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2023-2024

CIRMMT Student Travel Award Applications, Round 1, 2023-2024 (Travel between May 15-September 14)

Alberto Acquilino (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)
- Conference/workshop: Stockholm Music Acoustic Conference
- Title of paper/work presented: Detecting efficiency in trumpet sound production: proposed methodology and pedagogical implications
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Yuval Adler (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)
- Conference/workshop: Timbre 2023 conference and summer school
- Title of paper/work presented: Expanding a Taxonomy of Instrumental Grouping Effects to Align with Contemporary Musical Practices
- Location: Thessaloniki, Greece

Paul Buser (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)
- Conference/workshop: NIME 2023
- Title of paper/work presented: Towards the T-Tree 2.0: Lessons Learned From Performance With a Novel DMI and Instrument Hub
- Location: Mexico City, Mexico

Champ Darabundit (CIRMMT sponsor: Wieslaw Woszczyk)
- Conference/workshop: 26th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx23)
- Title of paper/work presented: Probabilistic Reverberation Model Based on Echo Density and Kurtosis
- Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

Tommy Davis (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Hasegawa)
- Conference/workshop: NIME 2023
- Title of paper/work presented: eTu{d,b}e: Case studies in playing with musical agents
- Location: Mexico City, Mexico

Nicola Giannini (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Normandeau)
- Conference/workshop: I3DA 2023, International Conference on Immersive and 3D Audio
- Title of paper/work presented: Immersive spatialized live music composition with performers: a case study, Le vent qui hurle
- Location: Bologna, Italy

Gianluca Grazioli (CIRMMT sponsor: Wieslaw Woszczyk)
- Conference/workshop: I3DA
- Title of paper/work presented: Electroacoustic optimization of a sound system employing cancelling auralizer for producing virtual rooms in live sound scenarios
- Location: Bologna, Italy

Lena Heng (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)
- Conference/workshop: The 17th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition
- Title of paper/work presented: Continuous response to perceived affect in music listening: Differences in musical training
- Location: Tokyo, Japan

Iza Korsmit (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)
- Conference/workshop: Timbre 2023
- Title of paper/work presented: The Timbral Origins of Musical Affect
- Location: Thessaloniki, Greece

Sara Nejati (CIRMMT sponsor: Luc Monceau)
- Conference/workshop: Canadian Biomaterials Society (CMS) 2023
- Title of paper/work presented: AI-guided prediction of porous GelMA/PEGDA hydrogels’ properties
- Location: Halifax, Canada

Julian Neri (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe Depalle)
- Conference/workshop: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
- Title of paper/work presented: Towards Real-Time Single-Channel Speech Separation in Noisy and Reverberant Environments
- Location: Rhodes Island, Greece

Theodora Nestorova (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)
- Conference/workshop: The Voice Foundation’s 52nd Anniversary Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice
- Title of paper/work presented: Vocal Vibrato Characteristics in Historical and Contemporary Opera, Operetta, and Schlager
- Location: Philadelphia, USA

Ninad Puranik (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)
- Conference/workshop: Forum Acusticum 2023
- Title of paper/work presented: Clamped bar model for free reeds
- Location: Torino, Italy

Jonas Regnier (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Hasegawa)
- Conference/workshop: Timbre 2023 conference and summer school
- Title of paper/work presented: Timbral simulation with a string quartet
- Location: Thessaloniki, Greece

Louis-Michel Tougas (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe Leroux)
- Conference/workshop: ACTOR Y5 Workshop
- Title of paper/work presented: Speech as model for orchestration - a comparative study between Cantonese and Québécois French
- Location: Strasbourg, France

Linglan Zhu (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)
- Conference/workshop: The 17th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC)
- Title of paper/work presented: Comparison of perceived and imagined instrumental blend
- Location: Tokyo, Japan

CIRMMT Student Travel Award Applications, Round 2, 2023-2024 (Travel between September 15-January 14)

Tommy Davis (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Hasegawa)
- Conference/workshop: 2023 International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI) Conference: Sound, Meaning, Education: conversations & improvisations
- Title of paper/work presented: eTu{d,b}e: embodying improvising musical agents through a spatialized eTube practice
- Location: Guelph, ON

Kasey Pocius (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)
- Conference/workshop: 2023 International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI) Conference: Sound, Meaning, Education: conversations & improvisations
- Title of paper/work presented: eTu{d,b}e: embodying improvising musical agents through a spatialized eTube practice
- Location: Guelph, ON

Ezra Teboul (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe-Aubert Gauthier)
- Conference/workshop: Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology
- Title of paper/work presented: Reverse Engineering Reverse Engineering in musical electronics history
- Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA

Richard Yanaky (CIRMMT sponsor: Catherine Guastavino)
- Conference/workshop: Inter-noise 2023
- Title of paper/work presented: Exploring the use of soundscape sketchpads with professionals
- Location: Chiba, Japan

CIRMMT Student Travel Award Applications, Round 3, 2023-2024 (Travel between January 15-May 14)

To come

2022-2023

CIRMMT Student Travel Award Applications, Round 1, 2022-2023 (Travel between May 15-September 14)

Alberto Acquilino (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)

Conference/workshop: Lerici Music Festival - Trumpet Week
Title of paper/work presented: Current state and future directions of technologies for trumpet pedagogy
Location: Lerici, Italy

Guangyu Bao (CIRMMT sponsor: Luc Mongeau)
- Conference/workshop: TERMIS Americas Annual Conference & Exhibition
- Title of paper/work presented: Injectable, Pore-forming, Perfusable Double-network Hydrogels Resilient to Extreme Biomechanical Stimulations in Vocal Fold
- Location: Toronto, Canada
Martin Daigle (CIRMMT sponsor: Fabrice Marandola)
- Conference/workshop: The Space Between: Building Connections between Percussion Performance and Percussion Research
- Title of paper/work presented: Audio-visual Drum Kit Performance
- Location: Hamilton, Canada
Valérian Fraisse (CIRMMT sponsor: Catherine Guastavino)
- Conference/workshop: Internoise 2022
- Title of paper/work presented: Informing sound art design in public space through soundscape simulation
- Location: Glasgow, UK
Stuart Jackson (CIRMMT sponsor: Fabrice Marandola)
- Conference/workshop: The Space Between: Building Connections between Percussion Performance and Percussion Research
- Title of paper/work presented: Effects of Handedness on Percussionists' Sticking Strategies
- Location: Hamilton, Canada
Josée Laplace (CIRMMT sponsor: Catherine Guastavino)
- Conference/workshop: Internoise 2022
- Title of paper/work presented: Evaluation of the restorative potential of church buildings
- Location: Glasgow, UK
Jason Noble (CIRMMT sponsor: Caroline Traube)
- Conference/workshop: ACTORK Y4 Annual Workshop
- Title of paper/work presented: Recording of an album for guitar and electronics in 3D audio, with a 3D video for one of the tracks
- Location: Calgary, AB
Kasey Pocius (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)
- Conference/workshop: Everyday is Spatial - Creative Immersive Audio Practice
- Title of paper/work presented: Trends in Gestural Spatial Control
- Location: Cheltenham, UK
Jade Roth (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Hasegawa)
- Conference/workshop: Music Theory MidWest
- Title of paper/work presented: Orchestration as a Form-Delineating Element in Germaine Tailleferre's Ballade (1920)
- Location: Lawrence, KA, USA
Estelle Schorpp (CIRMMT sponsor: Nicolas Bernier)
- Conference/workshop: International Symposium on Electronic Arts
- Title of paper/work presented: Écosystème(s) : A self-interactive sound installation
- Location: Barcelona, Spain
Martha Thomae Elias (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)
- Conference/workshop: International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (IAM) Congress
- Title of paper/work presented: Preserving the Musical Heritage of Colonial Guatemala through Digitization and Music Encoding Technologies
- Location: Prague, Czechia

CIRMMT Student Travel Award Applications, Round 2, 2022-2023 (Travel between September 15-January 14)

Mathieu Arsenault (CIRMMT sponsor: Myriam Boucher)

Conference/workshop: Sound/Image Festival
Title of paper/work presented: Bricolage Architecture
Location: London, UK

Sepideh Mohammadi (CIRMMT sponsor: Luc Monceau)
- Conference/workshop: The European Society of Biomechanics (ESB)
- Title of paper/work presented: Immunomodulatory Microgels for Wound Healing Applications
- Location: Bordeaux, France

Shanti Nachtergaele (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)
- Conference/workshop: American Musicological Society Annual Meeting
- Title of paper/work presented: The 19th-Century Double Bass: Intersections in Tuning, Timbre, and Technique
- Location: New Orleans, USA

Sara Nejati (CIRMMT sponsor: Luc Mongeau)
- Conference/workshop: The European Society of Biomechanics (ESB)
- Title of paper/work presented: A composite Bioink Based on Gelatin/Cellulose Nanofibrils: Overcoming Remaining challenges
- Location: Bordeaux, France

Ninad Puranik (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)
- Conference/workshop: 4th Vienna Talk on Music Acoustics
- Title of paper/work presented: Physical modelling synthesis of harmonium and related free reed instruments
- Location: Vienna, Austria

Sarah Taheri (CIRMMT sponsor: Luc Mongeau)
- Conference/workshop: The European Society of Biomechanics (ESB)
- Title of paper/work presented: Injectable and Functionalized tough double network hydrogels for vocal fold repair
- Location: Bordeaux, France

Tobias Tschiedl (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Hasegawa)
- Conference/workshop: Society for Music Theory 2022 Joint Annual Meeting with the AMS and SEM
- Title of paper/work presented: Multidimensional non-coinciding mappings in the first movement of Ruth Crawford's String Quartet (1931)
- Location: New Orleans, USA

CIRMMT Student Travel Award Applications, Round 3, 2022-2023 (Travel between January 15-May14)

Tommy Davis (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Hasegawa)
- Conference/workshop: North American Saxophone Alliance 2023 Biennial Conference
- Title of paper/work presented: Etu{d,b}e Improvisation with Autonomous Musical Agents
- Location: Hattiesburg, USA

Miranda Jackson (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)
- Conference/workshop: 184th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America
- Title of paper/work presented: A Study of Impedance of Brass Instruments and Mouthpieces - Comparison of Models and Measurements
- Location: Chicago, USA

Sara Nejati (CIRMMT sponsor: Luc Mongeau)
- Conference/workshop: TERMIS-EU
- Title of paper/work presented: Silk Fibroin/Hyaluronic Acid-based Hydrogels: A 3D Printable Hydrogel For Vocal Fold Tissue Engineering
- Location: Manchester, UK

Kasey Pocius (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)
- Conference/workshop: North American Saxophone Alliance 2023 Biennial Conference
- Title of paper/work presented: Etu{d,b}e Improvisation with Autonomous Musical Agents
- Location: Hattiesburg, USA

