Romain MICHON

Corps : Professeur des universités
Spécialité : Technologies du son et de la musique
Fonction : Enseignant-Chercheur

Courriel : romain.michon @ univ-st-etienne.fr

Affectation : Laboratoire ECLLA
Faculté Arts Lettres Langues
Équipe Inria Emeraude (https://team.inria.fr/emeraude/) 

Téléphone  : secrétariat  04 77 42 16 66

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Axe(s) du laboratoire 

A3 : Créations - Technologies – Imaginaires

Thèmes de recherche

- Nouvelles lutheries
- Langages dédiés pour le traitement du signal audio
- Interfaces homme-machine
- Système embarqués pour le traitement du signal audio
- Son immersif

Responsabilités

- Responsable du master Erasmus Mundus DIGICREA (https://master-digicrea.univ-st-etienne.fr/en/index.html)
- Responsable du master Sound and Music Technology (https://www.univ-st-etienne.fr/fr/formation/master-XB/master-XB/master-arts-parcours-sound-and-music-technology-FOR10.html)
- Responsable de l’équipe associée MIRAGES (https://team.inria.fr/emeraude/mirages/)
- Président de Sound and Music Computing Network (TODO)
- Secrétaire de l’Association Française d’Informatique Musicale (AFIM)
- Secrétaire de Grame – Centre National de Création Musicale

Projets de recherche

- 3DREAM: 3D-Printed Realtime Ambisonic Microphone : https://team.inria.fr/emeraude/3dream/
- FAST: Fast Audio Signal-processing Technologies on FPGA : https://fast.grame.fr/
- DIStrib: Disrupting Immersive Sound With Distributed FPGAs : https://team.inria.fr/emeraude/distrib/
- What did they hear ? : https://ccrma.stanford.edu/chauvet/
- AmStramGrame : https://www.amstramgrame.fr/ 

Publications

Articles

- M. Popoff, R. Michon, T. Risset, P. Cochard, L. Ledoux, S. Letz, Y. Orlarey, F. de Dinechin. Frugalité et conception de circuits pour le traitement du signal audio numérique, Revue Francophone Informatique et Musique, 1(11), 2025.
- M. Popoff, R. Michon, T. Risset, P. Cochard, S. Letz, Y. Orlarey, and F. de Dinechin. « Compilation of Real-Time Audio DSP Programs to FPGA : Theory and Practice, » ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), 2025. Article accepté en cours de publications.
- R. Michon, M. Ducceschi, P. Cochard, T. Skare, C.J. Webb, and R. Russo, « Evaluating CPU, GPU, and FPGA Performance in the Context of Modal Reverberation : A Comparative Analysis, » Frontiers in Signal Processing, 2025. https://hal.science/hal-05319252.
- T.A. Rushton, R. Michon, S. Serafin, T. Risset, and S. Letz, « Networked Microcontrollers for Accessible, Distributed Spatial Audio, » Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 5(1391987), 2024.
- M. Kolar, L. Valentin, P. Svensson, S. Martin, J. S. Abel, R. Michon, C. Fritz, G. Tosello, J. Chowning, and M. Wright, « From Room Acoustics to Paleoacoustics : A Preliminary Acoustical Study in Chauvet Cave, » The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152(4), 2022.
- F. Schroeder and R. Michon, « Special Issue on Accessibility of Musical Expression, » Co-Editor, Computer Music Journal : MIT Press, 44(2), 2021.
- S. Ren, S. Letz, Y. Orlarey, R. Michon, D. Fober, M. Buffa and J. Lebrun, « Using Faust DSL to Develop Custom, Sample Accurate DSP Code and Audio Plugins for the Web Browser, » Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 68(10), 2020.
- R. Michon, « Quatre années de workshop Faust, » Techniques et méthodes innovantes pour l’enseignement de la musique et du traitement de signal, Revue Francophone Informatique et Musique, 1(6), 2018.
- R. Michon, J.O. Smith, M. Wright, C. Chafe, J. Granzow and G. Wang, « Mobile Music, Sensors, Physical Modeling, and Digital Fabrication : Articulating the Augmented Mobile Instrument, » Applied Sciences, 7(12), 1311, 2017.
- R. Michon and J. Granzow, « Predicting the Acoustical Properties of 3d Printed Resonators Using a Matrix of Impulse Responses and Mode Interpolation, » Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 139(4), 2016.

