The Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration (ACTOR) Project and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT) will be co-hosting a hybrid symposium on orchestration research.
Access
- In person, Room A-832, 8th floor of the Elizabeth Wirth Music Building;
- Remotely, via the following Zoom Meeting.
Schedule
The event is open to all and will include four presentations by ACTOR Student Members, each followed by a discussion period. Presentations are based on the following ACTOR Collaborative Student Projects:
- 12:00-12:30pm - Timbrenauts: Creative Explorations in Timbre Space by Yuval Adler (McGill University) and Berk Schneider (University of California San Diego)
- 12:30-1:00pm - An investigation of choral blending through soundfield capture, acoustic evaluation, and perceptual analysis methods by Kathleen Ying-Ying Zhang (McGill University) and Jithin Thilakan (Detmold University of Music)
- 1:00-1:30pm - Masque de Fer by Martin Daigle (McGill) and Gabriel Couturier (Université de Montréal)
- 1:30-2:00pm - Speech as Timbre Models for Orchestration – a Comparative Study Between Cantonese and Québécois French by Darren Xu (University of British Columbia) and Louis-Michel Tougas (McGill)