COSMOS

"Contrôle Perceptif des processus d'analyse-Synthèse de signaux Musicaux et sOnoreS"

"Percpetual COntrol of analysis-Synthesis processes of Musical sOund Signals"

Research activities:

• Intuitive control of synthesis processes
• Sound and Movement
• Time-frequency representations
• Coding
• Sonification
• Augmented instruments

Collaborations:

• Neurosciences cognitives (LNC, Marseille)
• Psychoacoustique (LMA, Marseille ; ARI, Autriche)
• Traitement du signal (LMA, Marseille ; Télécom-ParisTech, Université McGill, Canada ;
  Esbjerg, Danemark ; Newcastle, Australie)
• Mathématiques (LATP, Marseille ; ARI, Autriche)
• Perception (IRCAM, Paris ; Université d’Aalborg, Esbjerg, Danemark)
• Spatialisation et Réalité Virtuelle/Augmentée (LIMSI, Orsay)
• Modèles numériques (Université d’Edimbourg, Ecosse)
• Sciences du Mouvement (ISM, Marseille)
• Musique (Conservatoire National de Région, CNR, Marseille (P. Gobin) ; UBRIS Studio
  Marseille (J. Diennet))
• Arts et technologie (école d’arts, Aix-en-Provence (P. Sinclair) ; SATIS, Aubagne ;
  Université Paris 8)
• Industrie automobile (PSA - Peugeot Citroën Automobiles, Vélizy-Villacoublay)
• Technologie de l’information et de la communication (Orange Labs, Lannion)
• Médical (Pôle de Psychiatrie, Hôpital Sainte-Marguerite, Marseille)

Projects:

National French Research Agency:

• 2014-2018 : ANR Programme Blanc Accords Bilatéraux, France/Autriche Potion « Optimisation perceptive des représentations audio temps-fréquence et codage » coordinated by Olivier Derrien (LMA) and Piotr Majdak (ARI)
• 2012-2015 : ANR Programme CONTINT Physis « Modèles de synthèse audio interactifs, physiquement informés et sémantiquement contrôlables » coordinated by D. Henry (AudioGaming)
• 2010-2014 : ANR Programme CONTINT MetaSon « Métaphores Sonores » coordinated by R. Kronland-Martinet (LMA, Marseille)
• 2006-2009 : Projet ANR JCJC senSons « Vers le sens des sons » coordonné par S. Ystad (LMA, Marseille) http://www.sensons.cnrs-mrs.fr/

PEPS:

• 2012 : Projet d’Exploration Pluridisciplinaire DEFISENS MusEcriture « Sonifier les mouvements d’écriture pour faciliter leur rééducation » coordonné par J.L. Velay (LNC, Marseille)
• 2010-2012 : Projet d’Exploration Pluridisciplinaire (PEPS-INSIS) « Images mentales et métaphores sonores dynamiques » coordonné par R. Kronland-Martinet (LMA, Marseille)
• 2008 : Projet d’Exploration Pluridisciplinaire (PEPS-ST2I) MTFetSons « Multiplicateur
  temps-fréquence et classification hiérarchique des sons » soutenu par l’INS2I et coordonné par B. Torrésani (LATP, Marseille) http://www.latp.univ-mrs.fr/MTFetSons/

Former PhD Students (since 2006):

• 2009 - 2013 : Adrien SIRDEY, " Méthodes haute-résolution appliquées à l’analyse-synthèse de sons d’environnement par modèles de sinusoïdes amorties" Directed by R. Kronland- Martinet (LMA, Marseille) and O. Derrien (Université Toulon-Var et LMA, Marseille), July 9th 2013.
• 2009 - 2012 : Anaïk OLIVERO, " Transformations sonores dans le plan temps-fréquence : opérateurs et multiplicateurs de Gabor" Directed by R. Kronland-Martinet (LMA, Marseille) and B. Torrésani (LATP, Marseille), May 2nd 2012.
• 2007 - 2011 : Jean-François SCIABICA, "Modélisation perceptive du bruit habitacle et caractérisation de son ressenti" Directed by R. Kronland-Martinet and S. Ystad (LMA, Marseille), Septembre 19th 2011.
• 2007 - 2011 : Adrien MERER, "Vers une approche acoustique et cognitive de la sémentique des objets sonores" Directed by S. Ystad (LMA, Marseille), June 6th 2011
• 2006 - 2010 : Thibaud NECCIARI, "Masquage auditif temps-fréquence : mesures psychoacoustiques et application à l’analyse-synthèse des sons" Directed by: R.Kronland-Martinet et S.Savel (LMA, Marseille), October 25th 2010.
• 2006 - 2009 : Charles VERRON, "Synthèse immersive de sons d’environnement" Directed by R. Kronland-Martinet (LMA, Marseille), M. Aramaki (INCM, Marseille) and G. Pallone (France-Télécom, Lannion), May 7th 2010.

