Alex­is Baskind is a musi­cian, sound engi­neer and author/consultant of tech­no­log­i­cal solu­tions for audio pro­duc­tion and lis­ten­ing sys­tems. he first learned sound record­ing with benoit fab­re au con­ser­va­toire nation­al at aubervil­lier­s/la-courneuve region­al music school, and fol­lowed at the same time sci­en­tif­ic and tech­ni­cal stud­ies. he joined the ircam in 1999, and there he pur­sued research­es on room acoustics. obtain­ing a phd in 2003, he has been work­ing since then on music cre­ation, the­atre and dance projects, for numer­ous struc­tures includ­ing ircam, the con­ser­va­toire nation­al supérieur de musique et de danse de paris, the cam­pag­nie des musiques à ouïr and the cen­tre inter­na­tion­al de recher­ché musi­cale. among oth­ers, he worked with com­posers philippe ler­oux, andréa vigani, héc­tor par­ra, pedro ama­r­al, françois paris, philippe hurel, vladimir tarnopol­sky, alexan­dros markéas, hanspeter kyburz, as well as with the the­atre direc­tor jean-françois peyret, in music, the­atre and dance projects melt­ing live elec­tron­ics and tra­di­tion­al instru­ments. he works reg­u­lar­ly on artis­ti­cal and tech­ni­cal projects requir­ing the devel­op­ment of spe­cif­ic solu­tions for sound pro­cess­ing, sound design, and inter­fac­ing with ges­ture and visu­al analy­sis sys­tems. for­mer­ly pro­fes­sor in sound engi­neer­ing in the hochschule der pop­ulären kün­ste fh (berlin), he’s been also reg­u­lar­ly giv­ing cours­es in sound engi­neer­ing and com­put­er music at the hochschule für musik det­mold and in music schools, uni­ver­si­ties and train­ing insti­tutes for music production.