Past Online Conference Award Recipients

2023-2024

  • Takuto Fukuda (CIRMMT sponsor: Sean Ferguson)
    • Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2023) 
    • Title of paper/work presented: T-Patch: a software application for T-Stick Digital Musical Instruments
  • Thomas Davis (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Hasegawa)
    • Conference/workshop: 10th International Conference on Arts and Humanities 2023
    • Title of paper/work presented: eTu{d,b}e: Further Case Studies into Instrument Design and Playing with Spatialized Musical Agents
  • Ziyue Piao (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)
    • Conference/workshop: EAI International Conference on ArtsIT, Interactivity & Game Creation
    • Title of paper/work presented: MappEMG: Enhancing Music Pedagogy by Mapping Electromyography to Multimodal Feedback

2022-2023

  • Yuval Adler (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)
    • Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2021) 
    • Title of paper/work presented: ScoreCraft @ NIME 2022 (workshop and performance)
  • Thomas Davis (CIRMMT sponsor: Guillaume Bourgogne)
    • Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2021) 
    • Title of paper/work presented: Etu{d,be}e (pre-recorded online video)
  • Ezra Teboul (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe-Aubert Gauthier)
    • Conference/workshop: The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
    • Title of paper/work presented 1: The noise/music at the edge of western extractivism
    • Title of paper/work presented 2: Reverse engineering reverse engineering: an ethics of media arts maintenance and conservation

2021-2022

  • Matthew Skarha (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)
    • Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2021) 
    • Title of paper/work presented: Le Bâton: A Digital Musical Instrument Based on the Chaotic Triple Pendulum

  • Takuto Fukuda (CIRMMT sponsor: Sean Ferguson)
    • Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2021) 
    • Title of paper/work presented: The T-Stick Music Creation Project: An approach to building a creative community around a DMI
    • Conference/workshop: Tenor 2021
    • Title of paper/work presented: Super Colliders: A gasified screen-score (paper), Super Colliders (music)
  • Danielle Benesch (CIRMMT sponsor: Jérémie Voix)
    • Conference/workshop: Acoustice in Focus (180th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America)
    • Title of paper/work presented: Hearables for managing auditory sensitivities using heart rate variability

  • Charlie Reimer (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)
    • Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2021) 
    • Title of paper/work presented: Embracing Less Common Evaluation Strategies for Studying User Experience in NIME

  • Juliette Regimbal (CIRMMT sponsor: Jeremy Cooperstock)
    • Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2021)
    • Title of paper/work presented: Interpolating Audio and Haptic Control Spaces

  • Hubert Gendron-Blais (CIRMMT sponsor: Eric Lewis)
    • Conference/workshop: Music & ... Nationalism: 3rd Global Interdisciplinary Online Conference (Progressive Connexions)
    • Title of paper/work presented: Experimental Music Performances for a People to Come: A Transversal Analysis of the Free Jazz-Black Power and the Jazz Libre-Quebec Liberation Movement Assemblages

  • Yuval Adler (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)
    • Conference/workshop: NOVA Contemporary Music Meeting
    • Title of paper/work presented: Documenting Composer-Performer Collaborations on Orchestrational Problem Solving
  • Eduardo Meneses (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)
    • Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2021)
    • Title of paper/work presented: The T-Stick Music Creation Project: An approach to building a creative community around a DMI

  • Douglas Beaton (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)
    • Conference/workshop: Acoustics in Focus - 180th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America
    • Title of paper/work presented: Tuning idiophone bar torsional modes with three-dimensional cutaway geometries

  • Jason Noble (CIRMMT sponsor: Caroline Traube)
    • Conference/workshop: International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition 16
    • Title of paper/work presented: Comparing Semantics of Individual and Combined Instrument Timbres

  • Sareh Taheri (CIRMMT sponsor: Luc Mongeau)
    • Conference/workshop: 6th World Congress of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society
    • Title of paper/work presented: Injectable porous double-network hydrogels with vocal fold-mimetic viscoelasticity

  • Julian Neri (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe Depalle) 
    • Conference/workshop: 29th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2021)
    • Title of paper/work presented: Unsupervised Blind Source Separation with Variational Auto-Encoders