Communications

- J. Hopner, R. Michon, and A. Volkov, « Sigma Delta DACs for Low Latency High Sampling Rate Audio on an FPGA, » in Proceedings of the 2026 Workshop on Design and Architectures for Signal and Image Processing, Krakow, Poland, 2026.
- T. Rushton, R. Michon, Y. Orlarey, T. Risset, and S. Letz. « Faust Autodiff : Towards Audio Domain-Specific Machine Learning, » in Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Audio, London, England, 2025.
- T. Rushton, R. Michon, and T. Risset, « All Together Now : A Synchronous Platform for Distributed Spatial Audio, » in Proceedings of the 22nd Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC-25), Gratz, Austria, 2025.
- H. Kadi, M. Devidal, R. Michon, and J. Erbani, « Real-Time Musical Instruments Recognition for Scenography Purposes, » in Proceedings of the 2025 Linux Audio Conference (LAC-25), Lyon, France, 2025.
- S. Letz, R. Michon, and Y. Orlarey, « What’s New in the Faust Ecosystem in 2024 ?, » in Proceedings of the 4th International Faust Conference, Turin, Italy, 2024.
- Y. Orlarey, S. Letz, and R. Michon, « Widget Modulation in Faust, » in Proceedings of the International Faust Conference, Turin, Italy, 2024. https://hal.science/hal-04762253v1.
- (IC55) P. Cochard, J. Weber, R. Michon, T. Risset, and S. Letz, « Ethernet Real-time Audio Transmission to FPGA, » Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds, Erlangen, Germany, 2024.
- M. Popoff, R. Michon, and T, Risset, « Enabling Affordable and Scalable Audio Spatialization With Multichannel Audio Expansion Boards for FPGA, » Proceedings of the 2024 Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC-24), Porto, Portugal, 2024.
- P. Cochard, M. Popoff, R. Michon, and T. Risset. « Programming FPGA Platforms for Real-Time Audio Signal Processing In C++, » Proceedings of the 2024 Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC-24), Porto, Portugal, 2024.
- R. Michon, J. Sourice, V. Lazzarini, J. Timmoney, T. Risset, « Towards High Sampling Rate Sound Synthesis On FPGA, » in Proceedings of the 2023 Digital Audio Effects Conference (DAFx23), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2023.
- M. Popoff, R. Michon, T. Risset, P. Cochard, S. Letz, Y. Orlarey, and F. de Dinechin, « Audio DSP to FPGA Compilation, » in Proceedings of the 34th IEEE International Conference on Application specific Systems, Architectures and Processors, Porto, Portugal, 2023.
- P. Cochard, M. Popoff, A. Fraboulet, T. Risset, S. Letz, and R. Michon, « A Programmable Linux Based FPGA Platform for Audio DSP, » in Proceedings of the 2023 Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 23), Stockholm, Sweden, 2023.
- T. Rushton, R. Michon, and S. Letz, « A Microcontroller Based Network Client Towards Distributed Spatial Audio, » in Proceedings of the 2023 Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 23), Stockholm, Sweden, 2023.
- R. Michon, J. Bizien, M. Popoff, and T. Risset, « Making Frugal Spatial Audio Systems Using Field Programmable Gate Arrays, » in Proceedings of the 2023 New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 23), Mexico City, Mexico, 2023.
- S. Ren, S. Letz, Y. Orlarey, D. Fober, R. Michon, M. Buffa, and L. Pottier, « Modernized Toolchains to Create JSPatcher Objects and WebAudioModules from Faust Code, » in Proceedings of the 7th International Web Audio Conference, Cannes, France, 2022.
- S. Letz, R. Michon, Y. Orlarey, « What’s New In the Faust Ecosystem and Community ?, » in Proceedings of the 2022 International Faust Conference (IFC 22), Saint Étienne, France, 2022.
- M. Popoff, R. Michon, T. Risset, Y. Orlarey, and S. Letz, « Towards an FPGA based Compilation Flow for Ultra Low Latency Audio Signal Processing, » in Proceedings of the 19th Sound and Music Computing Conference, Saint Étienne, France, 2022.
- R. Michon, C. Dumitrascu, S. Letz, Y. Orlarey, and D. Fober, « The Gramophone : A Programmable DMI to Facilitate the Teaching of STEM Disciplines, » in Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 21), Turin, Italy, 2021.
- D. Roosenburg, E. Stine, R. Michon, and J. Chowdhury, « A Wave Digital Modeling Library for the Faust Programming Language, » in Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 21), Turin, Italy, 2021.
- R. Russo, S. Serafin, R. Michon, Y. Orlarey, and S. Letz, « Introducing Finite Difference Schemes Synthesis in Faust : A Cellular Automata Approach, » in Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 21), Turin, Italy, 2021.
