Publication: Zachary Wallmark's Video for "What is timbre ?"
Do you know what timbre is? Click the link or watch the video down below to hear Zachary Wallmark, Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Oregon, "break down the layers of timbre and what draws listeners to a particular sound.” Let us know what you think in the comments!
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."
Seven Beginnings: First Beginning
Click the link below to learn more about "the First Beginning," the first segment of Nobel's piece, Seven Beginnings. Jason Nobel’s work commemorates his daughter, Lily, as “the First Beginning,” explores the sensations a well-developed baby feels before birth. Noble writes, “The first beginning was noise, and it was as a liquid, suffusing and subsuming, filling every crevice, and of silent space there was none.”
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!
Stephen - Royal Society
Congratulations to ACTOR director Stephen McAdams who has been elected Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada! This is an outstanding accomplishment and is the highest recognition granted to the individual in the arts & social sciences by the RSC.
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.”