In the third cycle,[clarification needed] he follows the master classes of Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Franco Donatoni, Emmanuel Nunes, Henri Dutilleux.
In the field of research, his research dissertations are directed by Hugues Dufourt (DEA), Ivanka Stoïanova and Horacio Vaggione (PhD, Contingence et déterminisme procedural appliqués à la synthèse sonore informatique et l'écriture musicale (ISBN 2-284-00761-9),[4] Pierre Abert Castanet (in French "Habitation à diriger les recherches", La création musicale en question, 2 volumes, 800 pages, published under the name of L'oeuvre musicale contemporaine à l'épreuve du concept, ISBN 978-2-296-56283-7).
[5] Gérando was pedagogical director of a higher education centre (CEFEDEM Aquitaine became PESMD Bordeaux Nouvelle-Aquitaine) which prepares future territorial officials for the Diplôme d'Etat in France (2000–2005), president of the International Institute for Innovation, Artistic Creation and Research since 2006.
[6] His catalogue includes more than 90 works,[7] from the instrument alone to the orchestra with or without electronics such as Puisque il est ainsi for symphony orchestra and magnetic tape, first performed by the Paris Conservatory Orchestra under the direction of Mark Foster at the Maison de la radio in Paris (1990); En toi avec lui et en lui, for four orchestral groups around the audience, creation at Radio-France's Studio 104 festival Présences 92, Du sens au sens pour flûte, created by Pierre-Yves Artaud at the Darmstadt International Festival (1994); Ce que tout cadavre devrait savoir for five instrumentalists, narrotor and voice, premiered by the Ensemble 2e2m at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (1996); Intumescence for instrumental ensemble and band, premiered by the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France at the Presences festival (1996); Katanga commissioned by Radio-France pour les cuivres et percussions de l'Orchestre Philharmonique (2004) work recorded under the direction of the composer, 6ex1pen7sion4, commission d'État pour ensemble et électronique en temps réel, first performed by l'Ensemble 2e2m in Paris (2006), or another more recent example, Lycromorphie, a violin, cello and piano trio created at Radio-France in Paris.
[12] Gérando speaks publicly on other topics, such as ethical issues as on the occasion of Alain Bancquart's eightieth birthday[13] at the Centre de la musique contemporaine (CDMC) in Paris on November 6, 2014, speech published on the front page of the newspaper Médiapart[14] on November 8, 2014, or other example in 2016, in the context of relations between France and Morocco on «the art of entrepreneurship» at the Institut Français d'Agadir.