Current International Projects

The IDMIL (and/or its associated laboratory SPCL) are partners in the following European and Australian projects:

  • Créativité Instrumentale - Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France).

Other International Collaborations

  • Collaboration with Prof. Sylvie Gibet (Université de Bretagne Sud, Vannes, France) on the analysis and synthesis of percussion movements using inverse dynamics.

National and Local Projects

  • SENSE/STAGE Project with Profs. Christopher Salter (PI) and Ana Cappelluto (Concordia Unviersity), Prof. Yin Mei (Queen's College, NY), and coreographer Jayachandran Palazhy (Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts, Bangalore, India).
  • Papyrus Project, with Prof. Christopher Salter (Concordia University).

Previous Projects and Collaborations

  • CONSONNES - Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France).
  • Integra - Project supported by the Culture 2000 programme of the European Commission.
  • Bilateral collaboration between the IDMIL and the Musical Gestures Group at the University of Oslo, Norway (Prof. Rolf Inge Godoy and Alexander Refsum Jensenius).
  • WYSIWYG Project, with Prof. Sha Xin Wei (PI) (Concordia University).
  • Collaboration with Prof. Benoît Bardy (Université de Montpellier I) and Prof. Thomas Stoffregen (UNiversity of Minnesota) on The MUSIC & POSTURE project. This collaboration is part of the ENACTIVE Network.
  • Collaboration with Drs. Barbara Mazzarino, Gualtiero Volpe and Prof. Antonio Camurri, at DIST - University of Genova, Italy, on the implementation of finger tracking algorithms in Eyesweb (Anne-Marie Burns) and on the evaluation of movement reconstruction (EPFL). This collaboration is part of the ENACTIVE Network.
  • Collaboration with Prof. Charlene Ryan (Music Education, McGill) and Prof. Eugenia Costa-Giomi (University of Texas) on expressive movements of clarinetists.
  • Collaboration with Prof. Daniel Levitin, Department of Pyschology, McGill and Dr. Bradley Vines, Harvard University on the analysis and perception of expressive movements of clarinetists.
  • Collaboration with clarinetist Jean-Guy Boisvert (University of Moncton, NB) on musical implications of expressive performer movements.
  • Collaboration with Professors Denys Bouliane (composition), Philippe Depalle (music technology), Sean Ferguson (composition), André Roy (performance), and Gary Scavone (music technology) on the McGill Digital Orchestra.
  • Collaboration with Prof. Sean Ferguson, Composition, McGill University, and percussionist D'Arcy Philip Gray on the graduate seminar: ”Digital Musical Instruments: Technology, Composition and Performance”.