Master Acoustique et Musicologie, Parcours : Ingénierie et conception sonore

The course « Ingénierie et conception sonore » provides a high level training concerned with meeting the needs of the professional world and research.

The student learns to design and develop technical and technological methods and tools for innovation, industrial and artistic creation, and fundamental and/or applied research in audio engineering. It integrates an aesthetic reflection into this process. It crosses fundamental teachings in acoustic physics, perception and cognition, signal processing, computer science, active listening to sound and music, with transversal courses in English, research methodology, pre-professionalization and a 5-month internship in the last semester.

Part of its curriculum is devoted to the study of the acoustic environment.

Part of its teaching is based on a common base of knowledge with the course « Musicology and creation » in order to encourage the merging of interdisciplinary skills.

The student will find in this stimulating and collaborative training the tools to situate and question the contemporary paradigm shift, to develop field practice and team dynamics, and, depending on his or her choices, to pursue a PhD.

Many researchers and professionals from the CNRS, industry, the cultural and artistic world participate in the training.

Advised degrees: Physics, Science and Technology, Mathematics, Computer Science, Mechanics, MPCI (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science), Engineering Science, Science and Technology

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Strong academic standard across the whole of the undergraduate training. Particularly important, but not exclusively, are the results obtained in disciplines closely related to the envisaged selective Master's degree.

For applicants from a Member State of the European Union, the results obtained in the disciplines of the European Union are particularly important.

For candidates who are nationals of a country where French is not the official language, minimum level C1 in French attested by a recognised certification of less than 2 years, unless the candidate has validated a licence delivered by a French university.

The application shall present a coherent and motivated study and/or professional project, in line with the contents and aims of the requested selective training, and showing that the applicant has taken note of the training.

Good command of written and spoken French. Ability to react and adapt to different communication situations. Ability to argue in writing and speaking.

Solid knowledge in the basic sciences (physics, mechanics, computer science, mathematics...)

Intelligence for interdisciplinarity combining sound, music and human perception

Musical competence desired.

Minimum level B2 in English for the selective training required.

Strong academic standard across the whole of the undergraduate training. Particularly important, but not exclusively, are the results obtained in disciplines closely related to the envisaged selective Master's degree.

For applicants from a Member State of the European Union, the results obtained in the disciplines of the European Union are particularly important.

For candidates who are nationals of a country where French is not the official language, minimum level C1 in French attested by a recognised certification of less than 2 years, unless the candidate has validated a licence delivered by a French university.

The application shall present a coherent and motivated study and/or professional project, in line with the contents and aims of the requested selective training, and showing that the applicant has taken note of the training.

Good command of written and spoken French. Ability to react and adapt to different communication situations. Ability to argue in writing and speaking.

Solid knowledge in the basic sciences (physics, mechanics, computer science, mathematics...)

Intelligence for interdisciplinarity combining sound, music and human perception

Musical competence desired.

Minimum level B2 in English for the selective training required.

The field of research is fundamental to the course. Students follow courses in research, creation and the professional environment. In semester 4 they produce a research paper. The internship links research and professional activity. A research internship involves professionals and researchers, including researchers from the PRISM laboratory. Students can choose to do their internship within the PRISM laboratory, as far as places are available.

The Master's degree in Acoustics

The Acoustics and Musicology master's degree is supported by the PRISM (Perception Representations Image Music) laboratory. This interdisciplinary laboratory is made up of a consortium of acousticians, physicists, computer scientists, mathematicians, neuroscientists, musicologists, philosophers, psychologists, and artists.

The master's degree in Acoustics and Musicology is backed by the PRISM laboratory (Perception Representations Image Music).

The training also benefits from the collaboration of the IMéRA. This Institute of Advanced Studies is a foundation of Aix-Marseille University, member of the European Network of Institutes of Advanced Studies (NETIAS), which welcomes researchers and artists in order to develop interactions between exact sciences, humanities and social sciences, music and arts.

The Economic World

• Automotive industry (PSA, Vélizy-Villacoublay)
• Information and communication technology (Orange Lab, Lannion).
• Sound design (GENESIS, Aix-en-Provence)

International partnerships

The master's degree is based on specific agreements developed since the bachelor's degree in the Music and Music Sciences sector of Aix-en-Provence:

The master's degree is based on a number of international partnerships

• 1) Erasmus agreement, the partner institutions being the universities of Hildesheim (Germany), Edinburgh (UK) ;
• 2) Bilateral agreement (2007 renewed in 2014), the partner institution being Laval University, Quebec (Canada)
• 3) CREPUQ, Conseil des universités du Québec and the University of Ottawa (Canada), the partner institutions being the Universities of Montréal, Sherbrooke, Ottawa (Canada)

The master établishes international networks with European and non-EU universities:

• Aalborg of Copenhagen (Denmark)
• Oslo, Department of Musicology (Norway)
• Barcelona, Master of Sound Art (Spain)
• Edinburgh, Digital Audio Group (Scotland)
• Queen Mary of London, Centre for Digital Music (England)
• McGill, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (Canada)
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Research Partnerships

The field of research is fundamental. Students follow courses in research, creation and the professional environment. In semester 4 they produce a research paper. A research seminar involves professionals and researchers, including researchers from the PRISM laboratory. In this context, the main partnerships with the Research are:

The Master in Acoustics

The Acoustics and Musicology master's degree is backed by the PRISM laboratory (Perception representations image music, CNRS / Aix-Marseille University).

