Student Grant Updates: Masque de Fer
Gabriel Couturier and Martin Daigle have been hard at work on the project for which they were awarded the Collaborative Student Project Grant! "Masque de fer" (Iron Mask) is in the final stages of composition. The research phase was fully recorded, generating an open-access extended technique resource that includes a stereo mix, the entire recording session, and the stems in 96 kHz or in 48 kHz. This recording session was filmed from the first-person point of view to allow researchers and composers to step into the world of the drum kit performer. This tool will allow composers to familiarize themselves with the sound possibilities which are presented in the research.
The piece was premiered on March 17th in Örebro, Sweden; Couturier and Daigle also presented virtually on the project on March 30 during the ACTOR-CIRMMT Symposium on Orchestration Research.