.The artistic residency blog

As director of research at IRCAM and manager of the Sound Perception & Design team of the STMS lab, Nicolas Misdariis co-directed Claire Richards’ PhD thesis, during which she developed her multi…

Without her, Alberto Gatti’s artistic research residency would never have been possible, for the simple reason that the multimodal harness, which this residency is based on, is her invention. For thi…

With the start of 2024 came a series of new artistic research residencies in IRCAM’s basement. Amongst them is the Italian composer Alberto Gatti, who chose to invest a new and rather peculiar sound …

When composer Clara Olivares started her artistic research residency at IRCAM in the summer of 2024, she had just finished working on the composition of her opera Les Sentinelles, with a libretto by …

Last September, an experience was held at IRCAM that might surprise some people because, despite a highly rigorous scientific protocol, it straddled the fine line between the arts and wellness – if n…

As part of their artistic research residency and in the perspective of a large-scale experiment that took place mid-September in order to refine their protocol, Vincent Isnard et Laurent Corvalán Gal…

Researcher affiliated to the Acoustic and Cognitive Spaces team, Isabelle Viaud-Delmon Delmon also leads the scientific team involved in Sound/Music and Health in the STMS lab. Having previously co-d…

Amongst the new artistic research residencies that started in 2024, one led by an atypical duo explores the concept of ‘acousmatic massage’ – a project that walks the line between artistic performanc…

Besides developing new models for form representation, building a theoretical corpus in the service of the elaboration of form, and prototyping new digital tools for these purposes, one of Sasha Blon…

After taking a sabbatical year, computer music designer and musician Jérôme Nika decided to rejoin IRCAM’s research teams at the beginning of 2024. However, despite his ongoing research on human-mach…

Jean-Louis Giavitto, CNRS Research Director in the Musical Representations team since 2011, has accompanied, and continues to accompany, Sasha J. Blondeau. He tells us about the team's contributions …

It's back-to-school time, and with it the inauguration of a new artistic research residency, that of Sasha J. Blondeau. It's a residency unlike any other since it's not about sound synthesis or proce…

Because he is conducting his artistic residency on motion capture associated with synthesis and composition processes in IRCAM’s Sound Music Movement Interaction team, Basile Chassaing can rely on th…

For his artistic research residency at IRCAM, Basile Chassaing reached out to choreographer Emmanuelle Grach to work together on motion capture associated with synthesis and composition processes. Gr…

Entering the Engineering and Prototyping workshop on IRCAM's first basement floor, and meeting Emmanuel Fléty, opens the door to a little-known side of the institute's research and, more broadly, of …

After studying with Pierre Jodlowski (IRCAM Cursus 2021-2022), Jean-Luc Hervé and Roque Rivas (Pôle Supérieur Paris-Boulogne-Billancourt), and Martin Matalon (CRR93), composer Basile Chassaing has sp…

Per Bloland and Richard Causton’s artistic research residency, which started at the end of 2022, is now reaching its end, with a final workshop scheduled for next January at IRCAM. In early October 2…

Thomas Hélie, Research Director of the "Systèmes et signaux sonores : audio/acoustique, instruments" (S3AM) team, talks to us about how Per Bloland and Richard Causton's research on the electromagnet…

Today, Monday April 17, we meet Richard Causton and Per Bloland in the spacious Studio 5 at IRCAM. They are both plunged into the entrails of an open grand piano, like a patient on an operating table…

Until now, when one wanted to "augment" a piano, the approach was essentially the same as for all other augmented instruments, whether string or percussion. That is to say that one or more transducer…

On June 16, as part of the ManiFeste-2023 Festival, the rock band Horse Lords opened the Reaching OUT! concert, sharing the stage, just as Joëlle Léandre did in the second half, with the …

Mikhail Malt has been a pillar of IRCAM for over 30 years. While he's best known for his role as a computer music designer/professor, his skills go far beyond his teaching role. A year and a half fro…

In the age of generative artificial intelligences - ChatGPT, Midjourney, etc. - the REACH project led by Gérard Assayag's team at IRCAM might seem like just one of many. In truth, it differs from the…

For once, this follow-up series to an artistic research residency doesn't open with the artist-researcher in charge of the project (in this case Gérard Assayag, with Mikhail Malt and Marco Fiorini), …

