.The artistic residency blog

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…

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), …

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…

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…

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…

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 DYCI2 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-DYCI2—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.

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…