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77-454: Concordia Laptop Orchestra ( CLOrk ) is an ensemble of laptop performers, consisting of up to 25 members, based at Concordia University 's Music Department in Montreal , Quebec , Canada. Founded and directed by professor Eldad Tsabary, CLOrk specializes in networked and multidisciplinary performances and collaborations, such as with dance and video. CLOrk's first performance (January 2011)

154-760: A career in performance, during 1965–66 he played the French horn with the Dorian Wind Quintet . He left the group to attend graduate school. From 1969 until his retirement in 2014 he was on the faculty at Princeton University where he retired as the William Shubael Conant Professor of Music. He chaired the Department from 1991–2000. In 2000 he received a lifetime achievement award from the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in

231-730: A documentary film made for the European Arte network by Uli Aumüller , My Cinema for the Ears that deals with the use of natural sounds. A four-chord sequence from Lansky's first large computer piece Mild und leise (1972) was sampled by the English rock band Radiohead for the track " Idioteque " on their 2000 Kid A album. Lansky used any available computing hardware: IBM mainframes at first (1966–84), then mini and micro computers by DEC , (1984–89), and finally personal computers by NeXT , Silicon Graphics and Apple Computer . During

308-417: A few earning Rhodes Scholarships . Starting in 1958, Loyola also began offering its first evening courses for students who were not able to go to school full-time. New courses were given in library science and faith community nursing . Since its creation, Loyola College had welcomed almost exclusively young English-speaking Catholic men as students. It became co-ed in 1959 and became less homogeneous with

385-407: A few pieces for electronics and live instruments the bulk of Lansky's pieces are recorded "tape" pieces. Lansky's works have attracted interest in various realms. They have been used by dance companies ( Bill T. Jones , Eliot Feld Ballet, New York City Ballet ). His works frequently have a rhythmic "groove" that is attractive to dancers. In 2000 he was the co-subject (along with Francis Dhomont) of

462-401: A graphical interface. (Input data is frequently in the form of a program rather than a note list.) This facilitated the creation of complex textures in works such as Idle Chatter, which contain thousands of short notes, frequently selected using random methods. This is sometimes called algorithmic composition. During the mid 1990s Lansky began to be approached by performers who were attracted to

539-677: A laptop with audio software; a rack containing an 8-channel audio amplifier, a power conditioner, and other electronic components; and a custom-made 6-channel hemispherical speaker. In April 2008, PLOrk began using a new hemispherical unit that combined the functionality of the old rack and speakers into one more portable device. The laptops are Apple 12" power books, or more recently, 14" Macbooks. HCI devices include keyboard controllers, TriggerFinger interfaces, graphics tablets, Nintendo Wii remotes, and infrared, light, pressure, and tilt sensors. Additional gear included floor pillows, laptop lapdesk, and gear for transportation. The PLOrk ensemble uses

616-496: A measure of friction. We look forward now to a new period of creative friction." The legal existence of Concordia dates from August 24, 1974. The integration of the various faculties of the two institutions into a coherent whole took several years. The five faculties of the new university were a combination of existing faculties and departments prior to the merger. There was a Faculty of Commerce, Faculty of Science and Faculty of Arts at Sir George Williams University. Additionally, there

693-485: A mission to develop and expand the quality of the downtown campus, and to revive the west end in Montreal. The university also acquired the historic Grey Nuns Mother House near its Sir George Williams Campus, for $ 18 million. Built in 1871, it would alone double the size of the current downtown campus. From 2007 to 2022, the university moved into the building in four separate phases. The large property will house

770-590: A model. Each PLOrk “instrument” consists of a laptop, a multi-channel hemispherical speaker, and a variety of “control” devices (keyboards, graphics tablets, sensors). The members of this ensemble act as performers, researchers, composers, and software developers. PLOrk was co-founded in 2005 by professors Perry Cook and Dan Trueman , with graduate students Scott Smallwood and Ge Wang , and funding and support from many Princeton University departments, organizations, and industrial affiliations. Composers and performers from Princeton and elsewhere developed new pieces for

