CURRICULUM VITAE

Emmanuel Amiot

• Born May 29th, 1961 in TOULON (83). Two children.

• I attended in Nice the “lycée musical”, a special section conveniently completing humanities teaching with the music conservatory, where I learned piano and analysis (I reached music theory medal when aged 11).
  I ended college with the Baccalauréat diploma, section C (sciences), with mention “Très Bien” (1977) and also managed the baccalauréat A (humanities, literature) on the next year, mention AB (1978).
  From 1977 to 1979 I learned science in Mathématiques Supérieures and Spéciales M' in lycée Masséna, Nice.
• Graduating to Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS de St Cloud) in September 79.
  I get the highest french diploma for mathematics, the “Agrégation de Mathématiques”, in 1982, aged 21 (rank 73d).
• Trainee teacher in 1983-84, then maths professor from 1984 to 1987 in a secondary school in the north of France, while training teachers in the IREM (Institut de Recherche et d’Education des Mathématiques) in Lille (working with the Géométrie, then Histoire des Mathématiques groups) and teaching some university classes (DEUG B) in Lille III University (1986-87).
  From its creation in 87 to August 89, I teach higher level mathematics in the “centre de préparation à l'Agrégation de Mathématiques de Rabat” (Morocco), then in Mathématiques Spéciales (pre-graduate) in lycée Moulay Youssef in Rabat.
  Since September 1993, I am a math professor in Spé M (now MP) in lycée Arago, Perpignan.
  I have been a member of several jurys for admission in several Grandes Ecoles d’Ingénieurs (Concours commun marocain, Mines d’Albi, Institut National Agronomique…).
• I am associated researcher in the Physics, Maths and Computer Science Laboratory in Université de Perpignan (LAMPS).
• I received my PhD in computational musicology (Sciences de l’informatique) in June 2010, IRCAM/UPMC/EDITE, Paris.
• I seriously began research in music and computer science with the Centre de Recherche Informatique Musique, working for program V of musical research (computer models for music) in 1986, where our group initiated formalization studies in music in IRCAM (Paris).
• I speak regularly in national (MaMuX in Ircam) and international (Graz, Zürich, Pise, Chicago, Berlin, Yale, Montréal, Mexico, SMT, MCM, etc…) colloquiums.
• Since its creation in 2007 I am a member of the Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music, and also a member of the editorial board (currently co-Editor in Chief) of the Journal of Mathematics and Music.
• Member of the European Academy of Science and Arts.

Selected Publications and Conferences:

Books:

Music through Fourier Space issued by Springer.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals:

• Pour en finir avec le Désir , Revue Analyse Musicale, 22, February 1991.
• Mathématiques et analyse musicale: une fécondation réciproque , Revue Analyse Musicale, 28, June 1992
• La série dodécaphonique et ses symétries , Quadrature N° 19 (1994).
• Chopin, virtuose de la théorie des groupes ? in Quadrature N° 24 (2000).
• À propos des canons rythmiques , in Gazette des Mathématiciens n° 106, Oct. 2005.
• Une preuve élégante du thm de l’hexacorde de Babbitt , Quadrature N° 28 (July 2006).
• A presentation in french of 'Maximally Even Scales' alias Gammes Bien Réparties Revue de Mathématiques et Sciences Humaines n° 178 (July 2007).
• David Lewin and maximally even sets , Journal of Mathematics and Music, 2007, vol 1 (3).
• Autosimilar melodies , Journal of Mathematics and Music, 2008, vol 2 (3).
• Discrete Fourier Transform and Bach’s Good Temperament , Music Theory Online, 2009, 2.
• New perspectives on rhythmic canons and the spectral conjecture , Journal of Mathematics and Music, 2009, special issue on rhythmic canons vol 3 (2).
• Z-relation and homometry in musical distributions , Journal of Mathematics and Music, 2011, vol 5 (2). By John Mandereau, Daniele Ghisi, Emmanuel Amiot, Moreno Andreatta & Carlos Agon.
• Discrete phase retrieval in musical structures , Journal of Mathematics and Music, 2011, vol 5 (2) By John Mandereau, Daniele Ghisi, Emmanuel Amiot, Moreno Andreatta & Carlos Agon.
• An algebra for periodic rhythms and scales, Journal of Mathematics and Music, 2011, vol 5 (3) By Emmanuel Amiot & Bill Sethares.

• Structures, Algorithms, and Algebraic Tools for Rhythmic Canons, Perspectives of New Music 49 (2).

•  Looking at old and new isometries between pc-sets in the Planet-4D Model, MTO 2015. With G. Baroin.
  
  

Book reviews

• Mazzola’s La Vérité du Beau dans la Musique, Journal of Mathematics and Music, 2009, vol 3 (3).

• Tymoczko’s A geometry of music, Journal of Mathematics and Music, 2012, vol 6 (1).

Colloquium proceedings (peer reviewed):

• Duration Structure Generation and Recognition in Musical Writing, Proceedings, ICMC, la Haye, 1986
• Tiling problems in music composition : Theory and Implementation , Voices of Nature Proceedings, ICMC 2002
• Rhythmic canons and Galois Theory , Colloquium on Mathematical Music Theory, H. Fripertinger & L. Reich Eds, Grazer Math. Bericht Nr 347 (2005).
• Tiling the (musical) line with polynomials : Some theoretical and implementational aspects , acts of ICMC 2005, Barcelona
• Towards Pedagogability of Mathematical Music Theory: Algebraic Models and Tiling Problems in Computer-Aided Composition , Bridges Conferences, Proceedings, London, 2006.
• Oracles for Computer-Aided. Improvisation, ICMC, New Orleans, novembre 2006
• Autosimilar melodies and their implementation in OpenMusic , Proceedings, SMC 2007.
• Eine kleine Fourier Nachtmusik, SMCM, Berlin, mai 2007.
• An Algebra for periodic rhythms and scales, furthering Helmholtz Workshop  Klang und Ton , Berlin, may 2007. Eventually published in JMM.
• Z-relation and homometry in musical distributions & Discrete phase retrieval in musical structures , in Journal of Mathematics and Music, 2011, (2).

• ✴ Can a scale have 14 generators?, SMCM London (2015).
• Strange Symmetries, SMCM Mexico (2017).
• Developing software for dancing Tango in Compás, SMCM Mexico (2017).
• Entropy of Fourier coefficients of periodic musical objects

(Some papers cosigned by A. Riotte, M. Andreatta, C. Agon, G. Assayag, T. Noll, D. Ghisi, J. Mandereau, W. Sethares)

Collective books:

• Why rhythmic canons are interesting , Perspectives in Mathematical and Computational Music Theory, Mazzola, Noll, Lluis Puebla Ed, Epos, 190-209, Univ. Onasbrück.
• Co-editor of Perspectives of New Music, special issue 49 (2) on Tiling Rhythmic Canons.
• Review of La vérité du Beau dans la Musique by Guérino Mazzola, in « À la lumière des mathématiques et à l’ombre de la Philosophie », Delatour 2012.

Preprints :

• Double Hexachordal Thm , generalizing the hexacordal. Two papers in the Journal of Mathematics and Music include this and go much further about the question of homometry.
• Generators of a scale abut the umber of generators of an arithmetic progression in a cyclic group.
• Finite groups of rational spectral units
• Irrational Tonnetz: draw any line on the Tonnetz and check the trichords on the way!

• Oddity: some generated scales feature an almost homogeneous intervallic distribution
• Why does own use Fourier transform preferably to others in music?
• In some cases, number, type and order of Anatol Vieru’s séquences.

Videos (pedagogy/vulgarisation)

• New perspectives on rhythmic canons…
• About autosimilar melodies
• Normes dans un espace vectoriel
• Rhythmic canons for dummies (for an exhibition in Palais de la Découverte, Paris, following the 2011 SCMC colloquium)

• Interview à Radio Mega , Feb. 2016 (popularization about maths & music)
• My concert de départ en retraite (lycée Arago, Perpignan)
• Récital du 8 avril 2021, en l’honneur d’Astor Piazzolla (hundredth birthday).

