Centre For Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology
The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology is known as CIRMMT, pronounced "kermit". CIRMMT is a multi-disciplinary research centre involving researchers at McGill University, the University of Montreal and the University of Sherbrooke. The centre hosts six state-of-the-art research labs on the eighth floor of the New Music Building. The Centre's research axes are:
- sound modeling, acoustics and signal processing;
- musical gestures, devices and motion capture;
- musical information archiving and retrieval;
- multimodal immersive systems;
- music perception and cognition;
- expanded musical practice.
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