847-473: A part of the museum's Where Y'Art? series. On December 4, 2009, the ensemble performed a twenty-four-hour meta-performance of Erik Satie 's Vexations at Loyola University New Orleans. Notably, one audience member, pianist Michael Bennett, remained for the entire twenty-four-hour performance. The ensemble performed a concert at McKeown's Books and Difficult Music, New Orleans, LA on March 26, 2011. The Princeton Laptop Orchestra (abbreviated PLOrk )

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924-444: A primary teaching tool. A number of composers from Princeton and elsewhere have been developing pieces for PLOrk that address the unconventional composition of the group. PLOrk works closely with these composers on their pieces with the aim of developing them further and further exploring a new branch of computer music and new media musical composition and performance. Originally, there were 15 PLOrk stations. Each station consists of

1001-524: A series of "chatter" pieces, Idle Chatter , etc. that fragment the speech into a percussive rap-like texture. Other projects included folksong settings ( Folk Images ), a portrait of a woman ( Things She Carried ), a contemplation of letters and numbers ( Alphabet Book ), sounds of the highway ( Night Traffic , Ride ), blues harmonica, electric guitar, piano improvisation and casual conversation. The bulk of his approximately 70 electronic compositions are contained on ten solo CDs (see Discography). While there are

1078-564: A series of online performances. Throughout the years, BSBLOrk has adopted a critical approach on social and political issues, using samples of political speeches as source. BSBLOrk has played in Juca Ferreira nomination, in 2014. BSBLOrk played at NMF2020, Network Music Festival Concordia University Concordia University ( French : Université Concordia ) is a public English-language research university located in Montreal , Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1974 following

1155-543: A special focus on guerrilla performance . Futurist Manifesto was premiered at a guest lecture by philosopher Slavoj Žižek at Loyola University New Orleans on November 17, 2009. The work was based on the manifesto of the Italian Futurists and included live recitation of the manifesto with computer manipulation. This work was also performed at the New Orleans Museum of Art on April 1, 2011 as

1232-547: A variety of commercial and open-source software. Two audio programming languages , ChucK and Max/MSP are primarily used for pedagogy and performance. The Brasília Laptop Orchestra (abbreviated to BSBLOrk) is an ensemble of laptop performers based at Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil. It was founded by Eufrasio Prates and Eduardo Kolody in 2012, in collaboration with Conrado Silva . It has done many different and multidisciplinary performances and collaborations with dance and video artists. The Brasília Laptop Orchestra

1309-1087: A year and a half to complete. Concordia has more than 400 undergraduate programs under the Faculty of Arts and Science, the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science, the Faculty of Fine Arts and the John Molson School of Business. Students are normally enrolled in one of these faculties but may take courses from any of the others as part of their studies. Class sizes vary from 30 to 400 students. The School of Graduate Studies offers about 120 programs leading to master's and doctoral degrees, and graduate diplomas and certificates for professionals seeking to upgrade their knowledge and skills. Concordia Continuing Education offers university-level studies and training to those from diverse backgrounds and stages of life. Paul Lansky Paul Lansky (born June 18, 1944, in New York City )

1386-498: Is a group of 5-15 persons and uses the idea of “Orchestra” as a model, with the laptop as main instrument. The members of this ensemble act as performers, researchers, composers. It uses a variety of commercial and open-source software, including HITS, developed by Eufrasio Prates. Its main audio programming language is Max/MSP , but the musicians often use other software and even common instruments in some compositions. BSBLOrks's performances focus on an improvisatory aesthetic, based on

1463-522: Is a laptop-based ensemble at Loyola University New Orleans . The ensemble was formed in January 2009 by Professor Paul J. Botelho and is composed of thirteen performers. Custom software instruments are developed for the ensemble primarily using the ChucK and Java programming languages. The ensemble focuses on contemporary and classical electro-acoustic works and performs in a variety of situations with

1540-712: Is a member of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada , International Association of Universities , Canadian Association of Research Libraries , Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate , Canadian Bureau for International Education and Canadian University Press . The university's varsity teams, known as the Stingers , compete in the Quebec Student Sport Federation of U Sports . The roots of Concordia University’s founding institutions go back more than 120 years with

