Moreno ANDREATTA
version française - versione italiana - SMIR and ProAppMaMu Projects - Course on maths and popular music - Course on improvisation - Math'n Pop - Tonnetz
CNRS Director of Research at IRMA and member of the CREAA
University of Strasbourg
7 rue René-Descartes / F-67084 Strasbourg
e-mail : andreatta[at]math.unistra.fr
Review Editor of the JMM and principal investigator of the SMIR and ProAppMaMu Projects
Associate researcher at the Music Representation Team
IRCAM - CNRS UMR 9912 (STMS) - Sorbonne Université
1, place I. Stravinsky / F-75004 Paris
tel:+33 (0)1 44781488
e-mail : Moreno.Andreatta[at]ircam.fr
WARNING - This web page is not updated! Please, refer to:
- The SMIR page for academic research
- My personal web page for all my musical, mathemusical and outreach activities
NEWS
- Tonnetz: the environment is available online!
- Music and maths: a 'love story' (a new pedagogical video - in French - conceived and produced within the ProAppMaMu Project - Processus et techniques d'apprentissages des savoirs 'mathémusicaux')
My research activity focuses since several years on the relationships between mathematics and music. In particular, I'm interested in the algebraic formalization of musical structures and processes, a subject which was at the center of my PhD in computational musicology (EHESS/IRCAM) and of my HDR in mathematics (at IRMA, university of Strasbourg).
Since 1999 I am coordinating the Maths/Music activities within the Music Representation Team at IRCAM. In particular, I'm organizing since 2001 with Carlos Agon the MaMuX Seminar (Mathematics/Music and their relations with other fields) at IRCAM and since 2005 with François Nicolas and Charles Alunni the mamuphi Seminar (Mathematics, music and philosophy) at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris.
Since 2006 I am editor (with Jean-Michel Bardez) of the "Musique/Sciences" Series (Ircam/Delatour France). Founding member of the Journal of Mathematics and Music, the official Journal of the Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music (SMCM), I am also Editor (with Guerino Mazzola) of Springer Computational Music Science.
During the Academic Year (2012-2013), I was invited researcher at the Institute of Algebra of the TU Dresden, in Germany. Within this research period I've been working on the application of Rudolf Wille's Formal Concept Analysis to music. You will find here a short description of the research project and a detailed bibliography. This project has some deep intersections with the research axis on categorical approaches and spatial computing in music analysis.
All these different formal (i.e. algebraic, categorical and topological) tools have recently found their first applications in the study of popular music, a field which enables my maths/music research to interact more deeply with my musical activity, in particular around song writings and improvisation. This research is conducted at the present within a fellowship USIAS (the University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Studies), supporting the SMIR projet (Structural Music Information Research), in collaboration with IRMA (Institut de recherche mathématique avancée), GREAM (Groupe de Recherches Expérimentales sur l'Acte Musical), the Académie supérieure de musique de Strasbourg (HEAR) / Conservatory of Strasbourg and IRCAM.
Since January 2018, I'm delivering a cours on mathematical and computational models in popular music for the undergraduate students in musicology and popular music at the University of Strasbourg.
Scientific production:
Research supervision :
Pedagogical and musical activities :
Some recent conferences: [see the webpage of the SMIR Project for more recent conferences]
- "Coding Music with Maths", concert-conference at Musicora, Grande Halle of the Villette, plateau de France Musique, 3 June 2018 - video
- Concert-conference "Math'n Pop : les maths au service de la chanson" (Bischwiller, Festival Alsascience, 11 May 2019) - Schedule of the Festival
- "Coding the music world with maths", a concert-conference by Moreno Andreatta at Musicora, Grande Halle de la Villette, France Musique stand, 3 June 2018
- "Exploring the “mathemusical” dynamics: some aspects of a musically driven mathematical practice", International Conference on Mathematics and Culture (Imagine Maths 6), Venise, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti, 31 March - 2 April 2017 - pdf.
