• Post-doctoral Fellow in Music Technology
• Supervisor: Pr. Marcelo Wanderley

• Virtual character animation
• Instrumental gesture analysis
• Virtual gesture control of sound synthesis

• Ph.D. Computer Science (Université de Bretagne Sud, SAMSARA-Valoria lab., France)
• M.Sc. Image and Artificial Intelligence (Université de Rennes I, France)
• M.Eng. Digital Image and Communication (Université de Rennes I, France)

• PGAS project at IDMIL-CIRMMT
• ICASS project at SAMSARA-Valoria

• Alexandre Bouënard, Sylvie Gibet and Marcelo M. Wanderley. "Hybrid Inverse Motion Control for Virtual Characters Interacting with Sound Synthesis - Application to Percussion Motion". The Visual Computer Journal, Springer, 2011. DOI: 10.1007/s00371-011-0620-9

• Alexandre Bouënard, Marcelo M. Wanderley, Sylvie Gibet and Fabrice Marandola. “Virtual Gesture Control and Synthesis of Music Performances: Qualitative Evaluation of Synthesized Timpani Exercises”. Computer Music Journal, MIT Press, 35(3):57-72, 2011. (In Press).

• Alexandre Bouënard, Marcelo M. Wanderley and Sylvie Gibet. "Gesture Control of Sound Synthesis: Analysis and Classification of Percussion Gestures". Acta Acustica united with Acustica, Special issue on Natural and Virtual Instruments: Control, Gesture and Player Interaction, S. Hirzel Verlag, 96(4):668-677, 2010. DOI: 10.3813/AAA.918321

• F. Grond, A. Bouënard, T. Hermann and M. M. Wanderley. "Virtual Auditory Myography of Timpani-playing Avatars". In Proc. of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFX), pp. 135-142, Graz, Austria, September 2010.

• A. Bouënard, M. M. Wanderley and S. Gibet. "Advantages and Limitations of Simulating Percussion Gestures for Sound Synthesis". In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), pp. 255-261, Montreal, Qc., Canada, 2009.

• A. Bouënard, S. Gibet and M. M. Wanderley. "Hybrid Motion Control combining Inverse Kinematics and Inverse Dynamics Controllers for Simulating Percussion Gestures". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA), pp. 17-20, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2009.

• A. Bouënard, M. M. Wanderley and S. Gibet. "Analysis of Timpani Prepararoty Gesture Parameterization". In Proc. of the International Gesture Workshop (GW), pp. 61-62, Bielefeld, Germany, February 2009.

• A. Bouënard, M. M. Wanderley and S. Gibet. "Analysis of Percussion Grip for Physically Based Character Animation". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Enactive Interfaces (ENACTIVE), pp. 22-27, Pisa, Italy, 2008.

• A. Bouënard, S. Gibet and M. M. Wanderley. "Enhancing the Visualization of Percussion Gestures by Virtual Character Animation". In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), pp. 38-43, Genoa, Italy, 2008.

• S. Gibet and A. Bouënard. “Sound Synthesis by Simulation of Percussive Gesture of a Virtual Animated Agent”. In 2nd ConGAS International Symposium on Gesture Interfaces for Multimedia Systems, Leeds, UK, May 2006.

• A. Bouënard. ”Synthesis of Music Performances: Virtual Character Animation as a Controller of Sound Synthesis”, Ph.D. thesis, European University of Brittany, France, December 2009.

• A. Bouënard. “Réalisation d'un Système Expérimental pour la Simulation de Gestes de Percussion”. M.Sc. thesis, University of Rennes I, France, June 2006.

• A. Bouënard, S. Gibet and M. M. Wanderley. "Real-Time Simulation and Interaction of Percussion Gestures with Sound Synthesis". Technical Report, HAL Open Archives, January 2009.

• A. Bouënard. “Going Beyond Motion Capture Data: an Aplication for Synthesizing Expressive Percussion Performances”. In CIRMMT BRAMS Workshop on Expressive Performance, Montreal, Canada, May 2009.

• A. Bouënard. “Motion Capture for Computer Animation”. In SMPC 2007 Satellite Workshop - Mocap Data Exchange, Montreal, Canada, July 2007.

• A. Bouënard. “Analysis of Percussive Gestures”. In Cost287-ConGAS MC Meeting Final Event, Reykjavik, Iceland, May 2007.

  Alexandre Bouënard
  Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory - IDMIL
  Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Media Music and Technology - CIRMMT
  Schulich School of Music - McGill University
  555, Sherbrooke Street West
  H3A 1E3 Montreal, Qc., Canada

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