- R. Michon, C. Dumitrascu, S. Chudet, Y. Orlarey, S. Letz, and D. Fober, « Amstramgrame : Making Scientific Concepts More Tangible Through Music Technology at School, » in Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference (NIME 21), Shanghai, China, 2021.
- D. Fober, Y. Orlarey, S. Letz, and R. Michon, « A web based environment embedding signal processing 6/20 in musical scores, » in Proceedings of the International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (Tenor 21), Hamburg, Germany, 2021.
- S. Letz, Y. Orlarey, R. Michon and D. Fober, « Hybridizing Faust and Soul, » in Proceedings of the International Faust Conference (IFC-20), Paris, France, 2020.
- R. Michon, Y. Orlarey, S. Letz, D. Fober and D. Roosenburg, « Embedded Real-Time Audio Signal Processing With Faust, » in Proceedings of the International Faust Conference (IFC-20), Paris, France, 2020.
- Y. Orlarey, S. Letz, D. Fober and R. Michon, « A new Intermediate Representation for Compiling and Optimizing Faust Code, » in Proceedings of the International Faust Conference (IFC-20), Paris, France, 2020.
- T. Risset, R. Michon, Y. Orlarey, S. Letz, G. Müller and A. Gbadamosi, « Faust2FPGA for Ultra-Low Audio Latency : Preliminary Work in The Syfala Project, » in Proceedings of the International Faust Conference (IFC-20), Paris, France, 2020.
- R. Michon, Y. Orlarey, S. Letz. and D. Fober. « The Faust Programming Language As a Platform for Creating Hybrid Acoustical and Digital Musical Instruments, » in Proceedings of the Forum Acusticum (FA-20), Lyon, France, 2020.
- M. Buffa, J. Lebrun, S. Ren, S. Letz, Y. Orlarey, R. Michon and D. Fober, « Emerging W3C APIs Opened Up Commercial Opportunities for Computer Music Applications, » in Proceedings of the Web Conference 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, 2020.
- M. Caren, R. Michon and M. Wright, « The KeyWI : An Expressive and Accessible Electronic Wind Instrument, » in Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference (NIME-20), Birmingham, UK, 2020.
- R. Michon, D. Overholt, S. Letz, Y. Orlarey, D. Fober and C. Dumitrascu, « A Faust Architecture for the ESP32 Microcontroller, » in Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference, Turin, Italy, 2020.
- S. Ren, S. Letz, Y. Orlarey, R. Michon, D. Fober, M. Buffa, E. Ammari and J. Lebrun, « Develop WebAudio Plugins in a Web Browser, » in Proceedings of the Web Audio Conference (WAC-19), Trondheim, Norway, 2019.
- S. Ren, S. Letz, Y. Orlarey, R. Michon, D. Fober, M. Buffa, E. Ammari and J. Lebrun, « Faust Online IDE : Dynamically Compile and Publish Faust Code as WebAudio Plugins, » in Proceedings of the Web Audio Conference (WAC-19), Trondheim, Norway, 2019.
- D. Fober, Y. Orlarey, S. Letz and R. Michon, « A Tree Based Language for Music Score Description,» in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR-19), Marseille, France, 2019.
- R. Michon, Y. Orlarey, S. Letz, D. Fober and C. Dumitrascu « Mobile Music With the Faust Programming Language, » in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR-19), Marseille, France, 2019.
- R. Michon, Y. Orlarey, S. Letz and D. Fober, « Comparison and Implementation of Data Transmission Techniques Through Analog Audio Signals in the Context of Augmented Mobile Instruments, » in Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC-19), Malaga, Spain, 2019.
- R. Michon, Y. Orlarey, S. Letz and D. Fober, « Real Time Audio Digital Signal Processing With Faust and the Teensy, » in Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC-19), Malaga, Spain, 2019.
- J. Leonard, R. Michon, J. Villeneuve, Y. Orlarey and S. Letz, « Formalizing mass-interaction physical modeling in Faust, » in Proceedings of the Linux Audio Conference (LAC-19), Stanford University, California, 2019.
- N. Gang, S. Sibi, R. Michon, B. Mok, C. Chafe and W. Ju, « Don’t Be Alarmed : Sonifying Autonomous Vehicle Perception to Increase Situation Awareness, » in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, Toronto, Canada, 2018.
- J. Granzow, T. Ng, C. Chafe and R. Michon, « Mending Bells and Closing Belfries with Faust, » in Proceedings of the International Faust Conference (IFC-18), Mainz, Germany, 2018.
- R. Michon, J.O. Smith, C. Chafe, G. Wang and M. Wright, « The Faust Physical Modeling Library : a Modular Playground for the Digital Luthier, » in Proceedings of the International Faust Conference (IFC-18), Mainz, Germany, 2018.
- R. Michon, J.O. Smith, C. Chafe, G. Wang and M. Wright, « faust2smartkeyb : a Tool to Make Mobile Instruments Focusing on Skills Transfer in the Faust Programming Language, » in Proceedings of the International Faust Conference (IFC-18), Mainz, Germany, 2018.
