Nicolas Donin - Biography#

Nicolas Donin is Senior Researcher at the Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique, Paris, where he leads the permanent research group in interdisciplinary musicology (the 'Analysis of Musical Practices' team) as part of STMS Labs (a joint facility of IRCAM, the French National Centre for Scientific Research, and Sorbonne Université. His work addresses 20th and 21st century musics at the crossroads of music history, analysis, and social sciences, from post-Wagnerian listening practices and post-spectral aesthetics, to the ethnography of distributed creativity in current musical practices. A leading scholar in the compositional process of contemporary music, he was Principal Investigator of two large research programmes funded by the French national research agency (MuTeC, 2009-11, and GEMME, 2012-16), and established the international Tracking Creative Process in Music conference (Lille, 2011; Montreal, 2013; Paris, 2015; Huddersfield, 2017; Lisbon, 2019). He has authored and co-authored over a hundred papers across several disciplines and languages. He has edited and co-edited reference collections, such as L’Analyse musicale, une pratique et son histoire (Geneva, 2009), Théories de la composition musicale au XXe siècle (2 vols., Lyons, 2013), The Oxford Handbook of the Creative Process in Music (New York, in development). His output also encompasses interactive media for pedagogy and documentary films. An associate member of the Oxford University Faculty of Music as well as the Centre de Recherche sur les Arts et le Langage (CNRS/EHESS), he served on the board of the Société française d’analyse musicale, and is a current member of the board of the Société française de musicologie.