1617-443: Is an American composer. Paul Lansky (born 1944) is an American composer. He was educated at Manhattan's High School of Music and Art , Queens College and Princeton University , studying with George Perle and Milton Babbitt , among others. He received his Ph.D. in music from Princeton in 1973. His doctoral dissertation consisted of an essay titled "Affine music" and a composition of string quartet. Originally intending to pursue

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1694-399: Is an ensemble of computer -based meta- instruments at Princeton University . PLOrk is part of research at Princeton University that investigates ways in which the computer can be integrated into conventional music-making contexts while also radically transforming those contexts. The Princeton Laptop Orchestra is a group of 12–15 persons and uses the “ orchestra ” (in a very general sense) as

1771-430: Is known as the "Computer Centre Incident." Notably in spring 1968, six black West Indian students at Sir George Williams University accused a biology lecturer (later assistant professor) of racism. The complaint was lodged to the dean of students, Magnus Flynn. Dissatisfied with how the administration was handling their complaint, the students decided to make it a public issue in fall 1968. The students occupied and destroyed

1848-563: Is the main campus, located in the Quartier Concordia neighbourhood of Downtown Montreal in the borough of Ville Marie ; and Loyola Campus in the residential district of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce . With four faculties, a school of graduate studies and numerous colleges, centres and institutes, Concordia offers over 400 undergraduate and over 120 graduate programs and courses. Concordia is a non-sectarian and coeducational institution, with more than 254,000 alumni. The university

1925-569: The 2005 International Horn Society prize. Lansky's instrumental music is published by Carl Fischer . The bulk of his computer music as well as much instrumental music is available on Bridge Records . Most of Lansky's works are basically tonal. In general terms this means the apparent background source for his pitch language is the diatonic scale rather than the chromatic or microtonal scale. He frequently uses traditional tonal syntax. During 1969–72 he collaborated with George Perle on an expansion of Perle's 12-tone tonality, which led to Perle's book of

2002-808: The Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex opened its doors on Saint Catherine Street West between Guy Street and Mackay Street . In September 2009, the university marked the opening of the new building for the John Molson School of Business . In September 2015, the university held a ribbon cutting for the District 3 Innovation Center 's new space on the sixth floor of Concordia's Faubourg Building. The university opened its interdisciplinary Applied Science Hub in 2020. The university has two campuses, set approximately 7 km (4 miles) apart: Sir George Williams Campus in

2079-490: The FOFA Gallery, a primary venue for exhibiting works by faculty, students and alumni of the Faculty of Fine Arts. Concordia's Records Management and Archives stores official records of, or relating to, or people/activities connected with Concordia University and its two founding institutions. The collection consists of manuscripts, texts, photographs, audio-visual material and artifacts. In 2001, Concordia embarked on

2156-480: The Faculty of Arts and Science, Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science as well as the District 3 Innovation Centre. Quartier Concordia is a neighbourhood redevelopment project centred around Concordia University's Sir George Williams Campus in downtown Montreal. Bordered by Sherbrooke Street to the north, Saint Mathieu Street to the west, René Lévesque Boulevard to the south and Bishop Street to

2233-770: The Faculty of Fine Arts and possibly the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, and other departments. Concordia Residence Life currently houses nearly 250 students each year in the Grey Nuns Building. The dorm rooms are among the largest in the country, as many of the rooms have been transformed from when the section of the Grey Nuns Building was occupied by the Grey Nuns. The site was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 2011. The Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex (EV Building) at Saint Catherine Street and Guy Street

2310-473: The Faculty of Science and the Department of Engineering were created. In addition to providing the same undergraduate programs as other colleges, the institution also offered innovative fields of study at the time, such as exercise science and communication studies . Students could enrol in academic majors starting in 1953 and honours programs in 1958. Students graduating from Loyola could afterwards pursue graduate-level education in other universities, with

2387-804: The Grain (concerto), Partita (guitar and percussion.) A residency with the Alabama Symphony led to several orchestral pieces ( Shapeshifters , Imaginary Islands ). Significant commissions came from the Library of Congress and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center for the wind quintet The Long and Short of It , and Chamber Music America for a trio for the Janus Trio, Book of Memory , and for Sō Percussion, Springs . The 2004 trio for horn, violin and piano, Etudes and Parodies won

