François Pachet

François Pachet (born 10 January 1964) is a French scientist, composer and director of the Spotify Creator Technology Research Lab. Before joining Spotify he led Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris. He is one of the pioneers of computer music closely linked to artificial intelligence, especially in the field of machine improvisation and style modelling. He has been elected ECCAI[1] Fellow in 2014.

François Pachet
François Pachet
Born (1964-01-10) 10 January 1964
France, Sainte-Adresse
NationalityFrench
EducationPierre and Marie Curie University
Known forContinuator, Flow Machines
Children2
AwardsECCAI in 2014, best paper award in 2002: The Continuator: Musical Interaction with Style
Scientific career
InstitutionsSpotify Creator Research Technology Laboratory, 166 rue du faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris
PatronsSpotify
InfluencedArtificial intelligence, Music, Audio

Education

Pachet graduated from École des ponts ParisTech in Civil Engineering, and Computer Science in 1987, majoring Applied Mathematics. He spent 18 months as lecturer at Kuala Lumpur at the University of Malaya in 1987–1988. He obtained a PhD from Pierre and Marie Curie University in Computer Science, (His thesis was "Knowledge representation with objects and rules: the NéOpus system", supervised by Jean-François Perrot). He spent 1 year as post-doc in Montréal at Université du Québec à Montréal, where he worked on the Cyc project[2] Common sense representation, Douglas Lenat, MCC), with the help of Hafedh Mili professor at UQAM. In 1997, he got his habilitation diploma on the subject: "Object-oriented languages and knowledge representation" at University Pierre et Marie Curie. He was auditeur at the 58th national session of Institut des Hautes Etudes en Défense Nationale,[3] in 2006, and was appointed Colonel in 2007 in the "réserve citoyenne" (French Air Force).

Experiences

In 1993, he was appointed Assistant Professor (in French, "Maitre de conférences"), at Pierre and Marie Curie University until 1997 in Computer Science, Research and Teaching.

In 1997, Pachet moved to Sony-CSL (Computer Science Laboratory) Paris. He started a research activity on music and artificial intelligence. His team has authored and pioneered many technologies (about 35 patents) about electronic music distribution, audio feature extraction and music interaction. He was appointed director of Sony Computer Science Laboratories in 2014. The CSL (the branch of Sony-CSL Tokyo) is dedicated to basic research in computer science; it was created by Luc Steels and Mario Tokoro in 1996.

Since 2017, he is director of Spotify's Creator Research Technology Lab in Paris, where he develops tools for assisting music creation.[4]

Achievements

The Music team at Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris was founded in 1997 by Pachet, where he developed the vision that metadata can greatly enhance the musical experience, from listening to performance.[5]

The Flow Composer[6] is his second achievement, a system to compose lead sheets in the style of arbitrary composers. It was followed by LSDB, the first collecting lead sheets in electronic format with a large-scale effort (Over 11,000 lead sheets collected); and Virtuoso, a solo jazz detector. The "Popular Music Browser" project,[7] which started in 1998, at Sony Computer Science Laboratories This research project covers all areas of the music‐to‐listener chain, from music description, descriptor extraction from the music signal, or data mining techniques, Similarity‐based access, and novel music retrieval methods such as automatic sequence generation, and to user interface issues.

Moreover, he has designed the Continuator,[8] a system allowing real-time musical improvisation with an algorithm.[9] He is now the beneficiary of the ERC Grant Flow Machines[10] for investigating how machines can boost creativity in humans and be able to continue a work in the same musical style. Pachet wants a future in which consumers could buy the unique style of an artist and apply it to their own material; he says, "I call it 'Stylistic Cryogenics' -- to freeze the style into an object that can be reused and made alive again".[11]

The MusicSpace[12] is a spatialization control system created with O. Delerue in 2000.

