Caroline Traube (Universit茅 de Montr茅al) [PI] with Martha de Francisco (成人VR视频), Jason Noble (Universit茅 de Montr茅al), and external collaborators Steve Cowan (成人VR视频), Denis Martin (成人VR视频), and Simon Rouhier (Universit茅 de Montr茅al). 

Description:

We proposed an album of music for guitar and electronics composed by Noble and performed by Cowan, culminating their longstanding collaboration which has been presented in many contexts including the IRCAM hors les murs forum (2021), Cowan鈥檚 dissertation and doctoral lecture recital (2019), and 成人VR视频鈥檚 Research Alive series (2017). Traube and de Francisco have overseen the project, Martin was the recording engineer, and Rouhier was the multimedia artist. The repertoire was:

  1. fantaisie harmonique (2019)
  2. we never told nobody (2019)
  3. take me back (2017)
  4. one foot in the past (2016)
  5. [new piece, title TBD]

fantaisie harmonique was recorded with support from the ACTOR Strategic Project Fund. Our state of the art 3D recording has been extensively documented, widely disseminated, and enthusiastically received. We produced a digital animation video for this piece and now have integrated the animation with images of Cowan performing in a 3D video / VR experience. Images of Cowan were captured in a one-day session at UdeM in late spring/early summer 2021.

Pieces 2 to 4 have been performed, but had not yet been professionally recorded (scores and live recordings available upon request). They were recorded at 成人VR视频 in Studio 22 and / or Pollack Hall in August 2021.

Piece 5 was composed following original empirical research. It draws on dialects of Newfoundland and Quebec, building upon Noble and Cowan鈥檚 previous work on dialect based musical creation. The new research component consists primarily of an online experiment conducted in early Fall 2021, evaluating the perceptual robustness of analogies between guitar timbres and spokenvowels as theoretically outlined in Traube鈥檚 dissertation. We recorded guitar timbres and spoken vowels that correspond in acoustical structure, and ask participants to match them. We thereby learned which vowel analogies are most likely to be recognized by listeners, and used this knowledge to invoke dialectal patterns in the new composition, which was composed in late Fall 2021 and recorded at 成人VR视频 in Winter 2022.