Currently

• Product Manager IRCAM Forum – Centre Georges Pompidou
• Research Assistant, InnoLab, Ligeti Zentrum
• Lecturer in MultiMedia Komposition Master @ HfMT Hamburg
• PhD Candidate in Scientae Musicae, KiSS Program
• Founder and artistic director of The Synekine Project
• Officer in the EU MediaFutures project
• Officer in the EU Dafne+ project
• PhD in Computer Sciences

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Research Topics

• Expressivity, Emotion, Mood, Feelings
• Music, Sound, Voice, Speech
• Gesture, Movement, Dance, Space
• Artificial Intelligence and Creative Process
• Relationships between all these

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Publications

ORCID: 0009-0007-3553-4650

Research Gate

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Curriculum Vitæ

2023

• Product Manager IRCAM Forum – Centre Georges Pompidou
• PhD Candidate Scientiae Musicae at HfMT Hamburg
• Artistic director of The Synekine Project
• Lecturer in MultiMedia Komposition Master @ HfMT Hamburg
• Researcher @ Ligeti Zentrum
• Officer in the EU MediaFutures project
• Officer in the EU Dafne+ project
• Member of the Advisory Board patchXR
• Advisor in the EU program CoPeCo
• Workshop on Spatial Sampling XR at Shanghaï conservartory of Music

2022

• Product Manager IRCAM Forum – Centre Georges Pompidou
• PhD Candidate Scientiae Musicae at HfMT Hamburg
• Artistic director of The Synekine Project
• Officer in the EU Dafne+ project
• Officer and jury in the EU MediaFutures project
• Member of the Advisory Board patchXR
• Max class beginner and expert levels @ HfMT Hamburg
• Advisor in the European program CoPeCo
• Workshop on “Artificial Intelligence and Creative Process”,  HfMT / HAW / UH
• Lecture on “Voice Technologies for the Performing Arts”, Theater Regie @ HfMT Hamburg

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2021

• Product Manager IRCAM Forum – Centre Georges Pompidou
• PhD Candidate Scientiae Musicae at HfMT Hamburg
• Artistic director of The Synekine Project
• Music chair TENOR 2020/21
• Officer of the EU MediaFutures project
• Member of the Advisory Board patchXR
• CVML short course – Machine learning and Deep Neural Networks
• Max class beginner and expert levels @ HfMT Hamburg
• Advisor in the European program CoPeCo
• Lecture on “Voice Technologies for the Performing Arts”, MMM and CoPeCo @ HfMT Hamburg
• Lecture on “Artificial Intelligence and Creative Process”, MMM @ HfMT Hamburg

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2020

• Product Manager IRCAM Forum – Centre Georges Pompidou
• PhD Candidate Scientiae Musicae at HfMT Hamburg
• Leader of the WP4 in the VERTIGO STARTS European Project
• Artistic director of The Synekine Project
• Music chair TENOR 2020
• Curator STARTS Residencies Days
• Curator Symposium Art-Science Residencies
• Member of the Advisory Board patchXR
• Reviewer for the FWF Der Wissenschaftsfonds

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2019

• Director of the Department Interfaces Research/Creation – IRCAM – Centre Georges Pompidou
• Leader of the WP4 in the VERTIGO STARTS European Project
• Artistic director of The Synekine Project
• IRCAM Artistic Research Residency Program 2019/2020 Supervisor and Jury Chair
• Member of the Advisory Board MuX

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2018

• Head of the Interfaces Research/Creation team – IRCAM – Centre Georges Pompidou
• Leader of the WP4 in the VERTIGO STARTS European Project
• Artistic director of The Synekine Project
• VERTIGO STARTS Call 2 Supervisor and Jury Chair
• IRCAM Artistic Research Residency Program 2018/2019 Supervisor and Jury Chair
• Talk – my career @SAPHIRE
• Supervisor of trainee Julien Pallière, University McGill, “Development of MaxISiS, the GUI of the Singing Synthesis Software”