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2464-530: The Guy-Concordia Metro station. However, a project to create a green space on Mackay Street was put on hold. Concordia is led by its president and vice-chancellor (referred to as the president), provost and vice-presidents. The Board of Governors and the Senate manage the university's affairs and academic integrity. The president and the senior leadership ensure transparency and accountability of

2541-680: The Hall Building lobby. Starting in 1998, the university entered a major phase of expansion to meet its growing student enrolment. In August 2003, Concordia inaugurated the Richard J. Renaud Science Complex on the Loyola Campus. In 2005, the university launched a major urban redevelopment project in the neighbourhood surrounding the Sir George Williams Campus, known as the Quartier Concordia . That same year,

2618-807: The Hall Building's ninth floor computer lab after threatening to do so should the riot squad be called. The events forced the university to re-evaluate its policies, leading to the creation of the Ombuds Office and establishment of the University Regulations on Rights and Responsibilities in April 1971. (See Sir George Williams Affair ). Following several years of discussions and planning, Sir George Williams University merged with Loyola College to create Concordia University in 1974. Concordia provided students with representative student organizations and greater power over administrative decisions at

2695-605: The Joint Steering Committee. The Joint Committee of Representatives of the Board of Trustees of Loyola College and the Board of Governors of Sir George Williams University was formed in December 1971 and in fall 1972 produced a document outlining the basis of a university with two campuses. While the committee considered a number of possible models, including that of a loose federation, the solution finally adopted

2772-663: The Norris Building, in 1956. In 1959, the college requested that the Quebec legislature amend its university charter, changing its name to Sir George Williams University. It established a Centre for Human Relations and Community Studies in 1963. Sir George Williams continued to hold classes in the YMCA building until the construction of the Henry F. Hall Building in 1966. The university gained international attention in 1969 for what

2849-522: The PLOrk for 2007 was R. Luke DuBois . The group is currently directed by composer and instrument designer Jeff Snyder, who is the Director of Electronic Music at Princeton. Since the beginning, PLOrk has made extensive use of ChucK , a new music programming language created by Ge Wang and Perry Cook which allows the performers to develop new code both in preparation and in performance, and which serves as

2926-571: The Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) in 2005 and continued with the emergence of many laptop orchestras and ensembles around the world, each characterized by certain technological traits and artistic approaches. CLOrk is characterized by a non-uniform technological approach, based on the idea of "music first; technology follows," by its network music activities, by its collaboration with acoustic ensembles, and by its use of soundpainting conduction. The Electro-Acoustic Ensemble

3003-542: The School of Graduate Studies. The respective faculties supervise the academic departments/institutes. For example, the Faculty of Art and Science oversees the Department of Applied Human Sciences and Simone de Beauvoir Institute. In the 2021–22 year, Concordia received $ 586.5 million in revenue . Fifty-two per cent of the university's revenue comes from grants of the Government of Quebec , which are given based on

3080-867: The Sir George Williams Campus and the Georges P. Vanier Library is located on the Loyola Campus. On September 2, 2014, the Library opened the Grey Nuns Reading Room, a silent study space for Concordia students located in the former Chapel of the Invention of the Holy Cross. The Concordia Library houses several special and unique collections including the Azrieli Holocaust Collection and the Irving Layton Collection. Most special collections are located in

3157-435: The Sir George Williams Campus moved to the new J.W. McConnell Building . The Norris Building was closed the same year. On August 24, 1992, Valery Fabrikant , a mechanical engineering professor, shot five colleagues , killing four, on the ninth floor of the Hall Building. Fabrikant was convicted of the murders and sentenced to life imprisonment. The university erected a memorial to the slain professors (four granite tables) in

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3234-942: The United States . In 2009–10 he was the inaugural composer in residence with the Alabama Symphony . In 2016 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters . He has received grants and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation , the Fromm Foundation and the Koussevitsky Foundation , the National Endowment for the Arts and Chamber Music America , among others. Beginning in the mid 1960s Lansky

3311-831: The Vanier Library. The Library also maintains the university's institutional repository, Spectrum. The Library is a member of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries. The Library also has partnerships with the Canadian Research Knowledge Network and the Data Liberation Initiative. Concordia's Henry F. Hall Building houses the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery. Samuel Schecter, an art enthusiast and businessman, set up two funds in 1962 to be used for

