Manifeste 2016
IRCAM, Centre Pompidou, Stravinsky room 1, place Igor-Stravinsky, Paris, FranceDuring 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.
14th International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition
Hyatt Regency Hotel 5 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA, United StatesThe Orchestration and Perception Project presents several new papers at this year's ICMPC in San Francisco, California.
McGill Association of Student Composers (MASC) Forum 1
Room A-832, Wirth Music Building 527 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec, CanadaStephen 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 […]
Journées de la Société Française d’Analyse Musicale
Université de Bourgogne Dijon, FranceStephen 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 […]
Berlin Interdisciplinary Workshop on Timbre
Studio Ernest Ansermet - Passage de la Radio 2 Geneva, SwitzerlandStephen McAdams will be presenting "Timbre perception and auditory grouping as a foundation for a theory of orchestration."
John Rea, Doctoral Colloquium
Room A-832, Wirth Music Building 527 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec, CanadaIs 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 […]
ACTOR Partnership Meeting
Room A-832, Wirth Music Building 527 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec, CanadaThis 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.
Orchestration and Perception (Round 2) kick-off Meeting
CIRMMT 527 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, Quebec, CanadaAttendees began planning timelines for projects under each axis, for the new funding term.
Autour de L’Orchestration Atelier-Concert
Studio Ernest Ansermet - Passage de la Radio 2 Geneva, SwitzerlandThis 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.
Timbre is a Many-Splendored Thing
Room A-832, Wirth Music Building 527 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec, CanadaIn 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 […]