My Journey Into Timbre Space
Click the link below to read more about Stephen McAdams’ journey into timbre space and the subsequent creation of the ACTOR project!
https://www.actorproject.org/timbre-and-orchestration-blog/timbre-stories/2022/2/2/my-journey-into-timbre-space
Newsletter / Bulletin #25
Amazing Moments in Timbre
Call for Contributions, Amazing Moments in Timbre: In this series we will explore many instances of musical moments in which the use of timbre plays an important role in the unfolding of a composition.
Pour l’image- Philippe Hurel
Learn more about Philippe Hurel’s Pour l’image! In this piece, Linglan Zhu explores the musical transitions in the opening of Pour l’image. Zhu notes, “Two large-scale transitions happen consecutively within the first 60 measures of this piece, each of which showcases a set of different orchestration techniques that effectively modulate listeners’ perception.”
Cameron Chameleon, L’enfant d’éléphant, Seizing to be Ceased
Guillaume Bourgogne, directeur artistique et chef. Florence Blain-Mbaye, narration; Ariadne Lih, soprano; Léo McKenna, baryton-basse. JASON NOBLE Cameron Chameleon or A Young Person’s Guide to Orchestration (narration en anglais) ALAIN BERLAUD L'enfant d'éléphant (narration en français) PHILIPPE MACNAB-SÉGUIN Seizing to be Ceased
ACTOR Symposium Montreal #2, on orchestration and musical analysis, with Fabien Lévy
Composer and musicologist Fabien Lévy will join McGill researchers in music theory, composition, and music perception in a symposium co-sponsored by ACTOR (Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration) and CIRMMT Research Axes 3 and 4