Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration

An international team bringing orchestration practice into the 21st century by creating new tools for the analysis, creation, and teaching of orchestration.

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Let's help Chidi Obijiaku, one of our student members from the University of the Witwatersrand, win the battle against tuberculosis. https://t.co/vYfFQjKVDQ

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Magical Mahler ✨

In need of an epic Saturday soundtrack? Look no further than Mahler's drama-filled Fifth Symphony! Here's one of our favourite moments – a stormy passage from the second movement 🔥

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In EduFilm 4, "Timbre and Cover Songs," we investigate timbre's role in distinguishing cover songs from their originals.

Thanks to student member Jeremy Tatar for devising the concepts for these videos, and to Patrick Hart for his brilliant animation and sound design!

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Register for ACTOR’s presentation workshop using the link in bio! This workshop is open to ACTOR and CIRMMT student members and will cover strategies for effective oral presentations, handling audience questions, slide design, time management, and more!

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Check out ACTOR member Jay Marchand Knight’s publication in the Frontiers in Psychology “Visual biases in evaluation of speakers’ and singers’ voice type by cis and trans listeners.” Click the link in bio to explore Knight’s analysis!

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The Los Angeles based wasteLAnd ensemble premiered 6 works by Matthew Henson, Roger Reynolds, Jonny Stallings, Rand Steiger, Alex Taylor and Ni Zheng as part of UCSD's participation in the ACTOR CORE project.

The concert is available to watch here: https://t.co/xsy9EdoDNf

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Congrats to student member Darko Dimitrijevic, who presented his doctoral project update in the frame of Vivier InterUniversitaire, an Montreal-based initiative supported by Group Le Vivier devoted to the dissemination of research by student researchers and creative practitioners

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Check out ACTOR member Theodora Nestorova’s publication in the Journal of Voice, “Vocal Vibrato Characteristics in Historical and Contemporary Opera, Operetta, and Schlager” Click the link in bio to explore Nestorova’s analysis!

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See the link in bio to read more about Viktor Lazarov's interview with Professor Martha de Francisco (Mcgill) as she talks about her work with Alfred Brendel on his Philips recording. She recounts the comments he made while working together about sound and the recording process.

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ACTOR Student members Jeanne Côté (violin) and Pedram Diba (composer) participated in the 2023 Conference of the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS). Click the link in bio to learn more!

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Click the link in bio to read “Shared mental representations underlie metaphorical sound concepts,” an article published in Scientific Reports with contributions by ACTOR members Victor Rosi and Patrick Susini. #ACTOR

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Click on the link in bio to read Mayas' artistic research concerning timbre and orchestration from a performer/improviser's perspective. #ACTOR

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We would like to invite all members to register for the Y5 Workshop Registration is free and can be done via the link in bio.

To learn more about the workshop, see the link in bio! #ACTOR

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Video recordings of the Afrological Perspectives on Timbre & Orchestration Speaker Series are now available! Click the link in bio to watch speakers Dr. Bibian Kalinde, Dr. Stephanie Shonekan, kevin C. Holt, Marvin McNeill, Andile Khumalo, and Joel LaRue Smith. #ACTOR

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Congratulations to the student members whose projects have been selected for funding through the Collaborative Student Project Grant:

Jason Winikoff & Lena Heng

Martin Daigle & Pauline Patie

Jeremy Tatar & Victor Burton

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Click the link in bio to read these new publications by ACTOR members! #ACTOR

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Les EduFilms d'ACTOR sont désormais disponibles en français sur la chaîne Youtube ACTOR! Cliquez sur le lien dans la bio pour les regarder. / The ACTOR EduFilms are available in French on the ACTOR Youtube Channel! Click the link in bio to watch.

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Revisiting Jorge Ramos’ autoethnography on the influence of electronics on the composer’s orchestration practice! Ramos’ article, Technology and Timbre, explores "the relationship between instrumental orchestration and electronics.” Read more with the link in bio! #ACTOR

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The Fluid Corpus Manipulation (@flucoma) Workshop will take place on April 14 from 10am-5pm at McGill University (room A-832) in collaboration with CIRMMT, the ACTOR project and composer Pierre Alexandre Tremblay. 

To learn more, see the link below!
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ACTOR Members Reymore, L., Noble, J., Saitis, C., Traube, C., & Wallmark, Z, authored an article in volume 40 of Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal. To read the article, see the link in bio! #ACTOR