Proceedings
The proceedings can be downloaded here.
Opening address
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? Stephen McADAMS, 平特五不中?— 'What is timbre?'?vs. 'What can we do with timbre?'?Picking the right questions. |
Keynote addresses
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? Research?Keynote Lecture, July 5th: , Harvard University —?Timbre eternal |
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? Musical Keynote Concert, July 5th: , Kisoukai Koto Association?—?Perception and cognition of playing the koto; and?with , koto and 17-gen — The world of the koto |
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? Research Keynote Lecture, July 6th: , International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad —?Timbre in the brain |
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? Musical Keynote Concert, July 6th: , 平特五不中, tabla ?with , sarangi —?Rivers: A rhythmic journey to Varanasi |
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? Research Keynote Lecture, July 7th: Cornelia FALES, Indiana University —?Playing with timbre |
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? Musical Keynote Concert, July 7th: , Image Auditive, composition/video,?with , flute —?Timbre and synthesis, the promises of freedom |
?Preliminary Schedule (click on lines with + for more details)
July 4: Tutorials, Round Tables, Registration, Opening Reception
Tutorials and round tables (Library Seminar Room A-510 — enter library on 3rd floor of Elizabeth Wirth Music Building)
09:30-11:30?Tutorial on Computer-Aided Orchestral Simulation: Denys Bouliane, Félix Baril — OrchPlay (OrchSim): The orchestra in your classroom and research center! A new software for pedagogy and research
12:00-14:00?Tutorial on Computer-Aided Orchestration: Philippe Esling, Carmine Emanuele Cella — The computer as an orchestra
15:30-17:00 Round table:?Robert Fink, Cornelia Fales,?Melinda Latour, Catherine Provenzano,?Paul Théberge,?Steve Waksman, Zachary Wallmark, Simon Zagorski-Thomas — The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: A round table on timbre, technology, history, and genre in popular music
17:30-19:00 Round table: John Rea,?Victor Cordero, Fabien Lévy,?Laurie Radford, Lasse Thoresen — Orchestration pedagogy in the?21st century
Registration and opening reception (Elizabeth Wirth Music Building Lobby)
18:00-21:00 Registration
19:00-21:00 Opening reception
July 5 (Tanna Schulich Recital Hall)
07:30 Coffee and registration
08:00 Welcoming address:?Lloyd WHITESELL, Associate Dean (Research and Administration), Schulich School of Music, 平特五不中
08:05?Opening address:?Stephen McADAMS, 平特五不中?— 'What is timbre?'?vs. 'What can we do with timbre?'?Picking the right questions
08:45 Research Keynote 1:?Musicology -?Emily DOLAN, Harvard University – Timbre eternal
9:45 Talk Session 1: Chair Lloyd Whitesell
- 09:45?Heather Buffington-Anderson?- Black power voices: Examining timbre and polyvocality in Oscar Brown, Jr. and Nina Simone
- 10:10?Rebecca Flore - The social life of timbre: Discussing sound color in online guitar communities
- 10:35?Isabella van Elferen - Timbre: Aesthetics of vibration
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Talk Session 2: Chair Lloyd Whitesell
- 11:30 Federica Di Gasbarro -?Timbre and formal functions in Edgard Varèse’s?础尘é谤颈辩耻别蝉
- 11:55??Pascal Decroupet -?Phrasing through timbre: Timbral variety, figural coherence and formal evidence in Stockhausen’s?Kontakte?and Ferneyhough’s?Time and Motion Study II
- 12:20 David Blake & Alessandro Bratus - Timbral syntax in Bj?rk's Utopia
12:55 Poster Session 1 & Lunch
- Christoph Reuter, Isabella Czedik-Eysenberg, Saleh Siddiq & Michael Oehler?- The closer the better: The role of formant positions in timbre similarity perception and timbre classification
- Matthew Zeller?-?Timbral function in Klangfl?chetechnik
- Song Hui Chon & Sungyoung Kim?- Understanding the perception of acoustic space from the perspectives of timbre
- Simon Waloschek, Aristotelis Hadjakos & Axel Berndt?- Score and sound-based interface for exploring music performances
- Sergio Giraldo, Rafael Ramirez, George Waddell & Aaron Williamon?- Computational modeling of new timbre dimensions for automatic violin tone quality assessment
- Etienne Richan & Jean Rouat?- Towards translating perceptual distance from hearing to vision using neural networks
