News
CIRMMT 2009-2010 Student Award winners announced
Seventeen CIRMMT students will receive awards to pursue nine interdisciplinary research projects over the coming year.
CIRMMT partners with the Schulich School of Music to present the 2009 ICMC
CIRMMT is pleased to collaborate with the Schulich School of Music of McGill University in presenting the 2009 International Computer Music Conference, from August 16-21.
CIRMMT collaborates in historic live streaming video concert
August 2nd, 2009: In collaboration with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the Schulich School of Music of McGill University, CIRMMT participated in the internet video broadcast of a concert performed in McGill's Multimedia Room. CIRMMT's contribution to this event was generously supported by funding from the Maurice Pollack Foundation for the centre's Audio Visual Editing Laboratory.
CBC Evolution National Composition Competition Concert
The final concert of the CBC Evolution National Composition Competition is held tonight Thursday, March 26. Current doctoral student and CIRMMT student member David Adamcyk and former undergraduate and master's student Geof Holbrook are two of the five finalists.
CIRMMT students participate in Spark Festival 2009
The Digital Orchestra Project was presented at the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts in February 2009. Festival participants included current CIRMMT students Erika Donald and Xenia Pestova. Xenia performed former CIRMMT student Bryan Jacob's piece "Song from the Moment."
World Opera Project at CIRMMT
The creator of the World Opera project, Niels Lund, and Conductor Niels Muus were working at CIRMMT with Jeremy Cooperstock and his research team in February. From Radio-Canada: Virtuel Verdi Mise à jour le mercredi 25 février 2009 à 14 h 15 Un texte de Richard Raymond Violetta est en train d'expirer à New York, dans les bras de Giorgio Germont. Alfredo, son amant, se désespère à San Francisco, pendant que le chef d'orchestre bat la mesure à Montréal. Verdi quitte la scène pour entrer dans le cyberespace. Aurait-il perdu sa clé de sol? Bienvenue dans le futur de l'opéra. Ce futur a pris corps à l'Université McGill, la semaine dernière avec le « World Opera Project »...
Composition prize for CIRMMT student member Anthony Tan
CIRMMT is very happy to announce that student member Anthony Tan, a Master's student in Composition at the Schulich School of Music, is one of the prize winners in the Contemptronics 08 Competition of the Hamburger Klangwerktage 2008 Festival in Hamburg.
T-Stick performance by D. Andrew Stewart at the SAT
D. Andrew Stewart performed his composition "Everybody to the power of one" on a soprano S-Stick at the SAT in September. The T-Stick is a digital instrument designed by Joe Malloch and D. Andrew Stewart and for which they received CIRMMT student award funding. Go to this website to view this amazing performance: http://www.vimeo.com/1776361
Eve-Marie Quintin and Jason Hockman win prizes at CIRMMT General Assembly
At the 2008 CIRMMT General Assembly, Eve-Marie Quintin won the prize for best oral presentation and Jason Hockman won the prize for best poster presentation. Both CIRMMT students will receive $100.
CIRMMT student Michel Vallières selected for keynote at CIM08
Michel Vallières has been invited to deliver a keynote talk after his paper 'Intrinsic formal functionality: Perception of Mozart's materials' was selected by the organising committee of CIM08. The conference will take place in Greece in July 2008.