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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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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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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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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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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