Results from the ACTOR Strategic Project Grant: Orchestral Timbre Semantics Validation Study and Database will be presented at the next ICMPC. The presentation title is "Mapping the semantics of timbre across pitch registers" and includes authors Lindsey Reymore, Jason Noble, Charis Saitis, Caroline Traube, and Zachary Wallmark.
Other presentations by ACTOR members include:
Lindsey Reymore, Characterizing prototypical musical instrument timbres with timbre trait profiles.
Iza Korsmit, Yuval Adler, Behrad Madahi, Bennett K. Smith, and Stephen McAdams, Multidimensional scaling of timbre dissimilarities across pitch registers at different dynamics.
Jason Noble, Kit Soden, and Zachary Wallwark, Comparing semantics of individual and combined instrument timbres.