Home Page of the Music Representation Group

IRCAM - UMR CNRS 9912

The Music Representations Team carries out research and development into the symbolic representation of musical structures, languages and computer paradigms adapted to music. This work finds application in both computer assisted composition (CAC) and computer-based musicology. Reflection into the high-level representation of musical concepts and structures supported by original computer languages developed by the team, leads to the conception of models, which can be used for both musical production and analysis.
On the creation side, since its distribution to a large community of musicians, the software has provoked new ways of thinking, which exploit the computer possibilities for simultaneously representing and executing the final score, its formal underlying structures and their generative processes.. It is important to note that a work elaborated in such a way contains, to a great extent, its own structural analysis. On the musicology side, the representation and modeling tools enable a truly experimental approach, injecting considerable dynamism to a discipline still underrepresented in France.



Projects

 

Software


Education

ATIAM Master's program : Acoustique, Traitement de signal, Informatique Appliqués à la Musique

Publications

The Music and Science Collection
The OM Composer's Book

Publications of the Music Representation Group:

PhD dissertations and Master's reports

Events

Séminaire MaMuX
Next session:
Fri. 14/05/2010: Musique algorithmique. Avec la participation de Gottfried Michael Koenig (compositeur), Gerhard Nierhaus (compositeur), Markus Noisternig (Ircam, équipe espaces acoustiques et cognitifs).

Past events:

- IHM 2007: Conference Francophone sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine (Ircam, Paris).
- SMC'04: Sound and Music Computing (Ircam, Paris).
- Séminaires sur l'analyse (2002).
- CP-2001: Musical Constraints Workshop
- Fourth Mathematical Forum DIDEROT (Ircam, Paris, 1999).
- Séminaire AFPLC: Musique et Contraintes (1999)
- ECAI'98 Workshop: Constraint Techniques for Artistic Applications (Brighton, UK).
- JIM'98 (some pictures)
- JIM'96: Journées d'Informatique Musicale (Ile de Tatihou, Fance).


People

Gérard Assayag (head)
Carlos Augusto Agon Amado
Moreno Andreatta
Jean Bresson
Benjamin Levy
Philippe Esling
Arnaud Dessein
Fivos Maniatakos
Marc Chemiller
Grégoire Carpentier
Gilbert Nouno
Mondher Ayari
Antoine Allombert
Camilo Rueda


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