3388-571: The administration. The administration is supervised by the Board of Governors and Senate. Under the Charter of Concordia University, the university's highest governing body is the Board of Governors, which has final authority over the affairs of the university. The Senate derives its authority from the Board of Governors. The university has four faculties — Faculty of Arts and Science, Faculty of Fine Arts, Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science and John Molson School of Business — as well as

3465-468: The belief that contemporary music should be unpredictable, non-linear and interactive. It uses hemispherical speakers commissioned by its founders, similar to those used by PLOrk . BSBLOrk's first performance (August 2012) occurred during one of the city's "Tubo de Ensaios" ("test-tube") experimental performance festivals, and was also the last live performance of Conrado Silva. BSBLOrk has recently celebrated its 10th year by releasing an album and making

3542-518: The building was completed and opened in September 2009. The 15-story building now houses the John Molson School's about 9,100 full- and part-time students under the same roof for the first time. The departments of contemporary dance, theatre and music also moved into the new MB Building. It is connected to the EV Building by a tunnel under Guy Street. In April 2010, a 120-metre tunnel completed

3619-548: The corner of Guy Street and De Maisonneuve Boulevard West, began in February 2007. At a ceremony at Concordia on October 30, 2006, the Quebec Minister of Education, Recreation and Sports , Jean-Marc Fournier , announced an investment of $ 60 million towards the construction of the new building. The government's $ 60 million represented about half of the total construction costs. Construction started on January 22, 2006, and

3696-469: The downtown core of Montreal, in an area known as Quartier Concordia (around the Guy–Concordia Metro station), and Loyola Campus in the residential west-end district of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. They are connected by free shuttle-bus service for students, faculty and staff. Concordia University has three main library locations. The R. Howard Webster Library is located in the J.W. McConnell Building on

3773-423: The east, the district is designed to be a green urban campus that will improve the use and quality of public places and spaces, student life on campus and transportation. As part of the redesign, the small Norman Bethune Square was redesigned and enlarged. Sidewalks in the area were also widened, with additional trees. Since 2010, a tunnel links the university's Henry F. Hall and J.W. McConnell buildings with

3850-633: The ensemble, including Paul Lansky (Professor of Music at Princeton), Brad Garton (Director of the Columbia Computer Music Center), Pauline Oliveros , PLOrk co-founders Dan Trueman and Perry Cook, Scott Smallwood, Ge Wang, and others. The new PLOrk gave its first performance on April 4, 2006, in Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University. Grammy-winning tabla player Zakir Hussain , renowned accordionist Pauline Oliveros , and So Percussion also performed with

3927-531: The entrance hall near the administrative offices are dedicated to those from Loyola College who fought in the First World War, Second World War and Korean War. The inter-war period was marked by the shift of education in the institution, the collège classique education was replaced by humanistic education ( Liberal Arts College ) in 1940, and Loyola became a four-year institution. Theology and philosophy were taught to all students until 1972. In 1940,

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4004-608: The establishment of Loyola College in 1896 and Sir George Williams University in 1926. Loyola College traces its history to an English-language program at the Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal (today part of the Université du Québec à Montréal ) at the Jesuit Sacred Heart Convent. In 1896, Loyola College was established at the corner of Bleury Street and Saint Catherine Street , and it

4081-530: The ever-increasing number of foreign students. Obtaining a university charter was an important issue in the 1960s. Although many wanted Loyola College to become Loyola University, the Government of Quebec preferred to annex it to Sir George Williams University. Negotiations began in 1968 and ended with the creation of Concordia University on August 24, 1974. In 1851, the first YMCA in North America

4158-727: The group. PLOrk has since performed at Dartmouth College , the Ear to the Earth festival (produced by the Electronic Music Foundation), ffmup, and elsewhere. Several scholarly articles describing the motivations for establishing such an ensemble, the issues involved in composing for a laptop orchestra, and pedagogical concerns, are currently in press. PLOrk was first presented academically at the 2006 International Computer Music Conference in New Orleans. The guest director of

