Wanderley)
- Project Title: SenSing: Transmitting Kinesthetic Breathing Experiences for Voice Pedagogy & Performance
2022-2023
Student Award Recipients (Group Projects)
- Alberto Acquilino & Ninad Puranik (CIRMMT supervisors: Ichiro Fujinaga & Gary Scavone)
- Project Title: Assistive Technology for Trumpet Pedagogy
- Project Title: Assistive Technology for Trumpet Pedagogy
- Tobias Tschiedl, Stuart Jackson & Maxwell Ardito (CIRMMT supervisors: Robert Hasegawa, Fabrice Marandola, Marcelo Wanderley)
- Project Title: Recovering a lost work for vibraphone and electronics by Pierre Boulez
- Project Title: Recovering a lost work for vibraphone and electronics by Pierre Boulez
- Benjamin Lavastre & Linglan Zhu (CIRMMT supervisors: Philippe Leroux, Stephen McAdams, Marcelo Wanderley)
- Project Title: Mixed Pieces with Digital Instruments: From Writing to Perception
- Project Title: Mixed Pieces with Digital Instruments: From Writing to Perception
- Kasey Pocius & Tommy Davis (CIRMMT supervisors: Marcelo Wanderley, Guillaume Bourgogne)
- Project Title: Utilizing eTube Performance Gestures to Spatialize Autonomous Musical Agents Using Various Spatialization Models
- Project Title: Utilizing eTube Performance Gestures to Spatialize Autonomous Musical Agents Using Various Spatialization Models
- Meesh Fradkin & Erivan Duarte (CIRMMT supervisors: Jonathan Sterne, Isabelle Cossette, Marcelo Wanderley)
- Project Title: Inclusive Performance Ensemble: Technology, Disability and Access
- Project Title: Inclusive Performance Ensemble: Technology, Disability and Access
Student Award Recipients (Single, Interdisciplinary Projects)
- Yu Fang (CIRMMT supervisors: Marcelo Wanderley, Philippe Depalle)
- Project Title: Digitally Controlled Whammy Bar
- Project Title: Digitally Controlled Whammy Bar
- Sylvain Margot (CIRMMT supervisors: Peter Schubert, Julie Cumming)
- Project Title: Towards an Automatic Analysis of Melodic Style - The Case of Galliard at the End of the Renaisance
2021-2022
Student Award Recipients (Group Projects)
- Vincent Cusson & Tommy Davis (CIRMMT supervisors: Marcelo Wanderley, Guillaume Bourgogne)
- Project title: Designing a Physical Interface to Facilitate Interaction with an Autonomous Musical Agent in an Improvisation Context
- Project title: Designing a Physical Interface to Facilitate Interaction with an Autonomous Musical Agent in an Improvisation Context
- Martin Daigle & Charles Reimer (CIRMMT supervisors: Fabrice Marandola, Marcelo Wanderley)
- Project title: A gestural analysis method for the drummer's balance, posture, and techniques
- Project title: A gestural analysis method for the drummer's balance, posture, and techniques
- Erica Huynh & Iza Korsmit (CIRMMT supervisors: Philippe Depalle, Stephen McAdams)
- Project title: Teaching concepts of timbre with an online educational platform
- Project title: Teaching concepts of timbre with an online educational platform
- Jonathan Orland & Timothy De Reuse (CIRMMT supervisors: Fabrice Marandola, Ichiro Fujinaga)
- Project title: Computational Methods Applied to Motivic Analyses of Jazz Improvisation
- Project title: Computational Methods Applied to Motivic Analyses of Jazz Improvisation
- Carolina Rodriguez & Mariane Generale (CIRMMT supervisors: Richard King, Isabelle Cossette)
- Project title: Improvisation Impulse
Student Award Recipients (Single, Interdisciplinary Projects)
- Xiaohan Bao (CIRMMT supervisor: Stephen McAdams, External supervisor: Stephen Lomber)
- Project title: Perception of Instrumental and Vocal Sounds under Noise Masking
- Project title: Perception of Instrumental and Vocal Sounds under Noise Masking
- Mélanie Frisoli (CIRMMT supervisors: Robert Normandeau, Dominic Thibault)
