friday, april 25, 2008 • radcliffe fellowship colloquium room, 34 concord avenue
an analytical listening through interactive visualization cluster symposium

Gérard Assayag is currently head of the Music Representation Research Group at IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique) in Paris, and Directeur de Recherches associe for the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). His research interests center on music representation issues, and include computer language paradigms, machine learning, constraint and visual programming, computational musicology, music modeling, and computer-assisted composition.

Gérard Assayag developed the first IRCAM environment for score-oriented Computer Assisted Composition, and later created, with Carlos Agon, the OpenMusic environment which is currently used by numerous composers and musicologists around the world. In the recent years, Gérard Assayag has carried out research and developed software in style modeling and computer improvisation.

Morwaread Farbood's research encompasses topics in music theory and cognition, computational modeling of music, and computer-assisted/algorithmic composition systems. Her work, which includes the software application Hyperscore, has been exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City, the Casa-di-Musica in Portugal, and Haus der Musik in Vienna. She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard, where she studied music and computer science. She spent two years as a Ph.D. student in composition and theory at Brandeis before coming to the MIT Media Laboratory, where she earned her Ph.D. She is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at New York University.

Christopher Raphael heads the Music Informatics program in the School of Informatics at Indiana University, as well as holding adjunct appointments in the Jacobs School of Music, Cognitive Science, and Statistics. After receiving his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University in 1991, he worked on a wide range of problems in both industry and academia including Arabic character recognition, magnetic resonance spectroscopy and mine detection before coming to focus on music. His musical research includes accompaniment systems, computer generated musical analysis, musical signal processing, and modeling of musical interpretation.

Hans Tutschku is an assistant professor of composition and director of the electroacoustic studios at Harvard University. Born 1966 in Weimar, he has been a member of the "Ensemble for intuitive music Weimar" since 1982. He studied composition of electronic music at the college of music Dresde and had since 1989 the opportunity to participate in several concert cycles of Karlheinz Stockhausen to learn the art of the sound direction. He further studied 1991/92 Sonology and electroacoustic composition at the royal conservatoire in The Hague (Holland). In 1994, Hans Tutschku followed a one year study stay at IRCAM in Paris. He taught 1995/96 as a guest professor electroacoustic composition in Weimar. 1996 he participated in composition workshops with Klaus Huber and Brian Ferneyhough. 1997-2001 he taught electroacoustic composition at IRCAM in Paris and from 2001 to 2004 at the conservatory of Montbéliard. In May 2003 he completed a doctorate (PhD) with Professor Dr. Jonty Harrison at the University of Birmingham. During the spring term 2003 he was the "Edgar Varèse Gast Professor" at the TU Berlin.