For five days, an international cohort of 55 students from a variety of academic institutions across Europe and North America as well as independent researchers and practitioners, met at the Teloglion Fine Arts Foundation to learn from leading voices in Timbre research about the multifaceted field of timbre research as it pertains to orchestration. The first two days of the summer school presented tutorials on several topics pertaining to timbre and orchestration from very different perspectives, the following three days were connected to the TIMBRE 2023 conference.

Lindsey here, reporting on a fantastic virtual conference that took place last week, September 3–4, “Timbre 2020.” While it was certainly disappointing not to be gathering in Greece as planned, this second international conference on timbre was still a golden opportunity for #timbregeeks around the world to gather together and share their latest discoveries.

What a summer! One of the busiest of my life, with no clear beginning or end: the barrage of projects rolled from the spring straight into summer and through to the fall, as though it was just one continuous end-of-semester crunch. While there was nothing like an actual break to speak of, there was certainly a lot of travel. My ACTOR-related activities brought me to amazing events in four different countries, with fascinating people from all around the world….

Forty ACTOR members from seven countries gathered in Paris, France from 13-15 July at IRCAM/Centre Pompidou for the second annual ACTOR Workshop. This year’s activities included a special session devoted to the work of student members.

ACTOR scholars and artists introduced the project to a French public this June with “Orchestration and the ACTOR Project,” a study day hosted by the Paris research center IRCAM (Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique/musique) as part of the June 2019 ManiFeste-2020 festival.