Speaker/Performer: Jean Bresson, http://ircam.academia.edu/JeanBresson

Sponsor: Department of Music
Location: 125 Morrison Hall

Computer-Aided Composition, Sound Synthesis/Processing in OpenMusic: the Re Orso project

Jean Bresson will present and discuss some applications of computer-aided composition and the OpenMusic environment in Re Orso, an opera for voice, instruments and electronics by composer Marco Stroppa. Several aspects of computer-aided composition are involved in this opera ; Jean Bresson will focus on the generation of structured forms in the time and pitch domains for the control of sound synthesis and electronic instruments, and the generation of synthetic voice-oriented sounds using the Chant sound synthesizer.

Reception follows

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Bio:
Jean Bresson is a researcher in the Music Representation team at IRCAM (STMS lab, Paris, France). He is in charge of research and development on computer-aided composition and involved in several projects centered on connected thematic fields such as sound analysis, synthesis, and spatialization. He is currently the principal developer of OpenMusic and he created or contributed to an important number of specialized tools and libraries for this environment. He is also the author of numerous scientific publications and co-edited, with Carlos Agon and Gérard Assayag, a series of books on computer-aided composition and the use of OpenMusic.

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