NEWS
CIRMMT member Eric Lewis, part of 312 Ensemble, to contribute a world premiere sound track to IF2020
A diverse collection of musicians come together as the 312 Ensemble, with backgrounds from philosophy to epidemiology.
live@CIRMMT 2020-2021 - Call for Proposals
CIRMMT invites artists to apply for the 2020-2021 live@CIRMMT Concert Series.
live@CIRMMT Call for Proposals 2021-2022
live@CIRMMT concert nominated for an Opus Prize
The live@CIRMMT concert De souffles et de machines with the Quasar saxophone quartet has been nominated in three categories for an Opus Prize granted by the Conseil Québécois de la Musique.
live@CIRMMT concert 'The Virtual Salon' video excerpt with CIRMMT member Tom Beghin on fortepiano
An excerpt from the live@CIRMMT concert performed in February 2012 with Trio Galatea (Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin; Elisabeth Le Guin, cello; Tom Beghin, fortepiano) in the virtual acoustics of the Eszterháza Music Room (Fertöd, Hungary), reconstructed in the Multi Media Room, Schulich School of Music, of McGill University, Montreal.
Marlon Schumacher to present "Inside Out" as part of Montreal en Lumiere / Nuit Blanche
CIRMMT student Marlon Schumacher will present the networked intermedia installation “Inside Out” as part of the Montreal en Lumiere / Nuit Blanche festival in the Goethe-Institut, Montreal, on Feb 28, 2015.
CIRMMT member Martha de Francisco winner of 2015 Woman of Distinction in Arts and Culture award
Martha de Francisco winner of 2015 Woman of Distinction in Arts and Culture award, presented by the Women's Y Foundation of Montreal.
CIRMMT receives $11M funding through a grant from Canada Foundation for Innovation's 2015 Innovation Fund
CIRMMT will receive funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation's 2015 Innovation Fund for their project The science of the art of music: “Live Expression “in situ”: Musical and Audiovisual Performance and Reception." The projects funded under the Canada Foundation for Innovation's 2015 Innovation Fund endeavour to position the country as a global research leader, from outer space, to the surgeon's table, to our interconnected day-to-day world. The state-of-the-art infrastructure funded will transform the Canadian research landscape; the work it supports will propel Canadian research towards the leading edge.
CIRMMT Director Marcelo Wanderley gives feature talk at McMaster University's NeuroMusic Conference
Also in conjunction with the Grand Opening of McMaster's LIVELab
An Internet Multi-sensory Experience
On November 28th the Kevin Dean Quartet performed in Montreal at the Schulich School of Music while attendees in Toronto watched the performance live on a widescreen video display (16:9 format) with multichannel (6-channel) sound.
CIRMMT student member Daniel Steele interviewed by CBC's Homerun radio show for Musikiosk project
Researchers at McGill University and École de Technologie Supérieure launched Musikiosk on July 31st 2015. It is an urban sound social experiment that lets you play DJ and tracks how people react to your musical taste in parc du Portugal, Montreal and is open to the public for the month of August.
Does Mozart enhance our humanity? The neuroscience of music
Why do we make music? How do we make music? Why do we like the music we like? Music, like language, is something universal to our species. Yet we know little about how it evolved and how our brains are specialized to create and respond to music.
CIRMMT Newsletter: latest issue is online
The CIRMMT newsletter is published regularly by CIRMMT students.
New Video Visualization Tool
An interactive searching engine that allows for a new way to browse through CIRMMT Distinguished Lecture videos.
University of Phoenix magazine 'Faculty Matters' talks about Open Orchestra
The Spring 2013 edition has the article 'Welcome to the Future' which mentions Open Orchestra, a simulator able to recreate a full orchestra, jazz combo or accompaniment. The project was carried out with the help of CIRMMT.
CIRMMT member Caroline Palmer to be inducted as Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
The Royal Society of Canada's 2018 Celebration of Excellence and Engagement (COEE) in Halifax will see CIRMMT member Caroline Palmer inducted as a Fellow.
CIRMMT member Philippe Leroux awarded Le Prix de commande de la Fondation Simone et Cino Del Duca
Le Prix de composition musicale de la Fondation Simone et Cino Del Duca is awarded every year since 1995 on a proposal from the musical section of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Le prix de commande is a commissioning prize of 15,000 Euros that is given to a French composer, or a composer working in France, for the creation of a short orchestral work. Le prix de commande of 2015 was awarded to composer and CIRMMT member Philippe Leroux for the commission of an original work that will be created under the Coupole of the Institut de France in the 2015 Séance Solennelle of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
CIRMMT member Philippe Leroux named Royal Society of Canada Fellow
Philippe Leroux, Associate Professor, Department of Music Research, Schulich School of Music, was named Royal Society of Canada Fellow.
Philippe Leroux awarded the Grand Prix du Disque 2015 for Contemporary Music by the Académie Charles Cros in France
Philippe Leroux awarded the Grand Prix du Disque 2015 for Contemporary Music by the Académie Charles Cros in France
CIRMMT student Sylvain Pohu makes latest work 'Feedback' available on YouTube
Feedback is a work for guitar and electronics, at the convergence of free jazz, glitch electroacoustics, and drone metal. It is the fruit of my graduate studies, and the culmination of a long personal project which led me to engage in advanced studies and research in music 10 years ago.