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Sylvain Le Groux received his Electrical Engineering degree from King’s college, London and ESME, Paris; his M.Sc. in Musical Acoustics, Signal Processing & Computer Science from IRCAM/Paris Tech and his Ph.D. in Cognitive Systems from Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
In the course of his studies he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to U.C. Berkeley and a visiting scholarship to Stanford University.

Educational Background
2001 - Joint “ingenieur” degree (with distinction) King’s College, London and ESME, Paris
2002 - M.Sc. Musical Acoustics, Signal Processing & Computer Science (with honors), IRCAM/ Paris Tech
2006 - M.A. Music Composition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra/ESMUC, Barcelona
2011 - Ph.D. Cognitive & Intelligent Systems (Summa cum laude), Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Fields

 

]]> Affective Computing, Immersive Environments, Signal Processing, Psychoacoustics, Psychophysiology, Music Information Retrieval, Intelligent Data Analysis, Machine Learning, Interactive Music Systems, Physical Interface Design, Music Composition and Music Therapy.

]]> Recent Courses
MUSI 6001 - Music Perception and Cognition
MUSI 6202 - Digital Audio Processing for Music
MUSI 6002 - Interactive Music
MUSI 7100 - Music Technology Research Lab

]]> Research ambitions

I follow multi-disciplinary approach to music research and teaching in order to address questions at the intersection of music perception, cognition, emotion, technology, artistic performance and therapy.

Research Groups/Labs

Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology

 

Recent Publications

Books:

  • Sylvain Le Groux and Paul F. M. J. Verschure. Music Is All Around Us: A Situated Approach to Interactive Music Composition. Exeter: Imprint Academic, April 2011.

Selected peer-reviewed conference proceedings:

  • Sylvain Le Groux and Paul F. M. J. Verschure. The SMuSe: An situated cognition approach to interactive music composition. In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Ljubjana, Slovenia, September 2012.
  • Sylvain Le Groux et al. Disembodied and collaborative musical interaction in the Multimodal Brain Orchestra. In NIME ’10: Proceedings of the international conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Sydney, NSW, Australia, June 2010. ACM Press.
  • Sylvain Le Groux and Paul F. M. J. Verschure. Emotional responses to the perceptual dimensions of timbre: A pilot study using physically inspired sound synthesis. In Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling, Malaga, Spain, June 2010.
  • Sylvain Le Groux and Paul F. M. J. Verschure. Adaptive music generation by reinforcement learning of musical tension. In 7th Sound and Music Computing Conference, Barcelona, Spain, July 2010.
  • Sylvain Le Groux and Paul F. M. J. Verschure. PERCEPTSYNTH: Mapping perceptual musical features to sound synthesis parameters. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference ons Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Las Vegas, USA, April 2008.

 

Performances and exhibitions

  •  The Emotion Machine@Fabrica Fabra i Coats, Barcelona, 2012
  • In SMuSe @Ernst Strungmann Forum, Frankfurt, 2011
  • Brain Date@SwissNex, San Francisco, 2010
  • Robot Arena with SPECS @Sonar, Barcelona, 2010
  • Brain Orchestra with J. Manzolli, SPECS and G-tec @FET, Prague, 2009
  • Re(per)curso with J. Manzolli and SPECS @Museum of Modern Art and @Ars Futura, Barcelona, 2009
  • Instrumenta, with Karlheinz Essl, Hugo Solis and Mauricio Valdes @Festival Instrumenta Contemporanea, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2008

 

 

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