Teachers

The faculty for the lecture sessions is:

• Barry Truax is a Professor in both the School of Communication and the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University, Canada, where he has taught courses in acoustic communication and electroacoustic music. As a composer, he is best known for his work with the PODX computer music system that he has used for tape solo works and for pieces that combine tape with live performers or computer graphics. His music has been released on 8 solo CDs, including the double CD of his opera Powers of Two,and most recently Spirit Journies, a set of virtual soundscapes. In 1991 his work, Riverrun, was awarded the Magisterium at the International Competition of Electroacoustic Music in Bourges, France, a category open only to electroacoustic composers of 20 or more years experience.
• Fabien Gouyon is Invited Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, in Portugal, and senior research scientist at the Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit of INESC Porto where he co-leads the Sound and Music Computing research group. His main research and teaching activities are in Music Information Retrieval and Music Pattern Recognition. He has published over 50 papers in peer-reviewed international conferences and journals, published a book on computational rhythm description, gave the first tutorial on the topic at the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval in 2006 and participated to the writing of the European Roadmap for Sound and Music Computing, published in 2007.
• Enric Guaus is a researcher in sound and music computing at the Music Technology Group (MTG), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), and at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He obtained a PhD in Computer Science and Digital Communications in 2009 with a dissertation on automatic music genre classification. His research interests cover music information retrieval and human interfaces for musical instruments. He is assistant professor in audio and music processing at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and lecturer un acoustics, electronics and computer science at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC).