Catherine Massie-Laberge

CIRMMT

OICRM

Musical gestures

Piano performance and effective teaching strategies

Acquisition, tracking, recognition, and synthesis of gestures

Real-time visual feedback

Perception and embodied music theory

Ph.D. (currently) Music Technology, McGill University, Montreal

MA Music Education, McGill University, Montreal, 2013

BMus Piano Performance, Université de Montréal, Montreal, 2011

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

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. “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.

Pedagogical software

3D Motion capture techniques

Kick boxing