Conferences:

• About rhythmic canons:

• • Numerous conferences in Ircam (Paris) about rhythmic canons, beginning with Solving Tiling Problems in Music With Polynomials: during the MaMuX seminar (february 2002); on line on Ircam’s webpage.
• • Why rhythmic canons are interesting , MaMuth in Zürich, (October 2002).
• • Outils pour les canons rythmiques , MaMuX, january 2003.
• • Sur des canons de Vuza que son algorithme ne permet pas d'obtenir , MaMuX, January 2004.
• • Rhythmic canons and Galois Theory , conference in MaMuTh, Graz, Austria (May 2004).
• • Les Canons Rythmiques , conference, Perpignan, October 2004.
• • Rhythmic Canons, Galois Theory, Spectral Conjecture , American Mathematical Society’s Fall Session, Evanston, Illinois, October 2004.
• • Canons rythmiques pour les musiciens , canons rythmiques pour les mathématiciens , Paris, June 2005.
• • Canons that worked at McMaster University, et Mathematical Properties of Rhythmic Canons at St Catherine University, Ontario, July 2005.
• • For the “Club Maths de Jussieu”, Sur les canons rythmiques , October 2006.
• •  Of rhythmic canons and Mathematics , 2008 (month and place forgotten)
• •  From large to small canons , LIRMM Montpellier, 26th of November 2014.

• A keynote Why Fourier ? at the John Clough Memorial Days, University of Chicago, Illinois, July 7-10 2005.
• Gammes et transformée de Fourier Discrète, MaMuX, May 2006.
• Mélodies Autosimilaires (with Tom Johnson), oct. 2006, Colloque Mélodie de la Société Française d'Analyse Musicale.
• On action du groupe affine modulo n et les mélodies autosimilaires, Séminaire MaMuX, Oct. 2006.
• Scales and Fourier in the non tempered universe, Helmholtz Workshop "Klang und Ton", Berlin, May 2007.
• Eine kleine Fourier Nachtmusik, SMCM colloquium, Berlin, May 2007.
• DFT vs JSB: about some fine tuning, Ircam, Paris, May 2008.
• Canone ritmici: come, quanto ?, Pisa univ., Oct. 2008.
• Fourier, Music, Mathematics and the Brain, Society for Music Theory, Nashville, Nov. 2008.
• Master course about Trasformata di Fourier Discreta & applicazione musicale, Pisa univ., Jan. 2009.
• Aspects cognitifs de la DFT dans la perception de structures musicales, MaMuX conference, April 2009.
• Some concerférences (concert + videoconference), vulgarisation about some discrete algebraic structures in music, in diverse places.
•  Les rondes des quintes, revue Tangente, Supplément 49. Also figures in the reprint of the special issue of Tangente about Maths and music (Bib. 11).
• Conference for CPGE teachers, Ircam, June 2011: Applications musicales de la TFD.

•  Aspects mathématiques du rythme musical , séminaire MaMuX, October 2012.

•  The Torii of phases, SMCM 2013, Montréal, June 2013.

• Plenary Lecture “Viewing Diverse Musical Features in Fourier Space:  A Survey”, ICMM, Puerto Vallarta (Mexico), November 2014.
• Workshop on DFT of musical structures, and conference on rhythmic canons at University for Exact Sciences in Buenos Aires (May 2018).
  

Sundry Activities

• Organisation of MaMuX colloquium in september 2013 at Université de Perpignan.
• Co-organiser for colloquium MCM 2011 in Paris.
• Editor for the Journal of Mathematics and Music since 2017.
• Master course at Pisa University (Italia) on la Trasformata di Fourier Discreta in Musica (2010).
• Adviser for dissertations (tesa di laurea, ATIAM masters), PhD advising, reviewing, and jury member.
• Co-editor with John Rahn of a special issue of Perspectives of New Music essentially devoted to rhythmic canons (2011).
• Organiser of a seminar for continuing education of CPGE teachers in IRCAM, about « mathématiques et musique ».
• Member of the panel session on the future role of Mathematical Music Theory in Music, Mathematics, and. Computer Science Departments organized by M. Montiel during the SMCM meeting, McGill Univ., June 2013
• Cultural / scientific events ( concerférences : video conferences for all public cum playing music and even dancing):

• • in La Chapelle Gély, Montpellier, 2014 ( Musique et Mathématiques , Feb. 4th  Pavages en musique , Sept. 27th;  Bach entre Géométrie et nombres , 4th of November)
• • at Pierre de Fermat’s place in Beaumont de Lomagne  Maths et Musique, une introduction, Oct. 12th, 2014. With A. Moreno and G. Baroin
• • In Firenze (Italia) for the maths and arts week (2015) with the same.
• • In Buenos Aires (2018) al Centro Cultural de la Ciencia.
• • Everywhere in colleges, universities, etc…

• Member of the scientific committee of most MCM colloquiums. Co-organisor of MCM 2011, Paris.
• Tango dancer!

last edited July. 2018