- Project title: Développement d'une série d'outils numériques et multiphoniques pour la composition spatiale
- Project title: Développement d'une série d'outils numériques et multiphoniques pour la composition spatiale
- Nicola Giannini (CIRMMT supervisor: Robert Normandeau)
- Project title: Composition de la musique immersive : vers la primauté de la perception
- Project title: Composition de la musique immersive : vers la primauté de la perception
- Sara Nejati (CIRMMT supervisor: Luc Mongeau)
- Project title: Low-intensity ultrasound therapy for voice disorders
- Project title: Low-intensity ultrasound therapy for voice disorders
2020-2021
Student Award Recipients (Group Projects)
- Max Henry, Jonas Regnier & Xiaohan Bao (CIRMMT supervisors: Stephen McAdams & Philippe Leroux; External supervisor: Stephen G. Lomber)
- Project title: Directing attention in contemporary composition with timbre
- Erica Huynh & Jade Roth (CIRMMT supervisors: Stephen McAdams & Robert Hasegawa)
- Project title: Perceiving instrument register and playing effort through timbral cues
- Julian Armand Vanasse & Kathleen (Ying-Ying) Zhang* (CIRMMT supervisors: Richard King & Philippe Depalle)
- Project title: A novel sound field microphone and interface for immersive audio capture
- Richard Yanaky & Kathleen (Ying-Ying) Zhang* (CIRMMT supervisors: Catherine Guastavino)
- Project title: Educating professionals of the built environment in soundscape design through an immersive virtual reality tool
* Kathleen Zhang has only been awarded one stipend even though she is working on two projects.
Student Award Recipients (Single, Interdisciplinary Projects)
- Vincent Houde-Turcotte (CIRMMT supervisors: Caroline Traube & Gary Scavone)
- Project title: Generation and conception of measuring tools for geometrical and acoustic properties and data gathering for the modern Almenräder-Heckel system bassoons
- Yaolong Ju (CIRMMT supervisors: Ichiro Fujinaga & Peter Schubert)
- Project title: Automatic figured bass annotation and search in Bach chorales
- Matthew Skarha (CIRMMT supervisors: Marcelo Wanderley & Sean Ferguson)
- Project title: Towards a real-time chaotic digital musical instrument based on a nonlinear physical system
2019-2020
Student Award Recipients (Group Projects)
- Yuval Adler & Nestor Napoles Lopez (CIRMMT supervisors: Peter Schubert & Isabelle Cossette)
- Project title: Ear Training Gamification Software
- Martin Daigle & Ajin Tom (CIRMMT supervisors: Fabrice Marandola & Marcelo Wanderley)
- Project title: Haptic Tutor - A Haptics Technology based Music Education tool to develop limb coordination and improved rhythm skills for beginner-level musicians
- Takuto Fukuda & Eduardo Meneses (CIRMMT supervisors: Philippe Leroux & Marcelo Wanderley)
- Project title: Between design, composition and performance: expanding and embedding a high-level gesture vocabulary for the T-Stick
- Savvas Kazazis & Iza Korsmit (CIRMMT supervisors: Stephen McAdams & Philippe Depalle)
- Project title: Misophonia: Identification of acoustic features and the effect of context in evoking ‘mastication rage’
Student Award Recipients (Single, Interdisciplinary Projects)
- Isabelle Arseneau-Bruneau (CIRMMT supervisors: Robert Zatorre; External supervisors: Emily Coffey & Fernando Llanos)
- Project title: Understanding brain plasticity enhancements related to musical training: The Influence of sensory-motor & predictive mechanisms on the Frequency Following Response (FFR)
- Yulia Draginda (CIRMMT supervisors: Ichiro Fujinaga & Jon Wild)
- Project title: Temporal elasticity as the most important tool for expressive performance of German late Romantic organ music
- John Sullivan (CIRMMT supervisors: Marcelo Wanderley & Fabrice Marandola)
- Project title: The Bionic Harp
- Project title: The Bionic Harp
