Jean-Francois Charles

This summer, the Prisma group of composers & music technologists met online instead of at Ircam . The meetings took place every day from July 6 to July 9, in four different time zones: 6-8pm in Paris, Berlin & Vienna 12-2pm in Boston/Cambridge 11am-1pm in Winnipeg & Iowa City 9-11am in Los Angeles We had a great set of presentations: Hans Tutschku: Composing with Large Sound Collections Jacopo Baboni Schilingi: Le Temps de l'Écho Johannes Kretz: creative (mis)understandings Johannes Kretz: Experiences with Live-Electronics – completely on iPad and (almost) completely wireless Orjan Sandred & Julien Vincenot: Cluster Engine from PWGL into Max as part of MOZlib Orjan Sandred: Creative projects Jean-François Charles: Spectral envelopes: gaussian blur, cepstral cross-synthesis, and historical pattern recognition As per usual, the presentations touched on topics ranging from aesthetics to art & technology. We all learnt a lot. We hop...

This year, the Prisma meeting took place at Ircam from July 5th to 7th. Jacopo Baboni was the main organizer, as usual; Hans Tutschku showed how he uses light live electronics & spatialization in his compositions Still Air 3 for oboe, bass clarinet & electronics, and Shadow of bells for piano & electronics; Orjan Sandred presented his recent compositions, as well as new developments in his contraint programming for computer-aided composition; Johannes Kretz shared his Timbre Tunnel to morph sound in real-time; Michele Tadini gave a new version of his granular synthesis tool the T-Grain ; Invited for the first time, Stéphane Boussuge presented the computer-aided composition tool Opusmodus - to know more about it, check out this article on music radar: Composition meets programming with OpusModus ; Jean Bresson, Jérémie Garcia and Xavier Favory presented computer-aided composition tools (especially a new reactive mode in OpenMusic) and interfaces for the control ...

Prisma stands for International Pedagogy and Research on Assisted Musical Systems. This summer, this group of composers, musicians, and software developers is meeting from July 2nd to 5th at Ircam in Paris. Participants include: Guilherme Carvalho Michele Tadini Mikael Laurson Hans Tutschku Jacopo Baboni Schilingi Johannes Kretz Örjan Sandred Julien Vincenot Ircam in the back of the Stravinsky fountain. My talk this year: the Physics of Music & Sound Last year, my talk was entitled Ableton Live for Live Electronics . I compared Ableton Live to Max 5 , highlighting what was easier to realize using one or the other piece of software, in the context of composing for classical instruments and live electronic music. I also talked about Logic Pro, since most of the "live electronic music" capabilities used by many composers are also implemented inside Logic Pro's environment. This year, I'm going to present several dimensions of the Harvard course The Physics of ...

Prisma is a group of composers and researchers dedicated to International Pedagogy and Research on Assisted Musical Systems . The next Prisma event is happening in Shanghai Conservatory as part of the 2009 Shanghai International Electroacoustic Music Week. From October 16th to 26th, you can attend workshops (including hands-on instruction by the best specialists of PWGL ), a series of conferences, and concerts. I have been invited with the following musicians and researchers: Hans Tutschku , composer, Harvard University (USA) Jacopo Baboni-Schilingi , composer, Conservatory of Montbeliard (France) Orjan Sandred , composer, researcher, University of Manitoba (Canada) Johannes Kretz , composer, researcher, University of Vienna (Austria) Mikael Laurson , researcher, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki (Finland) Carlos Caires , composer, Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa and CITAR - Research Center for Science and Technology in Art (Portugal) Mika Kuuskankare , researcher, composer, Center for ...

Jacopo Baboni Schilingi is a composer, the founder of the Prisma group, and currently holds the position of composition professor at Montbéliard Conservatory. You are invited to the presentation of his book La musique hyper-systémique : Une réponse possible (link to amazon France): Saturday, March 14th, 11am Ircam - 4 place Igor Stravinski 75004 - Paris François Nicolas will be moderating the discussion. Guests include Gian Franco Vinay, Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Ernesto Napolitano, and Jean-Marc Chouvel, who will discuss with the author the propositions exposed in his work published by éditions MIX . Music is a judgement In the third chapter of the book, Jacopo introduces the 323 theoretical foundations of hyper-systemic music . Here are a few of them: 01 Music is a judgement. 05 A sound is a phenomena. 84 Memory and judgement are inseparable. 305 Art is free expression. From Jacopo's 2007 project Crossborder (picture from Jacopo's web site ) Jacopo gave the book to ...

I am just back from Montbéliard, France, where I took part in the July 2008 Prisma Meeting. Prisma is an international group of composers and researchers founded in 2001 at the initiative of Jacopo Baboni Schilingi . Prisma stands for " International Pedagogy and Research on Assisted Musical Systems ." I joined in 2003 at the invitation of Jacopo Baboni and Hans Tutschku . The group meet regularly to exchange and build musical knowledge. This time, the schedule looked like this (original untranslated program): Saturday 07/05 Générations musicales temps-réels de populations d'agents neuromimétiques ( Frédéric Voisin ) Rules for controlling Energy Profiles ( Orjan Sandred ) First steps towards Klangpilot3, a realtime system for learning sound synthesis ( Johannes Kretz ) Six hermeneutical models ( Jacopo Baboni Schilingi ) Sunday 07/06 PWGL - News (Mikael Laurson, Mika Kuuskankare , and Kilian Sprotte ) More PWGL News (Jacopo Baboni Schilingi and Orjan Sandr...