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 2017

• Head of the Interfaces Research/Creation team – IRCAM – Centre Georges Pompidou
• Leader of the WP4 in the VERTIGO STARTS European Project
• Artistic director of The Synekine Project
• VERTIGO STARTS Call 1 Supervisor and Jury Chair
• IRCAM Artistic Research Residency Program 2017/2018 Supervisor and Jury Chair
• [Beller17a], Beller, G., « Spectacle vivant : des voix imaginaires aux monstres vocaux », InaGlobal, Paris, France, November 2017
• Le palais de la mémoire benefits from the Idex Program of the University of Bordeaux.

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2016

• Head of the Interfaces Research/Creation team – IRCAM – Centre Georges Pompidou
• The Sound Space wins the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition Technical Excellence Award
• Invited Speaker @ “l’Art et le Populaire à l’aire du populisme”
• Coordinator and animator of the IRCAM Gesture Working Group (mailing-list).
• Le palais de la mémoire benefits from the Idex Program of the University of Bordeaux.
• Co-supervisor of trainee Léa Ikkache, ECP, “Development of a web app for the Palais de la mémoire installation”
• Supervisor of IRCAM – preview

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2015

• Radio interview @ ORF1
• Sound Space @ Be the future of sound – SATTLutech
• Invited Speaker @ “Pratique de la voix sur scène, de l’apprentissage à la performance vocale”, Paris, Labex-arts-H2H
• [Beller15a], Beller, G., « Sound Space and Spatial Sampler », MOCO 2015, SFU, Vancouver, August 2015
• Sound Space @ ISEA
• The Synekine Project @ International Workshop on Movement and Computing
• Coordinator and animator of the IRCAM Gesture Working Group (mailing-list).
• Le palais de la mémoire benefits from the Idex Program of the University of Bordeaux.
• Supervisor of In vivo – Opéra 2015/2016
• Supervisor of In vivo – Théâtre – Académie ManiFeste2015

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2014

• [Beller14b], Beller, G., « Semi-Parametric Synthesis of Speaker-Like Laughter », Phonetics of Laughing. Universaar – Saarland University Press: Saarbrücken. Trouvain, Jürgen & Campbell, Nick (eds.), 2014
• [Beller14a], Beller, G., « The Synekine Project», MOCO 2014, IRCAM, Paris, June 2014
• Sound Space semi-finalist of The Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition
• The Synekine Project @ Futur-En-Seine
• The Synekine Project @ International Workshop on Movement and Computing
• The Synekine Project @ Composer (avec) le geste
• The Synekine Project is part of the 5th edition of the musical research residency program at IRCAM
• The Synekine Project benefits from an Artistic and Research Residency at la Scene44, Marseille, France
• Concept & Design of The Synekine Project
• Lecture at La semaine du son, Paris, IRCAM, on “Speech Processing and its use in theater“
• Interview on the French radio France-Culture
• Coordinator and animator of the IRCAM Gesture Working Group (mailing-list).
• Member of the scientific commitee of JIM2014
• Co-supervisor of trainee Marco Peron, ENSLL, “Analyse gestuelle inertielle pour batterie augmentée”
• Co-supervisor of trainee Pierre Desprat, ENSLL, “Recherche sur l’identité vocale dans la synthèse vocale et sa relation à la disfluence”
• Co-supervisor of In vivo – Théâtre Musical – Académie ManiFeste2014

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2013

• [Laukka13], Laukka, P., Eerola, T., Thingujam, N. S., Yamasaki, T., & Beller, G., « Universal and Culture-Specific Factors in the Recognition and Performance of Musical Affect Expressions », Emotion, American Psychological Association,  February 11, 2013
• Coordinator and animator of the IRCAM Gesture Working Group (mailing-list).
• Concert/Demonstration at CMMR 2013, Marseille, 2013
• Co-supervisor of trainee Guillaume Vesin, ENSATT, “Voice Synthesis In Theater”
• Co-supervisor of In vivo – vidéo – Académie ManiFeste2013
• Lecture for the IRCAM internal formation on the contemporary music: Speech and Theater
• Reviewer for IRCAM’s research residency 2014

