Medal Inventor - Real Composer

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1st period artistic experience

Higher musical studies
Winner of the "Arranger-SACEM" competition 78

1958/1974 - SOUTH-EAST / FRANCE
Singer / musician (Clarinet/Sax/Keyboard)
René BARON plays and sings in professional dance and jazz orchestras : Franck Less, Gérard Maimone, Jean Trial, Eddie Léo, Pol Malburet, Maurice of Thou.

Artistic experience 2nd period

1978/1989 - PARIS - singer-songwriter Recital
of sung poetry
"BARON sings Gabriel COUSIN and Michel DORIGNé"

1978-1988 / AWARDS

First Prize of the Club des Onze (Artistic Vocation Prize) created by Bruno Coquatrix .
Prize awarded by a jury comprising:
Jean Wiener, Jean Dréjac, Marcel Auriac, André Hornez, Nina Valente, Henri Kubnick
and Georges Auric (from the “Group of Six” with Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, Germaine Tailleferre, Francis Poulenc and Louis Durey) .

OTHER AWARDS

April 1968 - BARCLAY Prize at Studios Hoch in Paris
1978 - Winner of the " Discoveries Tf1 " in the program "Young Talents" by André Blanc.
1980 - First Prize for French Expression Song at Gagny.
1981 - First Prize "Hexagone Vert" FR3 at the "MIDEM" in Cannes. 1982 - First prize "Espoir Antenne2" at the World Festival of French Song in Juan-les-Pins.

SHOWS

1978-1988- Café-theatre, cabaret, music hall:
Le Port du Salut, Le Don Camilo, La Villa d'Este, Le Caf-Conce by Simone Raton,
La Boulangerie des Tuileries, Le Rive Droite, Les Ecrivains, Les Small Cobblestones, etc.

1980-Palais des Sports: Soloist in " Les Misérables " by Victor Hugo
musical comedy directed by Robert Hossein .
1981-1982: Recital at the Olympia - Paris.
1983-Palace of Mutuality - Paris.
1978/1989: Tours (about 1000 recitals and singing tours).

Record productions
: CARRERE, WEA FILIPPACHI, CBS, DE PLEIN VENT

3rd period artistic experience

1988/2000 - FILM MUSIC

Short Films : Composition and production of 150 corporate film scores

EDF, AEROSPATIALE, CNRS, ECPA, CAMEL, COUSTEAU,
DASSAULT Aviation, GDF, MICHELIN, MARLBORO... Etc.

Feature Films : Under the pseudonym "Rene-Luis BARON"

The Stalker (France) - President's Target (USA) - The Man from Nowhere - Der Jaguar (Germany)
Trapper County War - The Widow (USA)

RLBaron - Research in IAA

(Artistic Artificial Intelligence)

1989-2006

Design and production of several software programs
for artistic self-creation:
- Software for the automatic production of church stained glass windows .
- Software for automatic creation of film synopses .
- Automatic music composition software .

Musical research music:

Inventor of the "device and process for automatic music generation":
MEDALmusic system (MedalComposer)
Founder and manager of MEDAL SARL

2001-2004
- Patent licensing and sub-licensing
to NEC, DoCoMo (Japan), THOMSON (France/USA ), DIGIPLUG (France)

2005-201 3
Co-founder of Techlody SAS
- R&D of Techlody SAS: Hardware MEDALComposer (MEDAL inside)
- R&D: One-Touch-Play
- RL.Baron, F.Baron and L.Cauvin file a patent for a new instrument "intelligent" musical instrument: The Lodyone
- 2013 Techlody SAS produces and distributes the "LodyOne" musical instrument on Amazon