DEADLINE (Registration & Accommodation): June 1

We are happy to confirm that the Y6 workshop will be held in Vancouver, July 15-17, at the University of British Columbia! For those who are new to ACTOR or have never participated in a workshop, the basic plan for the event's agenda is to have a Plenary Session on Day 1 and Workgroup Sessions on Days 2 and 3 followed by a brief Wrap-up Session at the end of Day 3.

The Plenary Session includes reports from various committees as well as presentations from students and lightning talks by members on ongoing projects (see tentative schedule below for more details). Workgroup Sessions, on the other hand, are interactive discussions where members get updates on workgroups' activities and plan future projects or initiatives.

Self-funded members can register with this link: https://forms.office.com/r/g4Xnf82min

For lodging information, see this link: https://www.actorproject.org/workshops/y6/travel-and-accommodation

Click the link below to learn more about the workshop!

https://www.actorproject.org/workshops/y6/homepage

The Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration (ACTOR) Project is pleased to announce our second Timbre and Orchestration Summer School, held at the University of British Columbia's School of Music in Vancouver, Canada, July 12–15, 2024. The Summer School is designed for graduate students (or advanced undergraduate students), postdocs, and early-career researchers in any field of music-related research with a keen interest in timbre and orchestration.

This year's tutors are Caroline Traube (Université de Montréal), Anthony Tan (University of Victoria), Emily Dolan (Brown University), Daphne Tan (University of Toronto), and Michael Tenzer (Universisty of British Columbia).

The application deadline is February 15, 2024. Spaces are limited, so apply early! More info and application instructions can be found at https://www.actorproject.org/timbre-and-orchestration-summer-school/vancouver-2024

ACTOR is pleased to announce the eighth ACTOR / CIRMMT Student Symposium, held virtually only on Friday, March 22nd, 12pm-2pm (EDT). The program will include the following presentations by ACTOR student members:

Ulezo: Mapping Acoustic Properties to Timbre Descriptors in Zambian Luvale Drum Tuning, Jason Winikoff (University of British Columbia) & Lena Heng (University of Prince Edward Island)

Real-time Timbral Analysis for Musical and Visual Augmentation, Martin Daigle (McGill University) & Pauline Patie Pelicaut (Université de Montréal)

Timbral, Textural, and Rhythmic Stratification in Footwork Percussion, Jeremy Tatar (McGill University) & Victor Burton (Universität der Künste Berlin)

Zoom Link

https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/82523676012?pwd=VSttd2NKVTd1MDFJT2lMZHNaUE1jUT09

Congratulations to ACTOR student member Jithin Thilakan on publishing an article on musical blending based on the recordings created by the Odessa-III project in the Detmold Concert House. Read with the link below: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376080792_Classification_of_the_perceptual_impression_of_source-level_blending_between_violins_in_a_joint_performance

The Timbre and Orchestration Resource (TOR) is proud to announce the publication of ACTOR member Pierre Michel's extensive article on Luigi Dallapiccola's music! The article is published in French and will be subsequently translated into English for its later publication on the TOR. Pierre's article explores the role of timbre and orchestration in Dallapiccola's compositions for voice and ensemble from the 1950's onward. Read with the link below! https://timbreandorchestration.org/fr/ecrits/dallapicolla

The first publication from the ACTOR project Timbre in Popular Song, a poster presented at the 2022 Music Encoding Conference, is now available online. Read with the link below! https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:59315/

ACTOR EduFilm #5 is now up on Youtube! Click the link in bio to learn more about gender and timbre.

https://youtu.be/PBGRlR7wp8I?si=N6CKGqCHcdjLwWU6

Congratulations to ACTOR member Jonathan Goldman on the publication of his new book Avant-Garde on Record: Musical Responses to Stereos, published by Cambridge University Press, in the Music Since 1900 series. The book is an innovative contribution to music history, cultural studies, and sound studies, Avant-garde on Record revisits post-war composers and their technologically oriented brand of musical modernism.

Join us for the next ACTOR Speaker Series event, Thursday January 18 at 12pm EST on Zoom! Presented by Ayò Olúrántí, the talk is entitled “Yorùbá Language: Tonality as Basis of Orchestration.” https://www.actorproject.org/events-calendar

Click the link to read this new publication by ACTOR members!

After completion of his postdoctoral fellowship at U. of Montreal last August, former ACTOR postdoc and current ACTOR member Jason Noble was appointed professor of instrumental and electroacoustic composition at University of Moncton. Congratulations on this great achievement!

New in ACTOR's Timbre Lingo Series, learn more about masking in Amélie Bernier-Robert and Ben Duinker’s article.

New in ACTOR's Timbre Lingo Series, learn more about klangfarbenmelodie in Amélie Bernier-Robert’s article.

New in ACTOR's Timbre Lingo Series, learn more about timbre space in Amélie Bernier-Robert’s article.

New post in ACTOR's Timbre Lingo Series. Written by Amélie Bernier-Robert and Ben Duinker.

Congratulations to ACTOR collaborator Jorge Ramos, whose works “Paysage,” “Blur,” and “Blur 2.0” will be featured in these upcoming broadcasts and performances!

The Human Voice Bibliography is now available on the Timbre and Orchestration website! The goal of the bibliography is to provide an introduction to research on the human voice in electroacoustic music and contemporary classical vocal techniques using extended practices. It serves as a resource for those interested in studying these interrelated topics further.