MORE INFORMATION
Throughout the week at Concordia's EV building
Monday July 30 Satellite workshop on MoCap at McGill
CIRMMT Lab Visit
Palmer Performance Lab Visit
Levitin Lab visit
Opening hours of Registration Desk
Plenary Session Info
Tuesday noontime gu-zheng concert
Tuesday evening BRAMS Open House
Wednesday evening Jam Session
Thursday evening Banquet at Le Nouvel Hotel (reminder only, see Banquet page)
Throughout the week in "EV"
EV houses Engineering and Fine Arts especially Visual, and is 2 min from Hall building
Interactive Multimedia Playroom: Concordia music professor Dr. Rosemary Mountain, and UPEI professor Dr. Annabel Cohen invite you to participate in a live psychology experiment in the Playroom (or you can just have fun).
The Interactive Multimedia Playroom is an ongoing research project designed to deepen our understanding of how we listen to and express our thoughts about sound in artistic contexts. To maximize the project’s potential, we have designed it with multiple options for exploration—hence the concept of Playroom. Visitors to the exhibition are invited to associate diverse sounds and images (accessed through wireless barcode scanning), and to “sort” clips into various categories, thereby contributing to the research. A main feature of the installation is the incorporation of 3-D grids with assorted axis labels, to encourage cross-fertilization with psychology research. EV Room 10.515. Times TBA
Hexagram Sound Studio Visits: Concordia music professors Dr. Mark Corwin and Kevin Austin are opening the doors of the HEX-AUDIO-SURROUND Protools Surround Mixing System space in the Hexagram Research Centre. Lots of cool equipment and computer programs, plus someone to talk with you when you visit. NB: only 6 people at a time. Pre-register with mcorwin[at]alcor[dot]concordia[dot]ca.
EV Room 10.724. 11-3, T-W-Th.
Faculty of Fine Arts (FoFA) Art Gallery: on the ground floor of the EV building: Anne Douglas Savage (1896 - 1971).
In 1960, Savage, Leah Sherman, and Alfred Pinsky founded Fine Arts at Sir George Williams University, later to become the Faculty of Fine Arts of Concordia. The exhibition "...invites the viewer to make links between the artist's education, artistic and teaching practice." Guest Curators: Leah Sherman, Professor Emerita, and Paul Langdon, Associate Professor.
Monday July 30th:
Satellite Workshop at McGill:
MoCap Data Exchange and the Establishment of a Preliminary Database of Music Performance is a separate workshop being offered by Isabelle Cossette and Marcelo Wanderley. Use the links on SMPC 2007 conference homepage to go to their site.
In the meantime, for more info and to register for this workshop, contact:
mocap_workshop@cirmmt.mcgill.ca and/or
isabelle[dot]cossette1[at]mcgill[dot]ca and
marcelo[dot]wanderley[at]mcgill[dot]ca
Maximum 30 participants: first come first registered.
The workshop runs from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in:
McGill Schulich School of Music
555 Sherbrooke Street West
once inside the building make your way to the
New Music Building and go to
ROOM A - 832
4:30 - 7:30 p.m. REGISTRATION DESK OPEN, H 765, HALL Building, on DeMaisonneuve Blvd between Bishop and Mackay.
The Registration Desk will be open Tue July 31 from 8:00 to 8:30 before the Plenary Session. Then from 12:30 p.m. Tue, the Registration Desk will reopen and remain open during conference hours throughout the week (roughly 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., except for Fri Aug 3 when it will close at noon).
4:30 p.m. Visit CIRMMT lab. Open to all, not just workshop participants. Meet Schulich A - 832, inside.
4:30 p.m., ICHIRO FUJINAGA's lab, meet outside A-832 (CIRMMT lobby).
7:30 - 9 p.m. visits to the following:
PALMER PERFORMANCE LAB (Sequence Production Lab) will open for visits: N6/3 in McGill's Stewart Biology/Psychology building, 1205 Dr. Penfield. More details on main page or contact: caroline[dot]palmer[at]mcgill[dot]ca
LEVITIN LAB for MUSIC COGNITION, PERCEPTION & EXPERTISE N6/8.
