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ACTOR Timbre & Orchestration Summer School
DEADLINE EXTENDED: February 17, 2023
The deadline to apply for the Analysis, Creation and Teaching of Orchestration (ACTOR) Timbre & Orchestration Summer School has been extended to February
17. The school will be held at
the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, July 8-12, 2023. See below for more
details and how to submit your application.
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TUTORIAL SESSIONS
The Summer School program is organized in two parts:
Details about the content of tutorial sessions are as follows:
This session surveys productive modes of timbre- and orchestration-centric music analysis. Specifically, we explore how timbre and orchestration can be used as analytical "points of departure" for engagement with questions of performance,
perception, genre, and identity. Repertoire covered will primarily focus on contemporary art and popular music.
This session will introduce and explore the concepts of timbral archetypes (or metatimbres) in the compositional practice of many styles of music, from contemporary to popular. A theoretical background will be presented, followed
by exemplifications and scoring techniques, software approaches and frameworks in electroacoustic and live-electronic music, and finally with group listening activities and discussion.
This session will examine the role of perceptual grouping processes (concurrent, sequential, segmental) in orchestration. I will present a taxonomy of orchestral grouping effects that serve as structuring forces in the creation of
musical form at various levels: blended events, auditory streams, integrated orchestral textures, orchestral layers, timbral contrasts, and orchestral gestures.
This session will explore the role of timbre in the generation of meaning, including affective, linguistic, and cross-sensorial experience. The session will introduce participants to the central questions, theories, and methods of
timbre semantics research, including perceptual and corpus linguistic approaches, supplemented by discussion, group listening, and writing activities.
This session will address how vocal timbre plays a substantial part in how we position ourselves and assess others. We will start by discussing how observing and making meaning based on vocal timbre is encultured and expresses values
and power relations we are enrolled in more broadly. In the second part, we will use a writing-based approach designed to guide participants to expand their relation- and meaning-making capacity related to vocal timbre.
This session will introduce acoustic modeling of timbre with audio descriptors. I will present descriptors derived from different representations of sound, together with a brief review of these representations (i.e., time-varying
sinusoids, spectral envelopes) and auditory models (i.e., mel frequencies). The session will cover temporal and spectral descriptors which find applications in timbre psychoacoustics, multimedia descriptions, and computer-aided orchestration.
PARTICIPANTS
GO TO SUMMER SCHOOL’S WEBSITE: https://www.actorproject.org/timbre-and-orchestration-summer-school
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