Schedule and Program

8:30–9:30 Breakfast [Wirth Building lobby]

9:30–11:00 Workshop Presentation 1 [A-832/833]

• Instrumental Timbre and Texture in Popular Song, Megan Lavengood (George Mason University)

11:00–11:30 Coffee and light snacks [Wirth Building lobby]

11:30–13:00 Workshop Presentation 2 [A-832/833]

• Music Industry Applications of Timbral Analysis, Claire McLeish (Third Side Music)

13:00–14:00 Lunch provided [Wirth Building lobby]

14:00–15:30 Workshop Presentation 3 [A-832/833]

• Encoding and Analyzing the Timbre in Popular Song (TiPS) Corpus), Nicole Biamonte (McGill University) and Lindsey Reymore (Arizona State University)

15:30–16:00 Coffee and light snacks [Wirth Building lobby]

16:00–17:30 Paper Session 1: Narrative Strategies [Tanna Schulich Hall]

• Location as a Primary Parameter: Narrative Immersion through Spatialization, Trinity Vélez-Justo (The Ohio State University)

• Timbre as a Nuancing (Queering) Narrative Device in Songs by Reneé Rapp, Claire Terrell (Florida State University)

• Textural Evocations of Genre as Narrative in Yoasobi’s “Aidoru” (2023), Noriko Manabe (Indiana University)

8:30–15:00 Registration [Wirth Building lobby]

8:30–9:30 Breakfast [Wirth Building lobby]

9:30–11:00 Paper Session 2: Vocal Evolution and Branding [Tanna Schulich Hall]

• An Analysis of Joni Mitchell’s Vocal Evolution, Rebecca Moranis (CUNY Graduate Center)

• Evolving Masculinities in the Vocal Timbres of Lucas Silveira, Jay Marchand Knight (Concordia University)

• Voice, Brand Persona, and Virality in Doja Cat’s Planet Her (2021), Annie Liu (Princeton University)

11:00–11:30 Coffee and light snacks [Wirth Building lobby]

11:30–12:30 Paper Session 3: Chimericity, Expectation, and Hip-hop music [Tanna Schulich Hall]

• Chimericity in the Orchestration of Rap Vocals, Kjell Andreas Oddekalv (University of Oslo, RITMO/Department of Musicology)

• Listener Expectations of Recurring Timbres in Rap Lyrics and Drum Patterns in Ta Dhom Project’s “Disha”, Eshantha Peiris (University of British Columbia)

12:30–13:30 Lunch provided [Wirth Building lobby]

13:30–15:00 Paper Session 4: Timbre, Form, and Energy [Tanna Schulich Hall]

• Bridge Function in Recent Popular Music, Wes Khurana (University of Toronto)

• Distortion/Energy Relationships within Extreme Metal Subgenres, Zachary Simonds (Florida State University)

• Relative Contributions of Timbre and Harmony to Genrer and Emotion Perception, Mauro Orsini Windholz (Princeton University)

15:00–15:30 Coffee and light snacks [Wirth Building lobby]

15:30–17:00 Keynote Presentation 1 [Tanna Schulich Hall]

• Metaphor: The Means of Production of Musical Meaning Derived from Timbre, Nina Sun Eidsheim (University of California Los Angeles)

17:00–18:00 Unscheduled

18:00–20:00; 20:00–22:00 Dinner in two seatings at Lola Rosa [545 Milton Street]

8:30–15:00 Registration [Wirth Building lobby]

8:30–9:30 Breakfast [Wirth Building lobby]

9:30–11:00 Paper Session 5: Vocal Expression and Identity [Tanna Schulich Hall]

• Intertextuality, Interpretation, and Emphasized Sibilance in the Music of Taylor Swift, Chelsey Hamm (Christopher Newport University)

• The Jazz Solo as an Expression of Timbre, Stephanie Doktor (Temple University)

• Reconsidering the Yodel in Popular Music, Alyssa Barna (University of Minnesota)

