Assayag

Gérard Assayag (Head, IRCAM's Sciences and Technologies of Music and Sound Research Lab; Founder, IRCAM's Music Representation Team)

Gérard Assayag is head of IRCAM's Research Lab «Sciences and Technologies of Music and Sound » and of its Music Representation Team, which he founded in 1992. His research interests are centered on music representation issues, including programming languages, machine learning, constraint and visual programming, computational musicology, music modeling, and computer-assisted composition. He has designed with his collaborators OpenMusic and OMax, two music research environments which have received international acclaim, and are used in many contexts all over the world for computer assisted composition, analysis and improvisation.

Gérard Assayag is a founding member of AFIM (Association Francaise d'Informatique Musicale) and SMCM (Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music). He serves in the Editorial Boards of SMCM's Journal of Mathematics and Music, and of the Journal of New Music Research (JNMR). He has organized or co-organised the "Forum Diderot, Mathematique et Musique" for the European Mathematical Society in 1999 as well as several international computer music conferences, including the Sound and Music Computing 2004 conference, the 3rd Mathematics and Computation in Music conference in 2011 and the Improtech Paris—New York 2012 conference on Improvisation an new technologies.

Gérard Assayag has been co-editor of several journal special issues on music science such as JNMR and Soft Computing, and of books including «Mathematic and Music » (Springer-Verlag 1999), «The OM Composer's Book » (Delatour 2008), «New Computational Paradigms for Computer Music » (Delatour 2009), and «Constraint Programming in Music » (Wiley 2012).

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