Montreal 2020
Robert Hasegawa (ɬÀï·¬) [PI]; Guillaume Bourgogne (ɬÀï·¬); Catherine Guastavino (ɬÀï·¬), Philippe Leroux (ɬÀï·¬), Jonathan Goldman (Université de Montréal); Pierre Michaud (Université de Montréal); Jean-Michaël Lavoie (Université de Montréal). Non-ACTOR members : Sean Ferguson (ɬÀï·¬), Fabrice Marandola (ɬÀï·¬), Guillaume Boutard (Université de Montréal), Robert Normandeau (Université de Montréal), Normand Forget (Nouvel Ensemble Moderne), Jeffrey Stonehouse (Ensemble Paramaribo)
Description:
PI Robert Hasegawa and colleagues from ɬÀï·¬, Université de Montréal, the Société des Arts Technologiques (SAT) and local new music ensembles planned an edition of the IRCAM Forum Workshop hors les murs in Montreal (April 2 to 5, 2020). This event brought together diverse Montreal institutions and offered an opportunity for exchanges between researchers and artists from IRCAM and their counterparts in Canada and the United States. The event included concerts by Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (Le NEM) with the Université de Montréal Ensemble de musique contemporaine, Ensemble Paramirabo, the ɬÀï·¬ Contemporary Music Ensemble, and Sixtrum, with featured composers including Carmine Emanuele Cella (ACTOR member), Jean-Luc Hervé, and Sasha Blondeau.
The forum was an opportunity to share ACTOR research with an audience highly invested in new approaches to timbre and orchestration. It included special sessions on the theme of orchestration, with presentations by ACTOR members, a talk by Carmine Cella on computer-aided orchestration, demonstrations of OrchView and OrchPlay, and exchanges between ACTOR collaborators at IRCAM, ɬÀï·¬, and UdeM and the Forum participants.