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|name=Catherine Massie-Laberge|
|image=catherine_massie-laberge.jpg|
|program=Ph.D. Music Technology|
|supervisor=Prof. [[people:Marcelo M. Wanderley]], Prof. [[people:Isabelle Cossette]]|
|website=|
|email=catherine [dot] massie-laberge [at] mail [dot] mcgill [dot] ca|
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===== Affiliations =====
  * [[http://www.cirmmt.org|CIRMMT]]
  * [[http://oicrm.org|OICRM]]

===== Research Interests =====

  * Musical gestures
  * Piano performance and effective teaching strategies
  * Acquisition, tracking, recognition, and synthesis of gestures 
  * Real-time visual feedback
  * Perception and embodied music theory

===== Educational Background =====

  * Ph.D. (currently) Music Technology, McGill University, Montreal
  * MA Music Education, McGill University, Montreal, 2013
  * BMus Piano Performance, Université de Montréal, Montreal, 2011

===== Projects =====

  * From the Musical Notation to its Performance: Mental Representations of Sound and Gesture in Solo Percussion
  * Building a Database of North Indian Kathak Dance Movements with Tabla Accompaniment, and their Associated Vocalizations
  * LRGM (OICRM), research group on piano performance and musical gestures

===== Publications =====

  * Massie-Laberge, C., Cossette, I. and Wanderley, M. M. “Hearing the Gesture: Perception of Body Actions in Romantic Piano Performances.” In proceedings of ICMPC 2016 //Int. Conf. for Music Perception and Cognition, San Francisco//, USA, 2016.
  * Massie-Laberge, C., Cossette, I. and Wanderley, M. M. “Motion Kinematics and Auditors’ Perception of Expressive Gesture in Romantic Piano Performances”. In proceedings of ICMPC 2016 //Int. Conf. for Music Perception and Cognition//, San Francisco, USA, 2016.
  * Massie-Laberge, C., Cossette, I. and Wanderley, M. M. “Motion Analysis of Romantic Piano Performances: Incidence of the Musical Structure on Expressive Gestures.” //Porto Int. Conf. on Musical Gesture as Creative Interface//, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto, Portugal, 2016.
  * Marandola, F., Marin, F., Mansour, K. B., Massie-Laberge, C. and Wanderley, M. M. “Xylophone Performing Techniques: A Cross Comparison of Stroke and Gaze Patterns of Performers from Cameroon, Canada and France.” //Porto Int. Conf. on Musical Gesture as Creative Interface//, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto, Portugal, 2016.
  * Massie-Laberge, C., Cossette, I. and Wanderley, M. M. “Hearing the Gesture: The Significance of Body Actions in Romantic Piano Performances.” //Int. Symposium international LTM21 / AEM21//, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 2015.
  * Massie-Laberge, C. [[http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/R/-?func=dbin-jump-full&current_base=GEN01&object_id=121391|“Toward a systematized pedagogy of musical expression: an observational study of instrumental teaching.”]] McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 2014. 
  * Massie-Laberge, C. and Cossette, I. “Between traditional teaching strategies and modernity: Is it time to use technology in the teaching of expressivity?” //Midwestern Music Cognition Symposium//, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 2013.
  * Massie-Laberge, C. and Cossette, I. “Teaching Expressivity: Current Practices in the Instrumental Studio.” Workshop, CIRMMT, Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 2013. 
    
===== Personal Interests =====

  * Pedagogical software   
  * 3D Motion capture techniques 
  * Kick boxing