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July 2018
Timbre is a Many-Splendored Thing
In July 2018 the major timbre and orchestration researchers from around the world will come together in Montreal for a conference about the study and deployment of timbre in music. Research keynote lectures: July 5th - Dr. Emily DOLAN, Harvard University (musicology) July 6th - Dr. Vinoo ALLURI, International Institute for Information Technology, Hyderabad (psychology/neuroscience) July 7th - Dr. Cornelia FALES, Indiana University (ethnomusicology) Musical keynote concerts: July 5th - Dr. ANDO Masateru, formerly of Tokyo University of the Arts (koto) July…
Find out more »December 2017
Autour de L’Orchestration Atelier-Concert
This concert was part of the third workshop of the SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, held in Geneva during December 2017. The orchestra of Haute école de musique Genève, directed by Pierre Bleuse, performed works by Marc Garcia Vitoria, James O'Callaghan, and Nuria Gimenez.
Find out more »August 2017
Orchestration and Perception (Round 2) kick-off Meeting
Attendees began planning timelines for projects under each axis, for the new funding term.
Find out more »ACTOR Partnership Meeting
This two-day planning meeting brought together researchers from across the project institutions to work in Montréal on all axes of the project: music analysis, text analysis, audio analysis and modelling, perceptual analysis, performance analysis, the Orchard database, technological tool development, the ACTOR online orchestration resource, pedagogical innovation, theoretic and musicological innovation, and compositional innovation.
Find out more »March 2017
John Rea, Doctoral Colloquium
Is Predictive Orchestration simply Paleo-Orchestration? Professor John Rea presents at this Colloquium. His talk will center on a topic that arises from within the discourse about timbre perception, and about the various conclusions one may draw after testing subjects and analyzing data: the notion of predictability. His four-part presentation will discuss: a) the notion of predictability; b) what he understands paleo-orchestration to be and its link to both orchestration compendia and the notion of predictability; and c) the recent interest…
Find out more »January 2017
Berlin Interdisciplinary Workshop on Timbre
Stephen McAdams will be presenting "Timbre perception and auditory grouping as a foundation for a theory of orchestration."
Find out more »November 2016
Journées de la Société Française d’Analyse Musicale
Stephen McAdams et Moe Touizrar présentent "Timbre et groupement auditif en relation avec les décisions d'orchestration dans The Angel of Death de Roger Reynolds." Résumé: Les traités d'orchestration révèlent l'absence de théorie sous-jacente. Nous développons une base théorique de l'orchestration fondé sur le rôle structurant du timbre. L'analyse de scènes auditives—le groupement simultané, séquentiel et segmental—contribue à la structuration musicale. Les rôles joués par le timbre dans ces processus seront ici pris en considération comme éléments d'une théorie de l'orchestration et…
Find out more »September 2016
McGill Association of Student Composers (MASC) Forum 1
Stephen McAdams and Meghan Goodchild will be presenting "The Orchestration and Perception Project: Developing a psychological foundation for a theory of orchestration." Abstract: Despite the integral function of instrumentation and timbre on the structure and expression of music, orchestration theory has not attained the same depth or precision achieved in other musical fields. The aim of the Orchestration and Perception Project is to develop a psychological foundation for a theory of orchestration practice based on perceptual principles associated with…
Find out more »July 2016
14th International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition
The Orchestration and Perception Project presents several new papers at this year's ICMPC in San Francisco, California.
Find out more »June 2016
Manifeste 2016
During this workshop, an international team of both researchers and musicians will introduce a long-term project whose goal is to produce an interactive orchestration treatise based on state-of-the-art orchestration to support computer-based technologies.
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