Olivier Bélanger (1977) completed a PhD in February 2009 in electroacoustic composition at the Université de Montréal under the direction of Jean Piché and Caroline Traube. His work has focused on creating a model of the singing voice synthesis and algorithmic control of synthesis tools. Since 2003 he is a lecturer at the Faculty of Music at the Université de Montréal where he teaches courses in music programming. His research has focused for several years towards the development of python software programming and sound processing, including the software suites TamTam (OLPC / MIT), Ounk, SoundGrain, pyo, Zyne, Cecilia4 and Cecilia5.