Grégory Beller

Former student of the Normale School, Grégory Beller holds an aggregation in physics, two master's degrees in music and a PhD in computer science. He works as a researcher, a teacher and a computer designer for digital arts.

Since joining the Analysis/Synthesis team at IRCAM, he has become interested in the musicality of the spoken voice. After working on speech synthesis and prosodic modelling, he presented a PhD thesis on generative models for expressivity and their applications for speech and music, especially through performance.

He has co-organized the four conferences string EMUS on the "Expressivity in MUsic and Speech". He takes part in a range of artistic projects as a music composer and as an artistic installation designer.

He is currently computer-music designer at IRCAM where he works with composers and theater directors in the creation, realization and interpretation of their pieces.