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Marcelo Wanderley appointed an INRIA International Chair, 2016-20.

Published: 8 March 2016

Professor Marcelo M. Wanderley has been awarded an Inria International Chair for 2016-2020. Prof. Wanderley is the first McGill researcher to be awarded this chair and is among the four awardees this year. Inria is the French National Institute for Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. This is the first time a Professor of Music is awarded this chair, attesting to the wide variety of research directions and the impact of the work developed at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University.    

Professor Wanderley will be conducting research on music technology and human-computer interaction as part of the MJOLNIR group at Inria in Lille, France. The chair's main focus will be on the development of computing tools to empower the user. The goal is to create novel digital musical instruments and systems that will allow for highly-skilled musical performances. This work will build upon the MIDWAY (Musical Interaction Design Workbench And technologY) international project, between Inria and McGill researchers. MIDWAY focuses on the development of tools to facilitate the exploration and design of new interactive technologies for both musical creation and performance. The project is funded by the Inria International Associate Teams Program, the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et Technologies and the France Canada Research Fund. 

Inria teams are typically groups of researchers working to define a common project, and objectives,  through the creation of a project-team. In addition to collaborating with other research groups at Inria, Wanderley's project team will work with many academic partners, including the  University of Waterloo, University of Toronto, McGill University, University of Canterbury, University College London, University of Glasgow, University of Maryland, Northwestern University, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Télécom ParisTech, Université de Strasbourg, Université Aix Marseille, ENAC.  Industrial partners include Autodesk Research, Microsoft Research and STMicroelectronics.

The research chair will be based at Inria in Lille, France.

About Marcelo Wanderley:  Marcelo Wanderley holds a Ph.D. degree from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France, on acoustics, signal processing, and computer science applied to music. His main research interests include gestural control of sound synthesis, input device design and evaluation, and the use of sensors and actuators in digital musical instruments. Dr. Wanderley has chaired 2003 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, co-edited the electronic book “Trends in Gestural Control of Music”, IRCAM, and co-authored the textbook “New Digital Musical Instruments: Control and Interaction Beyond the Keyboard”, A-R Editions. He is currently William Dawson Scholar and Professor in Music Technology at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montreal, where he directed the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT) from 2011 to 2014.

 

 

 

 

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