- Song Wang (CIRMMT supervisors: Gary Scavone & Luc Mongeau)
- Project title: Saxophone mouthpiece design - the link from the geometry to the sound
2018-2019
Student Award Recipients (Group Projects)
- Noam Bierstone, Takuto Fukuda & Mylène Gioffredo (CIRMMT supervisors: Fabrice Marandola, Robert Hasegawa & Georgia Spiropoulos)
- Project title: Reimagining Kagel’s Exotica in a Contemporary Technological and Cultural Context
- Tanor Bonin, Kseniya Degtyareva & Ephraim Hahn (CIRMMT supervisors: Stephen McAdams, Martha de Francisco & Wieslaw Woszczyk)
- Project title: Investigating semantic and technical coordination among composers, performers and sound engineers
- Laura Jacyna & Kit Soden (CIRMMT supervisors: Stephen McAdams, Catherine Guastavino)
- Project title: Thesaurus of Orchestration
Student Award Recipients (Single, Interdisciplinary Projects)
- Yaolong Ju (CIRMMT supervisors: Ichiro Fujinaga & Jon Wild
- Project title: Generating Multi-style Harmonic Analysis Using Artificial Intelligence for Homorhythmic Music
- John Sullivan (CIRMMT supervisor: Marcelo Wanderley, Catherine Guastavino)
- Project title: Building performance practice around new instruments: A Longitudinal Study of the Noisebox
- Project title: Building performance practice around new instruments: A Longitudinal Study of the Noisebox
- Moe Touizrar (CIRMMT supervisors: Stephen McAdams & John Rea)
- Project title: The sunrise metaphore in orchestral music: An analysis of transmodal perception from creation to reception
2017-2018
Student Award Recipients (Group Projects)
- André Martins de Oliveira & Katelyn Richardson (CIRMMT supervisor: Isabelle Cossette)
- Project title: The Kinectic-Kinematic-Physiological-Musician (KKPM) Database Project
- Matthew Boerum, Jack Kelly & Diego Quiros (CIRMMT supervisors: Ilja Frissen, Richard King & Marcelo Wanderley)
- Project title: How do virtual environments affect localization and timing accuracy when panning audio sources three-dimensionally?
- Project title: How do virtual environments affect localization and timing accuracy when panning audio sources three-dimensionally?
Student Award Recipients (Single, Interdisciplinary Projects)
- Pierre Grandjean (CIRMMT supervisors: Alain Berry & Philippe Aubert-Gauthier)
- Project title: Spherical microphone array design fabrication and testing based on ambisonic approach and Lebedev grid for spatial audio
- David Rafferty (CIRMMT supervisor: George Massenburg)
- Project title: Structured Cell
- Project title: Structured Cell
- Johnty Wang (CIRMMT supervisors: Marcelo Wanderley & Eric Lewis)
- Project title: Mapping Interface for alternative control of pipe organs for extended performance practice
2016-2017
Student Award Recipients (Group Projects)
- Zihua Tan & Karen Yu (CIRMMT supervisors: Ayun Huang & Philippe Leroux)
- Project title: Percussionist vs Machine: Playing in an Environment with Real-time Variable Acoustical Properties
- John Sullivan, Alexandra Tibbits & Olafur Bogason (CIRMMT supervisors: Marcelo Wanderley, Caroline Traube, Philippe Depalle)
- Project title: Harp gesture acquisition for the control of audiovisual synthesis
- Alex Nieva & Juan Sebastian Delgado (CIRMMT supervisor: Marcelo Wanderley)
- Project title: Multimoldal Visual Augmentation for Cello Performance
- Jason Noble & Savvas Kazazis (CIRMMT supervisors: Stephen McAdams, Robert Hasegawa, Philippe Depalle)
- Project title: Composing with Gestures on a Perceptual Chordal Space
Student Award Recipients (Single, Interdisciplinary Projects)
- Arun Duraisamy (CIRMMT supervisors: Larry Lessard & Gary Scavone)
- Project title: Design and Optimization of Natural Fiber Composites as a Replacement for Endangered Wood Species used in Musical Instruments
