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The CIRMMT Distinguished Lectures in the Science and Technology of Music are designed to bring researchers and artists of international renown in the disciplines covered by CIRMMT to present their work to the general public, as well as to meet with CIRMMT researchers and students. This page contains recordings of the lectures, as well as of Keynote talks and some Seminars.
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2017-2018
Distinguished Lectures
- Apr 26, 2018 - Eleanor Selfridge-Field: Ear, mind, or brain? Reflections on musical similarity
- Mar 15, 2018 - Sylvie Gibet: Gesture: a language to sense, express, control
- Feb 01, 2018 - Trevor Wishart: Composing the real
- Dec 13, 2017 - Bill Seaman: Recombinant music: Generative approaches
- Nov 09, 2017 - Toshifumi Kunimoto: YAMAHA's musical instruments and audio products as DSP applications
- Oct 09, 2017 - Joseph Myers: Recital halls, rehearsal rooms, and research spaces
2016-2017
DISTINGUISHED LECTURES
- Apr 20, 2017 - Dan Gauger: Giving people control of our most important human sense - hearing
- Mar 08, 2017 - Laetitia Sonami: Your presence is required - performance, control, and magnetism [No video available]
- Feb 23, 2017 - Benoit Fabre: Musical instruments and players - an acoustical approach to the relations between instrument making, playing techniques, and sound aesthetics in music performance
- Nov 17, 2016 - Frank Bedrossian: Articulation of excess - developing harmonic colours within a world of complex sounds [No video available]
- Oct 20, 2016 - Henkjan Honing: What makes us musical animals
CIRMMT STUDENT SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE
2015-2016
Distinguished Lectures
- Apr 21, 2016 - Michael Vorländer: Virtual musical instruments in virtual rooms - what's real at all?
- Mar 24, 2016 - Robert Henke: Give me limits! Two perspectives on computer based music production in a time of exponentially growing possibilities
- Feb 25, 2016 - Edmund Campion: Moving parts: On structure and chaotic actions in the design and build of my computer-based music(s)
- Nov 5, 2015 - Aaron Williamon: Facing the music: Employing science and technology to enhance professional training
- Oct 22, 2015 - Poppy Crum: The future of immersive technologies
- Sep 24, 2015 - Masataka Goto: Frontiers of music technologies – singing synthesis and active music listening
CIRMMT STUDENT SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE
- Jun 01, 2016 - George E. Lewis: Living with creative machines [No video available]
2014-2015
Distinguished Lectures
- Apr 16, 2015 - Floyd Toole: Sound Reproduction - art and science/opinions and facts
- Mar 19, 2015 - Frans Wiering: Musicology centred design
- Feb 12, 2015 - Eckart Altenmüller: Apollo's gift and curse: Acquisition and loss of skilled movements in musicians
- Nov 13, 2014 - Robert Godin: Growing a global business from a small factory
- Oct 16, 2014 - Marilyn Nonken: The spectral piano: An ecological inquiry [No video available due to copyright issues]
- Sep 30, 2014 - Douglas Eck: Music recommendation and discovery at scale
CIRMMT Student Symposium Keynote
- May 28, 2015 - Gil Weinberg: Robotic musicianship at Georgia Tech [No video available]
2013-2014
Distinguished Lectures
- Apr 17, 2014 - Robert Duke: Music learning through multiple lenses
- Mar 27, 2014 - Chris Chafe: A listening tour of musical portraits and sonic landscapes
- Jan 23, 2014 - Denis Smalley: Spatiality in acousmatic music
- Nov 14, 2013 - Mark Sandler: Semantic audio: Combining semantic web technology with audio
- Oct 17, 2013 - René Caussé: Acoustics and contemporary music (revisited)
- Sep 12, 2013 - Roger Dannenberg: Music understanding and the future of music performance
CIRMMT STUDENT SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE
2012-2013
Distinguished Lectures
- Apr 18, 2013 - Eric Clarke: Distributed creativity in musical performance
- Mar 21, 2013 - Anders Askenfelt: Violin bows and bowing - action and gestures
- Feb 21, 2013 - Petr Janata: Music, memories, and the brain
- Jan 17, 2013 - William Sethares: Topology of musical data
- Dec 06, 2012 - Marc Ernst: Putting together the puzzle of multisensory perception
- Nov 22, 2012 - Gabriel Weinreich: Imitating Stradivarius
- Sep 21, 2012 - Gianmario Borio: The relationship between musical notation and performance after 1950: Historical survey and theoretical considerations
CIRMMT STUDENT SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE
2011-2012
Distinguished Lectures
- Apr 19, 2012 - Patrick Flandrin: Drawing sounds, listening to images: The art of time-frequency analysis
- Mar 13, 2012 - Petri Toiviainen: Kinematics of music cognition
- Feb 16, 2012 - J. Stephen Downie: Large-scale music audio analysis: E-science or e-musicology?
