Ren�-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, began his own research into algorithmic composition and thus, musical artificial intelligence. In 1998, he filed the first patent for automatic musical composition at the National Industrial Property Institute in Paris. 

February 9th, 1944 in Romans-sur-Isère  /  Died:   May 20th, 2016 - aged 72