Michel Pascal is a composer and a professor of electroacoustic composition at the Conservatoire de Nice, France. Professor Pascal’s work covers a wide range of topics including: the development of electroacoustic and electronic music in France, Pierre Schaeffer's role in characterizing sounds as objects of perception, Jean Etienne Marie's work on microtonality, and the history of Acousmatique concerts at Radio France. During his residency, Pascal offered a beginner's lesson on "how to listen to contemporary music" and organized a concert with an "orchestra" of loudspeakers, modeled on the acousmonium in the main concert hall at Radio France in Paris. He was hosted by the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies while at Berkeley.