Noble, Jason
Bio:
Jason Noble is a composer and researcher whose work focuses on meaning in contemporary music. He currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship at the Université de Montréal, funded by FQRSC. Previously he worked as a postdoctoral researcher with the ACTOR project (Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration). His PhD from McGill University was funded by the prestigious Vanier Scholarship (SSHRC).
Jason’s research appears in Music Perception, Music Theory Online, Journal of New Music Research, Organised Sound, and the Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing, and he has presented at numerous national and international conferences and invited guest lectures. His research interests include timbre semantics, timbre-based composition, musical temporalities and timelessness, musical narrativity, phonetics and speech transcription in music, instrument-specific tuning systems, nonlinear musical notation, perceptual and semantic aspects of sound mass music, outreach to young people and general audiences through contemporary music, and, most recently, relationships between musical gamification, accessibility, and wellness.
Jason’s compositions have been performed across Canada, USA, Mexico, Argentina, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, and Italy, and featured in numerous publications and broadcasts. His compositional work seeks balance between innovation and accessibility, motivated by a belief that contemporary music can be genuinely progressive and communicative at the same time.