Another achievement is CUIDADO (Content-based Unified Interfaces and Descriptors for Audio/music Databases available Online),[13] a two-year project ended in 2003, on developing content-based,[14] audio modules and applications; the project includes the analysis, the navigation and creative process. This project is satisfying the needs of record labels and copyright societies for Information management methods, for marketing and for protecting their informations, using an Authoring system using content features for professional musicians and studios. Moreover, in 2014, Pachet presented two music tutorials on Brazilian guitar and Jazz. His most notable achievement is the Continuator,[15] an interactive music improvisation system.[16] Experimented with many professional musicians, presented notably at the SIGGRAPH’03 conference and considered a reference in the domain of music interaction, an example of a Musical Turing test with the Continuator on VPRO Channel with Jazz Pianist jazz Albert van Veenendaal (Amsterdam).[17]

ARTE presents Pachet on Square Idée[18] "Demain, devenir Wagner ou Daft Punk?", (Tomorrow, become Wagner or Daft Punk?) October 2015. Pachet writes about using CP techniques to model style in music and text for ACP (Association for Constraints Programming), in September 2015.

In 2017 he produced and released a multi-artist album, Hello World, composed with Artificial Intelligence.[19]

gollark: Empty reactor casing with shielding.
gollark: Anyway, if I get the reactor up, thanks to the wonders of RFTools I can just put up a giant shield and not let you in.
gollark: *do you even know which mod this is*
gollark: Er, 14x14x14.
gollark: I'll go for one layer of incredibly weak shielding.

See also

Bibliography
  • Pachet, F. (September 2002). "The Continuator: Musical Interaction with Style". Proceedings of ICMC. Göteborg, Sweden: ICMA: 211–218. Best paper award.
  • Pachet, F. (2002). "Playing with Virtual Musicians: the Continuator in practice". IEEE Multimedia. 9 (3): 77–82. doi:10.1109/mmul.2002.1022861.
  • Pachet, F. (2008). "The future of content is in ourselves". Computers in Entertainment. Sony. 6 (3): 1–20. doi:10.1145/1394021.1394024.
  • Pachet, F. (December 2009). "Description-Based Design of Melodies". Computer Music Journal. MIT Press. 33 (4): 56–68. doi:10.1162/comj.2009.33.4.56.
  • Pachet, F. (March 2011). "Markov constraints: steerable generation of Markov sequences". Constraints. 16 (2): 148–172. doi:10.1007/s10601-010-9101-4.

Personal Writings

Pachet has written several non-scientific books about music:

  1. - Histoire d'une oreille.[20] An augmented book about the ontogenesis of a musical ear.
  2. - Comment je n'ai pas rencontré Paul McCartney.[21] A short story.
  3. - Max Order ou l'invention du style (a comic book realized in the context of the ERCcOMICS project).[22]

References
  1. "ECCAI Fellows 2014". ECCAI. 2014. Archived from the original on 23 January 2011.
  2. "Cyc project". B.J. Copeland. 2002.
  3. "Institut des Hautes Etudes de Defence Nationale". Archived from the original on 6 October 2015.
  4. "Innovating for Writers and Artists".
  5. "Pachet". LSE 2014.
  6. "FlowComposer for Leadsheet Generation". Flow Machine. Pachet, F. and Roy, P. Generation of Stylistically Imitative Leadsheets with User Constraints. 2014.
  7. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (2014). "Popular music access: The Sony music browser". Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. UCL. 55 (12): 1037–1044. doi:10.1002/asi.20055.
  8. "Continuator". François Pachet. 2002. Archived from the original on 1 November 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  9. "Comment copier le style des musiciens". Sylvain Guilbaud. 2015.
  10. "Flow Machines, Can computers can make us more creative?". François Pachet. 2015.
  11. "Musical Flow". Condé Nast UK. 2015.
  12. Pachet.F and O. Delerue (2000). "MusicSpace goes Audio". citeseerx. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.4.9515. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  13. "The CUIDADO Project" (PDF). Hugues Vinet IRCAM.
  14. "Cuidado". Ircam. 2003.
  15. "The Continuator: Musical Interaction With Style" (PDF). Journal of New Music Research. 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 April 2016.
  16. "FlowMachine le logiciel qui fera de vous un Bob Dylan". 01net. 2014.
  17. "Musical test continuator". Youtube. 2012.
  18. "Square Idée, Demain, devenir Wagner ou Daft Punk?". ARTE 2015.
  19. "What is Hello World? - SKYGGE". SKYGGE. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  20. Pachet, Francois (March 2018). Histoire d'une oreille. Paris: Buchet-Chastel.
  21. Pachet, Francois. Comment je n'ai pas rencontré Paul McCartney. Paris: publie.net.
  22. Pachet, Francois. [Max Order ou l'invention du style "Max Order ou l'invention du style"] Check |url= value (help). ERCcOMICS.com.
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