The opening track of the duo's album "C'est pour ça", to be released in the coming months, "In order of appearance" offers new insight into the possibilities of Dicy2 agents as they are combined thro…

“I've noticed it more and more while working with Jérôme Nika," says Rémi Fox. “Saying 'Let's meet and improvise' can work once, sometimes twice, with a bit of luck and the magic of improvisation. Bu…

Carried out by saxophonist Rémi Fox and researcher/musician Jérôme Nika, the "Artificial Hippocampus" project is the result of nearly 20 years of research by the Musical Representations team, under t…

For half a dozen years, saxophonist Rémi Fox has been a guinea pig - but a voluntary one. It is thus voluntarily that, periodically, he goes to the underground of Ircam to submit to the experiments o…

For his Critical Climate Machine - and especially for the algorithmic portion of the analysis of the climatoskeptic arguments which makes up the raw material of this "data sculpture" - Gaëtan Robilla…

Controlled by Gaëtan Robillard and Dionysios Papanikolaou, the generation engine OM-Dicy2—developed by Jérôme Nika, a member of the Musical Representations team—was fed with 34 dialogues, made up of …

Gaëtan Robillard adds an important element to the sound space of the artwork: Critical Climate Machine. Today we focus on the sound material used and the way it is sculpted in space.

Data, sets of data: it's practically all we talk about these days. They are the prism through which we view reality, they inform and motivate decisions. We mine them like coal, we extract them, we ex…

On March 23rd, Maxime Mantovani offered the public of the IRCAM's Forum Workshops their first glimpse of his work on his interface for real-time control of synthesis models generated by artificial in…

Maxime Mantovani's artistic research residency is structured around two aspects: one is software, around an AI for real-time audio synthesis, and the other is hardware, to design a control interface …

On December 21, Maxime Mantovani was in the studio with Henri-Charles Caget on percussion and Victor Auffray on flugabone, for a session of improvisations for tests of the device he is working on, wh…

As part of his artistic research residency, Maxime Mantovani is developing an organic control interface for a sound synthesis engine using artificial intelligence models. A proposal that came at the …

Maxime Mantovani's compositional approach is closely linked to new technologies. Very early on, he created his own computer tools and developed his own electro-acoustic lutheries designed to control …

During her artistic research residency on a a distributed sound diffusion device "Astérisms" with researcher Jean-Philippe Lambert, composer Aki Ito has produced a few pieces that are used both for t…

On Friday March 25th, during the IRCAM Forum Workshops, Aki Ito and Jean-Philippe Lambert gave a demonstration of their "Asterisms" project, and tested, on the small audience gathered for the occasio…

One of the sine qua non conditions for the acceptance of an artistic research residency project at Ircam is that the technological stakes of the project resonate with the concerns of the research tea…

The very name they have given to their project reveals its origins: Asterisms. It is indeed a question of stars and their delicate mechanics.

This is the nature of research, whether artistic or scientific, and perhaps what makes it so fascinating: we know what we are looking for, much more rarely what we will find. In this case, during her…

As already mentioned, Judith Deschamps is a visual artist. When she became interested in the figure of Farinelli and the aria Quell'usignolo che innamorato that the castrato sang every night to the K…

In the Sound Analysis & Synthesis team, Judith Deschamps benefits from the combined talents of two researchers: research director Axel Roebel and doctoral student Frederik Bous, to recreate a rea…

Apart from the recurrent gender issues in her creative practice, nothing destined the artist Judith Deschamps to be interested in Farinelli. The artist has no medium of choice, but she is not a music…

Since 2012, Brazilian composer Michelle Agnes Magalhaes has been present at IRCAM several times. She has been a member of the research teams as a doctoral and post-doctoral research fellow, then an a…

This image is so common that we no longer pay much attention to it, an image that is often synonymous with isolation, or even a desire to abstract oneself from one's surroundings: a passer-by with a …

"Accordez, accordez / accordez donc / L'accordéon / en microtons": Gainsbourg would have to change the lyrics of his song, now that Jean-Etienne Sotty has come along. The accordionist has ‘augmented'…

Markus Noisternig is a researcher in acoustics and signal processing at IRCAM at the joint research lab STMS. For nearly 15 years, he has been actively contributing to the development of 3D sound rec…