CREAM Lab in Japan 1~8/11

2016-10-282016-10-29 Jean-Julien Aucouturier

Exciting news: Laura, Pablo, Emmanuel and JJ from the lab will be “touring” (the academic version thereof, at least) Japan this coming week, with two events planned in Tokyo:

We’ll present our voice transformation software DAVID and our related research on emotional vocal feedback at the “Europa Science House” of the Science Agora event at Miraikan – Dates: Thursday 3 – Sunday 6 Nov, 10:00-17:00 / Venue: Miraikan 1F Booth Aa. This is at the kind invitation of the European Union’s Delegation in Japan.
We co-organize a public workshop on Music cognition, emotion and audio technology with our friend Tomoya Nakai from University of Tokyo (he did all the organizing work, really), on Monday November 7th. This is hosted by Kazuo Okanoya’s laboratory.

If you’re around, and want to chat, please drop us a line. 「日本にきてとてもうれしい！！」

[CLOSED] Research internship (EEG/Speech/Emotion)

2016-10-042016-11-09 Jean-Julien Aucouturier

CREAM is looking for a talented master student interested in EEG and speech for a spiffy research internship combining Mismatch Negativity and some of our fancy new voice transformations technologies (here and there). The intern will work under the supervision of Laura Rachman and Jean-Julien Aucouturier (CNRS/IRCAM) & Stéphanie Dubal (Brain & Spine Institute, Hopital La Salpétrière, Paris).

See the complete announcement here: internship-annonce

Duration: 5-6months first half of 2017 (e.g. Feb‐June ’17).

Applications: send a CV and cover letter by email to Laura Rachman & JJ Aucouturier (see announcement). Interviews for selected applicants will be held in November‐December 2016.

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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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

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

ICME4 – First day in the beautiful biotech Campus

2015-10-122015-11-06 Pablo Arias

Today was the first day of the ICME4 conference, a 5-day event organised by the University of Geneva and the Geneva University of music, and hosted at the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences in Geneva.

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