- "Formalisations algébriques, représentations géométriques et modélisations informatiques en musique savante et en chanson", Art-Science Seminar, Ecole Polytechnique, 24 March 2017 - pdf
- "Matematica, geometria e musica", conference at the "GiovedìScienza", Teatro Colosseo, Turin, 15 December 2016. With the participation of Alberto Conte (mathematician) and Paolo Conte (musician) - Video (of the entire conference) - Excerpt from the broacast "Leonardo" (RAI 3, 23 december 2016)
Less recent conferences:
- "Représentations géométriques, formalisations algébriques et modélisations informatiques en musicologie computationnelle", concert-conference within the cycle "Musique & Mathématiques 2016, Besançon, 8 December 2016.
- « Musica contemporanea: la formalizzazione dell’organizzazione delle altezze nello spazio temperato e la teoria trasformazionale », Levi Campus 2016, Fondazione Levi, Venice, 29 june 2016 - first part; second part.
- « Matematica & Musica », concert-conference at the French Institut in Florence within the "Festa della Matematica". Monday 18 april 2016 (in collaboration with Emmanuel Amiot and Gilles Baroin).
- « Géométrie et Algèbre en musique savante et en chanson », concert-conference at the Orsay Laboratoire de Physique des Solides. Thursday 14 april 2016 (in collaboration with Wiebke Drenckhan - accordeon). Organisation : Catherine Even-Beaudoin and Marie-France Mariotto - pdf.
- "Formalisations, représentations et modélisations en musicologie computationnelle : quelques éléments d’une recherche ‘mathémusicale’", concert-conference for a specialized audience (pdf) - "Formalisations, représentations et modélisations en musicologie computationnelle : un voyage entre musique savante et musiques actuelles", concert-conference for a non-specialized audience (pdf). "Music & Sciences Festival", Dijon 23-24 March 2016 (with the participation of Emmanuel Bigand, Paul Molin, the Trio SR9, Jean Baptiste Médard).
- Arts & Sciences Meeting: Neurosciences, epistemology and new paradigms, Paris Descartes, 5-6 February 2016 (Programme, including a Maths/Music concert at the Conservatoire J.-Ph. Rameau) - Abstracts
- Musique et géométrie : de J-S-Bach à Paolo Conte en passant par les Beatles et les chanson hamiltoniennes. Concert-Conference at the N/O/D/E/ Festival, Lausanne, 30 January 2016 - pdf - On the radio (Magma and Vertigo)
- Outils mathématiques en musicologie computationnelle, Launching Seminar of the Collegium Musicae, Philharmonie de Paris, 13 November - pdf - Full program (in pdf)
- Exploring the “mathemusical” dynamics: some theoretical and philosophical aspects of a musically driven mathematical practice, Annual Meeting of the Association of Philosophy of Mathematical Practice, Institut Henri Poincaré, November 2nd-4th 2015 - pdf
- Recherche et création en mathématique/musique : éléments d'un bilan personnel à mi-parcours, Ateliers of History and Philosophy of Sciences for the PhD candidates of UPMC/Interférences_VIDA Seminar, UPMC, 4 May 2015 - pdf
- Les maths au service de la chanson (in collaboration with Polo), A week of mathematics, conference-concert at the lycée Lamartine, 17 March 2015 (pdf)
- Tiling Canons as a Key to Approaching Open Mathematical Conjectures?, Mathemusical Conversations. Mathematics and Computation in Music Performance and Composition, International Workshop, NUS, Singapore, 13-15 February 2015 - pdf - video
- Formalismes mathématiques et modèles computationnels en recherche « mathémusicale » : algèbre et géométrie au service de la chanson, Conference-concert within the Conferences of the Institute of Physics of Rennes, 27 january 2015 - Abstract - First part - Second part
- Musique algorithmique : théories de la composition musicale au XXe siècle. Médaille Michel Chasles presented by Jérôme Bonaldi, Chartres, 15th Novembre 2014.