Richard Yanaky (CIRMMT sponsor: Catherine Guastavino)
- Conference/workshop: Urban Sound Symposium 2023
- Title of paper/work presented: City Ditty - An immersive soundscape sketch pad for professionals of the built environment
- Location: Barcelona, Spain

2021-2022

2020-2021

2019-2020

Round 1 (for travel between May 15th and September 14th, 2019)

Yuval Adler (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)

Conference/workshop: Learning Music Through Play
Title of paper/work presented: Pitch Dark - an Ear Training Game
Location: Quebec City, QC, Canada

Douglas Beaton (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)

Conference/workshop: The International Symposium on Music Acoustics (ISMA) 2019
Title of paper/work presented 1: Optimization of Marimba Bar Geometry by 3D Finite Element Analysis
Title of paper/work presented 2: Measurement-Based Comparison of Marimba Bar Modal Behaviour
Location: Detmold, Germany

Jeff Blum (CIRMMT sponsor: Jeremy Cooperstock)

Conference/workshop: IEEE World Haptics Conference 2019
Title of paper/work presented: Single-Actuator Vibrotactile Numeric Information Delibery in the Face of Distraction
Location: Tokyo, Japan

Lei Fu (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)

Conference/workshop: The 26th international congress on sound and vibration
Title of paper/work presented: Player evaluation of performance and student violins
Location: Montreal, QC, Canada

Yaolong Ju (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)

Conference/workshop: Music Encoding Conference (MEC)
Title of paper/work presented: Enabling Music Search and Analysis: A Database for Symbolic Music Files
Location: Vienna, Austria

Mariana Mejia Ahrens (CIRMMT sponsor: Catherine Guastavino)

Conference/workshop: 53rd Annual Association for Recorded Sound Collections Conference
Title of paper/work presented: A practical approach to urban soundscape preservation.
Location: Portland, OR, USA

Eduardo Meneses (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2019)
Title of paper/work presented: A Comparison of Open-Source Linux Frameworks for an Augmented Musical Instrument Implementation
Location: Porto Alegre, Brazil

Landon Morrison (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Hasegawa)

Conference/workshop: Spectralisms 2018 International Conference, 2nd Ed.
Title of paper/work presented: Encoding Post-Spectral Thought: Kaija Saariaho's Early Electronic Works at IRCAM, 1982-87
Location: Paris, France

Nestor Napoles Lopez (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)

Conference/workshop: Music Encoding Conference (MEC)
Title of paper/work presented: The effects of translation between symbolic music formats: A case study with Humdrum, Lilypond, MEI, and MusicXML
Location: Vienna, Austria

Cynthia Tarlao (CIRMMT sponsor: Catherine Guastavino)

Conference/workshop: INTER-NOISE 2019
Title of paper/work presented: Investigating Factors Influencing Soundscape Evaluations Across Multiple Urban Spaces In Montreal
Location: Madrid, Spain

Martha Thomae(CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)

Conference/workshop: Digital Humanities Conference
Title of paper/work presented: Taking Digital Humanities to Guatemala, a Case Study in the Preservation of Colonial Musical Heritage
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands

Ajin Tom (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2019)
Title of paper/work presented: Rebuilding and Reinterpreting a Digital Musical Instrument - The Sponge (Research Paper), FlexSynth (Performance)
Location: Porto Alegre, Brazil

Johnty Wang (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2019)
Title of paper/work presented: Practical Considerations for MIDI over Bluetooth Low Energy as a Wireless Interface
Location: Porto Alegre, Brazil

Song Wang (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)

Conference/workshop 1: 23rd International Congress on Acoustics (ICA 2019)
Conference/workshop 2: International Symposium on Musical Acoustics (ISMA 2019)
Title of paper/work presented: Computational Aeroacoustics for Low Mach Number Flow Using Lattice Boltzmann Method
Location 1: Aachen, Germany
Location 2: Detmold, Germany

Travis West (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop: 21st International Conference on Human Computer Interaction (HCII2019)
Title of paper/work presented: The Design of the Body:Suit:Score, a Full-Body Vibrotactile Musical Score
Location: Orlando, FL, USA

Round 2 (for travel between September 15th 2019 and January 14th 2020)

Timothy de Reuse (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)

Conference/workshop: Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (and satellite events)
Title of paper/work presented: Musical Pattern Discovery by Learning a Non-Linear Embedding From Human Annotations
Location: Delft, Netherlands

Pascal Fortin (CIRMMT sponsor: Jeremy Cooperstock)

Conference/workshop: 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
Title of paper/work presented: Exploring the Use of Fingerprint Sensor Gestures for Unlock Journaling : A Comparison With Slide-to-X
Location: Taipei, Taiwan

Vincent Houde-Turcotte (CIRMMT sponsor: Caroline Traube)

Conference/workshop: International Symposium on Musical Acoustics (ISMA)
Title of paper/work presented: Creation and Analysis of a Database of Acoustic Properties of Modern German Bassoons
Location: Detmold, Germany

Connor Kemp (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)

Conference/workshop: International Symposium on Musical Acoustics (ISMA)
Title of paper/work presented: Fatigue evaluation of natural cane reeds using a mechanical player system
Location: Detmold, Germany

Viktor Lazarov (CIRMMT sponsor: Caroline Traube)

Conference/workshop: Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology
Title of paper/work presented: Embodying style in music performance: qualitative and quantitative analysis of three interpretations
Location: Graz, Austria

Ricardo Morejon (CIRMMT sponsor: Richard King)

Conference/workshop: Audio Engineering Society 147th Pro Audio Convention [Student Recording Compeition]
Title of paper/work presented: Student Recording Competition
Location: New York, NY, USA

Hossein Ravanbakhsh (CIRMMT sponsor: Luc Mongeau)

Conference/workshop: The Americas Chapter of TERMIS 2019
Title of paper/work presented: Cell Migration In Carbon Nanotube-glycol Chitosan Hydrogels For Vocal Fold Tissue Regeneration
Location: Orlando, FL, USA

Etienne Richan (CIRMMT sponsor: Jean Rouat)

Conference/workshop: Audio Mostly
Title of paper/work presented: A study comparing shape, colour and texture as visual labels in audio sample browsers
Location: Nottingham, UK

John Sullivan (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop: 14th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR)
Title of paper/work presented: Surveying Digital Musical Instrument Use Across Diverse Communities of Practice
Location: Marseille, France

Hyunjoung Yang (CIRMMT sponsor: Richard King)

Conference/workshop: Audio Engineering Society 147th Pro Audio Convention [Student Recording Compeition]
Title of paper/work presented: Jan van der Roost : Puszta (for category 4 : Immersive Audio) AES Student Recording Competition
Location: New York, NY, USA

Round 3 (for travel between January 15th and May 14th 2020)

Grace Brooks (CIRMMT sponsor: Ilja Frissen)

Conference/workshop: Social distinction in the 21st century recording studio
Title of paper/work presented: Diversity, inclusion and discrimination in audio engineering: perspectives from current research
Location: Lethbridge, AB, Canada

Takuto Fukuda (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe Leroux)

Conference/workshop: Tenor 2020 (International confernece on technologies for music notation & representation)
Title of paper/work presented: Super Colliders [composition]
Location: Hamburg, Germany

Pierre Grandjean (CIRMMT sponsor: Alain Berry)

Conference/workshop: Forum Acusticum 2020
Title of paper/work presented: 2.5D and 3D Higher-Order Ambisonic hybridation: experimental validation
Location: Lyon, France

Lucas Henrique Teixeira Carneiro (CIRMMT sponsor: Alain Berry)

Conference/workshop: Forum Acusticum 2020
Title of paper/work presented: Unsupervised environmental sound source localization and acoustic image analysis of geometry-optimized spherical microphone arrays using the generalized cross-correlation
Location: Lyon, France

Olivier Valentin(CIRMMT sponsor: Alain Berry)

Conference/workshop: Forum Acusticum 2020
Title of paper/work presented: Objective Evaluation of Sound Environment Reproduction for Comfort of Hearing Protector Devices: Acoustic Background Spectrum Synthesis Versus Multichannel Cross-Synthesis
Location: Lyon, France

2018-2019

Round 1 (for travel between May 15th and September 14th, 2018)

Lei Fu (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)

Conference/workshop: The Violin Society of America-Oberlin Acoustics Workshop
Title of paper/work presented: How strings affect the violin quality? How soundpost length affects the violin quality?
Location: Oberlin, Ohio, USA

Mariane Generale (CIRMMT sponsor: Richard King)

Conference/workshop: 144th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society
Title of paper/work presented: A Comparison of Clarity in MQA Encoded Files vs. Their Unprocessed State
Location: Milan, Italy

Pierre Grandjean (CIRMMT sponsor: Alain Berry)

Conference/workshop: 2018 AES International Conference on Spatial Reproduction - Aesthetics and Science
Title of paper/work presented: Size of the accurate-reproduction area as function of directional metrics in spherical harmonic domain
Location: Tokyo, Japan

Ephraim Hahn (CIRMMT sponsor: Wieslaw Woszczyk)

Conference/workshop: 2018 AES International Conference on Spatial Reproduction - Aesthetics and Science
Title of paper/work presented: Musical Emotions Evoked by 3D Audio
Location: Tokyo, Japan

Yaolong Ju (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)

Conference/workshop: Music Encoding Conference 2018
Title of paper/work presented: The LMLO goes MEI: an exercise in melodic encoding translation
Location: College Park, Maryland, USA

Christophe Lengele (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Normandeau)

Conference/workshop: International Computer Music Conference
Title of paper/work presented: Live 4 Life - A spatial performance tool focused on rhythm and parameter loops
Location: Daegu, South Korea

Denis Martin (CIRMMT sponsor: Richard King)

Conference/workshop: 144th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society
Title of paper/work presented: Dynamic Range Controller Ear Training: Analysis of Audio Engineering Student Training Data
Location: Milan, Italy

Catherine Massie-Laberge (CIRMMT sponsor: Isabelle Cossette)

Conference/workshop: Kinetic Analysis of Hip Motion During Piano Playing
Title of paper/work presented: 5th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME)
Location: Genoa, Italy

Eduardo Meneses (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop: International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME)
Title of paper/work presented: GuitarAMI and GuiaRT: two independent yet conceptually related projects on Augmented Nylon Guitars
Location: Blacksburg, VA, USA

Alex Nieva (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop: International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME)
Title of paper/work presented: Tackling Obsolescence in Digital Musical Instruments. A case study: Twelve years of the T-Stick
Location: Blacksburg, VA, USA

Diego Quiroz (CIRMMT sponsor: Wieslaw Woszczyk)