11:00–12:00 Poster Session - [Wirth Building lobby]

• Concrète Soundscapes as Orchestration, Orchestration as Pseudo-Context in Roger Waters’s Amused to Death, Navid Bargrizan (East Carolina University)

• How much does it “Hurt”? Assessing Listener Perception of Similarity Across Musical Covers, Richard Drehoff (Peabody Institute / Johns Hopkins University)

• The “Turning Point” Clarinet Solo, Timothy Fitzgerald Boyd (University of Georgia)

• "I Came From Nothing": Observing the Role of Auto-Tune through the Evolution of Young Thug's Vocal Timbre, Devin Guerrero (Texas Tech University)

• Broadening Music Discovery: Integrating Timbre and Cultural Context in Music Recommendations, Ashley Hackworth (Independent)

• A Case Study on Timbre, Orchestration, and Perceptual Attention: Doc Kupka and Tower of Power, David Heise (Lincoln University)

• 1914 – 1968 – 1976: On the Variety of Teaching Orchestration at the Conservatoire de Paris, Sebastian Hensel (Hochschüle für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig)

• Everyday Sounds as Emotional Catalysts: A Research-Creation Study in Contemporary Music (Research Part), Yifan Huang (McGill University)

• A Contextual Queering of Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club”, Ash Mach (Eastman School of Music)

• Descriptive Timbre in Four Early Songs by The Cure, Jay Marchand Knight (Concordia University)

• Adaptive Timbre Mappings in Ableton Live, David Piazza (Université de Montréal)

• Shift from Late French Romanticism to Contemporary Avant-Garde Music, Thomas Quirion (École de technologie supérieure)

• Everyday Sounds as Emotional Catalysts: A Research-Creation Study in Contemporary Music (Creation Part), Jonas Regnier (McGill University)

• Distant Paths: An Exploration of Linear and Nonlinear Musical Structures, Kalen Smith (McGill University)

• Falsetto in the 90s: Form and Meaning, Mikayla Spanovich (University of Minnesota)

• Blend-It: An AI Project to Promote Blend in Mixed Music Composition with Synthetic Mediator Sounds, Eto Sun (McGill University)

• Our Delusion in the Face of Institutional Racism: How Timbre and Texture Create Narrative in Coldplay’s ‘Trouble in Town, Kellin Tasber (Michigan State University)

• A Reconstruction of the Chronology of Ondes Martenot Loudspeakers : Historical Evidence for the Combination of Dry and Reverberant Diffuseurs, Marc Wijnand (CNRS / Laboratoire d'Acoustique de l'Université du Mans)

• SonoChrom: Exploring Timbre-Emotion Relationships within Chinese Cultural Context through Digital Technology, Yong Zhao (School of Design, Southern University of Science and Technology)

12:00–13:00 Paper Session 6: Layers [Tanna Schulich Hall]

• Investigating Trends in Funk-Groove Orchestration, Kelsey Lussier (McGill University)

• Space Forms and Listening Strategies in Björk’s Sonic Utopia, John Warren (Rutgers University)

13:00–14:00 Lunch provided [Wirth Building lobby]

14:00–15:30 Paper Session 7: Timbre and Texture in Afrodiasporic Music [Tanna Schulich Hall]

• The Drum Kit as Unblended Whole: The Heterogeneous Sound Ideal Exemplified, Joshua Rosner (McGill University)

• Crossover Designs in the Music of the 5th Dimension, Aaron Johnson (University of Pittsburgh)

• That’s the Sound of the World: Timbre, Genre, and the Global Ascent of Earth, Wind & Fire, Luke Riedlinger (McGill University)

15:30–16:00 Coffee and light snacks [Wirth Building lobby]

16:00–17:30 Keynote Presentation 2 [Tanna Schulich Hall]

• Listening for Subversive Sounds from the Hip-Hop South, Kevin Holt (Stony Brook University)