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  • Research

    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, sp…

    • Research Topics
    • The STMS Lab
    • Research Teams
    • Sound Systems and Signals: Audio/Acoustics, InstruMents
    • Acoustic and Cognitive Spaces
    • Sound Perception and Design
    • Sound Analysis-Synthesis
    • Sound Music Movement Interaction
    • Musical Representations
    • Analysis of Musical Practices
    • Projects
    • Sound Workshop
    • The Musical Body
    • Creative Dynamics
    • Finished Projects
    • Musique/Sciences Collection
  • Creation

    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.

    • Composers & Artists in Studio
    • "I am in blood" for Sixteen Musicians and Live Electronics
    • Lucie Antunes in studio
    • Deena Abdelwahed in the studio
    • "Transfer" for 10 Musicians and Electronics
    • L'Annonce faite à Marie
    • In Ex Machina
    • Jazz Ex Machina
    • Improvise cum machina 1/2
    • Improvise cum machina 2/2
    • Like Sound, Like Flesh
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    • Music-Fictions
    • Artistic Research Residency
    • Artistic Residencies: The Blog
    • Rendez Vous 20.21
    • Season 2022.23
    • Seasons from 1996 to present
    • ManiFeste-2022 Website
    • ManiFeste festival from 2012 to 2022
    • L’Étincelle, IRCAM’s journal of creation
  • Transmission

    In support of IRCAM's research and creation missions, the educational program seeks to shed light on the current and future meaning of the interactions among the arts, sciences, and technology as well as sharing its models of knowledge, know-how, and innovations with the widest possible audience.

    • 2022.23 Training Courses
    • Max, Max for Live
    • OpenMusic
    • Modalys
    • TS2 and Partiels
    • Sound spatialization
    • From PureData to audio plugins
    • Sensors, Interfaces, and Interactive Machine Learning
    • Other training programs
    • Practical Information
    • Advanced Programs
    • Cursus Program on Composition and Computer Music
    • Supersonic Chair
    • Master ATIAM
    • Sound Design Master's Program
    • Music Doctorate
    • AIMove Master
    • School Programs
    • Studios of Creation
    • Mixed-Music
    • Artistic and Cultural Education
    • Career Discovery Visit
    • Images of a Work Collection
    • ManiFeste-2022, the Academy
  • Innovations

    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.

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      "I am in blood" for Sixteen Musicians and Live Electronics

      Interview with composer Carmine-Emanuele Cella
      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…

      Lucie Antunes in studio

      Interview with artist Lucie Antunes
      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…

      Deena Abdelwahed in the studio

      Interview with artist Deena Abdelwahed
      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…

      "Transfer" for 10 Musicians and Electronics

      Interview with composer Florent Caron Darras
      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…

      L'Annonce faite à Marie

      Interview with composer Philippe Leroux in the IRCAM studios
      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,…

      In Ex Machina

      Jérôme Nika, creator of the generative electronics and artistic collaborator on the project takes a look back at his experience
      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…

      Jazz Ex Machina

      A look back with artistes Steve Lehman & Frédéric Maurin
      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,…

      Improvise cum machina 1/2

      A look back with percussionist Samuel Favre
      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…

      Improvise cum machina 2/2

      A look back with electronic musician Benjamin Lévy
      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…

      Like Sound, Like Flesh

      Creation of Sivan Eldar, avec le concours d'Augustin Muller, Florent Derex, et Koré Préaud pour le son
      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…

      Silent Talks

      Creation of Bartabas, with the help of Manuel Poletti for the sound work
      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…

      Music-Fictions

      A collection of immersive radio creations
      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

      Premiere by the composer Januibe Tejera
      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…

      Musical creation around Outer Space

      Premiere by the composer Javier Elipe Gimeno
      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…

      Campo Abierto

      Premiere by the composer Roque Rivas
      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…

      Musical creation around Dream Work

      Premiere by the composer Ariadna Alsina Tarrés
      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…

      Biotope

      Premiere by the composer Jean-Luc Hervé
      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…

      EROR

      Premiere by the composer Georgia Spiropoulos
      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…

      IDEA

      Création du compositeur Sampo Haapamäki
      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…

      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 o…

      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 i…

      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 psychoanalysi…

      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 recogni…

      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 "infor…

      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...

      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: no…

      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 the …

      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 perform…

      Campo Abierto

      Premiere by the composer Roque Rivas
      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…

      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, writ…

      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 other…

      ON AIR

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

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

      Premiere by the composer Benjamin Dupé
      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…
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