- Moe Touizrar -?Sound signifying light: The sunrise topic as a transmodal perceptual metaphor
- Margaret Schedel & Erika Honisch?- New wor(l)ds for old sounds
- Laurent Pottier?- Local sound signatures for music recommendations
- Saleh Siddiq, Christoph Reuter, Isabella Czedik-Eysenberg & Denis Knauf?- The (obvious) influence of pitch and dynamics on the perceptual dimensions of the timbre of musical instruments
- Mattson Ogg & L. Robert Slevc?- An investigation of the acoustic features supporting the perception of timbre and other auditory objects
- Robert Normandeau -?Timbre spatialisation
- Jack Kelly, Julian Neri, Diego Quiroz & Alejandro Aspinwall?- Communication through microphone choice and placement
14:45?Musical Event:?Bruno Deschênes -?The tone-color melodies of the Japanese shakuhachi
15:25 Talk Session 3: Chair Philippe Esling
- 15:25 Kai Siedenburg -?Testing relative perception and context-sensitivity of timbral brightness
- 15:50 Charalampos Saitis & Kai Siedenburg?- Exploring the role of source-cause categories in timbral brightness perception
16:15?Coffee break
16:45 Talk Session 4: Chair Philippe Esling
16:45?Etienne Thoret, Baptiste Caramiaux, Philippe Depalle & Stephen McAdams - A computational meta-analysis of human dissimilarity ratings of musical instrument timbre
17:10 Sven-Amin Lembke - Measuring temporal interdependence between duet performers along timbre, dynamics, and pitch
17:35 Jonathan Berger & Talya Berger,?Eoin Callery, Elliot Kermit-Canfield & Jonathan Abel -?Timbre, texture, space and musical style: The interplay of architecture and music in Rome’s Chiesa di Sant’Aniceto
18:00?Continuation of poster session 1
20:00-21:30?Musical Keynote 1: ANDO Masateru, Kisoukai Koto Association?—?Perception and cognition of playing the koto
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July 6?(Tanna Schulich Recital Hall)
08:00 Coffee
08:45 Research Keynote 2: Vinoo ALLURI, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad — Timbre in the brain
09:45 Talk Session 5: Chair Zachary Wallmark
- 09:45 James O'Callaghan - Rupture of timbre and source-bonding as musical aesthetic
- 10:10 Stephen Spencer?- Arthur Lange and the spectrotone system of orchestration
- 10:35 Laurie Radford - Locating timbre: Challenges of timbral design in multichannel electroacoustic music
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Talk Session 6: Chair Zachary Wallmark
- 11:30 Carmine Emanuele Cella & Philippe Esling - Open-source modular toolbox for computer-aided orchestration
- 11:55 Léopold Crestel, Philippe Esling, Daniele Ghisi & Robin Meier - Generating orchestral music by conditioning SampleRNN
- 12:20 Tristan Carsault, Axel Chemla-Romeu-Santos & Philippe Esling - Learning spectral transforms to improve timbre analysis
12:55 Poster Session 2 & Lunch
- Fran?ois-Xavier Féron, Catherine Guastavino & Benjamin Carat - Acoustical analyses of extended playing techniques in Pression by Helmut Lachenmann
- Nathalie Hérold -?Studying timbral structures in 19th-century piano music: Overview and challenges
- Victor Cordero, Kit Soden & ?ric Daubresse?-?New perspectives in orchestration pedagogy
- John Sheinbaum - Timbre, early cinema, and the perception of time in Mahler's Symphony No. 5
- Amit Gur -?Timbre and texture: Overlapping phenomena
- Adrien Bitton, Axel Chemla-Romeu-Santos & Philippe Esling - Timbre transfer between orchestral instruments with semi-supervised learning
- Aurélien Antoine, Eduardo Miranda, Jean-Micha?l Celerier & Myriam Desainte-Catherine - Generating orchestral sequences with timbral descriptors
- Frederic Le Bel - From timbre decomposition to music composition
- Megan Lavengood - A musicological approach to the analysis of timbre
- Sarah Schoonhoven -?Gender, timbre and metaphor in the music of Wendy Carlos
- Flora Henderson - Cross-cultural gestures: Timbral juxtapositions in Takemitsu’s November Steps (1967) for shakuhachi, biwa and orchestra
- Pierre Michel?-?Instrumental timbre, groupings and texture: Analysis of form and expression in pre-spectral European ensemble and orchestral music
- Lindsey Reymore & David Huron -?Identifying the perceptual dimensions of musical instrument timbre
- Thiago Roque & Rafael Mendes - Towards timbre solfège from sound features manipulation
14:45 Musical event:?Miller Puckette &?Kerry Hagan?-?Who was that timbre I saw you with?
