Musique Lab 2

Compositional approach to musical processes for music education

The Musique Lab 2 project was carried out at IRCAM with funding and collaboration from the French Ministry of Education, with the objective to create new tools for music education using computer-aided compositional tools and technologies. The application (initially called ML-Maquette) has been designed and developed on top of the OpenMusic environment. It makes it possible to create and use interactive pedagogical documents focusing on various kinds of musical concepts or works by manipulating musical structures and operations.

Musique Lab 2 is distributed via the EducNet portal for teachers of the French Ministry of education, or via the IRCAM forum.

See also: the Musique Lab page on ForumNet.

Conception and development: Jean Bresson
Pedagogical coordination: Fabrice Guédy

• J. Bresson, F. Guédy, G. Assayag (2013) Musique Lab 2: From Computer-Aided Composition to Music Education, Journal of Music, Technology & Education, 5(3).
• J. Bresson, ML-Maquette / Musique Lab 2, Proc. International Computer Music Conference, New York / Stony Brook, NY, USA, 2010.
• J. Bresson, F. Guédy, G. Assayag, Musique Lab Maquette : approche interactive des processus compositionnels pour la pédagogie musicale, Sciences et Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication pour l'Education et la Formation, 13, 2006.
• J. Bresson, Processus compositionnels et opérateurs musicaux dans ML-Maquette. Les outils de traitement du signal, Actes des Journées d'Informatique Musicale - JIM'07, Lyon, France, 2007.
• F. Guédy, J. Bresson, G. Assayag: Musique Lab 2 – Un environnement d'aide à la pédagogie musicale, Actes des Journées d'Informatique Musicale - JIM'07, Lyon, France, 2007.
• G. Assayag, J. Bresson, OpenMusic: de la composition à l'enseignement, L'Inouï — Revue de l'Ircam, 2, 2006.