Conference/workshop: 2018 AES International Conference on Spatial Recognition - Aesthetics and Science
Title of paper/work presented: A Mid-Air Gestural Controller for the Pyramix® panner
Location: Tokyo, Japan

David Rafferty (CIRMMT sponsor: George Massenburg)

Conference/workshop: International Computer Music Conference
Title of paper/work presented: Structured Cell: A Work in Space
Location: Daegu, South Korea

John Sullivan (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop: 5th International Conference on Movement and Computing (MOCO)
Title of paper/work presented: Structured Cell: Gestural Control of Augmented Instrumental Performance: A Case Study of the Concert Harp
Location: Genoa, Italy

Martha Thomae (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)

Conference/workshop: Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference (MedRen)
Title of paper/work presented: Automatic Scoring up of Parts in Mensural Notation
Location: Maynooth, Ireland

Round 2 (for travel between September 15th 2018 and January 14th 2019)

Jeronimo Barbosa da Costa (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop: IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
Title of paper/work presented: ZenStates: Easy-to-Understand Yet Expressive Specifications for Creative Interactive Environments
Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Kseniya Degtyareva (CIRMMT sponsor: Richard King)

Conference/workshop: Tonmeistertagung 2018 / Europe's Second Student 3D Audio Production Competition in Ambisonics
Title of paper/work presented: 3D audio investigations at McGill University
Location: Cologne, Germany

Pascal Fortin (CIRMMT sponsor: Jeremy Cooperstock)

Conference/workshop: ACM User Interface Software and Technology Program
Title of paper/work presented: SweatSponse: Closing the Loop on Notification Delivery Using Skin Conductance Response
Location: Berlin, Germany

Lei Fu (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)

Conference/workshop: Joint Meeting 176th Meeting Acoustical Society of America and 2018 Acoustics Week in Canada
Title 1 of paper/work presented: Perceptual thresholds of violin soundpost length variation;
Title 2 of paper/work presented: How different strings affect violin qualities
Location: Victoria, Canada

Takuto Fukuda (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe Leroux)

Conference/workshop: MA/IN 2018 Matera Intermedia Festival
Title of paper/work presented: Imaginary Trainscape
Location: Rome, Italy

Néstor Nápoles López (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)

Conference/workshop: 5th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology
Title of paper/work presented: Encoding Matters
Location: Paris, France

Julian Neri (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe Depalle)

Conference/workshop: 21st International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-18)
Title of paper/work presented: Fast Partial Tracking of Audio with Real-Time Capability through Linear Programming
Location: Aveiro, Portugal

Daniel Steele (CIRMMT sponsor: Catherine Guastavino)

Conference/workshop: Inter-noise 2018
Title of paper/work presented: Sounds In The City: Differences In Urban Noise Management Strategies Across Cities and Strategies for Control
Location: Chicago, USA

Moe Touizrar (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)

Conference/workshop: Lumière et musique: Appropriations, métaphores et analogies
Title of paper/work presented: Apperception and timbral analogies: The sunrise topic in orchestral music
Location: Paris, France

Gabriel Vigliensoni (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga

Conference/workshop: International Workshop on Reading Music Systems (WoRMS 2018) / International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2018)
Title of paper/work presented: Developing an environment for teaching computers to read music
Location: Paris, France

Round 3 (for travel between January 15th and May 14th 2019)

Rachel Bouserhal (CIRMMT sponsor: Jérémie Voix)

Conference/workshop: National Hearing Conservation Association
Title of paper/work presented: Classification of nonverbal human produced audio events: a pilot study
Location: Grapevine, Texas, USA

Zhuosheng Jin (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe Leroux)

Conference/workshop: Impuls Academy - Extended Percussion Composition Workshop
Title of paper/work presented: New work for percussion solo
Location: Graz, Austria

David Ledoux (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Normandeau)

Conference/workshop: Journée d'Informatique Musicale (JIM) 2019
Title of paper/work presented: Ville Aux Cent Clochers (œuvre musicale)
Location: Bayonne, France

Ajin Jiji Tom (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe Depalle)

Conference/workshop: 146th Audio Engineering Society Convention
Title of paper/work presented: An automatic mixing system for multitrack spatialization for stereo based on unmasking and best panning practices
Location: Dublin, Ireland

2016-2017

Round 1 (for travel between May 15th and September 14th 2016)

Audrey-Kristel Barbeau (CIRMMT sponsor: Isabelle Cossette)

Conference/workshop: 32nd World Conference of the International Society for Music Education (ISME 2016)
Title of paper/work presented: Music Performance Anxiety among Older Amateur Musicians
Location: Glasgow, UK

Benjamin Duinker (CIRMMT sponsor: Jon Wild)

Conference/workshop: MUSCAN 2016 - Canadian University Music Society Annual Conference 2016
Title of paper/work presented: Toward a sound-based definition of the Golden Age hip-hop aesthetic
Location: Calgary, Canada

Kazazis Savvas (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)

Conference/workshop: International conference on music perception and cognition (ICMPC)
Title of paper/work presented: Testing the Robustness of the Timbre Toolbox and the MIRtoolbox
Location: San Francisco, USA

Connor Kemp (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)

Conference/workshop: International Congress on Acoustics 2016 - Structural Acoustics and Vibration
Title of paper/work presented: Material Properties and Microstructure Contributions to Vibrational Damping in Arundo Donax L - Reed Cane for Woodwind Instruments
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Catherine Massie-Laberge (CIRMMT sponsor: Isabelle Cossette)

Conference/workshop: International conference on music perception and cognition (ICMPC)
Title of paper/work presented: Hearing the Gesture: Perception of Body Actions in Romantic Piano Performances
Location: San Francisco, USA

Ofer Pelz (CIRMMT sponsor: Caroline Traube)

Conference/workshop: ManiFeste-2016 (IRCAM)
Title of paper/work presented: marchons, marchons
Location: Paris, France

Christopher Soden (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)

Conference/workshop: International conference on music perception and cognition (ICMPC)
Title of paper/work presented: How timbre and expressive intent influence musical communication of emotion
Location: San Francisco, USA

Daniel Steele (CIRMMT sponsor: Catherine Guastavino)

Conference/workshop: Internoise 2016
Title of paper/work presented: Evaluation of an urban soundscape intervention with music: quantitative results from questionnaires
Location: Hamburg and Berlin, Germany

Gabriel Vigliensoni (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)

Conference/workshop: 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR2016)
Title of paper/work presented: Automatic music recommendation systems: do demographic, profiling, and contextual features improve their performance?
Location: New York, USA

Jacob Wiens (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Hasegawa)

Conference/workshop: MusCan2016
Title of paper/work presented 1: 'People aren't sounds, Are they?': Liminality as a Vantage for Analysis: The Play of Spectral Techniques
Title of paper/work presented 2: Afrological Improvisation in the Music of Steve Lehman
Location: Calgary, Canada

Round 2 (for travel between September 15th 2016 and January 14th 2017)

Robert Landon Morrison (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Hasegawa)

Conference/workshop: Making Time in Music
Title of paper/work presented: On the Grid: A Socio-technical Perspective on the Digital Quantization of Musical Time
Location: Oxford, UK

William Howie (CIRMMT sponsor: Richard King)

Conference/workshop: Audio Engineering Society 141st Convention
Title of paper/work presented: A Three-Dimensional Orchestral Music Recording Technique, Optimized for 22.2 Multichannel Sound
Location: Los Angeles, USA

Bryan Martin(CIRMMT sponsor: Wieslaw Woszczyk)

Conference/workshop: Audio Engineering Society 141st Convention
Title of paper/work presented 1: The Fender 5F6-A Bassman Circuit: A 21st Century Adaptation
Title of paper/work presented 2: Subjective Graphical Representation of Microphone Arrays for Vertical Imaging and Three-Dimensional Capture of Acoustic Instruments, Part I.
Location: Los Angeles, USA

Saavas, Kazazis (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)

Conference/workshop: International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx16)
Title of paper/work presented: Audio Morphing using Audio Descriptive Synthesis
Location: Brno, Czech Republic

Round 3 (for travel between January 15th and May 14th 2017)

Moe Touizrar (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)

Conference/workshop: The Arts, the Emotions and Mental
Title of paper/work presented: Fictional transliterations: cross-modal representations of sunrise in music
Location: Geneva, Switzerland

Zeynep Toraman (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe Leroux)

Conference/workshop: impuls 10th International Ensemble and Composers Academy for Contemporary Music
Title of paper/work presented: New Work for solo accordion, written for the accordion class of Krassimir Sterev [COMPOSITION]
Location: Graz, Austria

Juan Sebastian Delgado (CIRMMT sponsor: Fabrice Marandola)

Conference/workshop: Concert: DESERT ROSE: Les strates du rythme
Title of paper/work presented: Performing Luis Naon's concerto for cello, ensemble and electronics
Location: Orleans, France

Catherine Motuz (CIRMMT sponsor: Julie Cumming)

Conference/workshop: International Musicological Society, 20th Quinquennial Congress in Tokyo
Title of paper/work presented: Using Computational Analysis to Find Improvisational Formulas in Two Corpora of French Chansons
Location: Tokyo, Japan

2017-2018

Round 1 (for travel between May 15th and September 14th 2017)

Jan Anlauff (CIRMMT sponsor: Jeremey Cooperstock)

Conference/workshop: World Haptics Conference 2017
Title of paper/work presented: VibeWalk - Foot-based tactics during walking
Location: Munich, Germany

Jeronimo Barbosa de Costa (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop: The 17th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression
Title of paper/work presented: Exploring Playfulness in NIME Design: The Case of Live Looping Tools
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

Juan Sebastian Delgado (CIRMMT sponsor: Fabrice Marandola)

Conference/workshop: Savvy Arts Venture Challenge, final round competition
Title of paper/work presented: Multimodal Visual Augmentation for cello performance (CIRMMT Student Award 2016/17)
Location: Columbia, South Carolina, USA

Julie Deslisle (CIRMMT sponsor: Caroline Traube)

Conference/workshop: 9th European Music Analysis Conference (Euromac)
Title of paper/work presented: Analysis of Jour, contre jour by Gérard Grisey: A perceptual approach
Location: Strasbourg, France

Lei Fu (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)

Conference/workshop: VSA-Oberlin Acoustics Workshop (VSA: Violin Society of America)
Title of paper/work presented: Violin quality evaluation experiment
Location: Oberlin, Ohio, USA

Takuto Fukuda (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe Leroux)

Conference/workshop: International ilSuono Academy for Young Composers
Title of paper/work presented: New Game Piece for a flute and live electronics
Location: Città di Castello, Italy

Mylène Gioffredo (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Hasegawa)