Publications (since 2006):

Our work is published in the following journals:

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
• Acta Acustica united with Acustica
• IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
• Journal of Sound and Vibration
• Computer Music Journal
• Journal of New Music Research
• ACM Transactions on Applied Perception
• EURASIP
• Music Perception
• Journal of Experimental Psychology : Human Perception and Performance
• Journal of Cognitive Neurosciences
• Cerebral Cortex
• Journal of Abnormal Psychology
• Psychiatry Research

Book Editions:

• « From Sounds to Music and Emotions », 9th International Symposium, CMMR 2012, London, UK, June 19-22, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. M. Aramaki, M. Barthet, R. Kronland-Martinet and S. Ystad (Eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, vol. 7900, Ed. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013.
• « Speech, Sound and Music Processing: Embracing Research in India », 8th International Symposium, CMMR 2011, 20th International Symposium, FRSM 2011, Bhubaneswar, India, March 9-12, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. S. Ystad, M. Aramaki, R. Kronland-Martinet, K. Jensen and S. Mohanty (Eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, vol. 7172, Ed. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• « Exploring Music Contents », 7th International Symposium, CMMR 2010, Málaga, Spain, June 21-24, 2010. Revised Papers. S. Ystad, M. Aramaki, R. Kronland-Martinet and K. Jensen (Eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, vol. 6684, Ed. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• « Auditory Display », 6th International Symposium, CMMR/ICAD 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 18-22, 2009. Revised Papers. S. Ystad, M. Aramaki, R. Kronland-Martinet and K. Jensen (Eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, vol. 5954, Ed. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• « Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval. Genesis of Meaning in Sound and Music », 5th International Symposium, CMMR 2008 Copenhagen, Denmark, May 19-23, 2008 Revised Papers. S. Ystad, R. Kronland-Martinet and K. Jensen (Eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, vol. 5493, Ed. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• « Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval. Sense of Sounds », 4th International Symposium, CMMR 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 27-31, 2007. Revised Papers. R. Kronland-Martinet, S. Ystad and K. Jensen (Eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, vol. 4969, Ed. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• « Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval », 3rd International Symposium, CMMR 2005, Pisa, Italy, September 26-28, 2005. Revised Papers. R. Kronland-Martinet, T. Voinier and S. Ystad (Eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, vol. 3902, Ed. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.

International journals (since 2010):

