The 3rd International Conference on Timbre
The 3rd International Conference on Timbre
10–12 July 2023
Including the first ever Timbre and Orchestration Summer School 8–12 July 2023 — a synergy with the ACTOR Project
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece
Hosted by the School of Music Studies and the Sound & Music Technology Lab at the Artistotle University of Thessaloniki
https://timbreconference.org/timbre2023/
About
Timbre poses multifaceted research questions across the scientific spectrum, from hearing and music to psychology and neuroscience, to acoustics and artificial intelligence. The triennial International Conference on Timbre brings together a cross-disciplinary community of scholars, researchers, and practitioners interested in timbre, and provides a joint forum for exchanging novel insights and forging collaborations across disciplines to help address challenges in our understanding of timbre from empirical, theoretical, and computational perspectives.
Timbre 2023 will feature a program of new research and work in progress, panel sessions and tutorials, headlined by keynote talks discussing timbre from ‘unexpected’ perspectives: Nina Sun Eidsheim (UCLA) on timbre and vibration, Makis Solomos (Paris 8) on timbre and listening, Charles Spence (Oxford) on timbre and crossmodality, and Jesse Engel (Google, likely remote) on timbre and artificial intelligence. In foregrounding the interdisciplinarity of timbre and its application as an important parameter in orchestration, the ACTOR Timbre and Orchestration Summer School will engage with current perspectives on acoustics, analysis, composition, perception, semantics, and voice.
Narrative and Music Conference
Jimmie LeBlanc will be presenting "Musical Minimalism and the Powers of the False: Gilles Deleuze's Falsifying Narration in Two Pages (for Steve Reich) (1968) by Philip Glass" on November 16 at the Narrative and Music conference in Brussels.
International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Conference
Several ACTOR members will be presenting at the 22nd International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Conference, which will be held virtually November 7–12.
Society for Music Theory 2021 Annual Meeting
SMT's annual meeting will be held online and will feature presentations by ACTOR members.
International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC)
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.
AES Show
ACTOR Member Markus Noisternig will be presenting at the AES Show in the spring 2021. His talk 'What’s old and what’s new: Introduction to the spatially oriented format for acoustics 2.0' will be features in the Game Audio/AVAR/Spatial Audio session of the event.
NCMM 2021
Nova Contemporary Music Meeting (NCMM) is a biennial, 3-day international conference launched by the Contemporary Music Research Group (GIMC) of CESEM (Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Musical Aesthetics at Nova University, Lisbon) and focused on a variety of questions relating to music since the beginning of the 20th century.
Future Directions of Music Cognition
“Future Directions of Music Cognition,” a collection of events consisting of a three-month long weekly online speaker series and two-day virtual conference, will take place this Spring.
May 3 at 4pm EDT:
Analyzing the perceptual effects of orchestration practice through the lens of auditory grouping principles
Stephen McAdams, Canada Research Chair in Music Perception and Cognition; Professor of Music, Schulich School of Music, McGill University; Director, ACTOR Project (Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration)
Future Directions of Music Cognition
“Future Directions of Music Cognition,” a collection of events consisting of a three-month long weekly online speaker series and two-day virtual conference, will take place this Spring.
April 26 at 4pm EDT:
Empathic listening: Music and the social mind
Zachary Wallmark, Assistant Professor of Musicology and Affiliated Faculty of the Center for Translational Neuroscience, University of Oregon
Future Directions of Music Cognition
“Future Directions of Music Cognition,” a collection of events consisting of a three-month long weekly online speaker series and two-day virtual conference, will take place this Spring.
20th International Music Theory Conference
ACTOR member, Jimmie Leblanc, presented “Principles of Music Composing. Phenomenon of Teleology,” at the 20th International Music Theory Conference, hosted by Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre in Lituania.
149th AES Convention
ACTOR members participated in the 149th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society. AES Conventions are held annually in both the United States and Europe and are the largest gatherings of audio professionals in the world.
Timbre 2020
The 2nd International Conference on Timbre (Timbre 2020) saw many contributions from ACTOR members, with special thanks to ACTOR member Charis Saitis for his role in organizing the conference.