- D.B. Cavdir, R. Michon and G. Wang, « The BodyHarp : Designing the Intersection Between the Instrument and the Body, » in Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC-18), Limassol, Cyprus, 2018.
- R. Michon, C. Chafe and J. Granzow, « 3D Printing and Physical Modeling of Musical Instruments : Casting the Net, » in Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC-18), Limassol, Cyprus, 2018.
- S. Serafin, R. Michon and S. Dimitrov, « Blender2faust : From Drawn 3d Objects to Physically Based Sound Models, » in Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC-18), Limassol, Cyprus, 2018.
- R. Michon and S. Martin, « Mesh2faust : a Modal Physical Model Generator for the Faust Programming Language – Application to Bell Modeling, » in Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC-17), Shanghai, China, 2017.
- Y. Orlarey, S. Letz, D. Fober and R. Michon, « Faust Tutorial for Functional Programmers, » in Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modeling, and Design (FARM-17), Oxford, United-Kingdom, 2017.
- S. Letz, Y. Orlarey, D. Fober and R. Michon, « Polyphony, Sample-Accurate Control and MIDI Support for Faust DSP Using Combinable Architecture Files, » in Proceedings of the Linux Audio Conference (LAC-17), Saint-Etienne, France, 2017.
- R. Michon, J. Smith, S. Letz, C. Chafe and Y. Orlarey, « faust2api : a Comprehensive API Generator for Android and iOS, » in Proceedings of the Linux Audio Conference (LAC-17), Saint-Etienne, France, 2017.
- R. Michon, J. Smith and Y. Orlarey, « New Signal Processing Libraries for Faust, » in Proceedings of the Linux Audio Conference (LAC-17), Saint-Etienne, France, 2017.
- R. Michon, J. O. Smith, M. J. Wright, C. Chafe, J. Granzow and G. Wang, « Passively Augmenting Mobile Devices Towards Hybrid Musical Instrument Design, » in Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME-17), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017.
- R. Michon, M. Johns, S. O’Modhrain, N. Gang, N. Gowda, D. Sirkin, C. Chafe, M. Wright and W. Ju, « A Faust Based Driving Simulator Sound Synthesis Engine, » in Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC-16), Hamburg, Germany, 2016.
- R. Michon, J. O. Smith, C. Chafe, M. Wright and G. Wang, « Nuance : Adding Multi-Touch Force Detection to the iPad, » in Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC-16), Hamburg, Germany, 2016.
- G. Wang and R. Michon, « FaucK ! ! Hybridizing the Faust and ChucK Audio Programming Languages, » in Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC-16), Hamburg, Germany, 2016.
- R. Michon, J. O. Smith, M. Wright and C. Chafe, « Augmenting the iPad : the BladeAxe, » in Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME-16), Brisbane, Australia, 2016.
- R. Michon, J. O. Smith and Y. Orlarey, « MobileFaust : a Set of Tools to Make Musical Mobile Applications with the Faust Programming Language, » in Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces and Musical Expression (NIME-15), Baton Rouge, USA, 2015.
- C. Wu, N. Weitzner, Y. H. Yeh, J. Abel, R. Michon and M. Wright, « Tibetan Singing Prayer Wheel : A Hybrid MusicalSpiritual Instrument Using Gestural Control, » in Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces and Musical Expression (NIME-15), Baton Rouge, USA, 2015.
- R. Michon and J. O. Smith, « A Hybrid Guitar Physical Model Controller : The BladeAxe, » in Proceedings of ICMC-SMC 2014, Athens, Greece, 2014.
- R. Michon, « Mephisto : an Open Source WIFI OSC Controller for Faust Applications, » in Proceedings of the 12th Linux Audio Conference (LAC-14), ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 1-4, 2014.
- R. Michon, « Faust2android : a Faust Architecture for Android, » in Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-2013), National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland, Sept. 2-5, 2013.
- R. Michon and Y. Orlarey, « The Faust Online Compiler : a Web-Based IDE for the Faust Programming Language, » in Proceedings of the 10th Linux Audio Conference (LAC-12), Stanford University, CA, April 12-15, 2012.
- R. Michon and J. O. Smith, « Faust-STK : a Set of Linear and Nonlinear Physical Models for the Faust Programming Language, » in Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-11), Paris, France, September 19-23, 2011.
- J. O. Smith and R. Michon, « Nonlinear Allpass Ladder Filters in Faust, » in Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-11), Paris, France, September 19-23, 2011.

Encadrements

- Thomas Rushton
- Benjamin Quiédeville
- Maxime Popoff
- Clemens Wegener
- Nicolas Gry