  • Theodora Nestorova (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)
    • Conference/workshop: 7th International Physiology & Acoustics of Singing Conference
    • Title of paper/work presented: Analysis & Interpretation of Complex Vibrato Patterns: A Novel Parametric Approach to Genre-Specific Performance

  • Yongjae Yoo (CIRMMT sponsor: Jeremy Cooperstock)
    • Conference/workshop: The 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2021)
    • Title of paper/work presented: Towards Context-Aware Automatic Haptic Effect Generation for Home Theatre Environments

2020-2021

  • Eduardo Meneses (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)
    • Conference/workshop 1: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2020) [online]
    • Conference/workshop 2: HCI International 2020 [online]
    • Title of paper/work presented: Expanding and embedding a high-level gesture vocabulary for the digital and augmented musical instruments
  • Julian Neri (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe Depalle)
    • Conference/workshop: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2020) [online]
    • Title of paper/work presented 1: Probabilistic Filter and Smoother for Variational Inference of Bayesian Linear Dynamical Systems 
    • Title of paper/work presented 2: Laplace State Space Filter with Exact Inference and Moment Matching
  • John Sullivan (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)
    • Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2020) [online]
    • Title of paper/work presented: Co-Designing Embedded Acoustic Instruments with Active Musicians
  • Johnty Wang (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)
    • Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2020)
    • Title of paper/work presented: The Scalability of WiFi for Mobile Embedded Sensor Interfaces
  • Zhuosheng Jin (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe Leroux)
    • Conference/workshop: Stockholm Chamber Brass Academy for Composers
    • Title of paper/work presented: Tree portrait for brass quintet 
  • Carolina Rodríguez (CIRMMT sponsor: Jeremy Cooperstock)
    • Conference/workshop: 149th AES Convention (AES NY 2020)
    • Title of paper/work presented 1: A review of the Plasma Loudspeaker
    • Title of paper/work presented 2: A review of the Electrostatic Loudspeaker
  • Juliette Regimbal (CIRMMT sponsor: Jérémie Voix)
    • Conference/workshop: HCI International 2020 (22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction)
    • Title of paper/work presented: Single-Actuator Simultaneous Haptic Rendering for Multiple Vital Signs
  • Danielle Benesch (CIRMMT sponsor: Jérémie Voix)
    • Conference/workshop: Acoustics Week in Canada (AWC20)
    • Title of paper/work presented: “Listen to Your Heart”: Exploring the Link between In-Ear Audio and Emotions
  • Grace Brooks (CIRMMT sponsor: Ilja Frissen)
    • Conference/workshop: 149th AES Convention (AES NY 2020)
    • Title of paper/work presented: A Terribly Good Speaker: Understanding the Yamaha NS10 Phenomenon
    • Panel: Unlocking the Control Room: Equity Achievements in Audio
  • Allyson Rogers (CIRMMT sponsor: Jonathan Sterne)
    • Conference/workshop: 149th AES Convention (AES NY 2020)
    • Title of paper/work presented: A Terribly Good Speaker: Understanding the Yamaha NS-10 Phenomenon
  • Gianluca Grazioli (CIRMMT sponsor: Richard King)
    • Conference/workshop: 149th AES Convention (AES NY 2020)
    • Title of paper/work presented: ArcheoEchi – a virtual reconstruction of a medieval cathedral in Southern Italy
  • Takuto Fukuda (CIRMMT sponsor: Sean Ferguson
    • Conference/workshop: ISMIR 2020
    • Title of paper/work presented: Super Colliders (Music composition)
  • Guangyu Bao (CIRMMT sponsor: Luc Mongeau)
    • Conference/workshop: The 11th World Biomaterials Congress
    • Title of paper/work presented: Bioprinting porous viscoelastic hydrogels
  • Song Wang (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)
    • Conference/workshop: Acoustics Virtually Everywhere The 179th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America
    • Title of paper/work presented: Two methods for acoustic modelling of the saxophone mouthpiece
    • Title of paper/work presented: Computational aeroacoustics for low Mach number flow using the lattice Boltzmann method