SELECTED PRESENTATIONS / PUBLICATIONS : |
(organized by area) (* at invitation of the editor)
(upcoming summer 2012) installation of the Interactive Multimedia Playroom (IMP-Cubed version) at the Fábrica Ciência Viva science museum, Aveiro, Portugal
(upcoming 2012) installation of the Interactive Multimedia Playroom at the Dallas International School, Texas
Installation of the Interactive Multimedia Playroom at the Avanca 2011 International Film Festival/Conference, Avanca, Portugal - July 2011
"The urgent need for increased sensitivity to sound" presented at the Avanca 2011 International Film Festival/Conference, Avanca, Portugal - July 2011
Installation of the Interactive Multimedia Playroom at the École Saint-Pierre-Apôtre, Montreal -spring 2011
Installation of the Interactive Multimedia Playroom at Concordia University, Montreal, as featured research exhibit in the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences - June 2010
Presentation of the IMP-Cubed at the Science & Technology Open Days, University of Aveiro, Portugal - Nov 2010
Interview with Ricardo Dal Farra, published on the website of the Centro de Experimentación e Investigación en Artes Electrónicas (http://www.ceiarte.com.ar/?q=node/175 ) - 2008.
ISME 2008-28th International Society for Music Education World Conference -presentation of the Interactive Multimedia Playroom 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
"Sorting sounds: testing tools and strategies”, Proceedings of the Electroacoustic Music Studies EMS-08 conference, Paris-GRM - June 2008. Click here for pre-proof: SortingSounds
Colloquium “Tools and Strategies for Teaching & Learning Multimedia” with R. Dal Farra, F. Dufour, R. Jordan, O. Mealha, C. Piché, A. Veloso; 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. See Proceedings.
April-May 2007 Installation of The Crib in the Playroom at Oboro Gallery, Montreal, Canada.
“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. Click here for pre-proof: ISMIR-RsM
“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, Montreal, Oct. 2005. Click here for pre-proof: EMS-05-Mountain.pdf
“MMT Travel Kit” - demonstration presented at the International Computer Music Conference, Barcelona, Sept. 2005. Click here for pre-proof:
“Flexible Frameworks: The Multimedia Thesaurus”presented at the V triennial ESCOM conference (European Society for Cognitive Studies in Music), Hannover, Germany, Sept. 2003 – see Proceedings of the 5th triennial conference of ESCOM.Click here for pre-proof: ESCOM-MMT.pdf
[in progress – Conversational Musicology – see ToolKit for details]
“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.
“Analise Auditiva” [Auditive Analysis] 4-day workshop, Univ. of Aveiro – Feb. 1997.
[“Periodicity and Musical Texture”, unpublished – written for Aspects of Musical Textures, at the request of the editor Gerald Gabel – completed in 1998, book under consideration by publisher - needs updating! click here for pre-proof: Texture ]
“Time and Texture”, ex tempore, vol VII.1 (1994): 129-190. *
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.
“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 – see Proceedings of the 5th triennial conference of ESCOM. Click here for pre-proof: Breathing of Time.pdf
“Time: Music’s Medium” special lecture presented to FFAR250, mandatory undergraduate art survey course for Faculty of Fine Arts students, Concordia University, Montreal, 2001. For notes, click: FFAR-Time
"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. time89.pdf
“Facets of Islamic Musical Tradition” presented at the Forum of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women, as part of the Panel on Art - Montreal, 2003 http://www.ccmw.com/activities/act_eventhosted_facetislamic.html
"lCMC Concert Reviews: Concert 5” in Array, winter 2006, pp. 10-12.ICMC 2004 Concert Reviews.
“Gestures Glimpsed through holes in the acousmatic screen” [review of Rien à Voir series – December 2001] – MusicWorks 83: 54-55. * See reprint: http://www.rien.qc.ca/serie.f/r10.press.html
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, published as “Marketing strategies for electroacoustics and computer music” in Organised Sound 9/3: 307-314.*
“From Wire to Computer: Francis Dhomont at 80”, in Computer Music Journal 30:3 (fall 2006), 10-21.*
“‘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 econtact 4.2: http://cec.concordia.ca/econtact/Profile/Story.htm
“Creating and Contributing. The Expansive Spirit of Marcelle Deschênes”, Musicworks, No 86. Toronto: Music Gallery: 14-21, 2003.*
“Auditory Illusions: Reflections of an Armchair Researcher” presented at the Workshop on Auditory Illusions hosted by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology, McGill University, March 2011.
“Review of Hearing in Time by Justin London” for Music Perception 24 / 4 (summer 07): 401-403.*
“SuperPulse: Clarifications, Refinements, Implications” presented at the conference of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Kingston, Ontario, August 2001 – see superpulse.pdf
“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.
“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 – at the invitation of Carol Krumhansl.
“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. * Click here for pre-proof: Composers&Imagery.pdf
"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.* Click here for pre-proof: Rome-My laboratory.pdf
"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, 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.* Click here for pre-proof: Caveats.pdf