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2012

• [Beller12a] Beller, G., « In-vivo : laboratoire de recherche et d’expérimentation autour du son pour le théâtre », Towards a History of Sound in Theatre, Montreal, 2012
• Coordinator and animator of the IRCAM Gesture Working Group (mailing-list).
• Lecture at colloque sur le son du théâtre, Montreal, 2012
• Co-supervisor of trainee François Lamare, ATIAM, Segmentation non supervisée d’un flux de parole en syllabes
• Co-supervisor of In vivo – théâtre – Académie ManiFeste2012
• Lecture for Master II-ATIAM : Computer Music Design and Voice Processing
• Lecture for IRCAM’s composer cursus II : Speech processings for contemporary composers’ perspectives
• Reviewer for IRCAM’s research residency 2013

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2011

• [Beller11e] Beller, G., « Arcane d’”Un mage en été” », Théâtre Publique, Septembre 2011, n° 200
• [Beller11b] Beller, G., Aperghis, G., « Gestural Control of Real-Time Concatenative Synthesis in Luna Park », P3S, International Workshop on Performative Speech and Singing Synthesis, Vancouver, 2011, pp. 23-28
• [Beller11c] Beller, G., « Gestural Control Of Real Time Concatenative Synthesis », ICPhS, Hong Kong, 2011
• [Beller11d] Beller, G., « Gestural Control of Real-Time Speech Synthesis in Luna Park », SMC, Padova, 2011
• [Beller11a] Beller, G., Aperghis, G., « Contrôle gestuel de la synthèse concaténative en temps réel dans Luna Park : rapport compositeur en recherche 2010 », 2011
• [Lanchantin11c] Lanchantin, P., Farner, S., Veaux, C., Degottex, G., Obin, N., Beller, G., Huber, S., « Vivos Voco: A survey of recent research on voice transformation at IRCAM », International Conf on Digital Audio Effects, Paris, 2011, pp. 277-285
• Reviewer for ICASSP 2012 Special session – Advances in singing-voice synthesis, transformation, and application
• Reviewer for IRCAM Musical Research Residency Program 2012
• Lecture at P3S: International Workshop on Performative Speech and Singing Synthesis, Vancouver, 2011
• Lecture for IRCAM’s composer cursus II : Speech processings for contemporary composers’ perspectives
• Reviewer for IRCAM’s research residency 2012

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2010

• [Beller10b] Beller, G., « Expresso: Transformation of Expressivity in Speech », Speech Prosody, Chicago, 2010
• [Laukka10a] Laukka, P., Eerola, T., Nutankumar, S., Yamasaki, T., Beller, G., « Universal and Culture-Specific Factors in the Recognition and Performance of Musical Emotions », ICMPC2011, Seattle/USA, 2010
• “Qualifié aux fonctions de maître de conférences en Musique”
• “Qualifié aux fonctions de maître de conférences en Informatique”
• Lecture at Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago
• Reviewer for IRCAM’s research residency 2011
• Publishing the PhD dissertation with les éditions universitaires européennes
• Lecture for IRCAM’s composer cursus II : Speech processings for contemporary composers’ perspectives

