Place/Dates: IRCAM, Paris 17-18 June 2008 ; Centre Pompidou 18 June 2008.

Description:

Expressivity Colloquium

One of the main emerging challenges of network performance involves the transmission of expressive attributes or information of the performer necessary for the re-creation of “immediacy”. This colloquium brought together distinguished researchers (Bresin, Juslin …), composers (Aperghis, Harvey, Stroppa …), actors (Bozonnet …) and other disciplines (linguistics, musicology …) in order to examine this question from different points of view.

Objective:

This colloquium aimed at defining and quantifying aspects of expressivity in music and speech for the purposes of recognition and control technologies useful in network performance. It aimed also to identify the elements of expressivity that can be represented and manipulated by technologies such as EyesWeb, gesture recognition and sound analysis systems.

Results:

The colloquium identified some of the important sonic, gestural and expressive “descriptors” (formal attributes).

 

Target group: composers, researchers, musicologists, actors, computer musicians, sound designers.

Number of participants/visitors/audience :

• 80 during the “scientific” part at IRCAM,

• 120 during a general public session at the Centre Pompidou.