- Connor Kemp (CIRMMT supervisors: Gary Scavone & Francois Barthelat)
- Project title: Vibration Behaviour of Woodwind Reed Cane - Player Testing of In-use Reeds and Materials Characterization
- Project title: Vibration Behaviour of Woodwind Reed Cane - Player Testing of In-use Reeds and Materials Characterization
- Cynthia Tarlao (CIRMMT supervisors: Catherine Guastavino & François-Xavier Féron)
- Project title: Mind the Moving Music: auditory motion in experimental music
2015-2016
Student Award Recipients (Group Projects)
- Ben Duinker & Denis Martin (CIRMMT supervisors: Richard King & Jon Wild)
- Project title: An empirical approach to sub-genre classification in hip-hop's golden age
- Sarah Gates, Kit Soden & Moe Touizrar (CIRMMT supervisors: Robert Hasegawa, Stephen McAdams, Rene Rusch, Chris Harman & Melissa Hui)
- Project title: Correspondence of orchestral and visual gestures in representing basic emtional categories in dramatic scenes
- Brice Gatinet & Catherine Massie-Laberge (CIRMMT supervisors: Isabelle Cossette, Philippe Leroux & Marcelo Wanderley)
- Project title: Gesture analysis of bowing movements: Psycho-motor evidence of event cueing and conceptual categories in contemporary music
- Ian Hattwick, Robert Landon Morrison & Victoria Simon (CIRMMT supervisors: Robert Hasegawa, Jonathan Sterne & Marcelo Wanderley)
- Project title: How Max became Live: An Interdisciplinary Investigation into the Convergence of Two Music Software Paradigms
- Christina Volpini & Jacob Wiens (CIRMMT supervisors: Robert Hasegawa & Jon Wild)
- Project title: Instruments inside Instrument: Composing for Resonant Space
Student Award Recipients (Single, Interdisciplinary Projects)
- Daniel Steele (CIRMMT supervisors: Catherine Guastavino & Nik Luka)
- Project title: Spreading soundscapes: A collaborative study on sensing in the city
2014-2015
Student Award Recipients (Group Projects)
- Mohammad Adeli and Deborah Egloff (CIRMMT supervisors: Jean Rouat and Marcelo Wanderley)
- Project title: Developing a physiology-inspired auditory to tactile substitution system
- Michael Di Perna, Michael El-Jiz and Ian Hattwick (CIRMMT supervisors: Marcelo Wanderley and Luis Rodrigues)
- Project title: Unsounding objects: Control Strategies for a human-conducted quadcopter ballet
- Sarah Gates, Kit Soden and Moe Touizrar (CIRMMT supervisors: Stephen McAdams, Rene Rusch, Melissa Hui and Chris Paul Harman)
- Project title: Testing Affect: Toward analytical and creative applications of musical gesture in representing the perceived emotive components of dramatic music
- Marcello Giordano, Fredrick Gran and Marlon Schumacher (CIRMMT supervisors: Sean Ferguson, Philippe Leroux and Marcelo Wanderley)
- Project title: Using haptic notifications for polyrhythmic / metric synchronization in ensemble performance
Student Award Recipients (Single, Interdisciplinary Projects)
- Rachel Bou Serhal (CIRMMT supervisors: Jeremie Voix and Tiago Falk)
- Project title: Speech bandwidth extension and vocal effort coding for radio communication in noisy environments
- Caroline Shung (CIRMMT supervisors: Luc Mongeau and Gary Scavone)
- Project title: The effect of mechanical voice dose on the pathogenesis of and recovery from chronic phonotrauma
- Daniel Steele (CIRMMT supervisors: Catherine Guastavino and Nik Luka)
- Project title: Spreading soundscapes: A collaborative study on sensing in the city
2013-2014
Student Award Recipients (Group Projects)
- Benjamin Bacon and Christian Smith (CIRMMT supervisors: Marcelo Wanderley and Fabrice Marandola)
- Project title: Intermedia tools for gestural communication in percussion performance
- Preston Beebe and Ian Hattwick (CIRMMT supervisors: Philippe Leroux and Marcelo Wanderley)
