Antoine Villedieu a étudié la composition instrumentale avec Jean-Luc Hervé et la composition électroacoustique avec Yan Maresz au Pôle Supérieur Paris Boulogne-Billancourt, où il a obtenu le diplôme national supérieur professionnel de musicien. Titulaire d'un master de musicologie à Sorbonne Université sous la direction de Jean-Marc Chouvel, sa thèse de doctorat porte sur la synthèse sonore algorithmique. Il est professeur de composition électroacoustique et de formation musicale au Conservatoire de Gentilly.
Internet communication is now growing at an unprecedented rate, and composers have been sharing one-liner codes written in the SuperCollider programming language over the course of the past two decades.
They see this approach as a quick way to learn how to code, but also as a challenge that consists in producing the most impressive sound result by writing the shortest possible line of code.
All current programming languages for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition – whether graphical or text-based - come with a number of visualization tools intended for audio analysis and algorithm evaluation. These tools also help to understand how these programs work in terms of digital sound production.