ICT’2018 – Vienna – 4-6 Dec 2018

Call : ICT-01-2019 - Computing technologies and engineering methods for

cyber-physical systems of systems

Real-time languages for CPS with humans in the loop

Hugues Vinet
Director of Innovation and Research Means, IRCAM
hugues(dot)vinet(at)ircam.fr
 Introduction to IRCAM
IRCAM (Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique/ musique)
–  A unique institution dedicated to music/technology/research interactions
–  Located in Paris and associated to Centre Pompidou – high bandwidth public exposure
–  Artistic Creation : 30+ works produced per year using latest technology (music, dance, multimedia,…)
–  Leading research center in Science and Technology of Music and Sound (STMS)
 R&D at IRCAM : World leader in STMS
Science and Technology of Music and Sound
–  IRCAM hosts the IRCAM-CNRS-UPMC joint STMS lab
–  150 persons : 100 researchers/engineers/PhD and 40 interns/guests
–  Largest public lab and world research leader in music and sound technologies

–  Scientific topics : digital audio signal processing, computer science, acoustics, human perception/ cognition,
musicology

–  Technology licenses : Several dozens ongoing

–  Software development : 20+ software environments distributed through various channels :

ircam
forumnet
IRCAM’s usergroup
5000+ professional users
Advanced authoring environments
forumnet.ircam.fr
Professional audio High quality audio/music Music modules for Ableton Software libraries for tech
production plugins applications Live (electronic music) transfer (licenses) :
High quality audio
www.ircamtools.com www.ircamlab.com https://www.ableton.com/ processing, 3D,audio, music
en/packs/ircamax-2/ indexing, musical interaction,
 IRCAM Participation in EU projects

10 projects ongoing/accepted (underlined : IRCAM Coordinator)
Program Name Object
ERC-2013-StG Cream Cracking the Emotional Code of Music

ERC-2016-ADG IRiMaS Interactive Research in Music as Sound:Transforming Digital Musicology

H2020 ICT-19-2015 ABC_DJ Artist-to-Business-to-Business-to-Consumer Audio Branding System

H2020-MSCA-IF-2014_GF MIM Enhancing Motion Interaction through Music Performance

Creative Europe/Culture Ulysses 2 A European Odyssey with Young Artists for New Music

Creative Europe/ Culture Interfaces New Models and Practices for Audience Development in Contemporary Music in Europe

STARTS : Adding value to research and technology through integration of artists in projects and synergy creation between creative
H2020 ICT-36-2016 VERTIGO
industries, entrepreneurs, researchers and arts

H2020 ICT-22-2016 iMuSciCA Interactive Music Science Collaborative Activities

H2020 ICT-19-2017 FuturePulse Multimodal Predictive Analytics and Recommendation Services for the Music Industry

H2020 ICT-32-2018 STARTS Ecosystem Support to Lighthouse projects and STARTS initiative, through the creation of an ecosystem for blended talent

-  IRCAM among top 15 French beneficiaries of H2020 ICT (2015-17)

-  IRCAM first French beneficiary on Content Management (2015-16)
 Introduction to IRCAM R&D
Recent industry transfer

Recent startups : Voxler, Niland, Mogees, Phonotonic, Syos, Antescofo, HyVibe

IRCAM Technology Offer
Specialized real-time languages
Leading R&D in real-time languages specialized for media systems with humans in
the loop
•  Initial applications for multimedia interaction (sound, music, video) and potential to CPS
•  Coordination of asynchronous and synchronous processes with various synchronization strategies
•  synchronous : periodic dataflow (signals)
•  asynchronous : events, human actions

•  Both GALS (globally async and locally sync) or LAGS (locally async and globally sync) situations
•  Development of languages (formal definition, visual proramming interfaces) and schedulers
•  Leads to applications with a wide user base
 Past developments :
The MAX(/MSP) environment
•  Visual programming and real-time
scheduling for multimedia (sound,
video)
•  World leader for multimedia
interaction for 25 years
•  N.10000 users worldwide,
exclusive licence to Cycling’74 in
San Francisco
The Antescofo language
•  Developed as part of INRIA team
for interactive computer music :
the computer as a performer
•  Management of frequency-
variable clocks (tempo)
•  Various synchronisation
strategies between processes
•  Already used in dozens of music
pieces
•  Currently applied by the
Antescofo startup for automatic
music accompaniment Metronaut
product
 Thank you for your attention !

Contact :

hugues (dot) vinet (at) ircam (dot) fr

http://www.ircam.fr/