The training also benefits from a collaboration with the IMRA (Institute of Advanced Studies, Aix-Marseille University).

• Préparation of his professional life
• Political issues (arts/sciences)
• Musicology and interdisciplinarity
• Philosophy
• Initiation in composition and sound design
• Exploration and creation of sound and music (sound synthesis, sound processing, acoustic waves, architectural acoustics, anatomy and physiology of hearing, introduction to cognition, auditory perception, computer science)
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• Sound and music production
• Production of a collective project
• Participation à a Field School

Sound engineering and design course:

• Physical acoustics (and instrument acoustics, transducers, sound recording techniques)
• Perception and cognition (anatomy and physiology of the auditory system, psychophysics, cognition and awareness, perceptual dimensions of sound, perception of auditory signals, perceptual control of synthesis processes, sound design for engineering, health)
• Practice in sound and music design

• Analyze, synthesize and transform an audio signal
• Represent an audio signal through time/frequency transformations
• Modify the time/frequency behaviour of audio signals
• Understand sound perception in order to take it into account in applications involving sound and/or music
• Introduce different phonological approaches to sound and music
• Use or develop software and technological methods and tools that incorporate aesthetic dimensions and are adapted to an industrial demand.
• É a critical approach to sound
• Creating sound in collective workshops
Maîtrise French and practice English.

INFORMATIONS

MASTER 1

Semester 1

Thinking about sound and music1 (common core) - 9 ECTS

Exploring and creating sound and music 1 (common core) - 9 ECTS

Produce a collective project 1 (core curriculum) - 6 ECTS

Preparing one's professional life (common core) - 3 ECTS

Expressing oneself and communicating (common core) - 3 ECTS

Semester 2

Physical acoustics1 - 6 ECTS

Perception and cognition 1 - 6 ECTS

Signal processing 1- 3 ECTS

Informatics 1- 3 ECTS

Research, creation and professional environment1- 3 ECTS

Thinking about sound and music 2 (common core) - 3 ECTS

Produce a collective project 2 (common core) - 3 ECTS

Field study 1 (common core) - 3 ECTS

MASTER 2

Semester 3

Physical acoustics 2 - 3 ECTS

Perception and cognition 2 - 3 ECTS

Signal processing 2 - 6 ECTS

Informatics 2 - 3 ECTS

Practice of sound and music - 3 ECTS

Research, creation and professional environment2 - 3 ECTS

Produce a collective project 3 (common core) - 6 ECTS

Field school 2 (common core) - 3 ECTS

Semester 4

Internship - 24 ECTS

Produce a collective project 4 : restitution (common core) - 6 ECTS

ECTS : European Credits transfer System

Total credits for each semester : 30 ECTS.

Total credits for each year of the master's degree: 60 ECTS

Total credits for the master : 120 ECTS

Project pedagogy.

Mandatory five-month internship.

The teaching takes place over 9 weeks, with the following 3 weeks devoted to fieldwork, workshops, seminars and other events.

Compulsory attendance: attendance is compulsory in all courses due to a learning style that values teamwork.

The courses are taught in the Espace Yves Mathieu, on the Saint-Charles campus in Marseille. Some courses are held on the Robert Schuman campus in Aix-en-Provence, in the PRISM laboratory at the CNRS rue Joseph Aiguier in Marseille, and at the homes of artistic and scientific partners. The field trips will locate some of the lessons.

Some of the lessons will be held in the field.

• E1205 Réalisation de contenus multimédias (fr)
• H1204 Design industriel (fr)
• H1206 Management et ingénierie études, recherche et développement industriel (fr)
• L1508 Prise de son et sonorisation (fr)

• 115F Physique appliquée aux processus industriels ; Physique des matériaux ; Mesures physiques appliquées au contrôle industriel ; Sciences physiques pour l'ingénieur (fr)
• 323S Techniques de l'image et du son, métiers connexes du spectacle (production) (fr)

Sound engineering, Cartoon, Film, Radio, Sound

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Entry to the Master's programme is subject to selection, both in the 1st year (after the bachelor's degree or BAC +3) and in the 2nd year (after the bachelor's degree +4).

All applications must be made by internet https://www.monmaster.gouv.fr/

Timetable for the procedure:                      

March 1 to April 3, 2023: Application deadline
April to June 2023: Review of applications by institutions
June 19 to July 17, 2023: Admission phase (transmission of admission proposals to applicants and response from applicants to these proposals)
Until 20 July 2023: Administrative registration with the institutions, according to the timetable set by each institution.

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French level required for foreign students: C1

English level: B2.

ENROLLMENT REGIMES :

This course is available in

• Initial training (IF)
• Continuing Education (CE)