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Démonstration par Claudio Bettinelli d’un casque de réalité virtuelle avec suivi du mouvement, à l’Ircam, en studio

Artistic research

April 2026

Restoring Music’s Experimental and Forward-Looking Role

IRCAM launches new working groups for artistic research

Anthony McCall, installation view, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, New York, 2018. Photo by Dan Bradica. Image courtesy Pioneer Works - Courtesy of artist, Sean Kelly New York, and Sprüth Magers

ManiFeste-2026

April 2026

Anthony McCall: Sculpting Light

As part of the ManiFeste 2026 festival, the Centre Pompidou and IRCAM invite Anthony McCall to present a major project, reflecting the deeply intermedial nature of his work. The Espace de projection at IRCAM will simultaneously host four monumental works by the artist, offering a rare experience: an encounter between light and music, in which each human presence actively contributes to the emergence of a shared perceptual space.

ManiFeste-2026

April 2026

ManiFeste-2026 Festival, June 3-27

The springtime festival in Paris and a flagship event for international contemporary creation, ManiFeste returns for a new edition at IRCAM and major venues across the city.

ManiFeste-2026

April 2026

The ManiFeste-2026 Festival Playlist

György Ligeti, Claudia Jane Scroccaro, Juste Janulytė, Morton Feldman, Deena Abdelwahed, György Kurtág, Kali Malone, Sarah Nemtsov, Stefano Gervasoni.

Ircam Forum Studio Session avec Molécule, décembre 2025

News

March 2026

CNM x Ircam Inside Residencies

A Program Supporting Innovation and the Diversity of Musical Practices. Four residency showcase performances to discover in 2026, streamed live on IRCAM’s YouTube channel.

Artists in Studio

March 2026

« Détails et retailles: A Sonic Conversation with Jazz by Matisse » by Claudia Jane Scroccaro

Part of a lineage of artists who have created musical environments for exhibition spaces, Claudia Jane Scroccaro takes on a particularly ambitious challenge: the Jazz series, presented in the exhibition Matisse. 1941 – 1954 curated by Claudine Grammont at the Grand Palais. It is a formidable undertaking (and one involving many “cuttings and recuttings”), which the Italian composer embraces with boldness by transposing the tools imagined by the painter into musical composition.

Capture-écran de la vidéo avec Deena Abdelwahed

Replay

March 2026

Électro-Odyssée : Deena Abdelwahed / Concert

“Diwan Midi” explores Arabic musical structures through the lens of electronic and live music. At the heart of the project is a prototype MIDI qanun developed at IRCAM, which blends traditional instrument-making techniques with digital control. The project juxtaposes Arabic ornamentation and melodic modes with contemporary compositional tools.

The playlist of the Month

March 2026

In April, we're listening to...

Excerpts from Claudia Jane Scroccaro’s creation for the Matisse exhibition, featuring birds in the Amazon rainforest, and works performed in concert this month!

3 tips for young composers

March 2026

3 tips from Isabel Mundry

Isabel Mundry, composer and professor of composition, shares her three pieces of advice for young composers.

La rivière Arataye au coeur des Nouragues

Artistic research

March 2026

Jérôme Sueur – Inside the Rainforest 2/2

Sébastien Gaxie’s artistic research residency, which focuses on the sounds of the Amazonian forest, simply wouldn’t exist without him. Let’s meet with ecoacoustician and biodiversity specialist Jérôme Sueur, who was a crucial catalyst for this project–a project that could, in turn, provide his team at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle with new tools to explore.

Our concerts available online, for 1 year

Discover our concerts from the 2025.26 season as well as the highlights of the ManiFeste-2025 festival. And equip yourself with a binaural headset to (re)experience the concerts and shows in binaural sound!

Watch concert replays

Artists in Studio

February 2026

"Au banquet des visages" by Clara Olivares

In "Au banquet des visages", Clara Olivares explores the link between human voices and artificial intelligence, integrating audience contributions into the heart of the creative process.

News

March 2026

ASAP 2 & Online Shop: IRCAM Forum News

Visite the Forum’s new online store to access all IRCAM software available for purchase

Replay

March 2026

L'art au temps de l'IA. Générer, critiquer, créer / Encounter

An evening combining discussions around the book and artistic moments.

Artistic research

February 2026

Julien Jaubert / Ruptures

The artistic residency blog

The playlist of the Month

March 2026

On March, we're listening...

A tribute playlist to Luca Francesconi, celebrating his 70th anniversary in music.

1'30 in Stravinsky

February 2026

1'30 with David Genova, Doctoral Student

David Genova, a doctoral candidate, presents his thesis: "Extracting lightweight neural networks from large models for embedded audio application", carried out within the Sound Analysis-Synthesis team in the STMS laboratory (IRCAM/Sorbonne University/CNRS/Ministry of Culture).

Artistic research

February 2026

Simon Kanzler / A Multidimensional Approach to Composition

During his residency at IRCAM, Simon Kanzler explores synchronization and desynchronization to rethink time, space, and the interaction between instruments and electronics, at the crossroads of composition and research.

Performance de Seth Scott au MO Museum de Vilnius

Artistic research

February 2026

Seth Scott / Points of Articulation

During his residency at IRCAM, Seth Scott explores the politics and poetics of synthesized speech. Bridging the history of speaking machines and machine learning technologies, he questions the uses, biases, and aesthetic implications of generated voices.

Gerald Bennett et Pierre Boulez lors de la première conférence de presse de l’Ircam, 7 mars 1974, Théâtre de la Ville, Paris

Boulez 2025

February 2026

Boulez and the Founding of IRCAM 4/4: Meeting with Gerald Bennett

Gerald Bennett is the 32nd person interviewed as part of the RAMHO project. This interview took place on November 22, 2023, at the composer's home in Muttenz in the canton of Basel. Born in New Jersey (United States) in 1942, composer Gerald Bennett studied music at Harvard University. After graduating in 1964, he continued his studies in Switzerland at the Basel Conservatory. He was appointed professor in 1967 and director two years later. Approached by Pierre Boulez in 1971 to take part in the development of IRCAM, he left his post in 1976 to head the institute's Diagonal department until 1980.

Le compositeur et tromboniste Alex Paxton

Replay

March 2026

Alex Paxton, Lisa Illean, Rebecca Saunders, Ensemble Nikel / Concert

Alex Paxton, a rising star of improvisation and composition, who is himself a trombonist, presents two new works that showcase his exuberant vitality, in stark contrast to the introspection of Australian composer Lisa Illean. Rebecca Saunders, meanwhile, succeeds in combining intimacy and outcry in the very fabric of music and voice.

News

March 2026

TACT

Répétitions de The Nine Jewelled Deer de Sivan Eldar et Ganavya Doraiswamy – Création mondiale - Mise en scène Peter Sellars – Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2025

Artists in Studio

February 2026

"Nine Jewelled Deer" by Sivan Eldar

In "Nine Jewelled Deer", Sivan Eldar weaves together voices, instruments and electronics around the legend of the nine-coloured deer, combining improvisation, sound textures and musical dramaturgy to create an immersive and collaborative opera.