- Hey Maths ! Modèles formels et computationnels au service des Beatles, A one Day Seminar on the Beatles, University of Evry-val-d'Essonne, 6 November 2014 - pdf
- Approches mathématiques en théorie musicale : l’« école formelle » française et son héritage, Symposium of the GMTH, Genève, 17 Octobre 2014- pdf
- Mathématiques et musique. Une introduction (with Emmanuel Amiot and Gilles Baroin), Maths Party, Fermat's House, Beaumont de Lomagne, 12 October 2014
- Les pavages en musique : du Tonnetz aux canons mosaïques (with Emmanuel Amiot and Hélianthe Caure), La Chapelle-Gély, Montpellier, 27 septembre 2014 (large public conference within the session of the MaMuX Seminar)
- Presentation of the session and overview on Tiling Problems, LIRMM, Montpellier, 26 September 2014 (MaMuX Seminar) - Program
- The interplay between algebra and geometry in symbolic music information retrieval, First French-Brasilian Symposium on computational music analysis and composition, UNICAMP, Campinas, 19th august 2014 - vidéo (first part) - vidéo (second part)
- La symétrie en musique : de J.-S. Bach à Paolo Conte en passant par les Beatles. Concert-conference, Festival "Artistes en cour#s", Conservatoire Hector Berlioz, Paris, 26th june 2014 - vidéo - pdf - Flyer - Booklet of the Festival
Vidéos
- "Math'n Pop" Concert-conference (Amphi Richelieu at Sorbonne, 3 October 2019, 7.45pm) - Video
- A PhiloMath&Pop session at the mamuphi Seminar at IRCAM, Paris (12 January 2019, 10am-6pm, salle Shannon) - Schedule - Full programme with abstracts - Videos
- "Coding Music with Maths", concert-conference at Musicora, Grande Halle of the Villette, France Musique stage, 3 June 2018
- Les maths dans les musiques actuelles, a talk by Moreno Andreatta delivered at ESPCI within the cycle "Les conférences expérimentales", 12 March 2018
- Some mathematical and computational models for computer-aided music theory, analysis and composition, talk delivered at IRCAM and addressed to ATIAM Master students and to the composers of the Cursus, Paris, 20 September 2017
- Forms and Mathematisation of the World, encounter between Alain Connes and Alain Prochiantz, Centre Pompidou, 17 march 2017. Within the Vertigo Art-Innovation Forum
- Mathematics and music: geometric representations, concert-conference, university Paris Diderot, 23 January 2017
- Géométrie et Algèbre en musique savante et en chanson, a conference-concert within the cycle "Les petits séminaires de vulgarisation" of theLaboratoire de Physique des Solides d'Orsay, 14 April 2016 (with the participation of Wiebke Drenckhan - accordeon). Organisation : Catherine Even-Beaudoin and Marie-France Mariotto.
- Actualité de la pensée de Iannis Xenakis à partir de son tableau des correspondances entre la musique et les mathématiques, MaMuX Seminar, 22 January 2016
- Tiling Canons as a Key to Approaching Open Mathematical Conjectures?, Mathemusical Conversations. Mathematics and Computation in Music Performance and Composition, International Workshop, NUS, Singapour, 13-15 February 2015
- Analyse musicale transformationnelle et théorie des catégories : compte-rendu d’une recherche en cours (avec Andrée Ehresmann & Alexandre Popoff, séminaire mamuphi, 7 février 2015)
- Math'n Pop (Centre Pompidou, 15 december 2014). With the participation of Moreno Andreatta, Mattia Bergomi, Franco Fabbri, Polo. Coordination: Jean Dhombres and Caroline Raynaud.
- Anatol Vieru, André Riotte et Julio Estrada, ou l’articulation entre calcul combinatoire et formalisation algébrique, Colloque CDMC, 28-20 november 2014.