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2009

• [Beller09b] Beller, G., Veaux, C., Degottex, G., Obin, N., Lanchantin, P., Rodet, X., « IRCAM Corpus Tools: Système de Gestion de Corpus de Parole », TAL, Juillet 2009
• [Beller09c] Beller, G., « Transformation of Expressivity in Speech », The Role of Prosody in the Expression of Emotions in English and in French, ed. Peter Lang. (Peter Lang), 2009
• [Beller09a] Beller, G., « Analyse et Modèle Génératif de l’Expressivité : application à la parole et à l’interprétation musicale », Paris 6 – IRCAM, 2009
• [Rodet09b] Rodet, X., Beller, G., Bogaards, N., Degottex, G., Farner, S., Lanchantin, P., Obin, N., « Transformation et Synthèse de la Voix Parlée et de la Voix Chantée », Parole et Musique, ed. Stanislas Dehaene et Christine Petit. (Odile Jacob, Paris), 2009
• PhD defense in Computer Sciences:
• Analysis and Generative Model for Expressivity. Applied to Speech and Musical Performance.
  • Wednesday the 24th of June, 2009 at IRCAM
  • Supervisor: Xavier Rodet
  • Lab: Analysis-synthesis team, IRCAM CNRS – UMR 9912 STMS.
  • University: Paris VI, EDITE
• Researcher for the ANR-project RESPOKEN
• Interview about the PhD dissertation by David Christoffel

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2008

• [Beller08a] Beller, G., Obin, N., Rodet, X., « Articulation Degree as a Prosodic Dimension of Expressive Speech », Speech Prosody 2008, campinas, 2008
• [Beller08c] Beller, G., Veaux, C., Rodet, X., « IrcamCorpusExpressivity: Nonverbal Words and Restructurings », LREC workshop on emotions, 2008
• [Beller08b] Beller, G., « Semi-Parametric Synthesis of Speaker-Like Laughter », Technical paper, Novembre 2008
• [Farner08b] Farner, S., Roebel, A., Veaux, C., Beller, G., Rodet, X., Ach, L., « Voice transformation and speech synthesis for video games », Paris Game Developers Conference, Paris, 2008
• [Veaux08a] Veaux, C., Beller, G., Rodet, X., « IrcamCorpusTools: an extensible platform for speech corpora exploitation », LREC, Marrakech, 2008
• Co-funder, coordinator and co-supervisor of EMUS conferences cycle:
  • « Prosody and expressivity in speech and music », Campinas, SPEECH PROSODY 2008
  • « De la musique au langage : prosodie et babillage », Lyon, ENS, 2008
  • « Expressivity in music and speech », Paris, AGORA, 2009
  • « Semiotics and microgenesis of verbal and musical forms », Paris, RISC, 2009
• Researcher for the ANR-project AFFECTIVE AVATAR
• Researcher for the ANR-project RHAPSODIE
• Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing
• Reviewer for ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche)
• Researcher for RIAM-Projet VIVOS
• Winter school participation on bayesian cognition
• Teacher-ATER at Paris Est University – Marne La Vallée : L1-2-3 sound – L3 Cinéma
  • Sound Design
  • Digital Audio
  • Practising Pure Data
  • Music Production

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2007

• [Beller07a] Beller, G., Rodet, X., « Content-based transformation of the expressivity in speech », ICPhS, Allemagne, 2007
• [Beller07b] Beller, G., « Context Dependent Transformation of Expressivity in Speech Using a Bayesian Network », ParaLing, 2007
• [Beller07c] Beller, G., « Influence de l’expressivité sur le degré d’articulation », RJCP, France, 2007
• [Beller07d] Beller, G., « Transformation de la parole dépendante de l’expressivité et du texte », JSP, 2007
• [Beller07e] Beller, G., « Modèle statistique de l’expressivité dans la parole pour le projet VIVOS », 2007
• Lecture/Demonstration at Atelier littérature-musique : musicalization of poets’ readings, CDMC-CNSMDP
• Researcher for RIAM-Poject VIVOS
• Summer school ERMITES : multi-modal information research
• Lecture for IRCAM’s composer cursus II : expressivity in speech and music for contemporary composers’ perspectives
• Teacher-Moniteur at Paris VIII University : L1 musique
  • Introduction to Musical Acoustics
  • Introduction to Digital Audio

