Pierre Couprie
Head Of Language, Art And Music Department at Centre d’Histoire Culturelle des Sociétés Contemporaines
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolPierre Couprie is a professor, researcher, and academic leader with over a decade of experience at Paris-Saclay and Évry universities, specializing in twentieth-century music history, digital musicology, computer music, and software tools for music research and creation. He directs multiple programs and departments—linking musicology and engineering of contemporary music—bringing rare interdisciplinary expertise that spans scholarship, curriculum leadership, and hands-on tool development. His background includes long-term research positions at IReMus and international postdoctoral work focused on multimedia analysis for electroacoustic music, reflecting deep technical and analytical rigor. Trained as a composer and electroacoustic specialist with a PhD and habilitation from Paris-Sorbonne, he combines conservatory-level practice with research-grade methodology. Based in Paris, he is known for translating complex musicological questions into software and pedagogical innovation that supports both scholarship and performance.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Habilitation to conduct researches, Musicology, Habilitation to conduct researches, Musicology at Université Paris-Sorbonne1st Prize, Electroacoustic, 1st Prize, Electroacoustic at Music Conservatory of Boulogne-BillancourtPh.D, Musicology, Ph.D, Musicology at University of Paris-SorbonneLicence, Music and musicology, Licence, Music and musicology at University of Bordeaux 3Prize, Music composition and electroacoustic composition, Prize, Music composition and electroacoustic composition at Music Conservatory of BordeauxProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
pierrecouprie/MotusLabTool
Oct 2019 - Aug 2022
Contributions:12 releases, 3 commits, 20 pushes in 2 years 10 months
pierrecouprie/MotusLabRecorder
Sep 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch, 6 issues in 1 year 3 months
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