Conference/workshop: 9th European Music Analysis Conference (Euromac)
Title of paper/work presented: Timbre and Variations: Exploring Sound in Vivier's Zipangu (1980)
Location: Strasbourg, France

Ian Hattwick (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop: HCI International
Title of paper/work presented: The Vibropixels: A scalable, wearable tactile display system
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada

Will Howie (CIRMMT sponsor: Richard King)

Conference/workshop: 142nd Audio Engineering Society (AES) Convention
Title of paper/work presented: Subjective Evaluation of Orchestral Music Recording Techniques for Three-Dimensional Audio
Location: Berlin, Germany

Jack Kelly (CIRMMT sponsor: Wieslaw Woszczyk)

Conference/workshop: 142nd Audio Engineering Society (AES) Convention
Title of paper/work presented: Exploratory Research and Development of Gesture Controllers for Audio Mixing
Location: Berlin, Germany

Christophe Lengelé (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Normandeau)

Conference/workshop: Journées d'informatique musicale (JIM) 2017
Title of paper/work presented: La création en temps réel de polyrythmies spatialisées via l’outil de performance spatiale : Live 4 life
Location: Paris, France

Jason Noble (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)

Conference/workshop: Conference of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC)
Title of paper/work presented: Is musical meaning more adjectival than it is nominal?
Location: San Diego, California, USA

Christopher Soden (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)

Conference/workshop: Conference of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC)
Title of paper/work presented: Timbral, temporal, and expressive shaping of musical material and their respective roles in musical communication of affect
Location: San Diego, California, USA

Daniel Steele (CIRMMT sponsor: Catherine Guastavino)

Conference/workshop: Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) - Soundscape special session
Title of paper/work presented 1: Researching soundscape conceptualizations, contexts, and information in urban planning and design practices through interviews
Title of paper/work presented 2: Sounds in the City Workshops: Integrating the soundscape approach in urban design and planning practices.
Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Johnty Wang (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop: Sound and Music Computing Conference 2017
Title of paper/work presented 1: Versioning and Annotation Support for Collaborative Mapping Design
Title of paper/work presented 2: Explorations with Digital Control of MIDI-enabled Pipe Organs
Location: Espoo, Finland

Round 2 (for travel between September 15th 2015 and January 14th 2018)

Mariane Generale (CIRMMT sponsor: Richard King)

Conference/workshop: AES 143rd Convention
Title of paper/work presented: Sound Recording Competition/E-Brief
Location: New York, USA

Yaolong Ju (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)

Conference/workshop: The 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference
Title of paper/work presented: Automatic Chord Identification for Bach Chorales Using Deep Neural Networks
Location: Suzhou, China

Connor Kemp (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)

Conference/workshop: Materials Research Society - Fall Meeting and Exhibit 2017
Title of paper/work presented: Microstructural origins of creep and fatigue behaviour of Arundo Donax L using nanoindentation, XRD and internal friction measurements
Location: Boston, USA

Esteban Maestre (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)

Conference/workshop: 20th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-17)
Title of paper/work presented: Constrained pole optimization for modal reverberation
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland

Denis Martin (CIRMMT sponsor: Richard King)

Conference/workshop: AES 143rd Convention
Title of paper/work presented: Dynamic Range Controller Ear Training: Description of a Methodology, Software Application, and Required Stimuli
Location: New York, USA

Eduardo Meneses (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop: The Brazilian Symposia on Computer Music (SBCM 2017)
Title of paper/work presented: Embedding Microcontroller and Audio Interface in an Augmented Musical Instrument
Location: Sao Paolo, Brasil

Landon Morrison (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Hasegawa)

Conference/workshop: Tracking the Creative Process in Music
Title of paper/work presented: Technomorphic Transcriptions in Philippe Leroux's M (1997), m'M (2003), and AMA (2009)
Location: Huddersfield, UK

Julian Neri(CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe Depalle)

Conference/workshop: 20th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-17)
Title of paper/work presented: REDS: A New Asymmetric Atom for Sparse Audio Decomposition and Sound Synthesis
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland

Olivier Valentin (CIRMMT sponsor: Jérémie Voix)

Conference/workshop: Acoustics Week in Canada 2017
Title of paper/work presented: EARtrodes: Towards a wireless in-ear custom-fitted brain computer interface
Location: Guelph, Ontario

Ofer Pelz (CIRMMT sponsor: Caroline Traube)

Conference/workshop: Crypt Sessions
Title of paper/work presented: Repetition Blindness World Premiere
Location: New York, USA

Malcolm Sailor (CIRMMT sponsor: Jon Wild)

Conference/workshop: Society for Music Theory 2017
Title of paper/work presented: Renaissance "Dissonance Fingerprints": A Corpus Study of Dissonance Treatment from Dufay to Victoria
Location: Arlington, USA

Zi Hua Tan (CIRMMT sponsor: Aiyun Huang)

Conference/workshop: Transplanted Roots: Percussion Research Symposium
Title of paper/work presented: The Breathing Canvas
Location: Brisbane, Australia

Round 3 (for travel between January 15th and May 14th 2018)

Fabien Bonnet(CIRMMT sponsor: Jérémie Voix)

Conference/workshop: 2018 National Hearing Conservation Association (NHCA) Annual Conference
Title of paper/work presented: Loudness in the occluded ear canal: are we still missing 6 dB?
Location: Orlando, FL, USA

Vincent Nadon(CIRMMT sponsor: Jérémie Voix)

Conference/workshop: 2018 National Hearing Conservation Association (NHCA) Annual Conference
Title of paper/work presented: Continuous monitoring of otoacoustic emissions : a tool to prevent hearing loss
Location: Orlando, FL, USA

Moe Touizrar(CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)

Conference/workshop: XIVth Congress on Musical Signification
Title of paper/work presented: Sound signifying light: The sunrise topic as cross-modal re-presentation
Location: Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Gabriel Vigliensoni(CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)

Conference/workshop: Intelligent Music Interfaces for Listening and Creation Workshop, 23rd ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI2018)
Title of paper/work presented: An environment for machine pedagogy: Learning how to teach computers to read music
Location: Tokyo, Japan

2015-2016

Round 1 (for travel between May 15th and September 14th 2015)

Jeronimo Costa (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop: NIME 2015
Title of paper/work presented 1: What does "Evaluation" mean for the NIME community
Title of paper/work presented 2: Designing DMIsfor popular music in the Northeast Brazil: Lessons learned
Location: Baton Rouge, USA

Marcello Giordano (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop: Sound and Music Computing (SMC) 2015
Title of paper/work presented 1: Vibrotactile Stimulation for Tempo Synchronization in Music Performance
Title of paper/work presented 2: Design and Development of a Whole-Body Tactile Garment for fillinxfi, a Multisensory Art Installation
Location: Maynooth, Ireland

Bryan Martin (CIRMMT sponsor: Wieslaw Woszczyk & Richard King)

Conference/workshop: Innovation in Music 2015
Title of paper/work presented: Mixing Popular Music in Three Dimension
Location: Cambridge, UK

Brian Mathias (CIRMMT sponsor: Caroline Palmer)

Conference/workshop: Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Perception & Cognition
Title of paper/work presented: Electrophysiological correlates of hearing the past, present, and future during music performance
Location: Nashville, USA

David Rafferty (CIRMMT sponsor: George Massenberg)

Conference/workshop: Daegu Contemporary Music Festival
Title of paper/work presented: Instruments with Real-time processing with computer
Location: Daegu, South Korea

Kai Siedenburg (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)

Conference/workshop: Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Perception & Cognition
Title of paper/work presented: Verbal and auditory memory in North-Indian tabla
Location: Nashville, USA

Cecilia Taher (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)

Conference/workshop: Keele Music Analysis Conference and Society for Music Analysis
Title of paper/work presented: A Musical Form of Sound: Périodes by Gérard Grisey
Location: Keele, UK

Francesco Tordini (CIRMMT sponsor: Jeremy Cooperstock)

Conference/workshop: International Conference on Auditory Display
Title of paper/work presented: The loud bird doesn't (always) get the worm: Why computational salience also needs brightness and tempo
Location: Graz, Austria

Round 2 (for travel between September 15th 2015 and January 14th 2016)

Jeffrey Blum (CIRMMT sponsor: Jeremy Cooperstock)

Conference/workshop: 28th ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST 2015)
Title of paper/work presented: Improving haptic feedback on wearable devices through accelerometer measurements
Location: Charlotte, NC, USA

Ian Hattwick (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop: International Computer Music Conference
Title of paper/work presented: Composition techniques for the Ilinx vibrotactile garment
Location: Denton, Texas, USA

Denis Martin (CIRMMT sponsor: Richard King)

Conference/workshop: 139th Audio Engineering Society Conference
Title of paper/work presented: Advanced technical ear training: The development of an innovative set of exercises for audio engineers
Location: New York, USA

Gintas Norvilla (CIRMMT sponsor: Richard King)

Conference/workshop: 139th Audio Engineering Society Conference
Title of paper/work presented: Home Organ - A recorded work by Gintas Norvila, as performed by TEARS
Location: New York, USA

Yong Shi (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)

Conference/workshop: Vienna Talk 2015
Title of paper/work presented: LBM simulation of the quasi-static flow in a clarinet
Location: Vienna, Austria

Moe Touizrar (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)

Conference/workshop: 4th International Conference on Music and Emotion (ICME4)
Title of paper/work presented: Visual and orchestral components of musical affect in dramatic scenes
Location: Geneva, Switzerland

Round 3 (for travel between January 15th and May 14th 2016)

Matthew Boerum (CIRMMT sponsor: Richard King)

Conference/workshop: Audio Engineering Society 61st International Conference on Audio for Games
Title of paper/work presented: Lateral listener movement on the horizontal plane
Location: London, UK

Rachel Bouserhal (CIRMMT sponsor: Jérémie Voix)

Conference/workshop: 2016 Annual National Hearing Conference - "Making Sound Waves"
Title of paper/work presented: The Effect of Occluding the Ear on Variations in Voice Level and Fundamenral Frequency with Changing Background Noise Level and Talker-to-Listener Distance: A pilot study
Location: San Diego, California, USA

Zhengdong Lei (CIRMMT sponsor: Luc Mongeau)

Conference/workshop: 10th International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics
Title of paper/work presented: Voice type discrimination by analyzing neck surface skin acceleration signals: Preliminary results on single vowels
Location: Viña del Mar, Chile

Catherine Massie-Laberge (CIRMMT sponsor: Isabelle Cossette)

Conference/workshop: Porto International Conference on Musical Gesture as Creative Interface
Title of paper/work presented: Motion analyses of romantic priano performances: Incidence of the musical structure on expressive gestures
Location: Porto, Portugal

João Felipe Santos (CIRMMT sponsor: Tiago Falk)

