The fundamental principle of IRCAM is to encourage productive interaction among scientific research, technological developments, and contemporary music production. Since its establishment in 1977, this initiative has provided the foundation for the institute’s activities. One of the major issues is the importance of contributing to the renewal of musical expression through science and technology. Conversely, ...
IRCAM is an internationally recognized research center dedicated to creating new technologies for music. The institute offers a unique experimental environment where composers strive to enlarge their musical experience through the concepts expressed in new technologies.
In parallel to its fundamental missions of research and creation, IRCAM is committed to sharing its knowledge and know-how, its technologies with the general public. Cutting-edge research and diffusion of innovations, an international reference for education and the democratization of artistic practices are the driving forces behind the institute’s educational activities.
At the center of societal and economic concerns combining culture and information technologies, the current research at IRCAM is seen by the international research community as a reference for interdisciplinary projects on the sciences and technologies for sound and music, constantly exposed to society’s new needs and uses.
The fundamental principle of IRCAM is to encourage productive interaction among scientific research, technological developments, and contemporary music production. Since its establishment in 1977, this initiative has provided the foundation for the institute’s activities. One of the major issues is the importance of contributing to the renewal of musical expression through science and technology. Conversely, ...
IRCAM is an internationally recognized research center dedicated to creating new technologies for music. The institute offers a unique experimental environment where composers strive to enlarge their musical experience through the concepts expressed in new technologies.
In parallel to its fundamental missions of research and creation, IRCAM is committed to sharing its knowledge and know-how, its technologies with the general public. Cutting-edge research and diffusion of innovations, an international reference for education and the democratization of artistic practices are the driving forces behind the institute’s educational activities.
At the center of societal and economic concerns combining culture and information technologies, the current research at IRCAM is seen by the international research community as a reference for interdisciplinary projects on the sciences and technologies for sound and music, constantly exposed to society’s new needs and uses.
Inaugurated by the ManiFeste festival in September 2020, IRCAM's new season focuses on the vitality of emergent creation and the strength of a repertoire that now covers a broad national and international audience. 10 years after its premiere at La Scala in Milan, Luca Francesconi's Quartett electrifies the stage of the Berlin Staatsoper under the baton of Daniel Barenboim. 25 years after the creation of the Metropolisfilm-concert by Fritz Lang and Martin Matalon and its numerous revivals, the Paris Orchestra creates the new version for the restored copy of this cult film. 40 years after its birth through successive growths, Répons, Pierre Boulez's seminal "œuvre-spirale", (lit. spiral-work) returns to the Philharmonie de Paris for the biennial devoted to the founder of IRCAM.
More than ever, IRCAM is asserting itself as a unique network with ramifications in research and creation sites, a "world-network" of singularities, not just of massification, which is the subject of an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou and of theForum Vertigoencounters, developed with the Culture and Creation Department. Evidence of this network's relevance are IRCAM's relations with Taipei and its cultural laboratory in the heart of the city, with New York during the "Nuit des idées", withGeorgia Tech in Atlanta, with Montreal and McGill University, with Germany and its art festivals in Witten, Stuttgart, and Berlin. At a time when the health crisis is shaking up our cultural habits, in research, education, and distance productions, at a time when the lexicon of survival tends to replace that of life, our primary missions - the deliberation and innovation of research, the impact of innovation withIRCAM Amplify, the whetted appetite for creation - are part of a common spirit not to be assigned to close quarters.