Year 4 Workshop | Calgary, Canada
ACTOR Y4 Workshop
July 9–11, 2022
School of Creative and Performing Arts, University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Welcome | About | Schedule | Information
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).
More info:
All Links | Workgroup Leaders | Student Presentations | Note-Takers
Download PDF schedule here
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
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)
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
Orchestration analysis taxonomies and the Orchestration Analysis and Research database – Orch.A.R.D (Stephen McAdams). All links here
Diversity working group (Robert Hasegawa). All links here
Artificial intelligence and computational tools for orchestration (Philippe Esling). All links here
Computer-aided and target-based orchestration – Orchidea (Carmine Cella). All links here
Acoustics of musical performance rooms (Malte Kob). All links here
Composer-performer orchestration research ensembles – CORE (Stephen McAdams). All links here
OrchView (Félix Baril). All links here
Timbre and Orchestration Resource – TOR (Kit Soden). All links here
Timbre semantics (Caroline Traube and Zachary Wallmark). All links here
Voice working group (Juanita Marchand Knight). All links here
Timbre and orchestration analysis (Robert Hasegawa). All links here
Follow the links below for information (these links are private, for ACTOR Members only)
General Admin documents: Director’s report, KMC report, and TMC report — See All Links Page (for private docs and links)
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