Past Travel Award Recipients

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2025-2026

CIRMMT Student Travel Award Applications, Round 1, 2025-2026 (Travel between May 15-September 14)

  • Aybar Aydin (CIRMMT sponsor: Richard King)
    • Conference/workshop: Audio Engineering Society Europe 2025 (AES)
    • Title of paper/work presented: A study on reverberation in a virtual acoustic setting using the Lexicon 960L Reverb Processor
    • Location: Warsaw, Poland
  • Tarcisio Braga (CIRMMT sponsor: Fabrice Marandola)
    • Conference/workshop: The Space Between IV
    • Title of paper/work presented: Performance of Tambor (Tarcisio Braga) / Oral presentation: Development of a New Drum Kit Part for Mestre Radamés by Hermeto Pascoal 
    • Location: Winnipeg, Canada
  • Champ Darabundit (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)
    • Conference/workshop: 28th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx)
    • Title of paper/work presented: Non-iterative Distributed Reed Collisions Based on Energy Quadratization
    • Location: Ancona, Italy
  • Gianluca Grazioli (CIRMMT sponsor: Wiesław Woszczyk)
    • Conference/workshop: Audio Engineering Society Europe 2025 (AES)
    • Title of paper/work presented: Immersive recordings in virtual acoustics: differences and similarities between a concert hall and its virtual counterpart
    • Location: Warsaw, Poland
  • Yifan Huang (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)
    • Conference/workshop: The 18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC)
    • Title of paper/work presented: Everyday Sounds as Emotional Catalysts: A Research-Creation Study in Contemporary Music
    • Location: São Paulo, Brazil
  • Miranda Jackson (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)
    • Conference/workshop: Acoustical Society of America Conference and International Symposium On Musical and Room Acoustics (ASA & ISMRA)
    • Title of paper/work presented 1: An active mute for the trumpet
    • Title of paper/work presented 2: A study of brass instrument impedance 
    • Location: New Orleans, USA
    • Xinmeng Luan (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)
      • Conference/workshop: FORUM ACUSTICUM EURONOISE 2025
      • Title of paper/work presented: Acoustic Field Reconstruction in Tubes via Physics-Informed Neural Networks
      • Location: Malaga, Spain
      • Gaël Moriceau (CIRMMT sponsor: Dominic Thibault)
        • Conference/workshop: 50th Anniversary International Computer Music Conference
        • Title of paper/work presented: Harmonic Turbulences
        • Location: Boston, USA
      • Vadim Nickel (CIRMMT sponsor: Gabriel Vigliensoni)
        • Conference/workshop: DiGRA 2025
        • Title of paper/work presented: Sonic Lead: A Survey of Sound-First Games
        • Location: Malta
      • Eto Sun (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe Depalle)
        • Conference/workshop: ACTOR Timbre and Orchestration Summer School 2025
        • Title of paper/work presented: Blend-It: A computer-assisted composition tool for timbral blend in mixed music composition
        • Location: Montreal, Canada
                  • Jonas Regnier (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Hasegawa)
                    • Conference/workshop: Y7 ACTOR Workshop
                    • Title of paper/work presented: Everyday Sounds as Emotional Catalysts: A Research-Creation Study in Contemporary Music
                    • Location: Geneva, Switzerland
                  • Richard Yanaky (CIRMMT sponsor: Catherine Guastavino)
                    • Conference/workshop: COMPASS
                    • Title of paper/work presented: City Ditty interactive soundscape simulator: Functionalities and Use Cases
                    • Location: Toronto, ON, Canada

                  CIRMMT Student Travel Award Applications, Round 2, 2025-2026 (Travel between September 15-January 14)

                  • Pierre Basso (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Hasagawa)
                    • Conference/workshop: 25th Annual Congress of the German Society for Music Theory (25. Jahreskongress der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie – GMTH)
                    • Title of paper/work presented: From Seven to 5,040: the Curious Case of Marin Mersenne’s Theory of Octave Species
                    • Location: Lübeck, Germany
                  • Joseph Chang (CIRMMT sponsor: Fabrice Marandola)
                    • Conference/workshop: 2025 SMT-AMS Joint Annual Meeting
                    • Title of paper/work presented: Tracing Percussion Orchestration in Early NES Soundtracks (1983-1987): Understanding Coded Parameters Through FFT Analysis
                    • Location: Minneapolis, USA
                  • Ravi Shankar Magno Viana Domingues (CIRMMT sponsor: Caroline Traube)
                    • Conference/workshop: International Symposium on Performance Science | ISPS 2025 Performance Science in Practice
                    • Title of paper/work presented: Turning the practice studio into a concert hall : development and testing of immersive room acoustics simulation tools for adaptive oboe performance preparation
                    • Location: Shanghai, China
                  • Kun Fang (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)
                    • Conference/workshop 1: The 26th conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR)
                    • Conference/workshop 2: 12th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (ISMIR satellite event)
                    • Title of paper/work presented 1: High-Resolution Sustain Pedal Depth Estimation from Piano Audio across Room Acoustics
                    • Title of paper/work presented 2: Universal Musical Instrument Lexicon: A Crowdsourced Platform for Expanding Multilingual Vocabularies and Enhancing Global Access to Musical Instrument Metadata
                    • Location: Daejeon and Seoul, South Korea
                  • David Piazza (CIRMMT sponsor: Dominic Thibault)
                    • Conference/workshop: The Sixth Conference on AI Music Creativity
                    • Title of paper/work presented 1: Navigating Abstract Timbre Spaces: Instrumental Affordances of Concatenative Synthesis in Mosaïque
                    • Title of paper/work presented 2: Cybernesis: An Improvisational Performance Exploring Gesture Control of Hardware Synthesizers
                    • Location: Brussels, Belgium
                  • Liam Pond (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)
                    • Conference/workshop: Third International Conference on Computational and Cognitive Musicology (ICCCM 2025)
                    • Title of paper/work presented: The Shape of Swing: How Timing Outlines Form in Jazz Solos
                    • Location: Aalborg, Denmark
                  • Richard Yanaky (CIRMMT sponsor: Catherine Guastavino)
                    • Conference/workshop: VRST 2025 (Virtual Reality Software Technology) by ACM/CHI
                    • Title of paper/work presented: City Ditty interactive soundscape simulator: Functionalities and Use Cases 
                    • Location: Montreal, Canada
                  • Hanwen Zhang (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)
                    • Conference/workshop: The 26th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR)
                    • Title of paper/work presented: High-Resolution Sustain Pedal Depth Estimation from Piano Audio across Room Acoustics
                    • Location: Daejeon, Korea
                  • Linglan Zhu (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)
                    • Conference/workshop: the 17th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR 2025)
                    • Title of paper/work presented: Audiovisual Perception of Musical Interactions in Mixed Pieces with the Karlax
                    • Location: London, UK

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