MIM (Laboratoire Musique et Informatique de Marseille - the Music and informatics laboratory of Marseille) is a multidisciplinary group (composers, visual artists, video artists, scientists). It was founded in 1984 by the French composer and musicologist
Marcel Frémiot
Marcel Frémiot (29 February 1920 – 19 January 2018) was a French composer and musicologist.
Biography
Born in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, Frémiot was a student at the Conservatoire de Paris and a pupil of René Leibowitz. He was introduce ...
who wanted to create in Marseille a tool for reflection on music and contemporary musical practices.
In 1991, a new research program is developed, with François Delalande as research director (
Groupe de recherches musicales
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- INA / GRM) on problematics of the musical time, a program born of the concern of composers faced with the difficulties approach and reception of contemporary music.
This research work will generate a new musical analysis tool called UST (Unités Sémiotiques Temporelles - Temporal Sémiotic Units). In this year (1991), the French composer
Michel Philippot Michel Paul Philippot (2 February 1925 – 28 July 1996) was a French composer, mathematician, acoustician, musicologist, aesthetician, broadcaster, and educator.
Life
Philippot was born in Verzy. His studies of mathematics were interrupted by Wo ...
becomes president of MIM.
Thereafter, the MIM will develop around the concept of UST a lot of collaborations with research structures musical or not. For example, with the
Electronic Music Foundation Electronic Music Foundation (EMF) is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization that produces events, publishes and disseminates media and information, and provides access to materials relevant to the history and creative potential of electronic music ...
(New York), Journal, the Laboratoire de Neurocybernétique Cellulaire (CNRS) (Laboratory of cellular neurocybernétics), the Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives de la Méditerranée (Cognitive neuroscience institute of the Mediterranean), the Laboratoire Cognitions Humaine et ARTificielle (CHART - Univ. Paris 8) (Laboratory human and artificial cognitions), the association "Mots-voir" (numerical poetry), the laboratory Paragraphe (Univ. Paris 8).
References
External links
The website of MIM
The website o
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Research institutes in France
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