Paul Goutmann is a French musician, composer, and researcher. He received a doctoral fellowship from EUR ArTeC and defended his thesis, "Operational Representation for Spatial Sound Processing: An Approach to Musical and Software Creation," in 2023 under the co-supervision of A. Bonardi and A. Sèdes. His research, conducted as an ATER at the Center for Research in Computer Science and Musical Creation (CICM, Musidanse), focuses on spatial sound processing and the interactions between software development and musical composition. Active in the artistic field, his reflections on sound spatialization extend into musical computing, sound recording, and theater creation. He has collaborated with several directors (L. Favret, S. Mirzai, A. Acerbis, V. Thimonier) and was a recipient of the Création en Cours program by Ateliers Médicis. As part of the "Habiter (avec) Xenakis" project, in 2022, he spatialized the piece Voyage Absolu des Unari vers Andromède by I. Xenakis for the planetarium at the Cité des Sciences (Philharmonie de Paris event) and for the Xenakis Alive concert (Onassis Stegi, National Conservatory of Athens). Since 2023, he has been collaborating as an artist-researcher and electronic musician of the duo QUID with the theater company Les Temps Blancs for the research-creation project Anachronique Paléolithique.

Scientific Publications

In proceedings

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-Étienne, France.

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.

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.