Numerous federal and provincial grants currently support the work of our Schulich School of Music professors. Below are some examples of recent projects that have received funding from federal and provincial agencies.
While only the Principal Investigator is listed in each case, many of these grants involve collaborations amongst our professors, with other faculties at McGill University and with Quebec, Canadian and international institutions.
Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQ-NT)
Prof. Marcelo Wanderley (P.I.), Department of Music Research, Music Technology Area: Metamorphosis: Nouveaux modes d'interaction expressifs en theatre bases sur la realite augmentee. Sponsor Program: Prisme
Fabrice Marandola (P.I.), Department of Music Performance, Percussion Area: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media and Technology. Sponsor Program: FRQ-NT, FRQ-SC (Regroupements stratégiques)
Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FRQ-SC)
Prof. Fabrice Marandola (P.I.), Department of Performance, Percussion Area: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media and Technology. Sponsor Program: FRQ-NT, FRQ-SC (Regroupements stratégiques)
Prof. Ichiro Fujinaga (P.I.), Department of Music Research, Music Technology Area: D'information musicale, de la recherche, et de l'infrastructure: Construction de la bibliothèque musicale mondiale du 21e siècle.  Sponsor Program: FRQ-SC (Soutien aux équipes de recherche)
Prof. Edward Klorman (P.I.), Department of Music Research, Music Theory Area: Les six suites pour violoncelle seul de J. S. Bach: analyse, interprétation et contexte. Sponsor Program: FRQ-SC (Soutien à la recherche pour la relève professorale)
Prof. Stephen McAdams (P.I.), Department of Music Research, Music Technology Area: Approches analytiques, perceptives et technologiques de l'orchestration musicale et sa pédagogie. Sponsor Program: FRQ-SC (Soutien aux équipes de recherche)
McGill Office of Innovation and Partnerships
Prof. Wieslaw Woszczyk (P.I.), Department of Music Research, Sound Recording Area: Implementation of multiple synchronous Ambisonic recordings of music into a game engine (Partner: Eidos Interactive Corp.). Sponsor Program: I+P Partnership Program
National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Prof. Philippe Depalle (P.I.), Department of Music Research, Music Technology Area: Sound analysis, sound synthesis, and sound processing for audio and musical applications. Sponsor Program: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
Prof. Stephen McAdams (P.I.), Department of Music Research, Music Technology Area: Acoustics, perception and modelling of musical timbre. Sponsor Program: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
Prof. Stephen McAdams (P.I.), Department of Music Research, Music Technology Area: ANR Multimodal analysis and knowledge inference for musical orchestration (MAKIMOno). Sponsor Program: Strategic Projects
Prof. Stephen McAdams (P.I.), Department of Music Research, Music Technology Area: Perception and cognition of musical timbre. Sponsor Program: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
Prof. Gary Scavone (P.I.), Department of Music Research, Music Technology Area: Model-Based Analysis and Design Optimization of Music Instruments. Sponsor Program: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
Prof. Gary Scavone (P.I.), Department of Music Research, Music Technology Area: Vibrational and Perceptual Analyses of Musical Instruments. Sponsor Program: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
Prof. Marcelo Wanderley (P.I.), Department of Music Research, Music Technology Area:Â Responsive Devices and Systems for Expert Music Interaction. Sponsor Program: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
Prof. Wieslaw Woszczyk (P.I.), Department of Music Research, Sound Recording Area: Improving the Perceived Sound Field Continuity Using Convolution of Impulse Sequences for Virtual Acoustics. Sponsor Program: Discovery Grants Program – Individual
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
Prof. Dorian Bandy (P.I.), Department of Music Research, Musicology Area; Department of Performance, Early Music Area: Mozart's Melodic Embellishments: Recovering the Unwritten Notes. Sponsor Program: Insight Development Grants
Prof. Lisa Barg (P.I.),Department of Music Research, Musicology Area: Collaborative Creativity: Sound Recording and Music Making. Sponsor Program: Insight Grants
Prof. Andrea Creech (P.I.), Department of Music Research, Music Education Area: Creative later-life in a digital age: Mobilizing Music and Creative Technologies for inclusive later-life musical learning and participation, creative expression, digital literacy, and quality of life. Sponsor Program: Partnership Development Grants
Prof. Julie Emelyn Cumming (P.I.),Department of Music Research, Musicology Area: Mapping the Musical Landscape of the Sixteenth Century. Sponsor Program: Insight Grants
Prof. Ichiro Fujinaga (P.I.), Department of Music Research, Music Technology Area: Single interface for music score searching and analysis (SIMSSA). Sponsor Program: Partnership Grants
Prof. Robert Hasegawa (P.I.), Department of Music Research, Music Theory Area: Composing timbre in contemporary music. Sponsor Program: Insight Grants
Prof. Steven Huebner (P.I.), Department of Music Research, Musicology Area: Uncovering classical currents in French music, 1830-1918. Sponsor Program: Insight Grants
Prof. Richard King (P.I.), Music Research, Sound Recording :Â Towards an immersive interactive music listening experience: auditory design, techniques and methods for recreating the three-dimensional immersive presence of recorded musical performances. Sponsor Program: Insight Grants
Prof. Roe-Min Kok (P.I.), Department of Music Research, Musicology Area: Interpreting Children's Music by Robert Schumann. Sponsor Program: Insight Grants
Prof. Stephen McAdams (P.I.),Department of Music Research, Music Technology Area: Analyzing orchestration practice in ensemble music. Sponsor Program: Insight Grants
Prof. Stephen McAdams (P.I.),Department of Music Research, Music Technology Area: Analysis, Creation and Teaching of Orchestration (ACTOR). Sponsor Program: Partnership Grants
Prof. Christoph Neidhofer (P.I.), Department of Music Research, Music Theory Area: Developing a Theory of Form for Post-1945 Serial Music. Sponsor Program: Insight Grants
Prof. Gary Scavone (P.I.), Department of Music Research, Music Technology Area: Resurrecting the Messiah: Development, evaluation, and performance of a virtual acoustic replica of Stradivari's Messiah violin. Sponsor Program: Insight Grants