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2006

• [Beller06a] Beller, G., Hueber, T., Schwarz, D., Rodet, X., « Speech Rates in French Expressive Speech », Speech Prosody 2006, Dresden, 2006
• [Beller06b] Beller, G., Marty, A., « Talkapillar: outil d’analyse de corpus oraux », Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs de l’Ecole Doctorale 268, paris, 2006
• [Beller06c] Beller, G., « Analyse et Synthèse de l’Expressivité dans la Voix Parlée », JJCAAS, Lyon, 2006
• [Beller06d] Beller, G., « Présentation générale du processus de transformation de l’expressivité dans la parole pour le projet VIVOS », 2006
• [Schwarz06c] Schwarz, D., Beller, G., Verbrugghe, B., Britton, S., « Real-Time Corpus-Based Concatenative Synthesis with CataRT », 9th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx), Montreal, 2006, pp. 279-282
• Co-designer and Researcher for RIAM-Poject VIVOS
• CNRS-formation on bayesian network
• Summer School VPL : voice, speech, language
• Teacher-Moniteur at Paris VIII University : L1 musique
  • Introduction to Musical Acoustics
  • Introduction to Digital Audio

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2005

• [Beller05e] Beller, G., Schwarz, D., Hueber, T., Rodet, X., « Hybrid Concatenative Synthesis In The Intersection of Speech and Music », JIM, vol. 12, 2005, pp. 41-45
• [Beller05a] Beller, G., « La musicalité de la voix parlée », Paris 8, 2005. [maitrise de musique]
• [Beller05d] Beller, G., « Etude et modèle génératif de l’expressivité dans la parole », Paris 6, IRCAM, 2005. [MASTER-2 SAR-ATIAM]
• [Beller05f] Beller, G., « Le débit de parole en français », 2005
• PhD starts
• Research trainee at IRCAM: Expressive Speech Synthesis (6 months)
• MASTER 2 Degree in Music/Informatic, ParisVI-IRCAM University, SAR-ATIAM : Mention Bien
• Magistère EEA : Mention Bien
• 4th and last year at ENS de Cachan
• Teacher-Moniteur at Paris VIII University : L1 musique
  • Introduction to Musical Acoustics
  • Introduction to Digital Audio
• Private teacher for physics, mathematics and piano

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2004

• [Beller04a] Beller, G., « Synthèse concaténative de la parole par sélection d’unités », Ircam – Université Paris 8, 2004
• Research trainee at IRCAM : Text-To-Speech Synthesis using non-uniform units (1 year)
• Master 2 Degree in Music, ParisVIII University: Mention Très Bien
• Breaking year at ENS de Cachan
• Private teacher for physics, mathematics and piano

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2003

• “Agrégation de Physiques Appliquées” : rang: 13ème
• 3rd  year of ENS de Cachan
• Private teacher for physics, mathematics and piano

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2002

• Research trainee at ENST-Paris : Multi-Pitch Estimation in a polyphonic signal (6 months)
• Master I EEA (Electronics, Electrotechnics and Automatic), Paris-South University: Mention Bien
• 2nd year of ENS de Cachan
• Private teacher for physics, mathematics and piano

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2001

• Research trainee at Paris-South University: Sound Effect Software Design in C-Language (3 month)
• Licence 3 EEA (Electronics, Electrotechnics and Automatic), Paris-South University: Mention Bien
• 1st year at ENS de Cachan
• Private teacher for physics, mathematics and piano

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2000

• Research trainee at Paris-South University: Analogic filter design for loudspeakers (3 month)
• “Lauréat du concours d’entrée à l’ Ecole Normale Supérieur de Cachan”
• DEUG SMTI of Bordeaux University
• Math-Spé – PTSI, lycée G. Eiffel, Bordeaux
• Private teacher for physics, mathematics and piano

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1999

• Math-Sup – PTSI, lycée G. Eiffel, Bordeaux
• Private teacher for physics, mathematics and piano

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1998

• Research trainee at DGE of Bordeaux: Acoustic detection of the breaks in the cables of the bridge of Aquitaine (2 weeks)
• Baccalauréat scientifique, lycée G. Eiffel, Bordeaux, options mathématique et musique : Mention Assez Bien.
• Private teacher for physics, mathematics and piano