Real-Time Audio Signal Processing in Faust

Romain Michon is a lecturer and researcher at GRAME-CNCM (Lyon, France) and at CCRMA (Stanford University, USA). He studied musicology and computer science at Saint-Etienne University (France) and NUIM (Ireland) as well as performance practice at Saint-Etienne and Lyon (France) conservatories. His research focuses on the Faust programming language, physical modeling of musical instruments, new interfaces for musical expression (NIME), and human computer interaction (HCI). He has been teaching workshops and courses on these topics in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Michon also makes new musical instruments exploiting the concept of “hybrid lutherie” where acoustic and physically-informed digital elements are combined. He performed with them at various festivals, conferences, and concerts throughout the world. For more details, see http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~rmichon/.

Yann Orlarey (1959) is a french composer and computer music researcher. He studied economics and computer science at Lyon university, and attended electroacoustic music classes at the conservatory in Saint-Etienne. His repertoire includes music on tape, interactive pieces, instrumental pieces for soloists, small groups and orchestras, as well as sound installations. Works by him have been performed in Europe, North America and Asia. Yann Orlarey is currently scientific director at GRAME. His research work focuses on real-time architectures of music systems, and programming languages for music composition and audio processing. He authored or co-authored more than 60 scientific papers and several music-oriented softwares. He is the designer of FAUST (Functional Audio Stream), a functional programming language specifically designed for real-time signal processing and synthesis. His current research interests include efficient compilation and parallelization of signal processing programs, end-user programming, and preservation of signal processing programs using formal mathematical techniques.

Chris Chafe is a composer, improvisor and cellist, developing much of his music alongside computer-based research. He is Director of Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). At IRCAM (Paris) and The Banff Centre (Alberta), he pursued methods for digital synthesis, music performance and real-time internet collaboration. CCRMA's SoundWIRE project involves live concertizing with musicians the world over. Online collaboration software including jacktrip and research into latency factors continue to evolve. An active performer either on the net or physically present, his music reaches audiences in dozens of countries and sometimes at novel venues. A simultaneous five-country concert was hosted at the United Nations in 2009. Chafe's works are available from Centaur Records and various online media. Gallery and museum music installations are into their second decade with "musifications" resulting from collaborations with artists, scientists and MD's. Recent work includes the Brain Stethoscope project, PolarTide for the 2013 Venice Biennale, Tomato Quintet for the transLife:media Festival at the National Art Museum of China and Sun Shot played by the horns of large ships in the port of St. Johns, Newfoundland.

Julius O. Smith normally teaches a music signal-processing course sequence and supervises related research at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). He is formally a professor of music and (by courtesy) electrical engineering. In 1975, he received his BS/EE degree from Rice University, where he got started in the field of digital signal processing and modeling for control. In 1983, he received the PhD/EE degree from Stanford University, specializing in techniques for digital filter design and system identification, with application to violin modeling. His work history includes the Signal Processing Department at Electromagnetic Systems Laboratories, Inc., working on systems for digital communications, the Adaptive Systems Department at Systems Control Technology, Inc., working on research problems in adaptive filtering and spectral estimation, and NeXT Computer, Inc., where he was responsible for sound, music, and signal processing software for the NeXT computer workstation. Prof. Smith is a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society and the Acoustical Society of America. He is the author of four online books and numerous research publications in his field.