Gérard Assayag 

head of the Music Representation Research Group at Ircam Assayag, Gérard

Gérard Assayag is currently head of the Music Representation Research Group at Ircam. Born in 1960, he studied computer science, music and linguistics. He won a national contest launched in 1980 by the French Informatics Agency on "Art and the Computer". In the mid-eighties, he wrote the first Ircam environment for score-oriented Computer Assisted Composition. He invented and wrote with Carlos Agon the OpenMusic environment which is currently used by hundreds of composers/musicologists throughout the world and is taught in several music institutions. He is currently coordinator of ATIAM (a Masters/Ph.D. course in Acoustics, Signal Processing, Computer Science Applied to Music co-organized by Ircam and four French universities). His research results in computer music modeling are regularly published in proceedings, books and journals. Gérard Assayag is also founder member of the SFIM (the French Society of Music Informatics) and member of the FWO Research Society on Foundations of Music Research. His research interests are focused on music representation issues and include computer language paradigms, machine learning, logic, constraint and visual programming, computational musicology, music structure modeling and computer-assisted composition.