Andreatta

Moreno Andreatta (Researcher, French National Centre for Scientific Research; Vice President, Society of Mathematics and Computation in Music; Coordinator, IRCAM's ATIAM Masters Program)

Moreno Andreatta is a Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) researcher in the Music Representation Team at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), where he also serves as coordinator of the Acoustique, traitement du signal, informatique, appliqués à la musique (ATIAM) Masters Program. He is currently Vice President of the Society of Mathematics and Computation in Music.

His research activities focus on the relationships between mathematics and music. In particular, he is interested in the algebraic formalization of musical structures and processes, a subject which was at the center of his PhD thesis, entitled "Méthodes algébriques dans la musique et la musicologie du XXème siècle : aspects théoriques, analytiques et compositionnels," in computational musicology in the Musique, Histoire, Société Doctoral Program organized by the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), the Institut of Research and Coordination on Acoustics and Music (IRCAM), the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse of Paris (CNSMDP).

He coordinates the mathematics and music activities within the Music Representation Team (1999- ), and organizes with Carlos Agon the MaMuX Seminar (Mathematics/Music and their relations with other fields) at IRCAM (2001- ), and with François Nicolas and Charles Alunni the mamuphi Seminar (Mathematics, music and philosophy) at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris (2005- ).

Since 2006, he has been editor (with Jean-Michel Bardez) of the "Musique/Sciences" Series (Ircam/Delatour France). He is a founding editorial board member of the Journal of Mathematics and Music, the official Journal of the Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music (SMCM), for which he serves as Vice President, and Editor (with Guerino Mazzola) of the Springer Computational Music Science book series. Since September 2009, with Mikhail Malt, he has taught "Music and Science after 1945 (MSV)" and "Applications of Acoustics, Signal Processing and Computer Science to contemporary music creation (CMC)" in the ATIAM Masters program.

During the 2012-2013 Academic Year, he was an invited researcher at the Institute of Algebra of the Technical University of Dresden, Germany, where he has been working on the application of Rudolf Wille's Formal Concept Analysis to music. The 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 his maths/music research to interact more deeply with his musical activity, in particular around song writing and improvisation.

Webpage - http://repmus.ircam.fr/moreno