René-Louis Baron is a French inventor, author and songwriter. He was 14 years old when he played for the first time on stage as a jazz clarinetist. Later, in 1978, he began in Paris a career as solo singer.

In 1980, he began to use computers to record his music for films, advertising, large companies, theaters, singers and art galleries as well as his song-poems.

In 1989, he, a self-taught eclectic

Eclectic

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, began his own research into algorithmic composition

Algorithmic composition

Algorithmic composition is the technique of using algorithms to create music.Algorithms have been used to compose music for centuries; the procedures used to plot voice-leading in Western counterpoint, for example, can often be reduced to algorithmic determinacy...

 and thus, musical artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...

. In 1998, he filed the first patent for automatic musical composition

Musical composition

Musical composition can refer to an original piece of music, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating a new piece of music. People who practice composition are called composers.- Musical compositions :...

 at the National Industrial Property Institute in Paris.

Early career

While studying clarinet at the Conservatory of Music in his hometown, René-Louis Baron was quickly drawn to jazz. His first stage appearance was at age 14, with a New Orleans style band. From 1960 to 1974, he sang hit songs with various Lyonnais bands, such as Jean Trial, Pol Malburet, Eddie Léo et Maurice de Thou, mainly in south-eastern France.
He shared his passion for creativity with students by visiting schools and giving seminars. He introduced students to Alex Osborn and the technique of brainstorming

Brainstorming

Brainstorming is a group creativity technique by which a group tries to find a solution for a specific problem by gathering a list of ideas spontaneously contributed by its members...

in the field of artistic creation.

His songwriting and performing period began in Paris in 1978 with the release of his first album of musical poetry Baron chante Cousin et Dorigné