- La sera non è più la tua canzone (Hamiltonian Song after a poetry by Mario Luzi, Festival artistes en cour#s, Conservatoire "Hector Berlioz", 26 june 2014).
- La sera non è più la tua canzone (visualisation by Gilles Baroin)
- Aprile (chanson hamiltonienne) (G. D'Annunzio / M. Andreatta), visualisation by Gilles Baroin New version with the Spinnen Tonnetz.
- Mathématiques, musique et informatique - Testimony within the projet "Out of atmosphere"
- Masters and training activities at Ircam, ManiFeste, Open Doors, June 14th 2014
- Parlez-nous de mathématiques. A series of short films conceived by Léo Larroche for Universcience.tv
- Mathematics and music : a journey into pop music, classical music and songs (Concert-conference, with the participation of Emmanuel Amiot and Gilles Baroin), Montpellier, La Chapelle-Gely, CAFE Lab, 4 February 2014
- Mathematical Models in Computer Music: an Introduction, Course ATIAM/Cursus, January 10th, 2014.
- Sur l’influence de Wittgenstein au sein de la Music Theory américaine, mamuphi Seminar (ENS, November 9th 2013)
- Introduction à l'analyse de concepts formels et aux représentations spatiales en musique, MaMuX Seminar, session on "Mathematics and spatial representations", IRCAM, April 5th 2013
- A la lumière des mathématiques et à l'ombre de la philosophie, inaugural session of the 2012-2013 edition of the mamuphi Seminar
- Un survol sur les modèles mathématiques de la créativité et de processus cognitifs, MaMuX Seminar, a session on mathematical and computational models in creativity, October 12th 2012
- Musique algorithmique, Common course for ATIAM/Cursus, IRCAM, Academic Year 2012-2013
- La théorie des intervalles, with a demo of the new MUSIIC Software (by J. Estrada, Academic Year 2012-2013)
- Mathematics and Music and Geometry and music, two excerpts of an article entitled « Une musique qui swingue de façon géométrique », Science Actualités, 2008.
- Mathematics, music and philosophy in the American Tradition : the filiation Babbitt/Lewin, mamuphi Seminar, ENS, November 18th 2006.
Other links
- IRMA/USIAS Mathemusical Seminar (University of Strasbourg, 2018-2019)
- Exhibition "Coding the world" (Mutations / Créations 2), Centre G. Pompidou, June 15 - August 27 2018 (A short video presentation of the musical part and an article published in the journal L'Etincelle)
- Maths and Music Festival, Laon, 14-17 October 2015 (Flyer)
- A week of mathematics. Conference-concert by Moreno Andreatta and Polo, 17 March, lycée Lamartine (Working document)
- 1st International Conference on New Music Concepts (ICNMC 2015), 7-8 March 2015, Treviso, Italy
- Mathemusical Conversations. Mathematics and Computation in Music Performance and Composition (Singapore, 13-15 February 2015)
- JAM14-Musique savante/musiques actuelles : articulations (Ircam/Centre Georges Pompidou/Sorbonne, 15th-16th Decembre 2014) - Math'n Pop Evening (Centre Pompidou, 15 December 2014) - Video
- L'influence des théories scientifiques sur le renouvellement des formes dans la musique contemporaine, CDMC, Paris, 28-29 November 2014
- Journée Barbaud-Philippot, Les Samedis d'Entretemps, Ircam, 22 November 2014
- Médaille Michel Chasles, Conférences - Animations - Salon des jeux mathématiques, with the participation of Jérôme Bonaldi (Chartres, 15 November 2014).
- A two days session on Tiling Problems in maths, informatics and music (Montpellier, LIRMM and La Chapelle-Gély, 26th-27th September 2014 - Schedule (in pdf format).
