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Andre Martins de Oliveira, Mr 20 Oct 2023

VII CIRMMT-ACTOR Symposium on Orchestration Research

ACTOR is pleased to announce the seventh ACTOR / CIRMMT Student Symposium, held as a hybrid event on Friday, October 20th, 12pm-2pm (Eastern), A-832, Wirth Music Building (ɬ﷬ Schulich School of Music). The four speakers, all ACTOR members, each presented posters at the TIMBRE 2023 Conference in Thessaloniki in July.

  • 12h00 - 12h30 – Orchestrating Melodic Masculinities: the Neptunes and the Afro-Filipino Marching Band Experience, Danielle Davis (Florida State University)
  • 12h30 - 13h00 – The interplay between fundamental frequency and spectral envelope and its effect on the perception of musical instrument sounds, Simon Jacobsen (University of Oldenburg)
  • 13h00 - 13h30 – When pitch, timbre, and appearance “don’t match,” how do you categorize a voice?, Jay Marchand Knight (Concordia University)
  • 13h30 - 14h00 – Choreographing Orchestration: A Novel Method for Analyzing Orchestration through Ballet, Rebecca Moranis (City University of New York)