Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal
ACTOR Members Reymore, L., Noble, J., Saitis, C., Traube, C., & Wallmark, Z, authored an article in volume 40 of Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
6th CIRMMT ACTOR Symposium on Orchestration Research
The Analysis, Creation and Teaching of Orchestration (ACTOR) Project and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT) will be co-hosting a hybrid (in person/virtual) symposium on orchestration research on Friday, March 17 from 12:00-2:00pm EDT. The event is open to all and will include presentations by ACTOR student members followed by a discussion period.
Join us in room A832 of the Elizabeth Wirth Music building
Student Members Y5 Workshop
Congratulations to the student members selected to present at the plenary session (July 3) of the Y5 ACTOR Workshop in Strasbourg! They include Jason Winikoff (University of British Columbia), Linglan Zhu (McGill University), Erica Huynh (McGill University), Rebecca Moranis (CUNY Graduate Centre), and Simon Jacobsen (University of Oldenburg)
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 #26
Timbre and Orchestration Writings: Seven Beginnings
Revisiting Jason Noble’s article about his composition, Seven Beginnings, commemorating through music the birth of Noble’s daughter. While examining the intricacies of the piece, it is also “far from being a technical étude, it is a very personal piece with a very specific motivation behind its materials and methods.” Follow the link in our story or down below to learn more!
Adile Khumalo's talk
Creations and Productions: Jorge Ramos' Suivi
Attention ACTOR Community and orchestra fans! Please enjoy Jorge Ramos' composition Suivi, which was composed for bass clarinet and fixed electronics. The project “took place on March 3rd as part of "ATHENA 1925," a new project inspired by the poetic universe of Fernando Pessoa and developed by Frederic Cardoso.” Click the link and watch the live Portugal performance of Suivi! Comment down below your thoughts!
Amazing Moments in Timbre by Jay Marchand Knight
Click the link in bio to read J Marchand Knight’s Amazing Moments in Timbre entry, entitled “Death, Sex, and the Semitone in Monteverdi’s Pur ti miro, pur ti godo
https://timbreandorchestration.org/writings/amazing-moments-in-timbre/2023/2/3/death-sex-and-the-semitone
Seven Beginnings: Fourth Beginning
Check out Jason Noble's Forth Beginning, as part of his work, Seven Beginnings! Click the link below to hear more about how Noble composed this piece using recordings of his daughter during her “babbling stage.”
EduFilm 2
In the second ACTOR / TOR EduFilm, Lab partners Cameron Chameleon and Stephen MAdams (director, ACTOR project) explore cross-modal correspondences between sound and colour.
Seven Beginnings: Third Beginning
Click the link below to find out more about the Third Beginning and Jason Noble's work on Seven Beginnings. Learn how Noble uses improvisations from pitches of a lullaby to construct this piece.
Music Performance Markup
Click the link below to learn more about the project, "Music Performance Markup: Infrastructure for a Data Standard for Musical Performance Modelling". Their team has worked for years developing "Music Performance Markup format (MPM), comprehensive schema definition, documentation, and several software tools to work with this format, make performance analyses and create expressive MIDI/audio renderings."
Seven Beginnings: Second Beginning
Click the link to hear more about Jason Noble's Second Beginning, as part of his Seven Beginnings piece. Find out how Noble uses dramatic sounds and high pitch frequencies to symbolize birth! Let us know your thoughts below and follow us to stay updated with all of ACTOR'S ongoing projects!
Speaker Series - Marvin McNeill
The next ACTOR Speaker Series event is happening Monday, February 20 at 2pm! Presented by Marvin McNeill (Emory University) the talk is entitled "“Do You Hear What I Hear?”: An Afrological Approach to the Study of Sonic Representations from the African American Band Tradition.”
Summer School - Reminder
The deadline to apply to the ACTOR Summer School is Friday, February 17! See the link in bio for more info on the program and the application process.
The Summer School will be held from July 8-12 at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece! The program includes tutorial sessions as well as participation in the TIMBRE 2023 Conference. Students from various fields and early-career researchers are encouraged to apply, regardless of their background!
The Colours of Music
Click the link below to read "The Colours of Music" by Martha de Francisco. Martha explores how musicians use musical sounds and timbre to create distinct sounds and help build unique performances. Follow ACTOR to hear more about Timbre, music and composition!
https://www.actorproject.org/timbre-and-orchestration-blog/timbre-stories/2022/1/26/the-colours-of-music
Seven Beginnings: First Beginning
Click the link below to learn more about "the First Beginning," the first segment of Nobel's piece, Seven Beginnings. Jason Nobel’s work commemorates his daughter, Lily, as “the First Beginning,” explores the sensations a well-developed baby feels before birth. Noble writes, “The first beginning was noise, and it was as a liquid, suffusing and subsuming, filling every crevice, and of silent space there was none.”
Zachary Wallmark Publication
Check out ACTOR member Zachary Wallmark’s publication in the Journal of the Society for Music Theory, “Analyzing Vocables in Rap: A Case Study of Megan Thee Stallion.” Click the link to explore Wallmark’s analysis on rap icon Megan Thee Stallion and the “structural and semiotic functions of vocables in rap music.”
