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The team Sound Systems and Signals: Audio/Acoustics, InstruMents creates theoretical, technological, and experimental tools based on multiphysic systems and the sound signals they produce. The team is interested in exploring, understanding, reproducing, and inventing sound objects in audio, acoustics, focusing on musical instruments and the production of the human voice.

More precisely, the objectives are to model, simulate, identify, and optimize these systems (voice, musician/instrument, loudspeakers, audio electronic effects, etc.) using physics to reveal and benefit from their intrinsic structures. The team creates methods for analysis, transformation, control, and simulation of sounds as well as tools to assist conception in virtual, real, or hybrid paradigms.

This global approach, “systems and signals” creates a synergy in the conception of these tools, connecting—not merely juxtaposing—several disciplines and scientific fields: physics, theory of systems and control, differential geometry, numerical analysis, signal processing, computer science, electronics, mechatronics, and robotics.

Target applications concern scientific, artistic, educational, and healthcare domains.

Interest Areas and Associated Projects

  • Physical modeling of musical instruments and voice
  • Sound synthesis based on physical modeling
  • Experimental robotic platforms: robotic artificial mouth to play brass instruments, robotic vocal apparatus at a 1:1 scale
  • Identification of non-linear systems
  • Control of non-linear systems
  • Instrumental acoustics (projects: Cagima, PAFI, Augmented Instruments, Imarev, Smart Instruments)

Specialist Areas

Acoustics, mechanics, non-linear systems, control, signal theory, differential geometry, digital analysis, experimentation, mechatronics, real and virtual instrument-making, sound synthesis

Partnerships

Athena-RIC (Greece), Cabrilog SAS (France), Cambridge University (UK), C2RMF-Louvre (Paris), Centre Bernoulli-EPFL (Switzerland), EPCC-Edinburgh Univ. (UK), GIPSA-lab (Grenoble), IJLRA-UPMC (Paris), IMJPRG-UPMC (Paris), Imperial College London (UK), ISAE-Sup’Aéro (Toulouse), LAGEP-université Lyon-1, LaSiE-université de la La Rochelle, LEOPOLY (Hungary), LMA-CNRS (Marseille), LMD-ENS (Paris), Mines ParisTech (Paris), NTNU (Trondheim, Norway), Thalès Group (France)

Ongoing projects
Former projects
Finite4SoSANR project2015-2020
iMuSciCAHorizon 20202017-2019
INFIDHEMANR-DFG project2016-2019
HamecMopSysANR project2011-2016
CagimaANR project2011-2015
Permanent staff
Henri BoutinSenior LecturerSorbonne Université
René CausséReseacher (Emeritus)IRCAM
Brigitte d'Andréa-NovelProfessorSorbonne Université
Thomas HélieSenior Researcher (team leader)CNRS
Robert PiéchaudEngineerIRCAM
David RozeResearcherCNRS
PhD students
Pierre CarréPhD studentSMAER, SU2018 -
Loïc FormaPhD studentCY Cergy Paris Université2020 -
Vincent MartosPhD studentSU2021 -
Judy NajnudelPhD studentCIFRE2019 -
Alexis ThibaultPhD studentUPPA2020 -
Colette VoisembertPhD studentSMAER, SU2020 -
Victor WetzelPhD studentSMAER, SU2018 -
Non permanent staff
Alumni
Joël BensoamResearcherIRCAM
Damien BouvierPhD studentEDITE, SU2015 - 2018
Djellal ChalabiEngineeriMuSciCA project
Antoine DeschampsInternENSEA2015
Antoine FalaizePhD student (Defense,Thesis)EDITE, UPMC2012 - 2016
Marguerite JossicPhD student (Thesis)SMAER, UPMC2014 - 2017
Quentin LamerandEngineeriMuSciCA project
Tristan LebrunPhD studentSMAER, SU2016 - 2019
Nicolas LopesPhD student (Defense,Thesis)SMAER, UPMC2012 - 2016
Rémy MullerPhD studentEDITE, SU2015 - 2021
Marc WijnandPhD studentSMAER, SU2017 - 2021