VII CIRMMT-ACTOR Symposium on Orchestration Research

October 20, 2023 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 (McGill 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?, Juanita Marchand Knight (Concordia University) 13h30 - 14h00 – Choreographing Orchestration: A Novel Method for Analyzing Orchestration through Ballet, Rebecca Moranis (City University of New York)