/timbre-orchestration/ en /timbre-orchestration/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/timbre-orchestration/article/year-5-workshop%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E Y5 Workshop Schedule Note from the Director “I would like to welcome all ACTOR members to our Y5 workshop, which wraps up our fifth year of activities. I am greatly encouraged by the many collaborative activities that took place over the last year among faculty and student members, ensuring that this year’s slate of workgroups will once again demonstrate the resourcefulness and devotion of our research-creation community. I look forward to seeing everyone either in person or virtually and hearing about your work over the course of the workshop.” —Stephen McAdams About the workshop The Analysis Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:44:38 -0500 154 /timbre-orchestration/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/timbre-orchestration/article/ii-cirmmt-actor-symposium-orchestration-research%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E II CIRMMT-ACTOR Symposium on Orchestration Research Description Composer Fabien Lévy will join �鶹��ý��վ researchers in music theory, composition, and music perception in a symposium co-sponsored by ACTOR (Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration) and CIRMMT's research areas 3 and 4. Levy, author of Le compositeur, son oreille et ses machines à écrire : Déconstruire les grammatologies du musical pour mieux les composer (The Composer, His Ear, and His Typewriters: Deconstructing Musical Grammatologies to Better Compose Them), will give a morning lecture on “functional orchestration,” Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:20:31 -0500 133 /timbre-orchestration/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/timbre-orchestration/article/i-cirmmt-actor-symposium-orchestration-research%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E I CIRMMT-ACTOR Symposium on Orchestration Research The presenters are Professor Caroline Traube from the ACTOR partner institution University of Montreal and ACTOR postdoctoral researchers Jason Noble and Julie Delisle from �鶹��ý��վ. Following a general overview of the ACTOR project, topics will include advanced projects in sound recording, composer-performer collaborations, and orchestration theory and analysis. Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:18:17 -0500 132 /timbre-orchestration/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/timbre-orchestration/article/year-7-workshop%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E Y7 Workshop Schedule Note from the Director “I‘m looking forward very much to welcoming ACTOR members to our final workshop at the Haute école de musique (HEM) in Geneva. Many thanks to our collaborators at HEM for their hard work towards hosting the event, to Gilbert Nouno for raising the funds to make this happen, and also to Marc Garcia Vitoria who’s taking care of our local arrangements along with André Martins de Oliveira who has been working tirelessly as Project Coordinator. This workshop will wrap up the seventh and last year of our partnership, and there are many activities to report Mon, 07 Jul 2025 12:00:00 -0400 158 /timbre-orchestration/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/timbre-orchestration/article/ix-cirmmt-actor-symposium-orchestration-research%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E IX Symposium on Orchestration Research Strategies in Electroacoustic Music This month, we will have our last ACTOR-CIRMMT Symposium on Orchestration Research focusing on CORE Rounds 3 and 4 held at �鶹��ý��վ and UMontréal in the 2024-2025 term. The seminar will include four presentations by graduate composers from both institutions who were part of the CORE project. The aim of the symposium is to learn about the composers' strategies, compositional and orchestrational decisions in the context of electroacoustic and live-electronic music. Program: Naive aestheticization as primary material: the Fri, 16 May 2025 12:00:00 -0400 140 /timbre-orchestration/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/timbre-orchestration/article/year-6-workshop%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E Y6 Workshop Schedule Note from the Director “I‘m looking forward very much to welcoming ACTOR members to our Y6 workshop at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Many thanks to our collaborators at UBC for their hard work towards hosting the conference, and also to Keith Hamel who’s taking care of our local arrangements and André Martins de Oliveira who has been working tirelessly as Project Coordinator. This workshop will wrap up the sixth year of our partnership, and there are many activities to report on and progress to celebrate. I’m particularly encouraged by the many Mon, 15 Jul 2024 12:00:00 -0400 156 /timbre-orchestration/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/timbre-orchestration/article/viii-cirmmt-actor-symposium-orchestration-research%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E VIII CIRMMT-ACTOR Symposium on Orchestration Research ACTOR is pleased to announce the eighth ACTOR / CIRMMT Student Symposium, held virtually only on Friday, March 22nd, 12pm-2pm (Eastern). The program will include the following presentations by ACTOR student members after which a discussion period will ensue: Ulezo: Mapping Acoustic Properties to Timbre Descriptors in Zambian Luvale Drum Tuning, Jason Winikoff (University of British Columbia) & Lena Heng (University of Prince Edward Island) Real-time Timbral Analysis for Musical and Visual Augmentation, Martin Daigle (�鶹��ý��վ) & Fri, 22 Mar 2024 12:00:00 -0400 139 /timbre-orchestration/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/timbre-orchestration/article/speaker-series-braxton-shelley%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E Teaching Timbre: The Hammond Organ, Black Gospel, and the Politics of Presets Braxton Shelley ACTOR Speaker Series: Afrological Perspectives on Timbre & Orchestration Minister, musician, and musicologist Braxton D. Shelley is a tenured associate professor of music, of sacred music, and of divinity in the Department of Music, the Institute of Sacred Music, and Yale's Divinity School. A musicologist who specializes in African American popular music, his research and critical interests, while especially focused on African American gospel performance, extend into media studies, sound studies Thu, 25 Jan 2024 12:00:00 -0500 130 /timbre-orchestration/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/timbre-orchestration/article/speaker-series-ayo-oluranti%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E Yorùbá Language Tonality as Basis of Orchestration Ayò Olúrántí ACTOR Speaker Series: Afrological Perspectives on Timbre & Orchestration Ayò Olúrántí is a composer, conductor, organist, and music theorist specializing in pre-colonial Yorùbá music and culture. Equally fluent in the fields of production and computer technology, he is also an active member of the digital and virtual pipe organ community. His cross-cultural approaches to composition and scholarship have earned him considerable international attention. He has performed and composed in Nigeria, the UK, the USA, South Africa, and Thu, 18 Jan 2024 12:00:00 -0500 129 /timbre-orchestration/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/timbre-orchestration/article/speaker-series-matthew-morrison%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E The Timbre of Early Blackface in the Making of (Black) Americana Matthew D. Morrison ACTOR Speaker Series: Afrological Perpectives on Timbre & Orchestration This talk will consider how the timbre of string band music has been racialized through the legacy of blackface, while recovering some of the performed histories (past and present) of Black string band musicians. Matthew D. Morrison is a native of Charlotte, North Carolina, and is an Assistant Professor in the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Matthew received his Ph.D. from Thu, 07 Dec 2023 12:00:00 -0500 128