The Music Representations team carries out research and development into the symbolic representation of musical structures, languages and computer paradigms adapted to music. This work finds application in both computer assisted composition (CAC) and computer-based musicology. Reflection into the high-level representation of musical concepts and structures supported by original computer languages developed by the team, leads to the conception of models, which can be used for both musical production and analysis.
On the creation side, since its distribution to a large community of musicians, the software has provoked new ways of thinking, which exploit the computer possibilities for simultaneously representing and executing the final score, its formal underlying structures and their generative processes. It is important to note that a work elaborated in such a way contains, to a great extent, its own structural analysis. On the musicology side, the representation and modelling tools enable a truly experimental approach, injecting considerable dynamism to a discipline still under-represented in France.
Research Areas / Projects
Other Projects and Collaborations
Software
Events
- ImproTech Paris / New York 2012: A scientific and musical event by Ircam, Columbia and NYU in NY city on May 16-18 2012
- Séminaire MaMux
- Séminaire Léon Brillouin
Past Events
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- MCM 2011: Third International Conference of the Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music.
- IMHM'07: 19e conférence francophone sur l'interaction homme-machine (2007)
- SMC'04: Sound and Music Computing Conference (2004).
- Séminaires sur l'analyse (2002).
- CP-2001: Musical Constraints Workshop (2001)
- Fourth Mathematical Forum DIDEROT (1999).
- Séminaire AFPLC: Musique et Contraintes (1999)
- ECAI'98 Workshop: Constraint Techniques for Artistic Applications (Brighton, UK, 1998).
- JIM'96: Journées d'Informatique Musicale (Ile de Tatihou, France, 1996).
Publications
- Appel à contribution: Informatique Musicale - Numéro spécial de la revue TSI (Technique et Science Informatiques).
Date limite: 30/09/2013.
- Publications of the Music Representation Group (IRCAM database)
- The Musique/Sciences collection
Education
ATIAM Master's program (Acoustique, Traitement de signal, Informatique Appliqués à la Musique)
Module "Méthodes mathématiques et informatiques pour la création musicale"
Master ICA – Spécialité AST (Art, Science et Technologie), PHELMA – INP Grenoble
People
RepMus Team:
Gérard Assayag (head)
Carlos Agon
Moreno Andreatta
Jean Bresson
Arshia Cont
Jean-Louis Giavitto
Florent Jacquemard
Laurent Bonnasse-Gahot
PhD Students
Jérémie Garcia (LRI/IRCAM)
Louis Bigo (LACL/IRCAM)
Benjamin Levy
John Mandereau (Università di Pisa/IRCAM)
José Echeveste (RepMus)
Jérôme Nika (IRCAM/EHESS)
Charles de Paiva Santana (UPMC/UNICAMP)
Julia Blondeau (CNSMDL/IRCAM)
Associate Researchers
Former members/students
Philippe Esling (PhD)
Arnaud Dessein (PhD RepMus/IMTR)
Grégoire Carpentier (PhD)
Antoine Allombert (PhD IRCAM/LabRI)