Conference/workshop: AES 60th conference
Title of paper/work presented: Blind room acoustics characterization using recurrent neural networks and modulation spectrum dynamic
Location: Leuven, Belgium

2014-2015

Round 1 (for travel between April 1st and June 30th 2014)

Benjamin Bacon (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop: International Workshop on Movement and Computing
Title of paper/work presented: Handedness in percussion sight-reading
Location: Paris, France

James Bronson (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe Depalle)

Conference/workshop: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2014
Title of paper/work presented: Phrase constrained complex NMF: Separating overlapping partials in mixtures of harmonic musical sources
Location: Florence, Italy

Emily Coffey (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Zatorre)

Conference/workshop: Organization for Human Brain Mapping 2014
Title of paper/work presented: MEG as a complementary tool to study auditory brainstem response to complex sounds
Location: Hamburg, Germany

Martin Marier (CIRMMT sponsor: Jean Piché)

Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) 2014
Title of paper/work presented: Musical work: Origami; Paper: Designing mappings for the sponge: Towards spongistic music
Location: London, UK

Bryan Martin (CIRMMT sponsor: Wieslaw Woszczyk)

Conference/workshop: 136th International Audio Engineering Society Convention (AES)
Title of paper/work presented: The sonic characteristics of the jazz style electric bass guitar
Location: Berlin, Germany

Robert Landon Morrison (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Hasegawa)

Conference/workshop: International Conference for the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network (EMS) 2014
Title of paper/work presented: Acousmographe V E analysis: A comparative study of graphic representation tools based on an aural analysis of Philippe Leroux's M.E.
Location: Berlin, Germany

Anna Zamm (CIRMMT sponsor: Caroline Palmer)

Conference/workshop: Erasmus Mundus Cognitive Neuroscience Symposium
Title of paper/work presented: Temporal coordination in ensemble music performance
Location: Leipzig, Germany

Round 2 (for travel between July 1st and September 30th 2014)

Anthony Bolduc (CIRMMT sponsor: Alain Berry)

Conference/workshop: AES conference on spatial audio
Title of paper/work presented: Sound field reproduction of vibroacoustic models: application to a plate with wave field synthesis
Location: Helsinki, Finland

Thor Kell (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop: Sound and Music Computing 2014
Title of paper/work presented: A high-level review of mappings in musical ios applications
Location: Athens, Greece

Yong Shi (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)

Conference/workshop: International symposium on musical acoustics 2014
Title of paper/work presented: Numerical simulation of whistles using Lattice Boltzman methods
Location: Le Mans, France

Cecilia Taher (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)

Conference/workshop: International conference on music perception and cognition
Title of paper/work presented: Effects of repetition on the perception of musical texture
Location: Seoul, South Korea

Zi Hua Tan (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe Leroux)

Conference/workshop: Royaumont Voix Nouvelles Course
Title of paper/work presented: A new work for soprano (Neue Vocalsolisten) and string quartet (Quatuor Diotima)
Location: Asnieres-sur-oise, France

Gabriel Vigliensoni-Martin (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)

Conference/workshop: SoMeRA2014: International Workshop on social medial retrieval and analysis
Title of paper/work presented 1: Identifying time zones in a large dataset of music listening logs
Title of paper/work presented 2: Features for describing music listening
Location: Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

Round 3 (for travel between October 1st and January 14th 2015)

Alejandro Aspinwall (CIRMMT sponsor: Richard King)

Conference/workshop: 137th Audio Engineering Society Conference
Title of paper/work presented: Orchestral Recording and Live Webcasting at McGill University
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA

Jan Anlauff (CIRMMT sponsor: Jeremy Cooperstock)

Conference/workshop: HAVE 2014 - Haptics and Virtual Environments
Title of paper/work presented: Wearable Computing for Ubiquitous Balance
Location: Dallas, Texas, USA

Diego Espinosa Cruz Gonzalez (CIRMMT sponsor: Aiyun Huang)

Conference/workshop: Tokyo Experimental Festival vol.9
Title of paper/work presented: The Performing Body: Instruments, Items, and Machines
Location: Tokyo, Japan

Connor Kemp (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)

Conference/workshop: Symposium on the Acoustic of Poro-elastic Materials
Title of paper/work presented: Observing stiffness variablity in reed (arundo donax) and the resulting vibrational response using FEM
Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Michael Klein (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Zatorre)

Conference/workshop: Society for Neuroscience 2014
Title of paper/work presented: fMRI pattern analysis of played vs. perceived piano sequences in dorsal/ventral cortical streams
Location: Washington DC, USA

Sven-Amin Lembke (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)

Conference/workshop: 9th Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology - CIM14
Title of paper/work presented: Timbre's role in music: investigating its dependency on pitch and dynamics during musical performance
Location: Berlin, Germany

Round 3 (for travel between January 15th and May 14th 2015)

Audrey-Kristel Barbeau (CIRMMT sponsor: Isabelle Cossette)

Conference/workshop: The 9th International Conference for Research in Music Education
Title of paper/work presented: It's never to late! Learning music after 60: The impact of participating in an intergenerational New Horizons Band on seniors' health and quality of life
Location: London, UK

Rachel Bou-Serhal (CIRMMT sponsor: Jeremie Voix)

Conference/workshop: International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
Title of paper/work presented: On the potential for artificial Bandwidth Extension of bone and tissue conducted speech
Location: Brisbane, Australia

Will Howie (CIRMMT sponsor: Richard King)

Conference/workshop: 138th AES International Convention
Title of paper/work presented: Microphone techniques of three-dimensional classical music recording
Location: Warsaw, Poland

2013-2014

Round 1 (for travel between April 1st and June 30th 2013)

Dalia El-Shimey (CIRMMT sponsor: Jeremy Cooperstock)

Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression
Title of paper/work presented: Reactive Environment for Network Music Performance
Location: Daejon-Seoul, Korea

Marcello Giordano (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop: World Haptics 2013/HAID 2013
Title of paper/work presented: Perceptual and Technological Issues in the Design of Vibrotactile-Augmented Interfaces for Music Technology and Media
Location: Daejon-Seoul, Korea

Ian Hattwick (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression
Title of paper/work presented 1: Unsounding Objects: Audio Feature Extraction for Control of Sound Synthesis
Title of paper/work presented 2: Unsounding Objects: Composition for the SpectraSurface
Location: Daejon-Seoul, Korea

Brett Leonard (CIRMMT sponsor: Richard King)

Conference/workshop: Audio Engineering Society 134th Convention
Title of paper/work presented 1: The Effect of Playback System on Reverberation Level Preference
Title of paper/work presented 2: Balance Preference testing Utilizing a System of Variable Acoustic Condition
Location: Rome, Italy

Joseph Malloch (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Title of paper/work presented: Libmapper: A Library for Connecting Things
Location: Paris, France

Ofer Pelz (CIRMMT sponsor: Caroline Traube)

Conference/workshop: MATA Festival
Title of paper/work presented: Cassandra's Quintet
Location: New York, NY, USA

Raymond Winters (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop: International Conference on Music and Emotion
Title of paper/work presented 1: Emotional Data in Music Performance: Two Audio Environments for Emotional Imaging
Title of paper/work presented 2: Sonification of Emotion: Strategies for Continuous Display of Arousal and Valence
Location: Jyvaskyla, Finland

Reiko Yamada (CIRMMT sponsor: Sean Ferguson)

Conference/workshop: IRCAM
Title of paper/work presented: A new composition for dancer, percussion, and electronics
Location: Paris, France

Round 2 (for travel between July 1st and September 30th 2013)

Erika Donald (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop: SMPC
Title of paper/work presented: Learning to play the cello: An analysis of 3D movement and the effects of visual and auditory feedback throughout the learning process
Location: Toronto, Canada

Vincent Fréour (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)

Conference/workshop: SMAC-SMC 2013
Title of paper/work presented: Trombone sound simulation under varying upstream coupling conditions
Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Meghan Goodchild (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)

Conference/workshop: SMPC
Title of paper/work presented: Re-orchestrations of orchestral gestures: theoretical implications and emotional impact
Location: Toronto, Canada

Andrew Hankinson (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)

Conference/workshop: International Association of Music Libraries
Title of paper/work presented: Using optical music recognition to navigate and retrieve music documents
Location: Vienna, Austria

Corey Kereliuk (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe Depalle)

Conference/workshop: International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx)
Title of paper/work presented: Analysis/Synthesis using Time-varying Windows and Chriped Atoms
Location: Maynooth, Ireland

Sven-Amin Lembke (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)

Conference/workshop: SMAC-SMC 2013
Title of paper/work presented: Measuring the interaction between bassoon and horn players in achieving timbre blend
Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Francesco Tordini (CIRMMT sponsor: Jeremy Cooperstock)

Conference/workshop: Models and Measures of Auditory Saliency
Title of paper/work presented: Emotional Data in Music Performance: Two Audio Environments for Emotional Imaging
Location: Lodz, Poland

David Weigl (CIRMMT sponsor: Catherine Guastavino)

Conference/workshop: SMPC/CogMIR
Title of paper/work presented 1: Investigating the Effects of Beat Salience on Beat Synchronization Judgements during Music Listening.
Title of paper/work presented 2: Examining the reliability and predictive validity of beat salience judgements
Location: Toronto, Canada

Round 3 (for travel between October 1st and December 31st 2013)

Avrum Hollinger (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop: IEEE Sensors 2013
Title of paper/work presented: MRI-Compatible Optically-Sensed Cello
Location: Baltimore, USA

Jason Noble (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)

Conference/workshop: Ligeti Symposium
Title of paper/work presented: Sound Mass and Auditory Streaming: A Perceptual Study of Ligeti's Continuum
Location: Tallahassee, USA

David Romblom (CIRMMT sponsor: Catherine Guastavino, Philippe Depalle, Richard King)

Conference/workshop: Audio Engineering Society 135th Convention
Title of paper/work presented 1: A Perceptual Evaluation of Room Effect
Title of paper/work presented 2: Recording, Rendering, and Reproduction: Techniques for Multi-Channel Spatial Audio
Location: New York, USA

Marlon Schumacher (CIRMMT sponsor: Sean Ferguson)

Conference/workshop: IRCAM Forum Workshops 2013
Title of paper/work presented: A Framework for Computer-aided Composition of Spatial Sound
Location: Paris, France

Kai Siedenburg (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe Depalle)

Conference/workshop: IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA)
Title of paper/work presented: Modulation Filtering for Structured Time-Frequency Estimation of Audio Signals
Location: New Paltz, USA

Gabriel Vigliensoni (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)

Conference/workshop: 14th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference
Title of paper/work presented 1: Optical recognition in common music notation
Title of paper/work presented 2: Musicbrainz for the world: the Chilean experience
Location: Curitiba, Brazil

