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Student Symposium
This year's CIRMMT Student Symposium will include poster presentations by the Student Award winners from 2025–26 and 2026–27, as well a keynote address from an invited guest. The Student Symposium is open to non-members.
- 13:00-14:00 - Keynote speaker: Marc-Pierre Verge [Tanna Schulich Hall]
- 14:00-16:00 - Poster session [Elizabeth Wirth lobby]
- 16:00-17:30 - CIRMMT General Assembly (open only to CIRMMT regular, collaborator and student members) [Tanna Schulich Hall]
- 17:30-19:00 - Reception [A832/833]
- 19:00-20:00 - Concert [MMR]
Keynote: Marc-Pierre Verge (Tanna Schulich Hall, 13:00)
Applied Acoustics Systems is a Montréal-based company specializing in the development and commercialization of virtual instruments and audio effects based on physical modeling. Founded by researchers with backgrounds in sound synthesis, the company has evolved in parallel with the broader development of the digital music ecosystem.
In this talk, I will present an overview of the audio plugin market through the lens of our company’s history. I will begin with a brief introduction to our products, followed by key milestones in the company’s development. Building on this perspective, I will share insights into the realities of developing, marketing, and sustaining a business in a highly fragmented plugin market.
Marc-Pierre Verge
Marc-Pierre Verge is co-founder and CEO of Applied Acoustics Systems. Before launching the company, he was a researcher in musical acoustics at CNRS in France. He holds a PhD in physics from Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, a DEA in acoustics from Université du Maine in France, and a BSc in engineering physics from Université Laval.
Poster session (Elizabeth Wirth Lobby, 14:00–16:00)
- Linglan Zhu, Rémi Lacombe: From sketch to sound: A pluralistic examination of Roger Reynolds’ JOURNEY from a timbral and formal perspective
- Negar Imani, Segun Samuel & Feng Fei: Soundscape mapping, developing and validating the plugin for QGIS
- Nicholas Ma, Emma Pope & Tarcisio Braga: Composition-Performer-Driven Evaluation of a Culturally Situated DMI
- Vadim Nickel & Debora Alanna: Degrees of Presence: Unreal Engine 5 as a Real-Time Instrument for Biometric-Responsive Hybrid Reality Theatre
- Xinmeng Luan, Eto Sun: Towards Real-time Sound Synthesis via Physics-Informed Machine Learning
- Lucero Jimena Fuentes Ramos & Uandha Fernandes Barbosa: From Performance to Code: The T-Stick as a Gestural Live Coding Interface
- Gilles Grenon: Papiers, gestes et données : dispositifs papier–numériques pour la captation multimodale, le mappage et la transformation sonore
- Ziyue Piao, Hanwen Zhang: CantusPlay: An Interactive Singing Interface for Practicing Improvised Renaissance Counterpoint
- Louis-Michel Tougas & Bailey Wantuch: Rewriting Ferneyhough: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Computer-Assisted, Perception-Driven Rhythmic Notation
General Assembly (Tanna Schulich Hall, 16:00–17:30)
It is our pleasure to invite all CIRMMT regular, collaborator and student members to the upcoming 2026 General Assembly on May 21, 2026 at 16:00 in Tanna Schulich Hall.
Student Concert (MMR, 19:00–20:00)
Big Bang II (1987) by Marcelle Deschênes [7:40]
Impromptu (1994) by Yves Daoust [10:09]
Danse de l’enfant esseulée (1999) by Monique Jean [10:08]
Les lointains noirs et rouges (2008) by Gilles Gobeil [10:44]
Raíl (2019-22) by Robert Normandeau [10:25]