Stewart Biology, a 12 - 15 minute walk away from Concordia's Hall building, is at Drummond and Dr. Penfield: enter courtyard on NE corner of Drummond and Penfield, walk toward the double doors; someone will be there to greet you. In case of problems, Palmer Lab phone number is (514) 398-5270.
Tuesday July 31:
8:45 - 10:45 a.m.: PLENARY SESSION in D. B. CLARKE THEATRE, HALL, Ground floor lobby, then take stairs down to theatre lobby (in NE corner of building).
Current SMPC President Dr. William F. (Bill) Thompson will give us his Presidential Address:
Perceptual & Affective Goals of Performer-Audience Interaction.
Immediate Past President Dr. Mari Riess Jones will introduce Keynote Speaker Dr. Al Bregman, who will speak on:
Contemporary Issues in Auditory Scene Analysis
Plenary session will be followed by SMPC Annual General Meeting, D. B. Clarke Theatre, 11 - 12.
NOON TIME CONCERT: 12 - 12:30 p.m. in H 415, a performance of GU-ZHENG music by soloist CHIH-LIN.
7:30 - 9:00 p.m., BRAMS OPEN HOUSE (welcoming reception)
To get to BRAMS: By car:
Via northbound Park Ave: when approaching Mt-Royal Ave stay in left lanes and veer left on the Cote Ste-Catherine cutoff; stay left and turn left onto Mt-Royal Ave then switch to right lane. Continue uphill always on Mt-Royal until Springgrove (ahead of you is the Chemin de la Foret); right on Springgrove for one block, then left again (you will again be on Mt-Royal); continue to a big right-hand turn that goes downhill; you will see a large, medium-brown brick building (with the ground floor level clad in pale stone) on the left--this is the U of Montreal's Pavillon 1420 where BRAMS is housed. Park anywhere convenient, walk up across the parking lot to the entrance marked 1430, go upstairs one floor and enter BRAMS door on the right.
Via northbound Cote des Neiges: after Ridgewood stay right and veer off onto Decelles; continue straight to Eduoard-Montpetit, turn right; continue straight all the way to the end at Vincent d'Indy, staying in the right hand lane; turn right uphill onto Vincent d'Indy then make an immediate left onto Mt-Royal. (Do not go straight uphill to the pale yellow round building!) Two blocks along Mt-Royal you will see the large brick building that houses BRAMS. Park anywhere convenient and walk up to the 1430 entrance, up one floor, and enter BRAMS door on the right.
By public transit: easiest by metro: take metro to station Eduoard-Montpetit; upon exiting, orient yourself to go uphill on Vincent d'Indy (towards the pale yellow brick round building up top); turn left onto Mt-Royal and walk along beside the reservoir wall until it ends. You will see a driveway heading up towards the large brick building that houses BRAMS. Follow the rest of the direction as above.
Buses that come close to metro Eduoard-Montpetit are the 51 route along Ed-Montpetit itself (can be boarded at Park Ave corner of Laurier), the 129 route along the Cote Ste-Catherine (get off at Vincent d'Indy and walk uphill to Mt-Royal, etc); and that's about it.
On foot: Though it's a bit of a hike, you can walk to BRAMS from the Park Ave 80/129 bus routes; get off at Mt-Royal, head uphill along Mt-Royal, and follow the first set of directions for car travel, above. You can probably walk in from the western approach as well, from the Cote des Neiges (having taken a bus up from downtown) but it is a slightly longer walk.
These directions to get to the BRAMS laboratory will also be in registration packages, with a map.
Wednesday August 1:
JAM SESSION: All conference participants are invited to come out and jam on Wednesday night. All musical styles are welcome, from Jazz to blues to classical. Thompson House, McTavish Street above Penfield. For more information contact Dan Levitin: daniel[dot]Levitin[at]mcgill[dot]ca.
Thursday August 2:
BANQUET ! ! Don't forget the Banquet!! 6:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Le Nouvel Hotel, 1740 Rene-Levesque W.
You must register for this in advance and send menu choices to the local organizers by JULY 15. Veal, chicken or veggie lasagna. Cocktails, music and dancing--don't miss out!
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