Following Nina Eidsheim’s Distinguished Lecture "Metaphor as material practice" on November 11, 2024, this joint CIRMMT/ACTOR workshop will focus on vocal and instrumental timbre in relation to the metaphors used to describe them and to the concept of materiality in contemporary music. 

On April 14th, the FluCoMa Workshop will take place at CIRMMT in collaboration with the ACTOR project and the support of composer Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, one of the developers of the library. The aim of the workshop is to bring together creative practitioners currently working with FluCoMa and to exchange ideas in a constructive and collegial environment in order to learn about different approaches and uses of the library through the presentation of ongoing projects. Participants can apply to present their projects, to address some potential problems or issues, and find solutions and alternatives.

The event aims to help new student members get acquainted with ACTOR and will include a brief presentation about the project, funding opportunities available, and ongoing research projects. We believe this is a good chance for you to connect, collaborate, and take full advantage of this great community of artists, humanists, and scientists. We also have some great updates about the Student Exchange Funding.

Want some help crafting successful CVs and cover letters?

On September 26, at 1:00pm (EDT), the ACTOR Training and Mentoring Committee (TMC) will be hosting an online workshop on CVs and cover letters with professors Robert Hasegawa (McGill University), Pierre Michel (Université de Strasbourg), Lindsey Reymore (Arizona State University), and Caroline Traube (Université de Montréal).

Childhood daydreams, shimmering textures, meteorological phenomena, and traditional Persian music were inspirations for four new string quartets written for Quatuor Bozzini. These were workshopped over a multi-phase research collaboration with four composers and four researchers who tested and developed strategies for timbre-based approaches to string quartet composition. Four unique and colourful approaches to string quartet writing. A co-production of ACTOR (Analysis, Creation and Teaching of Orchestration) and Quatuor Bozzini.

Want some help crafting successful conference proposal abstracts?

On December 6, at 9:30am (EST), the ACTOR Training and Mentoring Committee (TMC) will be hosting an online workshop on conference proposal abstract writing with professors Robert Hasegawa (McGill University), Malte Kob (Detmold University of Music). The event is open to all ACTOR student members and includes three short presentations followed by breakout sessions for small working groups. Breakout sessions will be available in English, French, and German (depending on submissions) and will discuss abstracts submitted in advance by participants.

"Smart Instruments for a Stupid Composer: How to Compose for Instruments that do not Exist." A workshop with Prof. Carmine Cella, presented by CIRMMT's Research Axis 4 and as part of Le Vivier's series of Interuniversity meetings, "Résonance croisée."

A workshop with esteemed composer and CIRMMT distinguished lecture guest Prof. Carmine Cella (University of California, Berkeley) on composing with augmented instruments, featuring live examples performed by Sixtrum Percussion Ensemble.

Nathalie Hérold organised a workshop, “Étudier le timbre et l'orchestration: rencontre de présentation du partenariat ACTOR,” Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l'Homme Alsace, Strasbourg.

This Timbre Analysis Workshop will feature talks by two of CIRMMT's new post-docs, Matt Zeller and Lindsey Reymore. If you've been curious about the ACTOR project, what our colleagues at CIRMMT do, or timbre analysis as it relates to your own music theory research, you won't want to miss this event!

The aim of HAID 2020 is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in exploring how the haptic and audio modalities can be used together in human computer interaction.