- Project title: Unsounding objects: Control synthesis and compositional structure through feature extraction
- Marcello Giordano, Martha Shiell, and Pauline Tranchant (CIRMMT supervisors: Marcelo Wanderley, Robert Zatorre, Isabelle Peretz)
- Project title: Beat synchronization in deaf people using vibrotactile stimulation
Student Award Recipients (Single, Interdisciplinary Projects)
- Cedric Camier (CIRMMT supervisors: Jean Piche and Yann Pasco)
- Project title: Refined sound field rendering tool dedicated to computer-assisted composition
- Robert Giglio (CIRMMT supervisors: Tom Beghin and Ichiro Fujinaga)
- Project title: Stoss vs. Prell: Natural Selection in the Workshops of Late Eighteenth-Century Vienna
- David Sears (CIRMMT supervisors: Stephen McAdams and William Caplin)
- Project title: Modelling closure in classical music
- Daniel Steele (CIRMMT supervisors: Catherine Guastavino and Nik Luka)
- Project title: Spreading soundscapes: A collaborative study on sensing in the city
2012-2013
Recipients of the 2012-2013 CIRMMT Director's Interdisciplinary Excellence Prize
- Preston Beebe, Zachary Hale and Ian Hattwick (CIRMMT supervisors: Philippe Leroux, Fabrice Marandola, Marcelo Wanderley)
- Project title: Unsounding objects: Control of sound synthesis mapping, extended musical performance, composition
Student Award Recipients (Group Projects)
- Marcello Giordano and Marlon Schumacher (CIRMMT supervisors: Marcelo Wanderley, Sean Ferguson)
- Project title: A vibrotactile synthesis framework for haptic feedback in live-electronic music performance
- Jason Hockman and Jeremy VanSlyke (CIRMMT supervisors: Wieslaw Woszczyk, Ichiro Fujinaga)
- Project title: Score follower as a production tool for classical and contemporary music recording
- Doyuen Ko and Jung Wook Hong (CIRMMT supervisors: Wieslaw Woszczyk, Jeremy Cooperstock)
- Project title: Effects of Ambient Light Intensity on perceived brightness of sound
- Sven-Amin Lembke and Scott Levine (CIRMMT supervisors: Stephen McAdams, Martha De Francisco)
- Project title: Timbre blending as a performance variable: investigation of the interactive relationship between performers and a sound recording engineer
Student Award Recipients (Single, Interdisciplinary Projects)
- Dalia El-Shimy (CIRMMT supervisors: Jeremy Cooperstock and Marcelo Wanderley)
- Project title: Reactive environment for network music performance
- Meghan Goodchild (CIRMMT supervisors: Stephen McAdams, Jon Wild)
- Project title: Construction and perception of peak experience in music listening
- Terri Hron (CIRMMT supervisors: Philippe Leroux, Caroline Traube)
- Project title: Creative collaboration between composers and performers in the creation of works involving technology
- Hossein Mansour (CIRMMT supervisors: Gary Scavone, Luc Mongeau)
- Project title: Fluid structure interaction modeling of the Setar using Finite Element
- Andie Sigler (CIRMMT supervisor: Stephen McAdams. Other supervisor: Doina Precup)
- Project title: Reasoning about the listening of composing: Computational analysis of musical structure
- Daniel Steele (CIRMMT supervisor: Catherine Guastavino. Other supervisor: Nik Luka)
- Project title: Spreading soundscapes: A collaborative and practical study on closing the gaps between soundscape researchers and urban designers
2011-2012
Recipients of the 2011-2012 CIRMMT Director's Interdisciplinary Excellence Prize
- Benjamin Reimer and Marlon Schumacher (CIRMMT supervisors: Sean Ferguson, Fabrice Marandola, Marcelo Wanderley)
- Project title: Corpus-based techniques for instrumental writing in computer-aided composition
Student Award Recipients (Group Projects)
- Padraig Buttner-Schnirer and Brett Leonard (CIRMMT supervisor: Richard King. Other supervisor: André White)
