.Compositeurs et artistes en studio

"In this creation, everything started with objects - these objects that I wear on my head: a stone, a trunk, a car. And since I couldn't build the car, I found myself writing a song about someone who…

I am in blood is rooted in some of the most dramatic events that took place in 2020: the Covid lockdowns, but also police violence in the United States, in particular the racist killings by police in…

Trained at the CNSMD in Lyon, Lucie Antunes knows Ircam extremely well; both its reputation on the contemporary music scene and in the field of scientific research. An excellence that has attracted h…

For Deena Abdelwahed, the starting point of this project is a childhood memory. One of the first memories she has of making music on her own; "making" in the sense of inventing, imagining, even manuf…

Many boast of it, but few really are: Florent Caron Darras is an exception among the young generation of composers. Not so much because of his training, like many of his colleagues, he passed through…

Next season, Philippe Leroux will be working on his first opera, commissioned by Angers-Nantes Opéra and in association with IRCAM. The composer has been working on this music for almost forty years,…

Jérôme Nika has been working with jazzman Steve Lehman for a number of years. Nika is in charge of the creation of the generative electronics and is an artistic collaborator in the Ex Machina project…

On February 11, as part of the Présences festival, Steve Lehman and Frédéric Maurin, along with the Orchestre National de Jazz, will present Ex Machina, a singular creation composed with the help of,…

On December 3, during the Grand Soir Numérique at the Philharmonie de Paris during the Biennale Nemo des Arts Numériques, three soloists from the Ensemble intercontemporain (trumpeter Lucas Lipari-Ma…

On December 3, during the Grand Soir Numérique at the Philharmonie de Paris during the Biennale Nemo des Arts Numériques, three soloists from the Ensemble intercontemporain (trumpeter Lucas Lipari-Ma…

On January 21, at the Opéra de Lille, the ensemble Le Balcon will premiere Like Flesh, Sivan Eldar's first opera with a libretto by Cordelia Lynn based on a text by Ovid. The Israeli composer continu…

Intimacy, Delicacy & Subtlety - Artistic Issues It's hard to imagine two universes more distant from each other: on the one hand, Bartabas, founder of the Zingaro circus, which la…

We met the creators of the first three works in the Musiques-Fictions series, a new collection from IRCAM where musical creation is in direct contact with literary fiction. Directors and composers, t…

Tablado— a reference to the stage on which flamenco is danced—is the first chapter of a triptych/laboratory dedicated to musical theater. In this work, Januibe Tejera questions both writing and possi…

Un projet européen C’est un projet d’envergure européenne qui est à l’origine de la présence de Javier Elipe Gimeno dans les studios de l’Ircam cette année : initié par l’Académie Impuls de Graz da…

Perspectives - Artistic Issues Since his beginning as a composer,  Roque Rivas has found a   deep reservoir of musical ideas in other artistic disciplines, primarily visual arts and architecture. N…

Un projet européen C’est un projet d’envergure européenne qui est à l’origine de la présence d’Ariadna Alsina dans les studios de l’Ircam cette année : initié par l’Académie Impuls de Graz dans le c…

Music for an Exhibition - Formal Issues Usually, the sonic space of an exhibit is not inhabited by sounds made by the works, but by the public’s murmurs and mumbles. It is usually a space in which we…

During the financial crisis that hit Greece, a graffiti tag appeared on the walls of Athens, cropping up everywhere, in all dimensions from tiny (20 cm) on a street corner to gigantic, taking up 30 m…

Just like the title suggests, as do the titles of the three movements that compose it, IDEA is inspired by the thought process, the way in which an idea is “born” without being a musical program. The…

“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 o…

Thinking Things : matière à penser sur les objets pensants Voilà sept ans que Georges Aperghis ne s’était plus frotté au théâtre musical, dont i…

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 psychoanalysi…

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 recogni…

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 "infor…

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...

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: no…

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 the …

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 perform…

Perspectives - Artistic Issues Since his beginning as a composer,  Roque Rivas has found a   deep reservoir of musical ideas in other artistic disciplines, primarily visual arts and architecture. N…

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, writ…

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 other…

The exhibition ON AIR is like an ecosystem in motion, welcoming a polyphonic choreography between humans and non-humans, where works reveal common, fragile, and fleeting rhythms and trajectories that…

One of the first things that excited the composer Benjamin Dupé when he imagined this commission for Open Source Guitars, was the six guitars of this atypical ensemble. Of course the six guita…