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Gérard Assayag
Gérard Assayag is Head of the Music Representation Research Group at IRCAM in Paris, and head of the Sciences and Technologies of Music and Sound (STMS) IRCAM/CNRS Lab. Born in 1960, he has trained in computer science, music and linguistics. In 1980, while a student, he won the research awards in the national contest ‘Art and the Computer’ launched by the Ministry of Research and Industry. In the mid-1980s, he wrote the first IRCAM environment for score-oriented computer-assisted composition. In the mid-1990s he created, with Carlos Agon, the OpenMusic environment, which has become the standard for computational composition and musicology. Recently, Gérard Assayag and his collaborators created the OMax computational improvisation system based on machine listening/machine learning, which has become a recognized reference in the field.