Engineering & Protypes Team (PIP)
Background
The Engineering & Protype Team was created 2016 as the convergence of past structural work in the field of Electronics for Live Performance and gestural interaction. Initially propelled by developments of sensor interfaces and digitizers for the control of music, back in 1998, a first team was created in 2003 in the Production Department of IRCAM (Performance Arts Technology Group) with strong internal collaborations with research team Musical Interaction, which will later become Sound-Music-Motion Interaction Team (ISMM). apparatusesThe PIP Team fuels the Mixed Unit of Research (UMR) STM9912 with custom & experimental electronics as well as gestural sensor modules aimed to interact with music or other media. The Team also collaborates with the Production Department to provide specific apparatuses for diversified artistic works and pieces.
Members
Emmanuel Fléty - Team Leader (IRCAM)
Biography
Emmanuel FLETY is an electronics engineer at IRCAM and is in charge of the PIP Engineering and Prototype Team.
A specialist in embedded electronics, he has developed over the past twenty years expertise in digitization and acquisition interfaces for miniaturized wireless sensors with low latency. These are critical tools in the fields of motion capture and recognition, as well as in the creation of new gestural interfaces for music and digital lutherie.
In 2005, alongside his work at the Institute, he founded his own company, Plecter Labs, where he explores possible connections between the design of microcontroller boards and replicas of cinema props, thereby investigating tangible relationships between movement, sound, and light. A maker at heart, he enjoys exploring the poetic expression offered by unique interactive objects through a hands-on, artisanal approach.