Year 4 Workshop | Calgary, Canada

Y4

ACTOR Y4 Workshop

July 9–11, 2022

School of Creative and Performing Arts, University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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I would like to welcome all ACTOR members to our first hybrid workshop, which wraps up our fourth year of activities. It’s really exciting to be able to meet in person again and, yet again, I hope that all ACTOR members managed to maintain their activities over the last year in spite of the challenges presented by the pandemic. It is encouraging to note that many of the collaborative activities were able to continue virtually, ensuring that this year’s slate of workgroups will once again demonstrate the resourcefulness and devotion of our research-creation community. We are looking forward to seeing everyone and hearing about your work over the course of the workshop.
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J’aimerais souhaiter la bienvenue à tous les membres d’ACTOR à notre premier atelier hybride, qui clôture notre quatrième année d’activités. C’est vraiment excitant de pouvoir se rencontrer à nouveau en personne et, encore une fois, j’espère que tous les membres d’ACTOR ont réussi à maintenir leurs activités au cours de l’année dernière malgré les défis présentés par la pandémie. Il est encourageant de constater que de nombreuses activités de collaboration ont pu se poursuivre virtuellement, ce qui garantit que la liste des groupes de travail de cette année démontrera une fois de plus l’ingéniosité et le dévouement de notre communauté de recherche-création. Nous sommes impatients de voir tout le monde et d’entendre parler de votre travail au cours de l’atelier.
— Stephen McAdams

The ACTOR Y4 Annual Workshop will be hosted by the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Calgary, in Alberta, Canada. This year’s workshop will be held in a hybrid format (online/in person). We anticipate that this format will enable a greater number of members to participate.

The Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration (ACTOR) partnership involves musicians, humanists, scientists and engineers to deepen the understanding of the many roles that timbre plays in music in interaction with all the other musical parameters. Every year, this group of timbre aficionados gets together to have updates on the three main axes of the project (i.e., (1) Analysis, (2) Tool development, and (3) Output innovation) which translates into research projects, technological development, artistic productions, and pedagogical initiatives. Aside from building the ACTOR community, facilitating networking, and fostering collaboration, the annual workshop also includes presentations given by student members during the plenary session and reports of activities presented by the Project Director, Professor Stephen McAdams, the Training and Mentoring Committee (TMC), and the Knowledge Mobilization Committee (KMC).

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General

July 9 (Saturday)

  • 9:00 Welcome Coffee

  • 9:30 Admin. Session

  • 10:20 Coffee break

  • 10:50 Student Presentations

  • 1:00 Lunch

  • 2:00 Lightning Talks (1–9)

  • 3:30 Coffee break

  • 4:00 Lightning Talks (10–12)

  • 4:30 Student Grant Presentations

  • 5:15 Closing Remarks

  • 6:00 Dinner

July 10 (Sunday)

  • 9:00 Welcome Coffee

  • 9:30 Taxonomies | AI Sessions

  • 11:00 Coffee break

  • 11:30 Room acoustics | TOR Sessions

  • 1:00 Lunch

  • 2:00 Diversity working group Session

  • 3:30 Coffee break

  • 4:00 Host highlight Session

  • 5:30 Break

  • 6:00 Dinner

  • 7:30 Recital with Hans Tutschku

July 11 (Monday)

  • 9:00 Welcome Coffee

  • 9:30 Timbre and Orchestration Analysis Session

  • 11:00 Coffee break

  • 11:30 CORE | Voice Sessions

  • 1:00 Lunch

  • 2:00 Timbre Semantics | OrchView Sessions

  • 3:30 Closing Remarks

  • 6:00 Dinner

*All times are listed in MDT

Detailed
Summaries and Abstracts for Day 1

Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall
Rozsa Centre
University of Calgary 

Roundtable discussion: The sound fields of music that escape conventional notation

July 10th, 4:00-5:30pm (MDT)

This session will feature four 15-min talk followed by a 30-min roundtable discussion.

  • Friedemann Sallis, The sound fields of music by Hans Tutschku and the ACTOR project

  • Jeffrey Boyd, Digital Dissection of Zellen-Linien for piano and live electronics (2007): a case study in computational performance research

  • Martin Ritter, Orchestrating the un-prepared piano

  • Hans Tutschku, Gesture and space in my piano works

Recital

July 10th, 7:30-8:30pm (MDT)

Zoom link

Hans Tutschku
Zellen-Linien
for piano and 8-channel live electronics
2007
piano: Hector Pinzon Arroyo 

Martin Ritter
Hörwinkel 3
2022
first performance

Hans Tutschku
sparks
for piano and 8-channel live electronics
2021
piano: Hector Pinzon Arroyo
First Canadian performance

Here is a complete list of workgroups and their respective leaders. Links to supporting materials and Zoom links will be posted as they become available.

*Please note that the links to supporting materials will take you to ACTOR’s repository. If you experience problems accessing it, contact actor-project.music[at]mcgill[dot]ca

  1. Orchestration analysis taxonomies and the Orchestration Analysis and Research database – Orch.A.R.D (Stephen McAdams). All links here

  2. Diversity working group (Robert Hasegawa). All links here

  3. Artificial intelligence and computational tools for orchestration (Philippe Esling). All links here

  4. Computer-aided and target-based orchestration – Orchidea (Carmine Cella). All links here

  5. Acoustics of musical performance rooms (Malte Kob). All links here

  6. Composer-performer orchestration research ensembles – CORE (Stephen McAdams). All links here

  7. OrchView (Félix Baril). All links here

  8. Timbre and Orchestration Resource – TOR (Kit Soden). All links here

  9. Timbre semantics (Caroline Traube and Zachary Wallmark). All links here

  10. Voice working group (Juanita Marchand Knight). All links here

  11. Timbre and orchestration analysis (Robert Hasegawa). All links here

Follow the links below for information (these links are private, for ACTOR Members only)

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