Keynote Speakers

12th International Conference on New Music Concepts

ICNMC aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of Music Studies, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.

March 22-23, 2025     Treviso - Italy

Deadline: January 18, 2025

 

 

Pierre Saint-Germier
IRCAM Paris, France

Pierre Saint-Germier is a CNRS research fellow in philosophy, working in the Science and Technologies of Music and Sound Lab unit at IRCAM. With a dual specialization in logic and epistemology on the one hand, and in the philosophy of music on the other, he has conducted research on thought experiments, the logic of imagination, and musical improvisation. He coordinated the book Language, Evolution, and Mind (College Publications, 2018) and translated in French with Clément Canonne two volumes of writings on music by the American philosopher Jerrold Levinson (Essais de Philosophie de la Musique, Vrin, 2015; L'expérience musicale, Vrin, 2020). His current research program focuses on the philosophy of sound and music in the age of digital reproducibility. The aim is to use music and sound as a prism through which to study the consequences of the digital revolution and artificial intelligence on our contemporary condition. Parallel to his research, he likes to surround himself with piano keyboards and synthesizers. He participated in the summer program of the School for Improvisational Music in New York (2017).

 
 

Myriam Desainte-Catherine
Université de Bordeaux, France

Myriam Desainte-Catherine is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at ENSEIRB-MATMECA at Bordeaux INP and researcher at LaBRI (Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique, Bordeaux computer research laboratory) and SCRIME (Studio de Création et de Recherche en Informatique et Musiques Expérimentales, Studio of Creation and Research in Computer Science and Experimental Music).Myriam Desainte-Catherine is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at ENSEIRB-MATMECA at Bordeaux INP and researcher at LaBRI (Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique, Bordeaux computer research laboratory) and SCRIME (Studio de Création et de Recherche en Informatique et Musiques Expérimentales, Studio of Creation and Research in Computer Science and Experimental Music).
At the beginning of her career, she carried out her research in the field of bijective combinatorics. Then, she switched to computer music and sound processing to focus her research on musical creation. Her main subject of interest is the modelling of time and interaction for musical composition and performance. In particular, she has designed a hybrid model of time which forms the basis of the OSSIA-score software. More recently, she has been working on the modelling of interactive musical systems according to their temporal dimension, in particular the Metapiano and the MidifilePerformer. She is now interested in extending this model to the spatial and hierarchical dimensions.
Her research work has resulted in the creation of the Sound and Music Modelling group in the Image and Sound department of the LaBRI and the creation of the SCRIME (scrime.u-bordeaux.fr).
Until 2023, she was director of the SCRIME, which she founded with Christian Eloy, who was then professor of electroacoustic music composition at the Bordeaux Conservatoire. The SCRIME is now a research platform accredited by the University of Bordeaux and managed by a GIS (Groupement d'Intérêts Scientifique et Artistique, scientific and artistic interest group) composed of the University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux INP, the CNRS, Bordeaux City Council, the DRAC and the Regional Council. The SCRIME has been supported by the DGCA (géneral direction of artistique creation of the French Ministry of Culture) for over twenty years.
On a national level, she is one of the founding members of the AFIM (Association Francophone d'Informatique Musicale), of which she is co-president.
At the beginning of her career, she carried out her research in the field of bijective combinatorics. Then, she switched to computer music and sound processing to focus her research on musical creation. Her main subject of interest is the modelling of time and interaction for musical composition and performance. In particular, she has designed a hybrid model of time which forms the basis of the OSSIA-score software. More recently, she has been working on the modelling of interactive musical systems according to their temporal dimension, in particular the Metapiano and the MidifilePerformer. She is now interested in extending this model to the spatial and hierarchical dimensions.
Her research work has resulted in the creation of the Sound and Music Modelling group in the Image and Sound department of the LaBRI and the creation of the SCRIME (scrime.u-bordeaux.fr).
Until 2023, she was director of the SCRIME, which she founded with Christian Eloy, who was then professor of electroacoustic music composition at the Bordeaux Conservatoire. The SCRIME is now a research platform accredited by the University of Bordeaux and managed by a GIS (Groupement d'Intérêts Scientifique et Artistique, scientific and artistic interest group) composed of the University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux INP, the CNRS, Bordeaux City Council, the DRAC and the Regional Council. The SCRIME has been supported by the DGCA (géneral direction of artistique creation of the French Ministry of Culture) for over twenty years.
On a national level, she is one of the founding members of the AFIM (Association Francophone d'Informatique Musicale), of which she is co-president.

 
 

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