Composers & Artists in Studio

The creative projects elaborated in the IRCAM studios incarnate a broad diversity of aesthetics and formats. From instrumental solos to full orchestras, from installations to operas, from chamber music to recorded music, over 20 creations can be found throughout the Parisian season and the annual festival ManiFeste. IRCAM is also present in all the major European rendezvous for multidisciplinary creation.

A majority of the creations realized at IRCAM, bringing together composers, scenographers, choreographers, video artists, dancers, and actors, are collaborative projects, participating in the renewal of live performance. IRCAM supports today’s emerging generation, via its Cursus program and the workshops during ManiFeste’s international academy.

Biotope

Premiere by the composer Jean-Luc Hervé

EROR

Premiere by the composer Georgia Spiropoulos

IDEA

Création du compositeur Sampo Haapamäki

Strings in the air with feet over the floor (an exhibition to listen to)

Premiere by the composer Benjamin Dupé

ON AIR

A Large-Scale Exhibition by Tomás Saraceno at the Palais de Tokyo

Also discover

Catharsis

Premiere by the composer Didier Rotella
Clearly indicated in the title, the musical project in this work is based on the concept of catharsis. In Greek, it means “separation of good with bad”. The term is used in medicine and psychoanaly...

Thinking Things

Premiere by the composer Georges Aperghis and the video maker Pierre Nouvel
Thinking Things : matière à penser sur les objets pensants Voilà sept ans que Georges Aperghis ne s’était plus frotté au théâtre musical, dont...

Réplicas

Premiere by the composer Fernando Munizaga
“I am from Chili,” begins Fernando Munizaga, as if it were obvious. “For Chileans, earthquakes are not a far-off and abstract concept, they are a reality experienced every day. Chili is situated in...

Pockets of Space

Premiere by the composer Natasha Barrett and artists of OpenEndedGroup
A few points appear, like seeds, on the large three-dimensional screen. From these points lines are born as if drawn by hand, multiplying and intertwining with each other, weaving a perfectly recog...

Mockumentary of a Contemporary Saviour

Premiere by the choreographer Wim Vandekeybus
At first, the pitch for Mockumentary of a Contemporary Saviour, the new show by Wim Vandekeybus, is reminiscent of a Hollywood blockbuster: an uncertain future...

Anima

Premiere by the composer Ashley Fure
One of today's biggest trends is augmented instruments. And, among augmented instruments, the string quartet is doubtless the one that wins over the most composers. The principle is simple: with th...

The 1987 Max Headroom Broadcast Incident

Premiere by the composer Mauro Lanza
This quartet finds its inspiration in a pirate story. Not pirates of the Caribbean, with an eye patch and a parrot on their shoulder. Not airline hijackers either…. although…. Here, it is more "inf...

La Princesse légère (The Light Princess)

Premiere by the composer Violeta Cruz
A Question of Levity! La Princesse légère (The Light Princess) is exactly that: light. Light in every sense of the word. Victim of a spell cast by an evil witch, she has no gravity: ...

Sonosphère III & IV

Premieres by the composer Elzbieta Sikora
Shatter the concert format! This is the goal declared by the composer Elzbieta Sikora in her Sonosphères III & IV. Erase the ceremony that encapsulates the beginning of each classical musical perfo...

Campo santo, Impure histoire de fantômes

Premiere by the composer Jérôme Combier and the scenographer Pierre Nouvel
Welcome to Pyramiden! It’s here, at 78 degrees north, in Spitzberg a couple hundred kilometers from the North Pole that composer Jérôme Combier and video artist Pierre Nouvel have brought us. A gho...

Providence

Premiere by the author Olivier Cadiot, directed by Ludovic Lagarde
Published by P.O.L. in the beginning of 2015, Providence by Olivier Cadiot is not a text written for the stage, even less with the idea that computer music take it over. It is a four-sided tale, wr...

Infinite Now

Premiere by the composer Chaya Czernowin
On the Brink Infinite Now: Certainly an enigmatic and mysterious title, but that, in reality, says much about this atypical staged work. The third opera by Chaya Czernowin is not an opera like oth...