OMax

OMax

by Gérard Assayag, Georges Bloch, Marc Chemillier,
and Shlomo Dubnov, Benjamin Lévy

OMax is a software environment which learns in real-time typical features of a musician's style and plays along with him interactively, giving the flavor of a machine co-improvisation. It is based on a research on stylistic modeling carried out by Gerard Assayag and Shlomo Dubnov and a research on improvisation with the computer by G. Assayag, M. Chemillier and G. Bloch (Aka the OMax Brothers).
Now in its fourth version, entirely rewritten for Max5, OMax is developed by Benjamin Levy and it is the center of an on-going PhD.

This research was funded 2004-2005 by a grant from the French Ministry of Research: Creation of Scientific Mediation Products on the Internet

Conception : 2/3 of The OMax Brothers (Gérard Assayag, Marc Chemillier), IRCAM
Music : Bernard Lubat, Cie Lubat de Gasconha
Realisation : Elise Racinais, IKOTAME Tests / Maquette : Pascal Joube, Lune Bleue

Here is a cross interview (in french) produced by Telerama.fr to introduce OMax from both one of its creator and a musician playing with it.