4235-425: The main sonic resources are transformations of recorded natural sounds. One of his first large pieces, Six Fantasies on a Poem by Thomas Campion (1979) set the stage. It is based on a reading by his wife Hannah MacKay of a famous poem. The piece is not so much a setting of the poem as it is a study of the contours of a live reading of the poem. The work uses a technique known as linear predictive coding , LPC, which

4312-514: The mainframe era computer time was scarce and expensive, and this prompted Lansky to write his own software package called Mix , in Fortran . This made it easier to assemble a composition voice-by-voice, section-by-section, even note-by-note, avoiding large expensive runs to create an entire piece at once. Mix had no scheduler (meaning that it could create notes in any order) and thus was not suitable for real-time synthesis. Mix used additive writes to

4389-431: The merger for another year. On August 24, 1974, the Government of Quebec recognized the merger, thus creating Concordia University. The name was taken from the motto of the city of Montreal, Concordia salus (meaning "well-being through harmony"). "When you join together two lively institutions, each with its own philosophies and ways of doing things, each firmly dedicated to freedom of thought and speech, you must expect

4466-568: The merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University , Concordia is one of the three universities in Quebec where English is the primary language of instruction (the others being McGill and Bishop's ). As of the 2022–23 academic year, there were 49,898 students enrolled in credit and non-credit courses at Concordia, making the university among the largest in Canada by enrollment. The university has two campuses, set approximately seven kilometres (four miles) apart: Sir George Williams Campus

4543-532: The original YMCA in London, England, upon which the Montreal YMCA was based. In 1934, Sir George Williams College offered the first undergraduate credit course in adult education in Canada. Sir George Williams College received its university charter from the provincial government in 1948, though it remained the education arm of the Montreal YMCA. Sir George Williams expanded into its first standalone building,

4620-493: The output device, analogous to overdubbing on tape. When the move was made to minis and micros, Lansky ported Mix to the C programming language and called it CMix. During the late 1990s a group led by Brad Garton at Columbia University created a version with a scheduler, RtCmix , that was capable of real time synthesis. Starting in the mid 1990s Lansky used a well-known software package called SuperCollider . Programs like Cmix and SuperCollider are script-based rather than driven by

4697-554: The performative-like aspects of his computer music. Percussionists in particular were attracted by pieces such as Table’s Clear , which resembles a gamelan made of pots and pans, and the "chatter" series. One of his first large percussion pieces was Threads , 2005, written for the Sō Percussion quartet. Since then there are about a dozen pieces for percussion instruments, alone and in various ensembles. Another focus has been classical guitar, alone and in combination: Semi-Suite , With

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4774-499: The present west-end campus on Sherbrooke Street West in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce in 1916. The School of Sociology opened in 1918. Since Loyola College never became a chartered university, it did not have the ability to grant its own university degrees. In 1920, the institution became affiliated with Université de Montréal , which began granting its degrees instead of Université Laval. Memorial bronze honour roll plaques in

4851-496: The purchase of Canadian art at Sir George Williams University and at Loyola College (Montreal) . When Sir George Williams University and Loyola College merged to form Concordia in 1974, their respective art collections were also combined. The collection of the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery consists of 1,800 paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs and videos, many of the works by 20th-century Canadian artists. Concordia's Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Complex houses

4928-463: The same name. This approach basically establishes another metric for measuring and relating harmonies that has to do with symmetry. It is related to some music by Bartok. Some of Lansky's work such as Notes to Self , for piano, and It All Adds Up , for two pianos, use this approach. Lansky's instrumental music generally eschews extended instrumental techniques. He writes that he scratched that itch with computer music. A long-term interest of Lansky's

5005-463: The student population. As of 2022, the university's foundation has $ 358.451 million in its endowment. In November 2017, Concordia launched the Campaign for Concordia. The campaign's original target was $ 250 million, since raised to $ 350 million. Its goal is to support the university's nine strategic directions that will advance Concordia's position as "Canada's next-generation university." In January 2018, Concordia President Alan Shepard reported that

5082-440: The two institutions. It was proposed, in 1969, to create a university federation that allowed students to take courses at both campuses without paying additional fees. There was also mention of a shuttle bus service linking the remote facilities 7 km (4.3 mi) apart. Criticized for the difficulties encountered by the cohesion of the various departments and faculties, this option was set aside, but not totally rejected by