Round 4 (for travel between January 1st and March 31st 2014)

Brice Gatinet (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe Leroux)

Conference/workshop: De cette lenteur sont faits les hommes
Title of paper/work presented: Noire=+
Location: Lyon, France

Sylvain Pohu (CIRMMT sponsor: Jean Piché)

Conference/workshop: Electric Spring 2014; Le Périscope
Title of paper/work presented: Feedback, use œuvre pour guitare électrique et disposition à un point de rencontre entre le free jazz, le glitch et le drone métal
Location: Huddersfield, UK and Lyon, France

2012-2013

Round 1 (for travel between April 1st and June 30th 2012)

SongHui Chon (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)

Conference/workshop: Acoustics 2012 Hong Kong
Title of paper/work presented: Investigation of timbre saliency, the attention-capturing quality of timbre
Location: Hong Kong, China

Andrew Hankinson (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)

Conference/workshop: AdMIRe: Advances in Music Information Retrieval
Title of paper/work presented: Creating large-scale searchable digital collections from printed music materials
Location: Lyon, France

Ian Hattwick (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop: Symposium on Laptop Ensembles and Orchestras
Title of paper/work presented: An approach to collaborative performance in a digital music ensemble
Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

Terri Hron (CIRMMT sponsor: Caroline Traube)

Conference/workshop: Electroacoustic Music Studies 2012
Title of paper/work presented: Locating the work and its meaning: Searching for notation and common ground in electroacoustic music
Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Doyuen Ko (CIRMMT sponsor: Wieslaw Woszczyk)

Conference/workshop: Audio Engineering Society Convention
Title of paper/work presented: Evaluation of a new active acoustics system in performances of five string quartets
Location: Budapest, Hungary

Martin Marier (CIRMMT sponsor: Jean Piché)

Conference/workshop: NIME 2012 (New Interfaces for Musical Expression)
Title of paper/work presented: Designing mappings for musical interfaces using preset interpolation AND Clarinette (Albino Butterfly)
Location: Ann Arbour, Michigan, USA

Sylvain Pohu (CIRMMT sponsor: Jean Piché)

Conference/workshop: Les Journées d'informatique musicale 2012 + tournée européene - voir itinéraire (annexe 2)
Title of paper/work presented: Série de concerts avec le duo "de type inconnu" (due de guitares augmentées)
Location: Various in Europe

Bertrand Scherrer (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe Depalle)

Conference/workshop: Acoustics 2012
Title of paper/work presented: Extracting the angle of release from guitar tones: preliminary results
Location: Nantes, France

Round 2 (for travel between July 1st and September 30th 2012)

Frédéric Chiasson (CIRMMT sponsor: Caroline Traube)

Conference/workshop: World Saxophone Congress
Title of paper/work presented: La Lame de l'horizon plus another work
Location: St Andrew's, Scotland

Meghan Goodchild (CIRMMT sponsor: Jon Wild)

Conference/workshop: 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC)
Title of paper/work presented: The Role of Orchestral Gestures on Continuous Ratings of Emotional Intensity
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece

Sibylle Herholz (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Zatorre)

Conference/workshop: Auditory Cortex Meeting 2012
Title of paper/work presented: Functional changes in auditory-motor networks due to musical training
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland

Michael Klein (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Zatorre)

Conference/workshop: Auditory Cortex Meeting 2012
Title of paper/work presented: Activity patterns in superior temporal & intraparietal sulci predict perceptual category of musical intervals
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland

Sven-Amin Lembke (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)

Conference/workshop: 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC)
Title of paper/work presented: Establishing a spectral theory for perceptual timbre blending based on spectral envelope characteristics
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece

Charalampos Saitis (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)

Conference/workshop: 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC)
Title of paper/work presented: Investigating consistency in verbal descriptions of violin preference by experienced players
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece

Eric Smialek (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe Depalle)

Conference/workshop: International Computer Music Conference (ICMC)
Title of paper/work presented: A spectrographic analysis of vocal techniques in extreme metal for musicological analysis
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia

Round 3 (for travel between October 1st and December 31st 2012)

Dave Benson (CIRMMT sponsor: Wieslaw Woszczyk)

Conference/workshop: 133rd Convention of the Audio Engineering Society (AES)
Title of paper/work presented: Searching impulse response libraries using room acoustic descriptors
Location: San Francisco, USA

Gregory Burlet (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)

Conference/workshop: International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR)
Title of paper/work presented: Neon.js: NeumeEditor online
Location: Porto, Portugal

Jason Hockman (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)

Conference/workshop: International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR)
Title of paper/work presented: One in the jungle: Downbeat detection in the hardcore, jungle, and drum and bass
Location: Porto, Portugal

Denis Martin (CIRMMT sponsor: Richard King)

Conference/workshop: 133rd Convention of the Audio Engineering Society (AES)
Title of paper/work presented: Student recording competition
Location: San Francisco, USA

Alfonso Perez Carillo (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop: ACM Workshop on Music Information Retrieval with User-Centred and Multimodal Strategies (MIRUM)
Title of paper/work presented: Learning and extraction of violin instrumental controls from audio signal
Location: Nara, Japan

Round 4 (for travel between January 1st and March 31st 2013)

Brice Gatinet (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe Leroux)

Conference/workshop: Impuls
Title of paper/work presented: Boson
Location: Graz, Austria

Jung Suk Lee (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone and Philippe Depalle)

Conference/workshop: AES 49th International Conference
Title of paper/work presented: Granular analysis/synthesis for simple and robust transformations of complex sounds
Location: London, UK

Daniel Steele (CIRMMT sponsor: Catherine Guastavino)

Conference/workshop: Geoinformatics for City Transformations
Title of paper/work presented: The sensor city initiative: Cognitive sensors for soundscape transformations
Location: Ostrava, Czech Republic

2011-2012

Round 1 (for travel between April 1st and June 30th 2011)

Jamila Andoh (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Zatorre)

Conference/workshop: Magstim 2011 TMS Summer School
Title of paper/work presented: Modulation of music processing using rTMS and fMRI
Location: Oxford, United Kingdom

Mathieu Bergeron (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga) - TRAVEL CANCELLED

Conference/workshop: 3rd International Conference on Mathematics and Computation in Music (MCM) 2011
Title of paper/work presented: Subsumption of vertical viewpoint patterns
Location: Paris, France

Erika Donald (CIRMMT sponsor: Isabelle Cossette)
- Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) 2011
- Title of paper/work presented: Designing the EP Trio: Instrument indentities, control and performance practice in an electronic chamber music ensemble / Performance: Three Shot, by E. Britton.
- Location: Oslo, Norway

Antoine Lefebvre (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone
- Conference/workshop: Forum Acousticum 2011
- Title of paper/work presented: A comparison of saxophone impedances and their playing behaviour
- Location: Aalborg, Denmark

Charalmpos Saitis (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)
- Conference/workshop: The VSA-Oberlin Acoustics Workshop 2011
- Title of paper/work presented: Investigating perceptual aspects of violin acoustics
- Location: Oberlin, Ohio, USA

Valorie Salimpoor (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Zatorre)
- Conference/workshop: American Psychological Society
- Title of paper/work presented: Neural activity in dopaminergic regions predicts reward value of unfamiliar musical pieces
- Location: Washington, DC, USA

Stephen Sinclair (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)
- Conference/workshop: IEEE World Haptics Conference 2011
- Title of paper/work presented: Noise-free haptic interaction with a bowed-string acoustic model
- Location: Istanbul, Turkey

Anthony Tan (CIRMMT sponsor: Sean Ferguson)
- Conference/workshop: Matrix 11 - Perspectives on Live Electronics
- Title of paper/work presented: Pose I: between the sadness for soprano and electronics
- Location: Freiburg, Germany

Round 2 (for travel between July 1st and September 30th 2011)

Rafa Absar (CIRMMT sponsor: Catherine Guastavino)

Conference/workshop: HCI International 2011
Title of paper/work presented: Nonspeech sound design for a hierarchical information system
Location: Orlando, Florida, USA

Michel Bernays (CIRMMT sponsor: Caroline Traube)

Conference/workshop: International Sysmposium on Performance Science (ISPS 2011)
Title of paper/work presented: Verbal expression of piano timbre: Multidimensional semantic space of adjectival descriptors
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada

Guillaume Boutard (CIRMMT sponsor: Catherine Guastavino)
- Conference/workshop: Tracking the Creative Process in Music 2011
- Title of paper/work presented: Informer les archives des musiques électroacoustiques et mixtes par les processus de création
- Location: Lille, France

Frédéric Chiasson (CIRMMT sponsor: Caroline Traube)
- Conference/workshop: Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC) Conference 2011
- Title of paper/work presented: Koechlin's volume: Effects of native language and musical training on perception of auditory size among instrument timbres
- Location: Rochester, New York, USA

Meghan Goodchild (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams) - TRAVEL CANCELLED
- Conference/workshop: Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC) Conference 2011
- Title of paper/work presented: The Effect of Orchestration Changes on Continuous Responses of Emotional Intensity
- Location: Rochester, New York, USA

Sean Hutchins (CIRMMT sponsor: Isabelle Peretz)
- Conference/workshop: Pan-European Voice Conference (PEVOC) 9
- Title of paper/work presented: Voice Perception and Production in Congenital Amusia
- Location: Marseilles, France

Corey Keruliuk (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe Depalle)
- Conference/workshop: 14th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects
- Title of paper/work presented: Atomic Models for Analysis, Synthesis and Digital Audio Effects
- Location: Paris, France

Sven-Amin Lembke (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)
- Conference/workshop: Society of Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC) Conference 2011
- Title of paper/work presented: The Relevance of Spectral Shape to Perceptual Blend Between Wind Instrument Timbre
- Location: Rochester, New York, USA

Carolina Medeiros (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop:8th Sound and Music Computing Conference
Title of paper/work presented: Evaluation of sensor technologies for a kalimba-like DMI
Location: Padova, Italy

Marlon Schumacher (CIRMMT sponsor: Sean Ferguson)
- Conference/workshop: International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 2011
- Title of paper/work presented: Representations and interchange of sound spatialization data for compositional applications
- Location: Huddersfield, UK

David Sears (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)
- Conference/workshop: 51st Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research
- Title of paper/work presented: Predicting the Psychophysiological Responses of Listeners with Musical Features
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Round 3 (for travel between October 1st and December 31st 2011)

Ashley Burgoyne (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)

Conference/workshop: 12th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Conference
Title of paper/work presented: An expert ground-truth set for audio chord recognition and music analysis
Location: Miami, FL, USA

Jason Hockman (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)

Conference/workshop: Audio Engineering Society (AES) 131st Convention
Title of paper/work presented: Discrimination between phonograph playback systems
Location: New York, NY, USA