- Math'n Pop Workshop, Joint Conference ICMC-SMC 2014, Athens, 16th September 2014
- Call for application of the ATIAM Master Program (2014-2015). Deadline: 25th June 2014. Flyer - Video - Overview
- Out of atmosphere - (here if you want to know more about the project OOA)
- Parlez-nous de mathématiques (with Michèle Audin, Sylvia Serfaty, Dominique Picard, Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Moreno Andreatta and Thierry Barbot), a series of short films directed by Léo Larroche for Universcience.tv (and also broadcasted in the salle Pi of the Palais de la Découverte)
- « Les maths…un exercice de musique ! Voyage d’initiation au cœur des recherches ‘mathémusicales’ ». Concert-conference within the Maths Week 2014, Friday 21 March, Auditorium du Lycée La Fontaine. Some material (in pdf). Full programme of the Maths Week.
- Study Day on Formal Models and visualisations for music: from classical to pop music. Tuesday 15 April 2014, Lille / Tourcoing, Imaginarium, SCV (schedule)
- "Mathematics and Computation in Music" Conference - MCM 2013 (McGill University, Montreal, June 12-14, 2013)
- Modèles formels dans et pour la musique pop, conférence/concert dans le cadre de la licence "chanson d'expression française" (resp. Pascal Pistone), université Bordeaux 3, 10 avril 2013 (pdf)
- International Symposium "Produire le temps" (Ircam, 14-15 June 2012)
- The creativity in music and mathematics - video recording of the Meeting between Pierre Boulez and Alain Connes, Ircam, Espace de projection, 15 June 2011 (Mathematics and Computation in Music Conference 2011)
- Mathematica est exercitium musicae. La recherche ‘mathémusicale’ et ses interactions avec les autres disciplines, Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches en mathématiques, IRMA, Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée, Université de Strasbourg, 22 October 2010.
In the press
- Mathémusique, les liaisons entre mathématique et musique, EUREKA, RCF Radio (in collaboration with the CNRS of Alsace), 12 November 2019.
- Moreno Andreatta, le « mathémusicien » enchanteur, CAES MAG, December 2017 (following the first "Gala" of the CAES/CNRS at the Théâtre du Ranelagh, 2nd December 2017.
- Chronica. Containing a portrait of Moreno Andreatta, invited by Pippo Pollina to open his concert at Aux Trois Baudets of the 24th November 2016, Radio Aligre, 13 Novembre 2016.
- Pourquoi des instruments de musique augmentés et des partitions en équation ?, Autour de la question, RFI (by Caroline Lachowsky), 14 September 2016.
- Moreno Andreatta, il "matemusicista": l'intreccio pitagorico tra numeri e melodie, Repubblica, 26 July 2016.
- Il «matemusicologo» di Baselga di Piné che conquista Parigi, Il Trentino, 15 July 2016
- Il ricercatore che estrae, la matematica dalla musica, La Stampa, 14 July 2016.
- "Moreno Andreatta, mathémusicien", Le Monde, 20 juin 2016 (pdf).
- Math’n Pop, De ligne en ligne, n° 15, revue du Centre Pompidou, 2014.
- Musique en mode géométrique, Sciences et avenir, special issue entitled « Le pouvoir infini des mathématiques », October/November 2011, p. 72-76.
- La musique est-elle purement mathématiques ?, émission en directe animée par Michel Alberganti, France Culture, 10 June 2011 (with M. Andreatta, D. Ghisi and R. Jamet).
- Une musique qui swingue de façon géométrique, Science Actualités, 2008.
- Andreatta e i modelli geometrici delle note, La Provincia Pavese, 5 September, p. 35. (An interview realized during the « Festival dei Saperi Linguaggi della creatività: matematica e musica », Pavia, 3-7 September 2008).
- The importance of being creative, The Irish Times, 3 Mai, p. 17. "Tiling Problems in Music Workshop", Dublin, 5 Mai 2007.
- Musique et mathématiques, histoire d’un chercheur, Le Journal des grandes écoles, n° 40, special issue, December, p. 98, 2006.
- Des jeunes s'éveillent à la douce musique des maths, Le Parisien, 23 July 2003.