15:25 Talk Session 7: Chair Stefan Weinzierl
- 15:25?Robert Hasegawa - Timbral hybrids in Philippe Hurel’s Le?on de choses
- 15:50?Lasse Thoresen - Timbre-as-heard: Spectromorphological considerations
16:15 Coffee break
16:45 Talk Session 8: Chair Stefan Weinzierl
- 16:45 Julie Anne Nord -?Wagner’s associative orchestration in the Orchesterskizze for Tristan und Isolde
- 17:10 Jason Noble, Max Henry, Etienne Thoret?& Stephen McAdams - Timbre and semantics in sound mass music
- 17:35 Asterios Zacharakis & Konstantinos Pastiadis - Examining the influence of tone inharmonicity on felt tension and timbral semantics
18:00 Continuation of poster session 2
20:00-21:30 Musical Keynote 2: Shawn MATIVETSKY, Tabla, 平特五不中,?with?Pankaj MISHRA, sarangi — Rivers: A rhythmic journey to Varanasi
July 7?(Tanna Schulich Recital Hall)
08:00 Coffee
08:45 Research Keynote 3: Cornelia FALES, Indiana University — Playing with timbre
09:45 Talk Session 9: Chair Vinoo Alluri
- 09:45 Simon Zagorski?Thomas?-?See me, feel me: Timbre as a multi-modal experience
- 10:10 Paul Théberge -?Timbre, genre, and the reframing of analog processes in digital audio production
- 10:35 Zachary Wallmark?-?Effects of cross-modal Stroop interference on timbre perception
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Talk Session 10:?Chair Vinoo Alluri
- 11:30?Marcelo Caetano - The sound morphing toolbox
- 11:55 Ben Luce & James W Beauchamp - David A. Luce’s research on musical instrument timbre and its subsequent application to analog synthesizer design and digital analysis/synthesis
- 12:20 Charlie Sdraulig - The effect of loudness on the perceptual representation of voiceless vowel and fricative timbres
12:55 Poster Session 3 & Lunch
- Jennifer Beavers - A case for Ravel: Timbre, neurological decline, and Ravel’s last compositions
- Danilo Rossetti & J?natas Manzolli - The emergent timbre in live-electronic music: Volume and spectral liveness estimation from audio descriptors
- Noah Kahrs - Consonant and dissonant timbres in two works of Sofia Gubaidulina
- Nora Engebretsen - Acousmatic listening, chimeric percepts, and auditory hallucinations: Conceptualizing “perceptualized” timbre through the “predictive processing” model
- Axel Chemla-Romeu-Santos, Adrien Bitton, Philippe Esling & Goffredo Haus - Unsupervised timbre spaces through perceptually?regularized variational learning
- Gregory Lee Newsome - Visualizing orchestration with Orcheil
- Luca Guidarini - Drowning into synthesis: The role of timbre in Fausto Romitelli’s compositional techniques
- Lauro Pecktor de Oliveira - The sound of colour in R. Murray Schafer’s (1933-) Seventh String Quartet (1998)
- Maria Perevedentseva - Timbre as ‘structuring structure’ in underground electronic dance music
- Ivan Simurra & Marcelo Queiroz - Comparative analysis between verbal attributes of timbre perception and acoustic correlates in contemporary music excerpts
- Tanor Bonin - 箏の唱歌: Phonetic encoding of musical contour in the traditional Ikuta scores of Japan
- Michael Mandel & Song Hui Chon - Using bubble noise to identify time-frequency regions that are important for timbre recognition
- Amy V. Beeston, Alinka Greasley & Harriet Crook -?Implicit timbral assessments of recorded and live music with hearing aids
14:45?Musical event:?Anthony Tan & Noam Bierstone?-?Pose IV: In situ (2016)?for solo percussionist on amplified piano and electronics
15:05?Musical event:?Robert Normandeau?-?StrinGDberg (2001-03)
15:25 Talk Session 11: Chair Cornelia Fales
- 15:25 Eric Maestri -?Timbre is a technomorphic thing: A comparative analysis of three case studies
- 15:50 Shen Li & Renee Timmers - The communication of timbral intentions between pianists and listeners and its dependence on audio-visual listening conditions
16:15 Coffee break
16:45 Talk Session 12: Chair Cornelia Fales
- 16:45 Jason Winikoff - The mikakaji: Timbre in Zambian luvale percussion
- 17:10 Hazel Burns & Gabriel Ferreyra - A comprehensive guide to recording the Kichwa instruments of Ecuador
17:35 Conclusions: Perspectives on future timbre research-creation:?Roger Reynolds (composer), Isabella van Elferen (musicologist), Stefan Weinzierl (acoustician)
18:05?Continuation of poster session 3/Closing reception
20:00-21:30 Musical Keynote 3: Jean-Baptiste BARRI?RE, Image Auditive, composition/video, with?Camilla HOITENGA, flute — Timbre and synthesis, the promises of freedom