Trevor Knight (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)
- Conference/workshop: 12th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Conference
- Title of paper/work presented: The potential for automatic assessment of trumpet tone quality
- Location: Miami, FL, USA

Jung Suk Lee (CIRMMT sponsors: Gary Scavone & Philippe Depalle)
- Conference/workshop: IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA) 2011
- Title of paper/work presented: Conformal method for the rectilinear digital waveguide mesh
- Location: New Paltz, NY, USA

Brett Leonard (CIRMMT sponsor: Richard King)
- Conference/workshop: Audio Engineering Society (AES) 131st Convention
- Title of paper/work presented: The effects of monitoring systems on balance preference: A comparative study of mixing on headphones versus loudspeakers.
- Title of paper/work presented: In situ measurements of the concert grand piano
- Title of paper/work presented: The practical effects of lateral energy in critical listening environments
- Location: New York, NY, USA

Cléo Palacio-Quintin (CIRMMT sponsor: Caroline Traube)
- Conference/workshop: International sessions on artistic research in music: (Re) thinking improvisation
- Title of paper/work presented: Improvising with live electronics: A hyper-flutist's perspective
- Location: Malmö, Sweden

Amandine Pras (CIRMMT sponsor: Catherine Guastavino)
- Conference/workshop: Audio Engineering Society (AES) 131st Convention
- Title of paper/work presented: The impact of producers' comments and musicians' self-evaluation on performance during recording
- Location: New York, NY, USA

Gabriel Vigliensoni (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)
- Conference/workshop: 12th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Conference
- Title of paper/work presented: Automatic pitch recognition in printed square-note notation
- Location: Miami, FL, USA

Round 4 (for travel between January 1st and March 31st 2012)

Emily Coffey (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Zatorre)

Conference/workshop: Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Conference 2012
Title of paper/work presented: Effects of long-term musical training on neuronal correlates of auditory imagery
Location: Chicago, IL, USA

Marion Cousineau (CIRMMT sponsor: Isabelle Peretz)
- Conference/workshop: ARO midwinter meeting
- Title of paper/work presented: Congenital amusia produces abnormal perception of dissonance despite normal perception of beating: New evidence for the role of harmonicity in consonance perception
- Location: San Diego, CA, USA

Brian Hamilton (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe Depalle)

Conference/workshop: AES 45th Conference on Applications of Time-frequency Processing in Audio
Title of paper/work presented: Comparisons of parameter estimation methods for an exponential polynomial sound signal model
Location: Helsinki, Finland

Sibylle Herholz (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Zatorre)

Conference/workshop: Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Conference 2012
Title of paper/work presented: Training-related changes in the cortical networks for mental auditory imagery and auditory perception
Location:Chicago, IL, USA

2010-2011

Round 1 (for travel between April 1st and June 30th 2010)

Mitchel Benovoy (CIRMMT sponsor: Jeremy Cooperstock)

Conference/workshop: Computer Human Interaction (CHI) 2010
Title of paper/work presented: Psychophysiological signal analysis and classification
Location: Atlanta, USA

Mary Alison Conard (CIRMMT sponsor: Jon Wild)

Conference/workshop: University of Calgary Graduate Student Conference - Confounding Expectations: Inspiring Minds
Title of paper/work presented: "Remember that lovely slow introduction?" said the Allegro con spirito when it became troubled
Location: Calgary, Alberta

Vincent Fréour (CIRMMT sponsor: Isabelle Cossette)

Conference/workshop: Congrès Français d'Acoustique (CFA) 2010
Title of paper/work presented: Simultaneous measurements of pressure, flow and sound during trumpet playing
Location: Lyon, France

Andrew Hankinson (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)

Conference/workshop: Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI)
Title of paper/work presented: Distributed optical music recognition
Location: Victoria, Canada

Rodolphe Koehly (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley) - TRAVEL CANCELLED

Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) 2010
Title of paper/work presented: Development kit for the fabrication of ultimate resistive based contact sensors
Location: Sydney, Australia

Sarah Payne (CIRMMT sponsor: Catherine Guastavino)

Conference/workshop: International Association People-Environment Studies (IAPS)
Title of paper/work presented: Improving the composition and terminology of Perceived Restorativeness (Soundscape) Scales
Location: Leipzig, Germany

Mario Schumacher (CIRMMT sponsor: Sean Ferguson)

Conference/workshop: 2nd International Symposium on Ambisonics and Spherical Acoustics 2010
Title of paper/work presented: Compositional control of periphonic sound spatialization
Location: Paris, France

Grzegorz Sikora (CIRMMT sponsor: Martha de Francisco)

Conference/workshop: Audio Engineering Society (AES) Convention
Title of paper/work presented: Acoustic space sampling & the grand piano in a non-anechoic environment: A recordist-centric approach to musical acoustic study
Location: London, England

Mary Elizabeth Sutherland (CIRMMTsponsor: Robert Zatorre)

Conference/workshop: 16th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping
Title of paper/work presented: Grey matter density in auditory regions at age ten predicts ability on a melodic task five years later
Location: Barcelona, Spain

Round 2 (for travel between July 1st and September 30th 2010)

Rachel Brown (CIRMMT sponsor: Caroline Palmer)

Conference/workshop: 11th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC)
Title of paper/work presented: Neurological and behavioral basis for auditory-motor transformations in music performance
Location: Seattle, USA

Erika Donald (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop: 11th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC)
Title of paper/work presented: Effects of the tempo on bow arm and center of mass movements in cellists and their pedagogical implications
Location: Seattle, USA

Charles-Antoine Fréchette (CIRMMT sponsor: Sean Ferguson)

Conference/workshop: Stage at Centre Acanthes
Title of paper/work presented: Nature vive (string quartet with electronics)
Location: Metz, France

Meghan Goodchild (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)

Conference/workshop: 11th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC)
Title of paper/work presented: Expression and perception of formal structure in an unmeasured prelude for harpsichord
Location: Seattle, USA

Philippe Hamel (CIRMMT sponsor: Douglas Eck)

Conference/workshop: 11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Conference
Title of paper/work presented: Learning features from music audio with deep belief networks
Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands

Jason Hockman (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)

Conference/workshop: 11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Conference
Title of paper/work presented: Fast vs. slow: Learning tempo octaves from user data
Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands

Jung Suk Lee (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)

Conference/workshop: 13th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-10)
Title of paper/work presented: Analysis/Synthesis of rolling sounds using a source-filter approach
Location: Graz, Austria

Martin Marier (CIRMMT sponsor: Jean Piché)

Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) 2010
Title of paper/work presented: The Sponge: A flexible interface
Location: Sydney, Australia

David Sears (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)

Conference/workshop: 11th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC)
Title of paper/work presented: Are bodily responses pre-musical? Psychophysiological applications to music analysis
Location: Seattle, USA

Anna Tirovolas (CIRMMT sponsor: Daniel Levitin)

Conference/workshop: 17th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR)
Title of paper/work presented: Extending the RAN task to musical pitches and durations
Location: Berlin, Germany

Round 3 (for travel between October 1st and December 31st 2010)

John Ashley Burgoyne (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)

Conference/workshop: Joint Meeting of the American Musicological Society (AMS) and the Society for Music Theory (SMT)
Title of paper/work presented: Smart statistical models for musical data
Location: Indianapolis, USA

Cédric Camier (CIRMMT sponsor: Alain Berry)

Conference/workshop: 40th International Audio Engineering Society (AES) Conference
Title of paper/work presented: Sound field reproduction applied to flight vehicles sound environments
Location: Tokyo, Japan

Johanna Devaney (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)

Conference/workshop: Society of Music Theory (SMT) Annual Meeting
Title of paper/work presented: AMPACT: Automated music performance analysis and comparison toolkit.
Location: Indianapolis, USA

Philippe-Aubert Gauthier (CIRMMT sponsor: Alain Berry)

Conference/workshop: 40th International Audio Engineering Society (AES) Conference
Title of paper/work presented: Sound field extrapolation: Inverse problems, virtual microphone arrays, and spatial filters
Location: Tokyo, Japan

Doyuen Ko (CIRMMT sponsor: Wieslaw Woszczyk)

Conference/workshop: 40th International Audio Engineering Society (AES) Conference
Title of papers/works presented:

Paper: The effect of processing two overhead channels on the spatial impression of virtual rooms rendered in eight-channel surround sound
Paper and workshop panelist: Space Builder: An impulse response-based tool for immersive 22.2 channel ambiance design
Workshop support: Measuring high-quality room impulse responses for artistic applications

Location: Tokyo, Japan

Brett Leonard (CIRMMT sponsor: Wieslaw Woszczyk)

Conference/workshop: 40th International Audio Engineering Society (AES) Conference
Title of papers/works presented:

The effect of processing two overhead channels on the spatial impression of virtual rooms rendered in eight-channel surround sound
Paper and workshop panelist: Space Builder: An impulse response-based tool for immersive 22.2 channel ambiance design
Workshop support: Measuring high-quality room impulse responses for artistic applications

Location: Tokyo, Japan

Charalampos Saitis (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)

Conference/workshop: 2nd Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics
Title of paper/work presented: Evaluating violin quality: How consistent are skilled players?
Location: Cancun, Mexico

Round 4 (for travel between January 1st and March 31st 2011)

Sibylle Herholz (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Zatorre)

Conference/workshop: Meeting of the German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology and Functional Imaging
Title of paper/work presented: Neuroimaging of imagined and perceived tunes
Location: Muenster, Germany

Valorie Salimpoor (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Zatorre)

Conference/workshop: Crossing the Corpus Callosum II: Neuroscience, Healing and Music
Title of paper/work presented: Pleasurable responses to music correlate with hemodynamic activity in dopaminergic regions of the brain
Location: Boston, USA

Andie Sigler (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams) - TRAVEL CANCELLED

Conference/workshop: Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic (MTSMA) 2011
Title of paper/work presented: Simplicity and recursion: A technique for melodic analysis
Location: Washington D.C., USA

Nina Young (CIRMMT sponsor: Sean Ferguson)

Conference/workshop: Society of Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) 2011
Title of paper/work presented: Kolokol - for two pianos and electronics
Location: Miami, USA

2009-2010

Round 1 (for travel between April 1st and June 30th 2009)

Mike Collicutt (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) 2009
Title of paper/work presented: From Real to Virtual: A Comparison of Input Devices for Percussion Tasks
Location: Pittsburgh, USA

François-Xavier Féron (CIRMMT sponsor: Catherine Guastavino)

Conference/workshop: International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD) 2009
Title of paper/work presented: Upper limits of auditory motion perception: The case of rotating sounds
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

Ilja Frissen (CIRMMT sponsor: Catherine Guastavino)

Conference/workshop: International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD) 2009
Title of paper/work presented: Perception of reverberation in large single and coupled volumes
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

