Own Production

Some Recent Talks

• Jean-Pierre Briot, Can AI Help Us Compose, Not Just Generate Music?, Keynote, 13th China Conference on Sound and Music Technology (CSMC-CSMT), Xinghai Conservatory of Music, Guangzhou, Guandong, Chine, 14 novembre 2026.

• Jean-Pierre Briot, Introduction, In the Founding Workshop of the think-tank/network CRIATIVOS, Pensar, Fazer! Lançamento da Rede Internacional de Pesquisa Aplicada, Colégio Brasileiro de Altos Estudos da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (CBAE-UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, August 2026.

• Jean-Pierre Briot, Desafios na Educação Musical, In the Round-Table on Educação musical na contemporaneidade: tecnologia, 7o Encontro de Educação Musical do Colégio Pedro II, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, May 2026 In portuguese.

• Jean-Pierre Briot, IA e Música, In the Course Tópicos Especiais em Inteligência Artificial, coordinated by Ronaldo Mota and Gabriel Goldmeier, Colégio Brasileiro de Altos Estudos da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (CBAE-UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, November 2025 In portuguese.

• Jean-Pierre Briot, Desafíos para a criação musical na era da IA generativa, 31o Simpósio Webmedia (Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas Multimédia e Web), PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, November 2025.

• Jean-Pierre Briot, AI in Music Creativity, In the Panel on Music and AI, The European Network for the Philosophy of Music (ENPM 2025), Strasbourg, September 2025.

• Jean-Pierre Briot, Intelligence artificielle et dé-coïncidence créative, In the Round-Table on Intelligence artificielle et dé-coïncidence(s), Colloque De la dé-coïncidence à "la vraie vie" - Rouvrir des possibles avec François Jullien, Cerisy, July 2025. In french.

• Jean-Pierre Briot, Nathan Fradet and Rens Baeyens (Speakers), and Aurore Basson and Antoine Idczak (Direction and Production), Entretien sur Informatique et musique, LIP6, Paris, September 2024 In french.
  • Jean-Pierre Briot, Support à l'Entretien filmé sur Informatique et Musique au LIP6, HAL: hal-04709249, September 2024.

• Jean-Pierre Briot, Rogério Tavares Constante, Yuri Behr and Hugo Carvalho (moderator), Round-Table on: Music and tecnology, 8 Congresso MusMat 2024, Rio de Janeiro, October 2024 In portuguese.

• Jean-Pierre Briot (coordinated by) Cycle of Seminars about AI, creativity and arts, CBAE-UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, September-December 2023 In portuguese and in english.

Some Recent Publications

• Desafios para a educação musical na era da inteligência artificial e da transformação digital, Jean-Pierre Briot. Interlúdio, Departamento de Educação Musical do Colégio Pedro II, to appear in 2026. (invited).
  HAL Version, HAL-05671507, June 2026. Web.

• Compress to Create, Jean-Pierre Briot, In MusMat Group, editor, Selected Papers of the MusMat Journal: 2016-2026, Volume 2 of MusMat Series, Chapter 6, pages 59-86. MusMat (Music and Mathematics) Research Group/PPGM/UFRJ, to appear in 2026. (invited - with Addendum). PDF.

• From one-shot generation to incremental music composition: Adapting a general-purpose instruction LLM for persistent symbolic editing, André Ricardo Ducca Fernandes, Jean-Pierre Briot, Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa, and Hêlio Côrtes Vieira Lopes, ArXiv:2609.34994, September 2026. Web.

• Mudanças profundas e polimorfas na música na era da transformação digital, Jean-Pierre Briot, Criativos!, August 2026. Web.
  HAL Version, HAL-05706964, August 2026. Web.

• Challenges for Musical Education, Jean-Pierre Briot. arXiv:2608.05176, August 2026.

• Recent Advances in Music Generation: Methods, Evaluation, and Challenges, Wei Duan, Yi Yu, and Jean-Pierre Briot, Artificial Intelligence Review - An International Science and Engineering Journal, Springer, June 2026. DOI/Web.

• IA et dé-coïncidence créative, Jean-Pierre Briot, In Patrick Albert, editor, Intelligence artificielle et dé-coïncidence, Collection Libres opinions, pages 32-52, Presses des Mines, June 2025. ISBN: 978-2-38542-721-4. PDF.

• Is quality enough? Integrating Energy Consumption in a Large-Scale Evaluation of Neural Audio Synthesis Models, Constance Douwes, Giovanni Bindi, Antoine Caillon, Philippe Esling, and Jean-Pierre Briot, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023), Rhodes Island, Greece, June 2023. IEEE. ISBN: 978-1-7281-6328-4. e-ISBN: 978-1-7281-6327-7. DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10096975. PDF.

• Byte Pair Encoding for Symbolic Music, Nathan Fradet, Jean-Pierre Briot, Fabien Chhel, Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, and Nicolas Gutowski, arXiv:2301.11975, January 2023. Web.

• MidiTok: A Python Package for MIDI File Tokenization, Nathan Fradet, Jean-Pierre Briot, Fabien Chhel, Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, and Nicolas Gutowski, 22nd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2021), Online, November 2021. Late Breaking Demo. Web. HAL Version, HAL-03418930, November 2021: Web.

• Jean-Pierre Briot, Gaëtan Hadjeres and François-David Pachet, Deep Learning Techniques for Music Generation, Computational Synthesis and Creative Systems Series, Springer Verlag, 2020. ISBN: 978-3-319-70162-2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70163-9
  • Companion Mini Web Site

  • ArXiv version

  From artificial neural networks to deep learning for music generation - History, concepts and trends, Jean-Pierre Briot, Neural Computing and Applications (NCAA), Special issue Neural networks in Art, sound and Design, (33):39-65, January 2021. ISSN: 0941-0643. e-ISSN: 1433-3058. DOI: 10.1007/s00521-020-05399-0. Web. ArXiV Version, arXiv:2004.03586, April 2020, October 2020: Web.

• Compress to create, Jean-Pierre Briot, MusMat: Brazilian Journal of Music and Mathematics, IV(1):12-38, June 2020. ISSN: 2526-3757. Invited article. Web. HAL Version Web. MIDI files of the examples

• Music generation by deep learning - Challenges and directions. Jean-Pierre Briot and François Pachet, Neural Computing and Applications (NCAA), Special issue Deep learning for music and audio, 32(4):981-993, January 2020. ISSN: 0941-0643. e-ISSN: 1433-3058. DOI: 10.1007/s00521-018-3813-6. Web. ArXiV Version, arXiv:1712.04371, December 2017, September 2018: Web

• Jean-Pierre Briot, Apprentissage profond et génération de musique, Hors série Intelligence artificielle, Tangente - L'aventure mathématique, (68):30-37, September 2019

Some Recent Software

• ContinuatorPy A reimplementation in Python of the Continuator from François Pachet

• ContinuatorJS An adaptation in JavaScript

• MetricsJS Computing and displaying metrics on the successive sessions (player plays or Continuator generations)

JPB, 30/10/2026

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