The Year 1 ACTOR Workshop was held 13-15 July 2019, at IRCAM, in Paris, France.
Details about workgroup discussions and videos of presentations can be found in the .
Travel and accommodations for institutional representatives were covered by ACTOR funds. Information about hotels was sent via email.
The deadline to confirm participation was 31 October 2018. As was the case at the Kickoff Workshop in Montreal, lunch and dinner were provided for all meeting attendees.
Forty ACTOR members from seven countries gathered in Paris, France, from July 13 to 15 at IRCAM/Centre Pompidou for ACTOR’s second annual workshop. This year’s activities included a special session dedicated to the work of student members. The papers presented during the student session were as follows: “Seeing New Colors: Scriabinian and Post-Scriabinian Orchestration Devices” by Nicholas Farmer (undergraduate student in composition and horn at Southern Methodist University); “Acoustic Characterization of Concert Halls Illustrated by the Salle Claude-Champagne” by Dorothea Lincke (Master’s student in engineering, with a background in music and a specialization in room acoustics, at the Technical University of Berlin); “Advancing the State of the Art in Real-Time Acoustic Modeling and Reconstruction for Source Separation” by Louis Pisha (Ph.D. student in electrical engineering (signal and image processing) at the University of California, San Diego); and “Orchestral Extensions and Transformations in Lyric and Symphonic Music” by Kit Soden (Ph.D. student in composition at ɬ). In addition to the student sessions, the first day also included lightning talks allowing all participants to stay informed about the various ongoing projects, as well as a plenary session led by ACTOR project director Stephen McAdams, which included reports from the co-chair of the training and mentoring committee, Jason Noble, and the chair of the knowledge mobilization committee, Zachary Wallmark. Videos from the first day are available on the IRCAM website:
The second and third days were devoted to cross-cutting working groups focused on active projects such as: Taxonomies(led by Denys Bouliane and Stephen McAdams), Artificial Intelligence (led by Philippe Esling), Compositional Applications (led by Jason Noble), Recording Protocols (led by Martha DeFrancisco), ACTOR Website and Online Orchestration Resources (led by Jason Noble and Kit Soden), Semantics of Timbre (led by Jason Noble and Zachary Wallmark), Analysis of the 20th and 21st Centuries (led by Robert Hasegawa and Pierre Michel), Composer-Performer Orchestration Research Groups (CORE) (prepared by Keith Hamel and Roger Reynolds, and led by Roger in Keith’s absence), Generative Orchestration (Orchidea) (led by Carmine Cella), OrchView Score Annotation Platform (led by Félix Baril and Baptiste Bohelay), Performance Applications (led by Julie Delisle and Nathalie Hérold), 18th-19th Century Analysis (led by Sherry Lee and Ryan McClelland), and Discussion on the Journal of Orchestration and Timbre Studies (JOTS) (led by Robert Hasegawa).
ACTOR members met again in July 2020. A big thank you to IRCAM for graciously hosting the first-year workshop and to Sylvie Benoit for all her work on this event. Thanks also to all UCSD members for the work done in preparation for the second-year workshop.
For more information, contact the Project coordinator (actor-project.music [at] mcgill.ca (actor-project[dot]music[at]mcgill[dot]ca)).