Composing, performing and analyzing contemporary orchestration” seminar concert

This concert will present works created by graduate students in composition, performance and musicology, as part of the interdisciplinary seminar “Composing, performing and analyzing contemporary orchestration” given by Jimmie LeBlanc, Kit Soden and Caroline Traube at the Université de Montréal's Faculty of Music.

Colloquium on March 26.

• Ying-Ying Zhang (PhD candidate, Sound Recording)

The Arts and Humanities Interdisciplinary Methodologies Workgroup will meet on Monday, March 24, at 10 a.m. Eastern time (11 a.m. Atlantic; 3 p.m. CET).

All ACTORians are welcome to attend and participate. We will discuss issues that arise in developing interdisciplinary projects, particularly the benefits and pitfalls of methodological appropriation.

Colloquium on March 19.

• Joshua Rosner (PhD candidate, Theory)

The Timbre Semantics Workgroup will meet four times over the course of this semester. All are invited to attend any or all of the meetings, whether or not you have been in previous semantics meetings.

Colloquium on March 12.

Gianluca Grazioli (PhD candidate, Sound Recording), “Virtual Acoustics and Performance Spaces: The Impact of an Immersive Real-Time Auralization System on Music Performance”

Q&A Session with conductor Tianyi Lu

The Timbre Semantics Workgroup will meet four times over the course of this semester. All are invited to attend any or all of the meetings, whether or not you have been in previous semantics meetings.

Colloquium on January 29.

• Benjamin Lavastre, “Interactions Strategies in Mixed Compositions Between Acoustic Instruments and Digital Musical Instruments: Case Study with the Karlax.”

ACTOR's Training and Mentoring Committee is pleased to announce our annual Timbre Geeks Networking (TGN) event, which will be held online on January 17, 12:00-2:00.

The Timbre Semantics Workgroup will meet four times over the course of this semester. All are invited to attend any or all of the meetings, whether or not you have been in previous semantics meetings.

The ACTOR Project Training and Mentoring Committee is organizing the first Workshop on Orchestration Pedagogy. The event will focus on various approaches to teaching orchestration through demonstrations, discussions, and the examination of orchestration syllabi.

Colloquium on November 27.

• Viktor Lazarov, “Creating and Analysing Baroque Performance Practice on the Piano,” Lecture-recital

• Valérian Fraisse FROM SOUND ART TO SOUNDSCAPE: A research-creation approach for designing and evaluating public space sound installations

   

The Timbre Semantics Workgroup will meet four times over the course of this semester. All are invited to attend any or all of the meetings, whether or not you have been in previous semantics meetings.

Colloquium on November 20.

• Louis-Michel Tougas (Composition), “Issues and Cognitive Limits of Polyrhythm: A Multidisciplinary Approach”

• Theodora Nestorova (Applied Performance Science), “Vocal Vibrato Variability: Novel Analytical Tools & Diagnostic-Pedagogical Approaches in Diverse Genres”

The intention of the workshop named "Cimbalom on the Stage" is to introduce the cimbalom as a fully fledged concert instrument whose specific sounds and far-reaching possibilities are increasingly coming to be appreciated in the world of both traditional and contemporary music. Daniel Skála, one of the most striking cimbalom players in the world today, along with leading player of the young generation Matěj Číp, will introduce the cimbalom in its paramount performance form.

Following Nina Eidsheim’s Distinguished Lecture "Metaphor as material practice" on November 11, 2024, this joint CIRMMT/ACTOR workshop will focus on vocal and instrumental timbre in relation to the metaphors used to describe them and to the concept of materiality in contemporary music. 

Colloquium on November 20.

• Jade Roth, “Orchestration Semantics: How Tailleferre’s Orchestration Conjures Imagery in the Ballade (1920)”

Functional orchestration is an approach to orchestration (orchestration practice as well as music theory and orchestration analysis) that attempts to link orchestration techniques with perceptual effects by considering their musical and perceptual goals (functions).

The Timbre Semantics Workgroup will meet four times over the course of this semester. All are invited to attend any or all of the meetings, whether or not you have been in previous semantics meetings.

Kjel Sidolski, organist and master student in composition at University of Montréal, will perform his piece Élégies at Église Saint-Édouard in Montréal (6500, rue de Saint-Vallier), in the context of the Religious Heritage Days.

Hello all!

The Timbre Semantics Workgroup will be holding a Zoom meeting on Thursday, June 13 at 12:30pm Eastern time. You will be able to join the meeting here: https://asu.zoom.us/j/5352528724

All are welcome, whether or not you have been to a previous semantics workgroup meeting.

If you would like to share a project update, brainstorm an idea, or put a call out for collaborators (this can be as formal or as informal as you'd like), email Lindsey Reymore at lreymore@asu.edu. We’ll also be sharing informal updates and discussing future projects for the workgroup.

Hope to see you there!

The Timbre and Orchestration Analysis Workgroup will be meeting via Zoom from 10:00 to 11:30 (EDT) on April 5. All ACTOR members with an interest in music analysis are welcome to attend. The agenda for this meeting will include planning for our session at the Y6 workshop in Vancouver and lightning talks on ongoing analysis-related projects by ACTOR members—anyone who'd like to present should contact Robert Hasegawa (robert.hasegawa@mcgill.ca).

Zoom Link https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/2632309272.

ACTOR is pleased to announce the seventh ACTOR / CIRMMT Student Symposium, held as a online event on Friday, March 22nd, 12pm-2pm.