Writings & Presentations
Now Available: Conversational
Musicology: a composer’s perspective
theory & analysis – general
[in progress: Template for a Tool Kit - described in Conversational Musicology]
“Profile of an Armchair Researcher”
– talk at CIRMMT, McGill U, Montreal – Sept 2014.
“Theories
market: open for trading” presented at Musiques électroacoustiques.
Un siècle d’invention du son technologique.
Ressources, discours et outils d’analyse,
organized by the Sorbonne and de Montfort Universities, INA/GRM, le Musée de la
musique, and the Electronic Music Foundation; Paris, Oct. 15-17, 2003 --
also published in Organised
Sound 9/1: 15-26.
“The
Armchair Researcher”
multi-modal poster session presented at Toronto2000: Musical
Intersections (through the Society of Music Perception & Cognition),
Toronto, Canada, November 2000.
rhythmic theory
Review of Hearing in Time by
Justin London” for Music Perception, summer 07 : pre-proof
SuperPulse: Clarifications, Refinements, Implications”
presented at the conference of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Kingston,
Ontario, August 2001 – see Proceedings.
An
Investigation of Periodicity in Music, with reference to three 20th-century
compositions: Bartok’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Lutoslawski’s
Concerto for Orchestra, and Ligeti's
Chamber Concerto.
Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI - PhD diss
(U. Victoria, Canada) 1993. digitized
copy for consultation in Canada
musical time
[in progress –
A
Musician's Guide to Time]
"Traces
of Time: Reflections of a Musician" at the triennial conference of the
International Society for the Study of Time, Crete, June-July 2013
"A
Musician's Guide to Time" presented at the triennial conference of the
International Society for the Study of Time, MonteVerde, Costa Rica - July
2010.
“The Breathing of Time in(to) Music”
presented at the V triennial ESCOM conference (European Society for Cognitive
Studies in Music), Hannover, Germany, 2003
“Time:
Music’s Medium”
special lecture presented to FFAR250, undergraduate art survey course for
Faculty of Fine Arts students, Concordia University, Montreal, 2001
"Percepção do Tempo pela
Óptica Musical" [Perception of Time
through the Lens of Music] - presented at the 2nd Annual Festival of Music at
the Univ. of Aveiro, 1998.
"Temporal Aspects of Music -
Perception of Time" - talk presented at the Dept. of Music, Univ. of Toronto, Canada, 1998.
“The
Training of Time-Smiths” presented at
the VII International Symposium on Systematic and Comparative Musicology / III
International Conference on Cognitive Musicology, Jyväskyla, Finland, 2001 see Proceedings.
“Factors that Influence our Perception of Time in Music”, Proceedings of the CEC conference
>convergence<, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada, 1989.
auditive analysis
ASA & EA [Auditory Scene Analysis &
Electroacoustics]” presented at EMS-09,
Electroacoustic Music Studies conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina - June 2009
Panel
member (with Jean-Claude Risset & Francois-Xavier Feron) - Auditory Illusions workshop, CIRMMT, McGill
University, Montreal - March 2011
“Sorting out the Strata - Revisited”
presented at the Music Cognition Seminar of the Brain and Cognition Department,
University of Rochester; the Psychology Department, Cornell University; and
Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York, April, 2001 (invitation of Carol
Krumhansl)
“Sorting
out the Strata: Auditory Scene Analysis Applied”
presented at the Dept. of Music, Univ. of Ottawa and to Dr. Al Bregman’s
graduate seminar, Psychology Dept, McGill University, Montréal, 1998.
“Análise Auditiva”
[Auditive Analysis] 4-day workshop,
Univ. of Aveiro – Feb. 1997.
musical texture & gesture
Seminar / workshop on gesture in
music and dance, Contemporary Dance Dept, Concordia Univ, 2000
[“Periodicity and
Musical Texture” unpublished -
written for Aspects of Musical
Textures, edited by Gerald Gabel - completed in 1998]
“Time and
Texture”, ex
tempore, vol VII.1 (1994): 129-190.
electroacoustics
"Sorting sounds: testing tools
and strategies” presented at the Electroacoustic
Music Studies EMS-08 conference, Paris-GRM
- June 2008. pre-proof: SortingSounds
“From Wire to Computer: Francis Dhomont at 80”, in Computer Music Journal 30:3 (fall
2006), 10-21.
"lCMC Concert Reviews: Concert 5” in Array,
winter 2006, pp. 10-12.ICMC 2004 Concert Reviews.
Contribution to panel discussion “Are
our expanded horizons leading us to new audiences?”
with L. Landy, J. Chadabe, M. Schedel at the International Computer Music
Conference, Miami, 2004; published as “Marketing
strategies for electroacoustics and computer music”
in Organised Sound 9/3: 307-314.
“Creating
and Contributing. The Expansive Spirit of Marcelle Deschênes”,
Musicworks, No 86. Toronto: Music Gallery: 14-21, 2003. [excerpts reprinted as liner notes of CD
Empreintes Digitales .
“Gestures Glimpsed through holes in
the acousmatic screen” [review of
Rien à Voir series December 2001] MusicWorks 83: 54-55.
“Sculpting
sound: the story of the CEC” - CAML
Review [Canadian Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and
Documentation Centres], 29/1:25-28, 2001 – reprinted in e-contact
4.2.
ethnomusicology
“Incorporating a Study of Persian
Music into Western Music Curricula” - talk presented at the Association of
Iranian Studies conference, Montreal, 2014.
