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  • 19/02/2025 5:00 pm
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Alexis André & Alain Riou

Sony CSL – Paris

Alexis: Alexis André is a French artist, researcher, and designer at Sony CSL who specializes in procedural art. Combining artistic practice with a multidisciplinary perspective, he develops immersive and personalized artworks, focusing on generative systems that enable individually tailored pieces. His generative art has been showcased at events like Siggraph, Art Basel Miami, Tokyo exhibitions, and COP26 in Glasgow, and has been included in auctions at Sotheby’s and Christie’s.

Alain: Alain Riou is a PhD student in the Music Team of Sony CSL Paris. Under the supervision of the fantastic Gaëtan Hadjeres, the magnificent Stefan Lattner, and the emblematic Geoffroy Peeters, he has worked during 3 years on developing new self-supervised learning techniques for various music analysis tasks.
In particular, his work PESTO on pitch estimation received the Best Paper Award at ISMIR conference 2023 in Milano, Italia.

Drawing with my voice

In this talk, we will present our artistic collaboration with the French singer/producer DeLaurentis, for which we built a system which generates visuals that she can control directly with her voice on stage. The live performance has been showcased for the Paris AI Summit at Ministère de la Culture. The technical solution builds upon Alain’s work on real-time pitch estimation and Alexis’ generative algorithms. We will detail the proposed method and show the results, highlighting the methodological differences between fundamental research and creative applications.