- Project title: Subjective difference in musical capture systems: A survey of digital audio engine performance
- Beavan Flanagan and Mahtab Ghamsai-Esfahani (CIRMMT supervisors: Sean Ferguson, Marcelo Wanderley)
- Project title: Analysis of the role of mappings in performance development and in the creation of works for digital musical instruments
- Jason Hockman, David Sears and David Weigl (CIRMMT supervisors: Ichiro Fujinaga, Catherine Guastavino, Stephen McAdams)
- Project title: Sensing the beat: A computational model of beat salience
Student Award Recipients (Single, Interdisciplinary Projects)
- Félix Frédéric Baril (CIRMMT supervisors: Denys Bouliane, Fabrice Marandola)
- Project title: Representations of psychological states in a dynamic sound-field; A research on the possible representations of psychological states inherent to insanity in a live mixed music environment
- Frédéric Chiasson (CIRMMT supervisors: Stephen McAdams, Caroline Traube. Other supervisor: Isabelle Panneton)
- Project title: Validating Koechlin's orchestration system with auditory science to compose for orchestra and create
algorithms for automatic orchestration
- Song Hui Chon (CIRMMT supervisors: Sean Ferguson, Stephen McAdams )
- Project title: Investigation of the role of timbre saliency in blending and orchestration
- Meghan Goodchild (CIRMMT supervisors: Stephen McAdams, Jon Wild)
- Project title: Construction and perception of peak experience in music listening
- Teresa Hron (CIRMMT supervisors: Sean Ferguson, Caroline Traube)
- Project title: Composing for the "idiomatic" performer: Creative collaboration and technology in musical practice
- Amandine Pras (CIRMMT supervisors: Catherine Guastavino, Caroline Traube)
- Project title: Tacit knowledge for artistic direction of musical recordings
- Charalampos Saitis (CIRMMT supervisors: Luc Mongeau, Gary Scavone)
- Project title: Acoustic analyses, measurements and modeling of string instruments
- Eric Smialek (CIRMMT supervisors: David Brackett, Philippe Depalle)
- Project title: Unheard screams: Analyzing musical expression in extreme metal vocals
- Francesco Tordini (CIRMMT supervisors: Stephen McAdams, Jeremy Cooperstock)
- Project title: An augmented auditory saliency map
2010-2011
Student Award Recipients (Group Projects)
- Eliot Britton, Erika Donald and Benjamin Duinker (CIRMMT supervisors: Isabelle Cossette, Sean Ferguson, Fabrice Marandola, Marcelo Wanderley. Jon Wild)
- Project title: Expanded Performance Trio (EP Trio): A platform for musical research-creation
- Daniel Donnelly and Andrew Hankinson (CIRMMT supervisor: Ichiro Fujinaga. Other supervisor: Julie Cumming)
- Project title: Comprehensive training dataset for early printed music sources
Student Award Recipients (Single, Interdisciplinary Projects)
- Michel Bernays (CIRMMT supervisors: Doug Eck, Caroline Traube)
- Project title: Expression of piano timbre: verbalization, perception and gestural control
- Song Hui Chon (CIRMMT supervisors: Sean Ferguson, Stephen McAdams)
- Project title: Investigation of the role of timbre saliency in blending and orchestration
- Frédéric Chiasson (CIRMMT supervisors: Stephen McAdams, Caroline Traube)
- Project title: Validating Koechlin's orchestration system with auditory science to compose for orchestra and create
algorithms for automatic orchestration - Meghan Goodchild (CIRMMT supervisors: Stephen McAdams, Don McLean)
- Project title: Construction and perception of the ‘Awe’ moment in the music-listening experience
- Trevor Knight (CIRMMT supervisors: Jeremy Cooperstock, Wieslaw Woszczyk)
- Project title: Open Orchestra -- Automated feature analysis
- Steven Phillips (CIRMMT supervisors: Larry Lessard, Marcelo Wanderley)
- Project title: Mechanical design and multi-objective optimization of musical instruments
