Past Online Conference Award Recipients

2024-2025

• Negar Imani (CIRMMT sponsor: Catherine Guastavino)
  • Conference/workshop: 187th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (virtual meeting)
  • Title of paper/work presented: A review of port noise management strategies to improve sonic cohabitation

• Miranda Jackson (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)
  • Conference/workshop: 187th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (virtual meeting)
  • Title of paper/work presented: A detailed study of the impedances of mouthpieces, flared bells, and curved pipes in brass instruments

• Jonathan Lindhorst (CIRMMT sponsor: John Hollenbeck)
  • Conference/workshop: 213th Biennial International Conference on Music Since 1900
  • Title of paper/work presented: Tone-Clock Theory and Jazz: Applying Chromatic Tonalities to Improvisation

• Ziyue Piao (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)
  • Conference/workshop: 2024 Pan American Vocology Association (PAVA) Hybrid Symposium – Exploration, Collaboration, and Creative Ideation
  • Title of paper/work presented: SenSing: Transmitting Kinesthetic Breathing Experiences for Voice Pedagogy & Performance

2023-2024

• Takuto Fukuda (CIRMMT sponsor: Sean Ferguson)
  • Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2023) 
  • Title of paper/work presented: T-Patch: a software application for T-Stick Digital Musical Instruments

• Thomas Davis (CIRMMT sponsor: Robert Hasegawa)
  • Conference/workshop: 10th International Conference on Arts and Humanities 2023
  • Title of paper/work presented: eTu{d,b}e: Further Case Studies into Instrument Design and Playing with Spatialized Musical Agents

• Ziyue Piao (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)
  • Conference/workshop: EAI International Conference on ArtsIT, Interactivity & Game Creation
  • Title of paper/work presented: MappEMG: Enhancing Music Pedagogy by Mapping Electromyography to Multimodal Feedback

2022-2023

• Yuval Adler (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)
  • Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2021) 
  • Title of paper/work presented: ScoreCraft @ NIME 2022 (workshop and performance)

• Thomas Davis (CIRMMT sponsor: Guillaume Bourgogne)
  • Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2021) 
  • Title of paper/work presented: Etu{d,be}e (pre-recorded online video)

• Ezra Teboul (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe-Aubert Gauthier)
  • Conference/workshop: The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
  • Title of paper/work presented 1: The noise/music at the edge of western extractivism
  • Title of paper/work presented 2: Reverse engineering reverse engineering: an ethics of media arts maintenance and conservation

2021-2022

• Matthew Skarha (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)
  • Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2021) 
  • Title of paper/work presented: Le Bâton: A Digital Musical Instrument Based on the Chaotic Triple Pendulum
    
    
• Takuto Fukuda (CIRMMT sponsor: Sean Ferguson)
  
  • Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2021) 
  • Title of paper/work presented: The T-Stick Music Creation Project: An approach to building a creative community around a DMI
  • Conference/workshop: Tenor 2021
  • Title of paper/work presented: Super Colliders: A gasified screen-score (paper), Super Colliders (music)

• Danielle Benesch (CIRMMT sponsor: Jérémie Voix)
  
  • Conference/workshop: Acoustice in Focus (180th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America)
  • Title of paper/work presented: Hearables for managing auditory sensitivities using heart rate variability
    
    
• Charlie Reimer (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)
  
  • Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2021) 
  • Title of paper/work presented: Embracing Less Common Evaluation Strategies for Studying User Experience in NIME
    
    
• Juliette Regimbal (CIRMMT sponsor: Jeremy Cooperstock)
  
  • Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2021)
  • Title of paper/work presented: Interpolating Audio and Haptic Control Spaces
    
    
• Hubert Gendron-Blais (CIRMMT sponsor: Eric Lewis)
  • Conference/workshop: Music & ... Nationalism: 3rd Global Interdisciplinary Online Conference (Progressive Connexions)
  • Title of paper/work presented: Experimental Music Performances for a People to Come: A Transversal Analysis of the Free Jazz-Black Power and the Jazz Libre-Quebec Liberation Movement Assemblages
    
    
• Yuval Adler (CIRMMT sponsor: Stephen McAdams)
  • Conference/workshop: NOVA Contemporary Music Meeting
  • Title of paper/work presented: Documenting Composer-Performer Collaborations on Orchestrational Problem Solving

• Eduardo Meneses (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)
  • Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2021)
  • Title of paper/work presented: The T-Stick Music Creation Project: An approach to building a creative community around a DMI
    
    
• Douglas Beaton (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)
  
  • Conference/workshop: Acoustics in Focus - 180th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Title of paper/work presented: Tuning idiophone bar torsional modes with three-dimensional cutaway geometries
    
    
• Jason Noble (CIRMMT sponsor: Caroline Traube)
  
  • Conference/workshop: International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition 16
  • Title of paper/work presented: Comparing Semantics of Individual and Combined Instrument Timbres
    
    
• Sareh Taheri (CIRMMT sponsor: Luc Mongeau)
  • Conference/workshop: 6th World Congress of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society
  • Title of paper/work presented: Injectable porous double-network hydrogels with vocal fold-mimetic viscoelasticity
    
    
• Julian Neri (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe Depalle) 
  • Conference/workshop: 29th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2021)
  • Title of paper/work presented: Unsupervised Blind Source Separation with Variational Auto-Encoders
    
    
• Theodora Nestorova (CIRMMT sponsor: Gary Scavone)
  • Conference/workshop: 7th International Physiology & Acoustics of Singing Conference
  • Title of paper/work presented: Analysis & Interpretation of Complex Vibrato Patterns: A Novel Parametric Approach to Genre-Specific Performance
    
    
• Yongjae Yoo (CIRMMT sponsor: Jeremy Cooperstock)
  • Conference/workshop: The 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2021)
  • Title of paper/work presented: Towards Context-Aware Automatic Haptic Effect Generation for Home Theatre Environments

2020-2021

• Eduardo Meneses (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)
• Conference/workshop 1: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2020) [online]
• Conference/workshop 2: HCI International 2020 [online]
• Title of paper/work presented: Expanding and embedding a high-level gesture vocabulary for the digital and augmented musical instruments

• Julian Neri (CIRMMT sponsor: Philippe Depalle)
• Conference/workshop: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2020) [online]
• Title of paper/work presented 1: Probabilistic Filter and Smoother for Variational Inference of Bayesian Linear Dynamical Systems 
• Title of paper/work presented 2: Laplace State Space Filter with Exact Inference and Moment Matching

• John Sullivan (CIRMMT sponsor: Marcelo Wanderley)
• Conference/workshop: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2020) [online]
• Title of paper/work presented: Co-Designing Embedded Acoustic Instruments with Active Musicians