“Facets of Islamic Musical Tradition” invited presentation at the Forum of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women - Montreal, 2003
perception & musical imagery
“The
roles of auditory and cross-modal imagery in the compositional process”
presented at the Conference on Musical Imagery, VI International Conf. on
Systematic & Comparative Musicology, Oslo, Norway, June 1999; published as “Composers & Imagery: Myths &
Realities” ch. 15 of
Musical Imagery, Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger, 2001, pp.271-288. pre-proof
composition
Talk on creativity and composition
given to students at Lonergan College, Concordia University, at the invitation
of Prof. Joanne Bottenberg, spring 2001.
“Gebrauchsmusik
Revived: Contemporary Music for Children" - presented at the European Piano Teachers Association -
Portugal conference, Univ. of Aveiro, March 1999.
“Composition: my laboratory
for auditory perception research”
presented at the Symposium of Musical Cognition and Behavior Relevance for
Music Composing University of Rome La Sapienza (ECONA/ESCOM), May 1998;
published in General Psychology, 99/3,
Edizioni Scientifiche, Rome,1999.
music & multimedia
"The urgent need for increased sensitivity to sound" at the Avanca International Conference Cinema | Art, Technology, Communication - July 2011.
Interactive Multimedia Playroom /
Thesaurus / NESTAR
[in progress –
The Playroom Phenomenon]
4-day installation of the
Interactive Multimedia Playroom at the conference Espacios Sonoros hosted by
the Centro Superior de Investigación y Promoción de la Música de la Universidad
Autónoma de Madrid (CSIPM-UAM) - March 2013.
installation of the Interactive Multimedia Playroom at
the Avanca
| Cinema: International Conference Cinema: Art, Technology, Communication -
July 2012
Production of the booklet Overview of the Interactive Multimedia
Playroom & NESTAR: a network of exploratory spaces for Temporal Arts
Research - PDF online (www.IMP-NESTAR.com)
- English & French versions, 40 pp. - Mar 2012 (French translation July
2012)
installation of the Interactive Multimedia Playroom at
the Avanca
| Cinema: International Conference Cinema: Art, Technology, Communication -
July 2011 .
Presentation of the IMP-Cubed at
the Science & Technology Open Days, University of Aveiro, Portugal –
with A Veloso - Nov 2010
Installation of the Interactive Multimedia Playroom at
the 2010
Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences, as a featured research project,
Concordia University - June 2010
Interview with Ricardo Dal Farra,
published on the website of the Centro de Experimentación e Investigación en Artes Electrónicas,
2008 .
ISME 2008-28th International
Society for Music Education World Conference -presentation of the IMP as part
of a Symposium-concert ‘Music of all ages
... and genders’
with Nicole Carignan (University of Quebec at Montreal), Mireille Gagné
( Director, Canadian Music Centre
Quebec) and France Leblanc (Director, MAESTRA) - July 2008
presentation of work-in-progress at
the University of Aveiro, Portugal - June 2008
Symposium & installation of the
Interactive Multimedia Playroom
at Hexagram-Concordia Black Box, Montreal, Canada - Oct. 2007
“Playful Tools, Serious
Questions” presented at the Canadian Acoustical
Association conference, Montreal, Canada - Oct. 2007
Installation of the Interactive Multimedia Playroom as
special event for the Society for Music Perception and Cognition conference,
Montreal, Canada - August 2007
Installation of the Interactive Multimedia Playroom at
Oboro Gallery, Montreal, Canada - April May 2007
“Name that mood! Describe that tune!
Invitation to the IMP” poster and demo
at ISMIR [International Society for
Music Information Retrieval], Victoria, BC, Canada –
Oct. 2006.
Report on the Interactive Multimedia Playroom -
University of Prince Edward Island, Dept. of Psychology, Aug. 2006
Report on the Interactive Multimedia Playroom
and Hexagram - in the
context of DeCA in Festa - Department of Communication and Art, University of
Aveiro, Portugal, July 2006
“Tool / Game /
Environment: The Interactive Multimedia Thesaurus & Playroom” presented at EMS-05, Electroacoustic Music
Studies conference, Montreal, Oct. 2005.
“MMT Travel Kit”
- demonstration presented at the
International Computer Music Conference, Barcelona, Sept. 2005
“Flexible Frameworks:
The Multimedia Thesaurus”presented at the V triennial ESCOM conference (European Society
for Cognitive Studies in Music), Hannover, Germany, Sept. 2003 in Proceedings of the 5th triennial conference
of ESCOM. pre-proof
speculations on current / future trends
"If a picture is
worth a thousand words, and music is a language, then how many notes is a
picture worth?” presented at EMS-07, Electroacoustic Music Studies
conference, Leicester, UK, June 2006
“The
Internet: The Untended Garden” in Contemporary Music Review, v 24 /
6 (Dec. 2005): 551-559.
“Possible
Pathways” Mikropolyphonie: Contemporary Music Online Journal (Australia)
vol. 2.1 (1996)
“Caveats from a Dyed-in-the-Wool Futurist”
presented at the conference Music without Walls? Music without Instruments?
De Montfort U, Leicester,
UK, 2001, published in Organised Sound 8/1: 97-102.