- Charalampos Saitis (CIRMMT supervisors: Luc Mongeau, Gary Scavone)
- Project title: Acoustic analyses, measurements and modelling of string instruments
2009-2010
Recipients of the 2009-2010 CIRMMT Director's Interdisciplinary Excellence Prize
- Parker Bert, Eliot Britton and Erika Donald (CIRMMT supervisors: Isabelle Cossette, Sean Ferguson, Fabrice Marandola and Marcelo Wanderley)
- Project title: Expanded Performance Trio: A platform for musical research-creation
Student Award Recipients (Group Projects)
- Rafa Absar and Stephen Sinclair, deferred from 2008-2009 (CIRMMT supervisors: Catherine Guastavino and Marcelo Wanderley)
- Project title: Relative contribution of auditory, haptic and visual cues for target-finding in a virtual immersive environment
- Mitchel Benovoy and Valorie Salimpoor (CIRMMT supervisors: Jeremy Cooperstock and Robert Zatorre. Other supervisor: Alain Dagher)
- Project title: Exploring the link between music and the pleasure centers of the brain
- Jason Hockman and Joseph Malloch (CIRMMT supervisors: Ichiro Fujinaga and Marcelo Wanderley)
- Project title: Real-time rhythmic manipulation of polyphonic audio by gestural control
- Moonseok Kim and Charalampos Saitis (CIRMMT supervisors: Luc Mongeau and Gary Scavone)
- Project title: Acoustic analyses, measurements and modelling of string instruments
- Jimmie Leblanc and Ida Toninato (CIRMMT supervisors: Denys Bouliane and Caroline Traube)
- Project title: Modes de jeu alternatifs au saxophone baryton, traitement en temps réel et espace musical : composition, interprétation, spatialisation
- Brett Leonard and Grzegorz Sikora (CIRMMT supervisors: Martha de Francisco and Wieslaw Woszczyk)
- Project title: Piano timbre: Psychoacoustic and physical measures to clarify perceived brightness in piano performance
Student Award Recipients (Single, Interdisciplinary Projects)
- Michel Bernays (CIRMMT supervisors: Douglas Eck and Caroline Traube)
- Project title: Expression of piano timbre: Perception, verbal description and gestural control
- Anna Tirovolas (CIRMMT supervisor: Daniel Levitin. Other supervisor: Ron Stringer)
- Project title: Exploring musical counterparts to phonemic awareness in the prediction of musical sight-reading
2008-2009
Recipient of the 2008-2009 CIRMMT Director's Interdisciplinary Excellence Prize
- Cléo Palacio-Quintin (CIRMMT supervisors: Jean Piché and Marcelo Wanderley)
- Project title: Mapping Research Project: Analysis of gestural capture data from the new hyper-flute and hyper-bass-
flute on specific musical compositions
Student Award Recipients (Group Projects)
- Rafa Absar and Stephen Sinclair, deferred to 2009-2010 (CIRMMT supervisors: Catherine Guastavino and Marcelo Wanderley)
- Project title: Relative contribution of auditory, haptic and visual cues for target-finding in a virtual immersive environment
- Mitchel Benovoy and Valorie Salimpoor (CIRMMT supervisors: Jeremy Cooperstock, Stephen McAdams and Robert Zatorre)
- Project title: Exploring the link between music and the pleasure centers of the brain
- Avrum Hollinger and Bertrand Scherrer (CIRMMT supervisors: Philippe Depalle and Marcelo Wanderley)
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Project title: Study of performer-instrument interaction on the classical guitar combining direct and indirect acquisition
Student Award Recipients (Single, Interdisciplinary Projects)
- Michel Bernays (CIRMMT supervisors: Douglas Eck and Caroline Traube)
- Project title: Perception, verbal description and gestural control of piano timbre
- Lysiane Bouchard (CIRMMT supervisors: Douglas Eck and Robert Zatorre)
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Project title: Classifier algorithms for human brain imaging data
