Jean Bresson

Research / Development
IRCAM - CNRS UMR STMS
Music Representations
jean.bresson@ircam.fr
(+33) 1 44 78 16 57

• Computer-aided composition
• Visual programming languages
• Control of sound synthesis
• Spatialization and spatial Sound synthesis

• OpenMusic: Visual programming language for music composition
• Musique Lab 2: Music education software based on OpenMusic
• SDIF-Edit: Visualisation of SDIF sound description data

more... (private pages)

• J. Bresson, C. Agon, G. Assayag (2011) OpenMusic. Visual Programming Environment for Music Composition, Analysis and Research. Proc. ACM MultiMedia 2011 (OpenSource Software Competition), Scottsdale, AZ, USA.
• J. Bresson, C. Agon (2011) Visual Programming and Music Score Generation with OpenMusic, (demo paper) VL/HCC 2011: IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing.
• J. Bresson, M. Schumacher (2011) Representation and Interchange of Sound Spatialization Data for Compositional Applications. Proc. International Computer Music Conference.
• J. Bresson, M. Stroppa (2011) The Control of the CHANT Synthesizer in OpenMusic: Modelling Continuous Aspects in Sound Synthesis. Proc. International Computer Music Conference.
• C. Agon, J. Bresson, M. Stroppa (2011) OMChroma: Compositional Control of Sound Synthesis, Computer Music Journal, 35(2).
• M. Schumacher, J. Bresson (2010) Spatial Sound Synthesis in Computer-Aided Composition. Organised Sound, 15(3). [revised - incl. errata]
• J. Bresson (2010) ML-Maquette / Musique Lab 2, Proc. International Computer Music Conference.
• J. Bresson, C. Agon, G. Assayag (2009) Visual Lisp/CLOS Programming in OpenMusic, Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation, 22(1). [preprint]

• Mathematics and Computation in Music, Third International Conference, MCM 2011, Paris, France, June 15-17, 2011. Proceedings. C. Agon, M. Andreatta, G. Assayag, E. Amiot, J. Bresson, J. Mandereau (Eds.) Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence / LNAI 6726, Springer, 2011.
• The OM Composer's Book Vol. 2: J. Bresson, C. Agon, G. Assayag (Eds.) Editions Delatour / IRCAM, 2008. (Volume 1 by C. Agon, G. Assayag, J. Bresson, 2006).

• Méthodes mathématiques pour la création musicale, Master 2 ICA – AST (Arts, Sciences, Technologie), PHELMA / INP Grenoble.
  ⇒ Programme et documents de cours
• Module inter-semestre "Outils pour la création et la composition musicale", Telecom Bretagne, Brest.
• Formations professionnelles IRCAM: OpenMusic expert.

• Coordination of the 2011/2012 sessions of the MaMuX seminar organized monthly at IRCAM.

• Co-chair of Mathematics and Computation in Music conference 2011 (MCM 2011) and of the organizing committee of IHM'07, the national French conference on human-computer interactions.

• 19-22/05/2012 - Re Orso de Marco Stroppa à l'Opéra Comique, Paris (compsition et sons de synthèse réalisés en OpenMusic)
• 29/05-1/06 2012 - OpenMusic training workshop at CIRMMT.
• 4/06/2012 - Spatial Computing Workshop. Co-located event with AAMAS'2012, Valencia, Spain.

• 30/11/2011 - Panel Bridging Opportunities for the Music and Multimedia Domains at MIRUM'11, ACM Workshop on Music Information Retrieval with User-Centered and Multimodal Strategies.
• 29/11/2011 - OpenMusic at the ACM MultiMedia OpenSource Software Competition
• 18/11/2011 - Journée d'étude OpenMusic - Composition Assistée par Ordinateur, Université de Rennes 2.
• 26-30/09 2011 - Visiting scholar at CIRMMT (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology), McGill University.
• 22/09/2011 - Invited talk at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science.
• 19-21/09/2011 - OpenMusic demo at the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC).
• 31/07-5/08/2011 - ICMC 2011, Huddersfield, UK.
• 20/07/2011 - Séminaire Parkas, Département d'informatique, ENS.
• 15-18/06/2011 - International Conference Mathematics and Computation in Music - MCM 2011.
• 25-27/05/2011 - Journées d'Informatique Musicale, Université de Saint-Etienne.
• 13/05/2011 - Atelier logiciel: OpenMusic/Pareto (avec Fabien Lévy). Association Ethnomusika, Paris.
• 21/01/2011 - Ecriture de la spatialisation en composition assistée par ordinateur. La semaine du son, Paris.
• 12/2010 - Invited researcher at CIRMMT (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology), McGill University.
• 16/12/2010 - Computer-aided composition projects and applications in OpenMusic, CIRMMT Seminar Series.
• 02/10/2010 - Skyline, de Shanta Rao. Installation / video générée par ordinateur. Biennale de Belleville / Nuit Blanche 2010, Paris.