Workshop | Serge Lemouton et al.: Practical Documentation and Collaborative Preservation using Antony

The goal of this hands-on workshop is to show, for the first time in an international context, the Antony system, now in its final state and fully functional.
The Antony platform provides a structured system for archiving, documenting, and accessing mixed music works materials to ensure long-term preservation and reuse. The Antony project addresses the difficulty of preserving artistic works that rely on evolving and often incompatible technologies. It highlights how the survival of these works depends on a small group of experts capable of updating and maintaining their digital components.
At the end of this workshop, the participants will be able to use the database to document, distribute and preserve their own creations.

Requirements

This workshop primarily addresses composers, computer music designers or performers, but it can also be of interest for media artists, musicologists, documentalists and music publishers.
The participants should come with the media related to an existing artistic project of their own that they wish to editorialize and preserve.

About the workshop facilitators

Serge Lemouton

Computer Music Designer – Institut de Recherche et Création Acoustique/Musique – Centre Georges Pompidou (IRCAM-CGP)

Since 1992, Serge Lemouton works as a computer music designer at IRCAM, collaborates with researchers to develop computer tools and has taken part in the production and public performances of numerous composers’ musical projects. He is currently working on score following systems, analysis of instrumental gesture and constraint programming for computer assisted composition. His current research work leads him to study the transmission and preservation of the computer music repertoire.

Jacques Warnier

Research Engineer, Ministry of Culture – Computer Music Realizer (RIM), Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP)

Since 2007, Jacques Warnier has supported the composition and new technologies class at CNSMDP, producing concerts and performing live electronics for mixed repertoire works. After earning the Saint-Etienne Master’s degree in Computer Music Design in 2015, he joined the Ministry of Culture as a research engineer in 2016.
His role combines musicianship and engineering to create the artistic and technical conditions required for performing 20th- and 21st-century music involving audio-digital technologies. His research focuses on making this repertoire accessible to students: curating works by instrument, acquiring scores and electronic parts, cataloging them in the Hector Berlioz media library, and preserving or reconstructing electronic components.
He is a member of the AFIM working group on “Collaborative Archiving and Creative Preservation” (since 2018), now “Antony,” and participates in the Humanum consortium for digital musicology (Musica2) since 2022.

Malena Fouillou

An acoustic engineer and computer music producer, Malena has had a wide-ranging career. After completing her higher education studies in acoustics, she joined Ircam in 2022 and graduated with a master’s degree in ATIAM (Acoustics, Signal Processing, Computer Science for Music). It was only natural that she joined the Next ensemble of the Paris Conservatory, in partnership with the Ensemble Intercontemporain. This training allowed her to study with distinguished RIMS professors such as Arshia Cont, Augustin Müller, and Andrew Gerszo, and to perform works by Marco Stroppa, Pierre Boulez, Martin Matalon, and others. Currently pursuing her PhD at Paris 8, her research focuses on qualitative and
quantitative descriptions of the spatiality of sound. She is part of a working group composed of Serge Lemouton (Ircam), Jacques Warnier (CNSMDP), Laurent Pottier (ECLLA-UJM) on the Antony project, a collaborative platform for the preservation and sharing of musical heritage using digital technologies.

Laurent Pottier

Professor of Musicology & Computer Music at Jean Monnet University (Saint-Etienne-France), ECLLA laboratory

Laurent Pottier is a professor of Musicology & Computer Music at UJM (Saint-Etienne University). He is the headmaster of the RIM (Réalisateur en Informatique Musicale / Computer Music Producer) professional Master and of the DIGICREA (Digital Creativity – Arts & Sciences) international EMJM Master. His research at the ECLLA laboratory, Saint-Etienne University involves music using electronic and digital technologies. He taught at Ircam (1992-1996), then
headed the research department at GMEM in Marseille (1997-2005). As a RIM, he has worked with many composers and in particular with J.-B. Barrière, J. Chowning, T. De Mey, A. Liberovicci, C. Maïda, A. Markeas, F. Martin, T. Murail, J.-C. Risset, F. Romitelli, K.T. Toeplitz.