- Johanna Devaney (CIRMMT supervisors: Ichiro Fujinaga and Jonathan Wild)
- Project title: N/A
- Erika Donald (CIRMMT supervisors: Isabelle Cossette and Marcelo Wanderley. Other supervisor: Julie Côté)
- Project title: At the core: Investigating the postural dynamics of expert and intermediate cellists
- Vincent Fréour (CIRMMT supervisors: Isabelle Cossette and Gary Scavone)
- Project title: Study of brass player gesture: application to trumpet players
- Pierpaolo Monaco, cancelled (CIRMMT supervisor: Isabelle Cossette. Other supervisor: Helene Perrault)
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Project title: Study and comparison of blood shift occurring during high pressure wind instruments playing and exercise in COPD patients
- Nils Peters (CIRMMT supervisors: Jonas Braasch and Stephen McAdams)
- Project title: How sweet is sweet? - Understanding the perceptual components of the sweet spot in surround loudspeaker setups
- Anna Tirovolas (CIRMMT supervisor: Daniel Levitin. Other supervisor: Ron Stringer)
- Project title: Rapid naming across music and text reading
2007-2008
Student Award Recipients (Group Projects)
- John Ashley Burgoyne and Jane Hatter (CIRMMT supervisors: Douglas Eck and Ichiro Fujinaga. Other supervisor: Julie Cumming)
- Project title: Optical music recognition on early manuscripts with adaptive hidden Markov models: An exploratory study of the Alamire scriptorium
- Heather Hindman, Xenia Pestova and Stephen Sinclair (CIRMMT supervisors: Sean Ferguson and Marcelo Wanderley)
- Project title: Mapping, with a view to composing and performing
- Sean Wood and Jean Mary Zarate (CIRMMT supervisors: Douglas Eck and Robert Zatorre)
- Project title: Analysis of behavioral measures and neural correlates of vocal pitch regulation
Student Award Recipients (Single, Interdisciplinary Projects)
- Mitchel Benovoy (CIRMMT supervisors: Jeremy Cooperstock and Stephen McAdams)
- Project title: Emotional data capture and mapping using biofeedback devices
- Bruno Gingras (CIRMMT supervisor: Stephen McAdams. Other supervisor: Peter Schubert)
- Project title: Expressive strategies and performer-listener interaction in organ performance
- Avrum Hollinger (CIRMMT supervisors: Marcelo Wanderley and Robert Zatorre)
- Project title: fMRI-compatible electronic musical instruments
- Rodolphe Koehly (CIRMMT supervisor: Marcelo Wanderley. Other supervisor: Theodorus Van de Ven)
- Project title: Preliminary experiments to use paper as a sensitive media support for computer music
- Doug Van Nort (CIRMMT supervisors: Philippe Depalle and Marcelo Wanderley)
- Project title: Adaptive control of sound processing
- Yon Visell (CIRMMT supervisors: Jeremy Cooperstock and Marcelo Wanderley)
- Project title: Modeling and applications of the dynamics of gesture-based input and sensory feedback
2006-2007
Recipients of the 2006-2007 CIRMMT Director's Interdisciplinary Excellence Prize
- Chloé Dominguez, Heather Hindman, and Mark Marshall (joint project: The Digital Orchestra. The work being conducted involves the investigation of vibro-tactile feedback in digital musical instruments).
2006-2007 Student Award Recipients
- Chloé Dominguez (CIRMMT supervisor: André Roy)
- Heather Hindman (CIRMMT supervisor: Denys Bouliane)
- Antoine Lefebvre (CIRMMT supervisor: Gary Scavone)
- Mark Marshall (CIRMMT supervisor: Marcelo Wanderley)
- Joe Malloch (CIRMMT supervisor: Marcelo Wanderley)
- Susan Rogers (CIRMMT supervisor: Dan Levitin)
- Andrew Stewart (CIRMMT supervisor: Sean Ferguson)
- Doug Van Nort (CIRMMT supervisor: Philippe Depalle)
- Yon Visell (CIRMMT supervisor: Jeremy Cooperstock)
- Mark Zadel (CIRMMT supervisor: Marcelo Wanderley)
- Jean Mary Zarate (CIRMMT supervisor: Robert Zatorre)