The OrchPlayMusic Team

Félix Frédéric Baril
Director of Research OrchPlayMusic
Composer, Designer and Developer, Musical Interpretation and Audio Rendering
Denys Bouliane
General Director OrchPlayMusic
Composer, Conductor, Designer and Developer, Musical Interpretation
Composition Professor and Composition Chair (McGill University, Schulich School of Music)
Henry Lai
Director of Information Technologies OrchPlayMusic
Senior Analyst and Programmer
Baptiste Bohelay
Programmer for OrchPlay software
Visual and Audio Artist, Designer
Dominique Lafortune
Composer, Music Entry and Interpretation
PhD Student in Composition (McGill University, Schulich School of Music)
Philippe Macnab-Séguin
Composer, Music Entry and Interpretation
Masters Student in Composition (McGill University, Schulich School of Music)
Ingrid Schmithüsen
Soprano, Music Entry and Interpretation
Gabriel Dufour-Laperrière
Composer, Music Entry and Interpretation
PhD Student in composition (McGill University, Schulich School of Music)

Contact

info@orchplaymusic.com

support@orchplaymusic.com

4125, Chemin Ste-Thérèse Carignan, Québec J3L 4A7 Canada

Consultants

Dr. Stephen McAdams
Canada Chair for Music Perception and Cognition
Director of the 'Music Perception and Cognition Lab' (McGill University, Schulich School of Music)
Director of the 'Orchestration and Perception Project' (McGill University, Schulich School of Music)
Dr. Meghan Goodchild
Researcher, Manager of the 'Orchestration and Perception Project' (McGill University, Schulich School of Music)
Kit Soden
PhD Student in Composition, Researcher, Member of the 'Orchestration and Perception Project' (McGill University, Schulich School of Music)
Moe Touizrar
PhD Student in Composition, Researcher, Member of the 'Orchestration and Perception Project' (McGill University, Schulich School of Music)
Dr. Martha de Francisco
Tonmeister, Professor for Sound Recording, Area Chair (McGill University, Schulich School of Music)
Dr. William Caplin
James McGill Chair
Researcher and Professor for Music Theory (McGill University, Schulich School of Music)
Dr. Philippe Esling
Researcher (IRCAM) and Professor (Université Paris 6, Pierre et Marie Curie)
Dr. Carlos Agon
Researcher (IRCAM) and Professor (Université Paris 6, Pierre et Marie Curie)
Dr. Marc-Pierre Verge
Researcher (IRCAM, CNRS, Paris 6)
President and Chief Executive Officer, Applied Acoustics Systems
Jean-Michaël Lavoie
Conductor
Nicolas Ellis
Conductor

Partners and collaborators

OrchPlayMusic Objectives

The OrchPlay software provides access to all individual instrumental tracks of the full orchestra and enable subsets of instruments involved in a particular orchestral effect to be heard in isolation or within the full musical context. This tool provides unprecedented opportunities for scientific research on orchestration perception, for computational modeling of orchestration techniques, and for orchestration pedagogy and performance practice. With this system, orchestral players can rehearse their parts at home with a full orchestra in a "Music Minus One" fashion. Any user's instrumental setting related to any section of the score (with measure nr. and time-based units) can be saved as a bookmark with individual name, description and relevant score pages for use in the classroom or public presentations. Bookmarks and Bookmarks Lists (referring to any compilation of pieces) can also be exported and shared with all other users. Standard stereo files can be imported as OPL files as well as any other related document and linked to them. The OrchPlay Music Library currently offers a selection of 100 musical pieces (from short excerpts to full movements) from the symphonic repertoire from late 18th Century to Contemporary. The selection is planned to feature a growing number of complete movement and expand to ca 400 significant orchestral masterworks within a few years. The goal is to provide an international reference database of multichannel orchestral recordings accessible to the widest public possible at a modest cost.

OrchPlayMusic is developing new technologies for music education and appreciation related to orchestration practice through the online multi-track OrchPlay Music Library of significant orchestral excerpts. These excerpts are created with a high-quality orchestral rendering environment (OrchSim) that produces recordings that compare favorably to professional orchestral recordings, complete with spatialization of the instruments, concert hall room acoustics, and ambient noise context. The engaging and highly realistic musical interpretations taking advantage of the deep knowledge of orchestral music and orchestration practice combined with a high degree of skill with digital audio workstations are the trademark of the highly qualified OrchPlayMusic staff. The web user interface allows for the selection of excerpts on the basis of composer, historical period, type of instrumentation (classical, romantic, modern, etc.), musical form and - soon to come- the type of orchestration effect or technique being sought. The complete OrchPlay Music Library of orchestral renderings in proprietary multi-track OPL format is available on a yearly subscription basis.