Paul Goutmann is an artist, researcher, and lecturer in computer music at the CICM (University Paris 8). He is currently a postdoctoral researcher within the ERC Advanced Grant G3S project on spatial audio, and was previously awarded a doctoral fellowship from the ArTeC Graduate School. In 2024, he defended his PhD dissertation entitled “Operative Representation for the Spatial Audio Processing: An Approach of musical and software creation”, supervised by Alain Bonardi and Anne Sèdes. His research focuses on the spatial dimension of sound, its musical implementation, and its capture through technology. Artistically active, he develops a practice that interweaves composition, computer music production, sound recording, and theatre creation, thereby extending his reflections on the spatialization of sound.

Scientific Publications

PhD Thesis

Paul Goutmann. Operative Representations for Spatial Audio Processing : an Approach of Musical and Software Creation. Musique, musicologie et arts de la scène. Université Paris 8 - Vincennes-St Denis, 2024. https://theses.hal.science/tel-04792914

In proceedings

Paul Goutmann, Diane Schuh. « Solidian Soundscapes : Artistic Research on Spatial Quality of Sound in Soil. » 17th International Symposium on CMMR, Nov 2025, Londres, United Kingdom. pp.163-176. https://pastel.hal.science/IRCAM/hal-05427615v1

Alain Bonardi, Paul Goutmann. « Opening Up Sound Space » 17th International Symposium on CMMR, Nov 2025, Londres, United Kingdom. 10.5281/zenodo.17502553

Paul Goutmann, Adrien Zanni. « Auralisation d’œuvre in situ : entre enjeux techniques et musicaux », Journées d’Informatique Musicale, Inria, INSA, GRAME, 2025.

Paul Goutmann. « Émergences : de la poïésis au prototype », Journées d’Informatique Musicale 2023, AFIM ; CICM ; Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris Nord, Mai 2023, Saint-Denis, France. https://hal.science/hal-04291873

Diane Schuh, Paul Goutmann. « Écouter et composer avec le sol : approche des espaces sonores solidiens », Les futurs des recherches en musique, 2èmes rencontres nationales sur les recherches en musique, Saint-Denis, 2025

Paul Goutmann, Alain Bonardi. « Approaching Spatial Audio Processing by Means of Decorrelation and Ring Modulation in Ambisonics » Sound and Music Computing, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Étienne ; GRAME ; INRIA, Jun 2022, Saint-E ?tienne, France. https://hal.science/hal-03973343v1

Paul Goutmann, Alain Bonardi. « From stereophonic to spatial audio processing : Voyage absolu des Unari vers Andromède by Iannis Xenakis. Centenary International Symposium XENAKIS 22  : Lectures Workshops Concerts, Anastasia Georgaki, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Makis Solomos, Université Paris 8, 2022, Athens, Greece.

Paul Goutmann, « Traitement spatial du son par décorrélation des signaux en ambisonie d’ordre élevé ». Journe ?es d’Informatique Musicale 2021, AFIM, Jul 2021, Visioconférence, France. [Prix du Jeune Chercheur de l’AFIM] https://hal.science/hal-03313616v1/

Software

Contribution to the Faust version of the HOA library developed by P. Guillot, E. Paris, and J. Colafrancesco : addition of decorrelation and ambisonic 2D/3D ring modulation processing and modification of the 2D decoder (since 2022).

Contribution to the Faust abc.lib library developed by Alain Bonardi : addition of distribution functions, graphical user interface for ambisonic processing, 2D decoders, and their Max and PureData help patches (since 2021).

Theorized artistic production

Émergences (2022), 8min30 electroacoustic composition in 3D ambisonics.

Spatialisation and realization of a 5.1 version of the piece "Voyage Absolu des Unari vers Andromède" by I.Xenakis as part of the project "Habiter (avec) Xenakis". Played at the planetarium of the Cité des Sciences et l’Industrie in the film "Regards croisés sur la galaxie d’Andromède", at the Xenakis Alive concert (Onassis Stegi, National Conservatory of Athens) and at Amphi X Paris 8.

Compression/Dilatation (2021), 4min electroacoustic composition in 3D ambisonics, premiered at MSH Paris Nord, Séances d’Écoutes and played at the Visites Insolites du CNRS.

Suspension (2020), 7min electronic composition using an additive FM synthesis model (8ch.), premiered at the Séances d’Écoutes of the MSH Paris Nord.