• Olivero A., Torrésani B., Kronland-Martinet R. A class of Algorithms for Time-Frequency Multiplier Estimation. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 21(8) 1550–1559 (2013)
• Laback, B., Necciari, T., Balazs, B., Savel, S., Ystad, S. Simultaneous masking additivity for short Gaussian-shaped tones: Spectral effects. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134(2) 1160-1171 (2013)
• Merer A., Aramaki M., Ystad S., Kronland-Martinet R. Perceptual characterization of motion evoked by sounds for synthesis control purposes. Association for Computing Machinery, Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP), 10(1) 1-24 (2013)
• Thoret E., Aramaki M., Kronland-Martinet R., Velay J.L., Ystad S. From Sound to Shape: Auditory perception of Drawing Movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, in revision (2013)
• Conan S., Derrien O., Aramaki M., Ystad S., Kronland-Martinet R. A Low-Complexity Rolling Sounds Synthesizer with Intuitive Control Capabilities. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, submitted (2013)
• Frey A., Aramaki M., et Besson M. Conceptual priming for realistic auditory scenes and for auditory words. Brain and Cognition, en révision (2013)
• Kronland-Martinet R., Voinier T., Calvet D., Vallée C. Cosmic ray sonification: the COSMOPHONE. AI & Society 27(2) 307-309 (2012)
• Kronland-Martinet R., Ystad S., Aramaki M. High level control of sound synthesis for sonification processes. AI & Society, Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Communication, 24(1) 245-255 (2012)
• Marelli D., Aramaki M., Kronland-Martinet R., Verron C. An efficient time-frequency method for synthesizing noisy sounds with short transients and narrow spectral components. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 20(4) 1400–1408 (2012)
• Micoulaud-Franchi J.A., Aramaki M., Merer A., Cermolacce M., Ystad S., Kronland- Martinet R., Naudin J., Vion-Dury J. Toward an exploration of feeling of strangeness in schizophrenia: perspectives on acousmatic and everyday listening. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 131(3) 628-640 (2012)
• Micoulaud-Franchi J.A., Aramaki M., Merer A., Cermolacce M., Ystad S., Kronland- Martinet R., Naudin J., Vion-Dury J. Toward an exploration of feeling of strangeness in schizophrenia: perspectives on acousmatic and everyday listening. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 131(3) 628-640 (2012)
• Laback B., Balazs P., Necciari T., Savel S., Ystad S., Meunier S., Kronland-Martinet R. Additivity of nonsimultaneous masking for short Gaussian-shaped sinusoids. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 129(2) 888-897 (2011)
• Aramaki M., Besson M., Kronland-Martinet R., Ystad S. Controlling the perceived material in an impact sound synthesizer. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 19(2) 301–314 (2011)
• Micoulaud-Franchi J.A., Aramaki M., Merer A., Cermolacce M., Ystad S., Kronland- Martinet R., Vion-Dury J. Categorization and timbre perception of environmental sounds in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research, 189(1) 149-152 (2011)
• Besson M., Frey A., Aramaki M. Is the distinction between intra- and extra-musical mea- ning implemented in the brain? : Comment on "Towards a neural basis of processing musical semantics" by Stefan Koelsch. Physics of Life Reviews, 8(2) 112–113 (2011)
• Barthet M., Depalle P., Kronland-Martinet R., Ystad S. Acoustical correlates of timbre and expressiveness in clarinet performance. Music Perception, 28(2) pp. 135-154 (2010)
• Barthet M., Depalle P., Kronland-Martinet R., Ystad S. Analysis-by-synthesis of timbre, timing, and dynamics in expressive clarinet performance. Music Perception, 28(3) 265- 278 (2010)
• Barthet M., Guillemain P., Kronland-Martinet R., Ystad S. From clarinet control to timbre perception. Acta Acustica united with Acustica, 96(4) 678-689 (2010)
• Aramaki M., Besson M., Kronland-Martinet R., Ystad S. Controlling the perceived material in an impact sound synthesizer. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 19(2) 301-314 (2010)
• Marelli D., Aramaki M., Kronland-Martinet R., Verron C. Time-frequency synthesis of noisy sounds with narrow spectral components. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 18(8) 1929-1940 (2010)
• Verron C., Aramaki M., Kronland-Martinet R., Pallone G. A 3D Immersive synthesizer for environmental sounds. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 18(6) 1550-1561 (2010)
• Aramaki M., Marie C., Kronland-Martinet R., Ystad S., Besson M. Sound categorization and conceptual priming for nonlinguistic and linguistic sounds. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(11) 2555-2569 (2010)
• Schön D., Ystad S., Kronland-Martinet R., Besson M. The evocative power of sounds: conceptual priming between words and nonverbal sounds. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(5) 1026-1035 (2010)

Book chapters (since 2010):

• Aramaki, M., Micoulaud-Franchi, J.A., Kronland-Martinet, R., Vion-Dury, J., Ystad, S. Prospective view on sound synthesis BCI control in light of two paradigms of cognitive neuroscience. In Guide to Brain-Computer Music Interfacing, Eduardo Reck Miranda, Julien Castet and Benjanim Knapp (Ed.) (2013)
• Thoret E., Aramaki M., Kronland-Martinet R., Velay J.L., Ystad S. Reenacting sensorimotor features of drawing movements from friction sounds. In From Sounds to Music and Emotions, LNCS vol. 7900, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg (2013)
• Necciari T., Balazs P., Kronland-Martinet R., Ystad S., Laback B., Savel S., Meunier S. Auditory time-frequency masking: psychoacoustical data and application to audio representations. In Speech, sound and music processing: embracing research in India, LNCS vol. 7172, 146-171, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg (2012)
• Aramaki M., Kronland-Martinet R., Ystad S. Perceptual control of environmental sound synthesis. In Speech, sound and music processing: embracing research in India, LNCS vol. 7172, 172-186, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg (2012)
• Merer A., Ystad S., Kronland-Martinet R., Aramaki M. Abstract sounds and their applications in audio and perception research. In Exploring music contents, LNCS vol. 6684, 176-187, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg (2011)
• Sciabica, J.F., Bezat M.C., Roussarie V., Kronland-Martinet R., Ystad S. Towards timbre modeling of sounds inside accelerating cars. In Auditory Display, LNCS vol. 5954, 377- 392, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg (2010)
• Aramaki M., Gondre C., Kronland-Martinet R., Voinier T., Ystad S. Imagine the sounds: an intuitive control of an impact sound synthesizer. In Auditory display, LNCS vol. 5954, 408-422, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg (2010)