Project Updates Ying-Ying Zhang & Jithin Thilakan Project Updates Ying-Ying Zhang & Jithin Thilakan

Student Grant Updates: An investigation of choral blending through soundfield capture, acoustic evaluation, and perceptual analysis methods

The aim of their project is to evaluate musical blend in choral performance from both signal and perceptual analysis methods. They will analyze choral blend on two levels: at the sound source level and the room acoustic level. The influence of feedback from the acoustic environment—along with coordinated performance strategies between musicians—is observed to have a high impact on individual musical performances and significantly affect the resulting sound field of joint performance.

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Project Updates Lena Heng & Mengqi Wang Project Updates Lena Heng & Mengqi Wang

Student Grant Updates: Sounding the interaction of cultures: Orchestration techniques and perceptual effects

Lena Heng and Mengqi Wang have also been working on their Collaborative Student Grant project, "Sounding the interaction of cultures: Orchestration techniques and perceptual effects." Compositions for a solo Chinese instrument with the Western orchestra require the composer to consider ways in which orchestration techniques might function in different ways.

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Project Updates Martin Daigle & Gabriel Couturier Project Updates Martin Daigle & Gabriel Couturier

Student Grant Updates: Masque de Fer

Gabriel Couturier and Martin Daigle have been hard at work on the project for which they were awarded the Collaborative Student Project Grant! "Masque de fer" (Iron Mask) is in the final stages of composition. The research phase was fully recorded, generating an open-access extended technique resource that includes a stereo mix, the entire recording session, and the stems in 96 kHz or in 48 kHz.

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