Music Performance Markup
Click the link below to learn more about the project, "Music Performance Markup: Infrastructure for a Data Standard for Musical Performance Modelling". Their team has worked for years developing "Music Performance Markup format (MPM), comprehensive schema definition, documentation, and several software tools to work with this format, make performance analyses and create expressive MIDI/audio renderings."
Speak Web
SpeaK seeks to improve our knowledge about sounds in relation to auditory expertise and is calling on experts of music and sound to use the new web version to “create and share sound lexicons associated with a specific corpus of sounds.” Follow ACTOR to keep updated with projects such as SpeaK!
Musicians Auditory Perception (MAP)
ACTOR partners UCSD and McGill University have teamed up for the Musicians Auditory Perception (MAP) Project! MAP focuses on the creative process during musical collaboration, as 3 duos were selected to “document their collaborations while creating with binaural recording devices, adopting the concept of ‘sonic boundary objects”
"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."
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.”
Y4 Reminder/Countdown
The countdown is on! ACTOR’S Y4 Workshop is only five days away. We can’t wait to see everyone, whether online or in-person at the School of Creative and Performing Arts, University of Calgary. Click the link below for more information about the Y4 Workshop. See you all on July 9th!