Jason Hockman (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)

Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) 2009
Title of paper/work presented: Real-time Phase Vocoder Manipulation by Runner's Pace
Location: Pittsburg, USA

David Andrew Stewart (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop: Electroacoustic Music Studies Network, Conference 2009
Title of paper/work presented: Digital Musical Instrument Composition: Limits and Constraints
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Jean-Mary Zarate (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Zatorre)

Conference/workshop: Organization for Human Brain Mapping
Title of paper/work presented: Neural networks involved in voluntary vocal pitch regulation in singers
Location: San Francisco, USA

Round 2 (for travel between July 1st and September 30th 2009)

Michel Bernays (CIRMMT sponsor: Caroline Traube)

Conference/workshop: 7th Triennial Conference of European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM) 2009
Title of paper/work presented: Piano Timbre: Perception and verbal description of aggregate piano timbres by highly skilled pianists
Location: Seattle, Jyväskylä, Finland

Johanna Devaney (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)

Conference/workshop: Society for Music Perception and Cognition
Title of paper/work presented: Intonation tendencies in solo a cappella vocal performances
Location: Indianapolis, USA

Meghan Goodchild (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)

Conference/workshop: Society for Music Perception and Cognition
Title of paper/work presented: Temporal patterns and formal structures in the performance of an unmeasured prelude for harpsichord
Location: Indianapolis, USA

Maryse Lavoie (CIRMMT sponsor: Caroline Traube)

Conference/workshop: 7th Triennial Conference of European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM) 2009
Title of paper/work presented: Sonetics: A phonetic approach to the study of musical timbre
Location: Jyväskylä, Finland

Janeen Loehr (CIRMMT sponsor: Caroline Palmer)

Conference/workshop: Joint Action Meeting (JAM III)
Title of paper/work presented: Action representations in joint music performance
Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Cléo Palacio-Quintin (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley) - TRAVEL CANCELLED

Conference/workshop: 6th Sound and Music Computing Conference and Training School on Interactions with Environmental Sounds
Title of paper/work presented: The Hyper-Bass-Flute
Location: Porto, Portugal

Jessica Phillips-Silver (CIRMMT sponsor: Isabelle Peretz)

Conference/workshop: 4th International Conference on Spatial Cognition
Title of paper/work presented: Music embodied in dance: Studies of dance-like movement in different populations
Location: Rome, Italy

Valorie Salimpoor (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Zatorre) - TRAVEL CANCELLED

Conference/workshop: International Conference on Music and Emotions
Title of paper/work presented: An investigation of the psychophysiological, neurofunctional, and neurochemical basis of pleasurable emotions in response to music
Location: Durham, England

Bertrand Scherrer (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe Depalle) - TRAVEL CANCELLED

Conference/workshop: 12th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects
Title of paper/work presented: Extracting the modal parameters of the horizontal and vertical transverse polarisations of a guitar
Location: Como, Italy

Amie Watson (CIRMMT sponsor: Aiyun Huang)

Conference/workshop: SoundSCAPE: Sound, Composition and Performance Exchange
Title of paper/work presented: Contemporary chamber music performance
Location: Pavia, Italy

Round 3 (for travel between October 1st and December 31st 2009)

John Ashley Burgoyne (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)

Conference/workshop: International Conference on Music Information Retrieval
Title of paper/work presented: Lyric extraction and recognition on digital Images of early music sources
Location: Kobe, Japan

Philippe Hamel (CIRMMT sponsor: Douglas Eck)

Conference/workshop: International Conference on Music Information Retrieval
Title of paper/work presented: Automatic identification of instrument classes in polyphonic and poly-instrument audio
Location: Kobe, Japan

Brian Hamilton (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe Depalle)

Conference/workshop: IEEE Workshopon Appfications of Signat Processing to Audio and Acoustics
Title of paper/work presented: Theoretical and practical comparisons of the reassignment method and the derivative method
Location: New Paltz, USA

Doyuen Ko (CIRMMT sponsor: Wieslaw Woszczyk)

Conference/workshop: 127th AES Convention
Title of paper/work presented: Virtual Haydn - Recording and performing in virtual acoustics
Location: New York, USA

Valorie Salimpoor (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Zatorre)

Conference/workshop: Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting
Title of paper/work presented: Evidence for a neuroanatomical distinction during anticipation and experience of the chills response
Location: Boston, USA

Marlon Schumacher (CIRMMT sponsor: Sean Ferguson)

Conference/workshop: IRCAM Forum Workshop 2009
Title of paper/work presented: Omprisma: Symbolic control of spatial sound synthesis and processing in OpenMusic
Location: Paris, France

Round 4 and Extra Round (for travel between January 1st and March 31st 2010)

Cory McKay (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)

Conference/workshop: International Conference on Multimodal Information Retrieval
Title of paper/work presented: Improving automatic music classification performance by extracting features from different types of data
Location: Philadelphia, USA

Nils Peters (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)

Conference/workshop: Workshops on spatial sound synthesis
Title of paper/work presented: On the development of an auditory virtual environment for musical applications
Location: Oslo and Bergen, Norway

Johanna Devaney (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)

Conference/workshop: 2010 Indiana University Symposium of Research in Music Theory
Title of paper/work presented: What can expressive performance studies tell us about the organization of musical materials?
Location: Bloomington, USA

Meghan Goodchild (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)

Conference/workshop: Empirical Musicology II: Empirical approaches to performance
Title of paper/work presented: Comparing performances of an unmeasured prelude for harpsichord: Temporal profiles and formal structures
Location: Leeds, England

Yon Visell (CIRMMT sponsor: Jeremy Cooperstock)

Conference/workshop: IEEE Haptics Symposium
Title of paper/work presented: Design of a vibrotactile display via a rigid surface
Location: Boston, USA

2008-2009

Round 1 (for travel between April 1st and June 30th 2008)

Rafa Absar (CIRMMT sponsor: Catherine Guastavino)

Conference/workshop: ICAD 2008
Title of paper/work presented: Usability of non-speech sounds in user interfaces
Location: Paris, France

Michel Bernays (CIRMMT sponsor: Caroline Traube)

Conference/workshop: Acoustics '08
Title of paper/work presented: Perception, verbal description and gestural control of piano timbre
Location: Paris, France

Anjali Bhatara (CIRMMT sponsor: Daniel Levitin)

Conference/workshop: International Meeting for Autism Research (AMFAR)
Title of paper/work presented: The effect of music on social attribution in autism spectrum disorders
Location: London, England

Johanna Devaney (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)

Conference/workshop: Annual Meeting of the Canadian University Music Society (Part of CFHSS Congress 2008)
Title of paper/work presented: Performance analysis: The potential of recordings in testing quantitative aspects of music theories
Location: Vancouver, Canada

Antoine Lefebvre (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)

Conference/workshop: Acoustics '08
Title of paper/work presented: Input Impedance Measurements of Conical Acoustic Systems using the Two-Microphone Technique
Location: Paris, France

Cléo Palacio-Quintin (CIRMMT sponsor: Caroline Traube)

Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME08)
Title of paper/work presented: Eight Years of Practice on the Hyper-Flute: Technological and Musical Perspectives
Location: Genova, Italy

Round 2 (for travel between July 1st and September 30th 2008)

Olivier Bélanger (CIRMMT sponsor: Jean Piché)

Conference/workshop: International Computer Music Conference 2008
Title of paper/work presented: Ounk - An audio scripting environment for signal processing and music composition
Location: Belfast, Ireland

Cory McKay (CIRMMT sponsor: Ichiro Fujinaga)

Conference/workshop: International Conference on Music Information Retrieval
Title of paper/work presented: Combining Features Extracted From Audio, Symbolic and Cultural Sources
Location: Philadelphia, USA

Xenia Pestov (CIRMMT sponsor: Sean Ferguson)

Conference/workshop: International Computer Music Conference 2008
Title of paper/work presented: Analogue vs. Digital: Authenticity and Sustainability in Stockhausen's "MANTRA"
Location: Belfast, Ireland

Bertrand Scherrer (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe Depalle)

Conference/workshop: 11th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx2008)
Title of paper/work presented: Two-Step Modal Identification For Increased Resolution Analysis of Percussive Sounds
Location: Espoo, Finland

Michel Vallières (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)

Conference/workshop: CIM '08
Title of paper/work presented: Intrinsic formal functionality: perception of Mozart's materials
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece

Mark Zadel (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)

Conference/workshop: International Computer Music Conference 2008
Title of paper/work presented: Recent Developments in the Different Strokes Environment
Location: Belfast, Ireland

Round 3 (for travel between October 1st and December 31st 2008)

Rachel Brown (CIRMMT sponsor: Caroline Palmer)

Conference/workshop: Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society
Title of paper/work presented: Effects of sensorimotor integration on auditory memory for music
Location: Chicago, USA

Alvin Law (CIRMMT sponsor: Jeremy Cooperstock)

Conference/workshop: Haptic Audio Visual Environments (HAVE) 2008
Title of paper/work presented: A Multi-modal Floor-space for Experiencing Material Deformation Underfoot in Virtual Reality
Location: Ottawa, Canada

Nils Peters (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)

Conference/workshop: Audio Engineering Society 125th Conference
Title of paper/work presented: Predicting perceived off-center sound degradation in surround loudspeaker setups for various multichannel microphone techniques
Location: San Francisco, USA

Valorie Salimpoor (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Zatorre)

Conference/workshop: Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting
Title of paper/work presented: Qualifying the Chills Response: Differences between Transient and Prolonged Chills in Response to Music
Location: Chicago, USA

Qi Zhi (CIRMMT sponsor: Jeremy Cooperstock) - TRAVEL CANCELLED

Conference/workshop: ICPR 2008: International Conference on Pattern Recognition
Title of paper/work presented: Depth-based Image Mosaicing for Both Static and Dynamic Scenes
Location: Tampa, Florida

Round 4 (for travel between January 1st and March 31st 2009)

Erika Donald (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)

Conference/workshop: SPARK Festival of Electronic Music and Arts
Title of paper/work presented: The Digital Orchestra Project: Gestural controllers as expressive musical instruments
Location: Minneapolis, USA

Andrew Stewart (CIRMMT sponsor: Sean Ferguson)

Conference/workshop: Guthman Musical Instrument Competition, Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology
Title of paper/work presented: Performance of composition: Everybody to the power of one
Location: Atlanta, USA

Yon Visell (CIRMMT sponsor: Jeremy Cooperstock)

Conference/workshop: World Haptics (3rd Joint Conf. and Symp. on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Env. and Teleop. Sys.)
Title of paper/work presented: Toward Iconic Vibrotactile Information Display Using Floor Surfaces
Location: Salt Lake City, USA