Bertrand Scherrer

Ph.D. student, Music Technology
Supervisor: Prof. Philippe Depalle

• Electronics Engineer (ENSEA, France) – 2004

• Indirect acquisition of instrumental gestures
• Sound synthesis by physical models
• High resolution spectral estimation techniques

• Indirect acquisition of instrumental gestures. Application to the classical guitar: (PhD Thesis)
• Study of Performer­Instrument Interactionon the Classical Guitar Combining Direct and Indirect Acquisition (CIRMMT Student Award project)

• 2005-2006
  • Interactive Music System for the Shakuhachi: (MUMT610 Project)
  • Study of the Pisarenko Harmonic Decomposition: (MUMT605 Project)
  • Study of the Physical Modeling of the Finger-String Interaction on a Guitar: (MUMT614 Project)
  • Evaluating the Pisarenko Harmonic Decomposition for Indirect Acquisition: (MUMT612 Project)

• 2006-2007
  • Indirect Acquisition of Instrumental Gestures of the Flute: (MUMT615 Project)
  • Implementation of a Maximum Likelihood Estimation-Based F0 Estimation Method: (MUMT611 Project)

• 2007-2008
  • Digital Orchestra (RAship)
  • Two-Step Modal Identification for Increased Resolution Analysis of Percussive Sounds (presented at DAFx08)

• 2005-2006:
  • MUGT310: (co-Instructor)
  • MusicTech Workshop: (guest lecturer)

• 2006-2007:
  • MUMT202: (TA)
  • MUMT303: (co-Instructor)

• 2007-2008:
  • MUMT303:(co-Instructor)

• Part of the Organisation Committee for DAFx-06: Web-Submission Manager, Logistics.

• 2007-2009
  • Student Coordinator of the Sound Modeling Acoustics and Signal Processing research axis at CIRMMT

• Email: bertrand [dot] scherrer [at] mail [dot] mcgill [dot] ca