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CIRMMT member Richard King interviewed in La Presse
Richard King talks about his work at McGill and abroad with Jean-François Codère of La Presse.
Collaboration between live@CIRMMT and Montreal Baroque Festival reviewed in the Montreal Gazette
The final concerts of the 2013-2014 live@CIRMMT series, featuring Tom Beghin on fortepiano and Wieslaw Wosczcyk as virtual acoustics architect received praise from the Montreal Gazette.
CIRMMT axes reorganization
The restructuring of CIRMMT's axes is now complete: CIRMMT's research program is organized into four axes.
CIRMMT student Sylvain Pohu makes latest work 'Feedback' available on YouTube
Feedback is a work for guitar and electronics, at the convergence of free jazz, glitch electroacoustics, and drone metal. It is the fruit of my graduate studies, and the culmination of a long personal project which led me to engage in advanced studies and research in music 10 years ago.
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.
CIRMMT member Robert Normandeau awarded First Prize (mixed music) in the Musica Nova 2013 International Competition of Electroacoustic Music
Normandeau's work, "Baobabs," was awarded First Prize (mixed music) in the Musica Nova 2013 International Competition of Electroacoustic Music (Prague, Czech Republic). A mixed work for 4 voices, 6 percussion, and tape, Baobabs was commissioned by percussion ensemble Sixtrum and premiered during the live@CIRMMT concerts on May 15 and 16, 2013, in the MultiMedia Room of the Schulich School of Music.
live@CIRMMT concert 'The Virtual Salon' video excerpt with CIRMMT member Tom Beghin on fortepiano
An excerpt from the live@CIRMMT concert performed in February 2012 with Trio Galatea (Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin; Elisabeth Le Guin, cello; Tom Beghin, fortepiano) in the virtual acoustics of the Eszterháza Music Room (Fertöd, Hungary), reconstructed in the Multi Media Room, Schulich School of Music, of McGill University, Montreal.
CIRMMT member Tom Beghin on the cover of Flemish magazine 'Staal Kaart'
The October 2013 edition of the Flemish magazine 'Staal Kaart' talks to Tom Beghin about a new replica of a Broadwood piano.
CIRMMT members Christopher Salter and Marcelo Wanderley collaborate on E[MERGE] project
Project E[MERGE] is a collaboration that is at the frontier of engineering and art, between Xmodal Laboratories, Concordia University and IDMIL, McGill University.
CIRMMT student Jimmie Leblanc wins Fonds Société et Culture award
McGill PhD student Jimmie Leblanc's award-winning publication "Xenakis’ Aesthetic Project: The Paradoxes of a Formalist Intuition"