- Jan 19, 2012 - Christoph d'Alessandro: Of pipes and patches: Making music on the augmented organ
- Oct 27, 2011 - Nicholas Cook: Between art and science: Studying music as performance
- Sep 01, 2011 - Jane Davidson: Facial and bodily gesture in musical rehearsal and performance: Social proxemics, musical dynamics
CIRMMT STUDENT SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE
Seminar
- Apr 04, 2012 - Robert Normandeau: 20 ans de Réseaux [this talk is in French]
2010-2011
Distinguished Lectures
- Apr 21, 2011 - Ani Patel: Relations between linguistic and nonlinguistic sound systems: Empirical studies
- Apr 15, 2011 - Marco Stroppa: The compositional control of sound synthesis: From Traiettoria to OMChroma
- Mar 17, 2011 - Jean-Claude Risset: Music is meant to be heard: Perception is central in (my) computer music
- Feb 17, 2011 - Robert Gjerdingen: Building Musical Minds in 18th-Century Naples
- Nov 25, 2010 - David Wessel: Designing musical instruments that privilege improvisation
- Oct 21, 2010 - Malcolm Slaney: Understanding music on the Web: A Yahoo! perspective
- Sep 16, 2010 - Julius Smith: Sound synthesis based on physical models
CIRMMT STUDENT SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE
- May 16, 2011 - Stephen McAdams: Measuring listening through time: Cognition and emotion [No video available]
XENAKIS: ARTS/SCIENCE CONFERENCE Keynote
- Oct 01, 2010 - Sharon Kanach: Xenakis: Arts/Science...for starters...
Seminar
- Jan 13, 2011 - Lawrence Zbikowski: Music, gesture, and musical grammar (Fulbright Lecture)
2009-2010
Distinguished Lectures
- Apr 15, 2010 - Gunnar Johannsen: Cognition and control in human-machine interaction, auditory communication, and orchestral conducting
- Mar 25, 2010 - Jim Woodhouse: Reverse engineering the violin
- Jan 21, 2010 - Glenn Schellenberg: Does music make you smarter?
- Nov 19, 2009 - Lisa Margulis: Music again: Perspectives on repetition in music
- Oct 25, 2009 - Jürgen Meyer: The sound of orchestras and soloists as a combination of room acoustics and acoustical properties of the musical instruments
- Sep 24, 2009 - Michael Lewicki: Learning structures in natural sounds
CIRMMT STUDENT SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE
Seminar
- Nov 02, 2009 - Phil Ramone: From 45's to downloads (Mini-Beatty Lecture)
2008-2009
Distinguished Lectures
- Apr 16, 2009 - Antonio Camurri: Music and emotion: Toward computational models of empathy and entrainment
- Mar 25, 2009 - Lola Cuddy: Musical memories in normal and disordered aging
- Feb 19, 2009 - Kofi Agawu: Tonality as a colonizing force in African music
- Jan 22, 2009 - Johan Sundberg: The voice a s a musical instrument
- Nov 20, 2008 - Dmitri Tymoczko: The geometry of music [No video available]
- Oct 16, 2008 - Steven Schick: Slippery rocks: A low-tech percussionist navigates the crosscurrents of music technology
- Sep 25, 2008 - Stephen Brewster: Using musical structures to create multimodal interfaces [No video available]
CIRMMT STUDENT SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE
- Jun 11, 2009 - Joel Chadabe: A complete musical experience [No video available]
2007-2008
Distinguished Lectures
- Apr 17, 2008 - Rolf Inge Godøy: Sound Actions: Human movement in the perception and cognition of music
- Mar 27, 2008 - Dan Ellis: Mining for the meaning of music
- Feb 21, 2008 - Jean Kergomard: Oscillation regimes of musical wind instruments: The points of view of the physicist and the instrumentalist
- Jan 17, 2008 - Butch Rovan: Obstinate systems: Resistance as process in interactive performance
- Nov 22, 2007 - Robert Normandeau: Timbre spatialization or the medium is the space [No video available]
- Oct 25, 2007 - Laurel Trainor: Musical origins: Processing temporal and spectral patters in infancy
- Sep 27, 2007 - David Huron: Describing music, interpreting music, explaining music [No video available]
Please note that videos from before September 2007 are not available.
