Elvira Brattico – Automatic processing of musical emotions in the brain

2016-06-092017-04-05 Jean-Julien Aucouturier

Ircam, 9th June 2016

Speaker: Elvira Brattico (Aarhus University)

Elvira Brattico (PhD in Psychology, University of Helsinki, 2007) is Professor of Neuroscience, Music and Aesthetics at the Center for Music in the Brain (MIB), Aarhus University and Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg, Denmark. She is a pioneer in applying computational music information retrieval methods to neurophysiological and neuroimaging methods to solve questions concerning music processing, such as how the brain represents musical features and why we enjoy music. Prof.Brattico has published more than 100 papers, of which 68 appear in peer-reviewed international journals or conference proceedings.

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Gregory Beller (IRCAM) – Voice Synthesis Technologies in Contemporary Music Creation

2016-06-092017-04-05 Jean-Julien Aucouturier

Speaker: Gregory Beller (IRCAM)

Greg Beller works as an artist, a researcher, a teacher and a computer designer for contemporary arts. He defended a PhD thesis in Computer Science on generative models for expressivity and their applications for speech and music, especially through performance. While developing new ideas for signal analysis, processing, synthesis and control, he takes part in a range of artistic projects. He is currently the director of the department for Research/Creativity Interfaces of IRCAM, where he coordinates the works of the researchers, the developers, the computer music designers and the artists in the creation, the design and the performance of artistic moments.

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Aniruddh D. Patel – Music, Language, Emotion, and the Brain: a Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective

2016-06-092017-04-05 Jean-Julien Aucouturier

Ircam, 9th June 2016

Speaker: Aniruddh D. Patel (Tufts University)

Aniruddh (Ani) Patel is a cognitive neuroscientist who studies the relationship between music and language. He uses a range of methods in this research, including brain imaging, theoretical analyses, acoustic measurements, and comparative work with other species. Patel has served as president of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, and has published over 70 research articles and a scholarly book, Music, Language and the Brain (2008, Oxford). He is a Professor of Psychology at Tufts University.

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Philippe Schlenker (ENS) – Prolegomena to Music Semantics

2016-06-092017-04-05 Jean-Julien Aucouturier

IRCAM, June 9th, 2016

Speaker: Philippe Schlenker (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)

Philippe Schlenker is a Senior Researcher (DR1) at Institut Jean-Nicod (CNRS) and a Global Distinguished Professor at New York University. He was educated at École Normale Supérieure (Paris), and obtained a Ph.D. in Linguistics from MIT, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from EHESS (Paris). His research has been devoted to the semantics and pragmatics of spoken and signed languages, to philosophical logic and the philosophy of language, to primate communication, and more recently to some aspects of music cognition.

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Gregory A. Bryant (UCLA) – Animal signals and emotion in music

2016-06-092017-04-05 Jean-Julien Aucouturier

IRCAM, June 9th, 2016

Speaker: Prof. Gregory A. Bryant (University of California, Los Angeles)

Gregory A. Bryant is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at University of California, Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2004. His research focuses primarily on vocal communication, and how acoustic features of the voice interact with language and communicative intentions. He is also a musician and sound engineer, and his work has been included in sound art exhibitions in the Americas and Europe.

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Benjamin Morillon – Motor Origin of Temporal Predictions in Auditory Attention

2016-05-242017-04-28 Jean-Julien Aucouturier

Speaker: Benjamin Morillon (INSERM/Institut des Neurosciences des Systèmes, Université d’Aix Marseille)

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PNAS press roundup

2016-03-062016-03-14 Jean-Julien Aucouturier

Jan 2016 – Humbled at the amazing media response to our voice feedback study. Some great write-ups from science outlets such as Science News, New Scientist and Science Friday, as well as general public news outlet such as HuffPo, Vox, … and even Glamour! Last but not least, it was great fun to use our voice changin tool DAVID to process a good deal of announcer voices on radios in France, Germany, Deustchland and Canada. See a selection of links below, and see complete round-up on Altmetrics

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CREAM is looking for a RA! (fixed-term, 2-months)

2016-03-022016-03-08 Jean-Julien Aucouturier

Assistant de recherche EEG pour passation d’expériences de psychologie/neuroscience

Période: Avril à Mai 2016

L’équipe CREAM (“Cracking the Emotional Code of Music” – http://cream.ircam.fr) du laboratoire
STMS UMR9912 (CNRS/IRCAM/UPMC – http://www.ircam.fr) à Paris cherche à engager en contrat
CDD (temps-plein ou temps incomplet) un ou une assistant/e de recherche pour la passation de
plusieurs expériences de psychologie et neurosciences cognitive sur le thème de la musique et des
émotions, dont plusieurs utilisant l’EEG, sur la période d’Avril à Mai 2016. La personne recrutée travaillera en collaboration avec les chercheurs ayant conçu les expériences et sera responsable de la collecte de données, en autonomie.

[PDF] Announcement

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The way you sound affects your mood – new study in PNAS

2016-01-112016-01-11 Jean-Julien Aucouturier

We created a digital audio platform to covertly modify the emotional tone of participants’ voices while they talked toward happiness, sadness, or fear. Independent listeners perceived the transformations as natural examples of emotional speech, but the participants remained unaware of the manipulation, indicating that we are not continuously monitoring our own emotional signals. Instead, as a consequence of listening to their altered voices, the emotional state of the participants changed in congruence with the emotion portrayed. This result is the first evidence, to our knowledge, of peripheral feedback on emotional experience in the auditory domain.

The study is a collaboration between the CREAM team in Science and Technology of Music and Sound Lab (STMS), (IRCAM/CNRS/UPMC), the LEAD Lab (CNRS/University of Burgundy) in France, Lund University in Sweden, and Waseda University and the University of Tokyo in Japan.

Aucouturier, J.J., Johansson, P., Hall, L., Segnini, R., Mercadié, L. & Watanabe, K. (2016) Covert Digital Manipulation of Vocal Emotion Alter Speakers’ Emotional State in a Congruent Direction, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1506552113

Article is open-access at : http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/01/05/1506552113

See our press-release: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-01/lu-twy011116.php

A piece in Science Magazine reviewing the work: http://news.sciencemag.org/brain-behavior/2016/01/how-change-your-mood-just-listening-sound-your-voice

Download the emotional transformation software at: http://cream.ircam.fr/?p=44

Guillaume Dumas – Operationalizing Social Neuroscience through Human-Human and Human-Machine Interactions

2015-12-162017-04-28 Jean-Julien Aucouturier

Speaker: Guillaume Dumas (Institut Pasteur & Hopital Robert-Debré, Paris)

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TF1 – Le Pouvoir de la Musique

2015-12-112016-01-11 Jean-Julien Aucouturier

The CREAM lab at IRCAM was lucky to be featured on national TV this week, as part of a feature on the emotional power of music. Many thanks to Sylvie Pinatel and the TF1 team, it was good fun.

See the complete feature in replay here: http://lci.tf1.fr/jt-20h/videos/2015/le-pouvoir-de-la-musique-une-enigme-pour-les-scientifiques-8682237.html

Pascal Belin – A Vocal Brain: Cerebral Processing of Voice Information

2015-12-082017-04-28 Jean-Julien Aucouturier

Speaker: Pascal Belin (Institut des Neurosciences de la Timone, Université d’Aix Marseille)

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