5159-473: The underground connections of the Guy-Concordia Metro station with the Henry F. Hall Building and the J.W. McConnell Building. Concordia opened the Applied Science Hub on the Loyola Campus in December 2020. The $ 63.1-million state-of-the-art facility — built thanks to $ 36.7 million in support from the Government of Canada and the Government of Quebec — was strategically designed to enable interdisciplinary collaboration and research between faculty and students in

5236-402: The university had already reached "more than halfway" of its goal. As of 2023, the campaign is still ongoing. Students begin their university studies in September or, in some cases, in January or May. An undergraduate degree normally requires three or four years of full-time study, a master's one to three years, and a PhD at least four years. Diplomas and certificates usually take no longer than

5313-415: The university. In 1968, in the wake of the Parent Commission Report, which recommended the secularization of Quebec's educational system, the Government of Quebec asked Loyola College and Sir George Williams University to consider some form of union. The proposed merger was discussed by the Loyola-Sir George Williams Joint Steering Committee, a committee created to analyze all forms of possible mergers of

5390-648: Was a telematic collaboration with other laptop ensembles across Canada as part of the University of Calgary Happening Festival. Since that performance, CLOrk has performed telematically on several occasions with other laptop ensembles (such as McMaster's Cybernetic Orchestra) and acoustic ensembles at New York University , University of California, San Diego , Queen's University Belfast , Hamburg Hochschule of Music , University of California, Irvine , and Mustek duo (Edinburgh), among others, at international events such as Birmingham Network Music Festival, ToBeContinued, and Penta Locus. The laptop orchestra trend began with

5467-402: Was a Faculty of Arts and Science at Loyola College. The Faculty of Engineering of both institutions had previously been combined. The Faculty of Fine Arts was created in 1976. The first phase of the combination of the Faculties of Arts and Science began in 1977 and ended in 1985. In the late 1980s, the Georges P. Vanier Library on the Loyola Campus was enlarged, while in 1992, the library on

5544-420: Was among the first to experiment with the computer for sound synthesis. Until 2004 this was his predominant focus. Since then he has alternated between instrumental composition and electronic music. Sounds originating from "real-world" sources are the predominant focus of Lansky's computer music: traffic, kids in the kitchen, musical instruments, and most of all speech. Electronic synthesis is frequently used but

5621-406: Was developed in the 1960s by scientists as a data-reduction technique meant to economize on the amount of data needed for digital voice transmission and is used today in some cell phone communication. It allows for the separation of pitch and speed and the pitch contours of the speech can be altered independently of the speed. Each of the six movements explores a different aspect of speech. This led to

5698-665: Was established on Ste. Helene Street in Old Montreal. Beginning in 1873, the YMCA offered evening classes to allow working people in the English-speaking community to pursue their education while working during the day. Sixty years later, the Montreal YMCA relocated to its current location on Stanley Street in Downtown Montreal . In 1926, the education program at the YMCA was reorganized as Sir George Williams College, named after George Williams , founder of

5775-515: Was named in honour of Ignatius of Loyola , founder of the Society of Jesus . On March 10, 1898, the institution was incorporated by the Government of Quebec and became a full-fledged college. The same year, following a fire, the college was relocated further west on Drummond Street , south of Saint Catherine Street. Although founded as a collège classique (the forerunners of Quebec's college system ), Loyola began granting university degrees through Université Laval in 1903. The college moved into

5852-562: Was opened in September 2005. The building is directly connected to the Guy–Concordia Metro station and also houses Le Gym, a facility of Concordia's Department of Recreation and Athletics. Across the street, the 100-year-old TD Canada Trust building was donated to Concordia in 2005 by the Toronto-Dominion Bank . Construction of the new John Molson Building (MB), the home of the John Molson School of Business located on

5929-530: Was that of an integrated institution, Concordia University, operating under the existing charter of Sir George Williams University. Following several revisions in November 1972, the document became the main plan of the proposed merger. It was accepted by both institutions, which began the process of consolidating their operations. In early 1973, the two institutions announced the merger would take place that fall. However, legal and administrative procedures delayed

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