Timbre and Orchestration Writings: Seven Beginnings
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Timbre and Orchestration Writings: Seven Beginnings

Revisiting Jason Noble’s article about his composition, Seven Beginnings, commemorating through music the birth of Noble’s daughter. While examining the intricacies of the piece, it is also “far from being a technical étude, it is a very personal piece with a very specific motivation behind its materials and methods.” Follow the link in our story or down below to learn more!

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Seven Beginnings: Fourth Beginning
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Seven Beginnings: Fourth Beginning

Check out Jason Noble's Forth Beginning, as part of his work, Seven Beginnings! Click the link below to hear more about how Noble composed this piece using recordings of his daughter during her “babbling stage.”

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Ilshin Composition Prize
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Ilshin Composition Prize

Congratulations to ACTOR member Sang Song on receiving the prestigious Ilshin Composition Prize awarded by by the Ilshin Foundation in Korea! While this prize is typically awarded to mid-career composers, Sang was selected by a panel which included Unsuk Chin despite being a graduate student. Alongside a cash prize of 10 million Korean Won (approx. US$9,000), Sang will be writing a new piece to be performed at the award ceremony.

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"Jusqu'à peu" by Fabien Lévy
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"Jusqu'à peu" by Fabien Lévy

Enjoy Fabien Lévy’s composition, "Jusqu'à peu.” His piece builds on the crises currently facing the world, as Lévy notes, “Written for one of the most sophisticated instruments in human music, the piece remains on the symbolic level of these different crises, but follows the form and spirit of this emergence and decline."

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The many facets of musical listening
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The many facets of musical listening

Explore Lena Heng and Mengqi Wang’s work under the ACTOR Collaborative Student Project Grant. Through analyzing two musical pieces, they find that “successful orchestration is built upon the fact that regardless of the instruments used or the musical or cultural connotations of the music, they adhere to universal mechanisms of auditory perception and cognition.”

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