Distinguished Lectures
Rebecca Fiebrink — Rethinking machine learning through creative practice: Insights from music and art
Mar 09, 2026 from 06:00 PM to 07:00 PM
— Tanna Schulich Hall (2 floor), Elizabeth Wirth Music Building, 527 Sherbrooke O,
A Distinguished Lecture from Rebecca Fiebrink, Professor of Creative Computing at the University of the Arts London Creative Computing Institute, UK.
Atau Tanaka — Body music: Phenomenologies of sonic gesture
Feb 02, 2026 from 06:00 PM to 07:00 PM
— Tanna Schulich Hall, Elizabeth Wirth Music Building, 527 Sherbrooke O,
A Distinguished Lecture from Atau Tanaka, co-director of the Centre for Sound, Technology & Culture at Goldsmiths University of London, UK.
Jude Brereton — Singing in space(s): Past, present and future
Jan 19, 2026 from 06:00 PM to 07:00 PM
— Tanna Schulich Hall (2 floor), Elizabeth Wirth Music Building, 527 Sherbrooke O,
A Distinguished Lecture From Jude Brereton, Professor of Audio and Music Technologies within the School of Arts and Creative Technologies at the University of York, UK
Nadine Schütz — Composing (with) places: At the threshold between sonic landscape and spatial music
Dec 01, 2025 from 06:00 PM to 07:00 PM
— Multimedia Room MMR (-2 floor), Elizabeth Wirth Music Building, 527 Sherbrooke O,
A Distinguished Lecture from Nadine Schütz, associate artist at IRCAM–STMS (Centre Pompidou, Paris) and lecturer at the ETH Zurich Department of Architecture
Alain Berry — Sound field control: Some engineering applications
Nov 17, 2025 from 06:00 PM to 07:00 PM
— Tanna Schulich Hall, Elizabeth Wirth Music Building, 527 Sherbrooke O,
A Distinguished Lecture from Alain Berry, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sherbrooke.
Mari Kimura — MUGIC®: Mastery over novelty — A lasting tool for musicianship and the performing arts
Nov 03, 2025 from 06:00 PM to 07:00 PM
— Tanna Schulich Hall, Elizabeth Wirth Music Building, 527 Sherbrooke O,
A Distinguished Lecture from Mari Kimura, violinist, composer, technologist, and entrepreneur.
Angela Ida De Benedictis — The reverberations of electronic sound: Synergies and interactions in Luciano Berio’s compositional practice
Oct 06, 2025 from 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM
— Tanna Schulich Hall, Elizabeth Wirth Music Building, 527 Sherbrooke O,
A Distinguished Lecture from Angela Ida De Benedictis, who is on the Scientific Board of the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel, Switzerland.
Emilia Gómez – Audio-based Music Information Retrieval: From knowledge-driven to data-driven design, from music computing to ethics and society
Mar 17, 2025 from 06:00 PM to 07:00 PM
— Tanna Schulich Hall, Elizabeth Wirth Music Building, 527 Sherbrooke O.,
A Distinguished Lecture from Emilia Gómez, senior scientist at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.
RESCHEDULED - Tom Mays: Computer music as a way of life – Or a patch for every occasion
Feb 18, 2025 from 10:30 AM to 01:00 PM
— A832 (8 floor), Elizabeth Wirth Music Building, 527 Sherbrooke O.,
A Distinguished Lecture from Tom Mays, head professor of electroacoustic composition and computer music at the Strasbourg Academy of Music of the Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin.
Jeff Snyder: Designing and composing for unusual electronic instruments
Feb 03, 2025 from 06:00 PM to 07:00 PM
— Tanna Schulich Hall, Elizabeth Wirth Music Building, 527 Sherbrooke O.,
