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    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…

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    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.

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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
  • 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
    • Sivan Eldar in Studio
    • Mauro Lanza in studio
    • Chloé Thévenin in studio
    • Oren Boneh in studio
    • Tristan Murail in studio
    • Martin Matalon in studio
    • Sébastien Gaxie in studio
    • Murcof in the studio
    • Vimala Pons in studio
    • Lucie Antunes in studio
    • Deena Abdelwahed in the studio
    • Music-Fictions
    • Artistic Research Residency
    • Artistic Residencies: The Blog
    • Rendez Vous 24.25
    • 2024-2025
    • Replay Concerts
    • Seasons from 1996 to present
    • ManiFeste-2024 Website
    • ManiFeste festival from 2012 to 2024
    • 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.

    • Training Courses
    • Training Courses 2025.26
    • Max, Max for Live
    • Computer-Assisted Composition
    • ASAP & Partiels
    • Sound spatialization
    • Creation of interactive environments
    • Practical Information
    • Higher Education
    • Cursus Program on Composition and Computer Music
    • Master ATIAM
    • Sound Design Master's Program
    • Mixed-Music
    • AIMove Master
    • Discover Research at IRCAM
    • Cultural Outreach
    • Cultural Mediation at Middle School Students
    • Médiations culturelles au lycée
    • Digital Workshops
    • TACT
    • Images of a Work Collection
    • Group Tours
    • ManiFeste-2025 Festival Academy
    • 2025 ÉLAN award
    • Spatial Composition Workshop
    • In Situ Polytopes
    • ULYSSES Ensemble
    • Auditors
  • Innovations

    Engaged with societal and economic issues at the intersection of culture and IT, research at Ircam has forged a reputation for itself in the world of international research as an interdisciplinary benchmark in the science and technology of sound and music, constantly attentive to the new needs and uses in society.

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    The STMS Lab

     Science and Technology of Music and Sound (IRCAM, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, ministère de la Culture)

    IRCAM provides a unique framework to welcome and coordinate various scientific points of view on the musical phenomena, including physics (acoustics, mechanics), signal processing, information technology, cognitive psychology, and musicology. Activities within the UMR-STMS Joint Research lab are structured by themes, entrusted to specialized teams. Each team assumes responsibility for all the work carried out within its domain: research, software development, contracts, collaborative projects, and diffusion. The UMR STMS research lab brings together 100 people (researchers, engineers, technicians, administratif personnel) and welcomes another 40 interns and guest researchers every year.

    Learn more about the STMS Lab

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    Creation & Diffusion

    Creation at IRCAM, an essential pillar of the institute’s activity, attracts artists from a wide range of disciplines, mobilized by research on sound and music to the studios under the place Stravinsky. Through the diversity of the formats and aesthetic approaches, today IRCAM is an indispensible player in music, but also in the performing arts (musical theater, opera, dance, circus arts, etc.) and digital arts (installations). The multitude of projects is organized through the joint work of the institute’s artistic direction and production departments.

    From an idea to the production, from the premiere to the tour, in relationship with the research teams or the education department, the process of creation and artistic residencies expose the general public to IRCAM’s activities during the concert season in Paris, throughout France, and abroad. The artistic direction, in close collaboration with the production team, has created a network of partners in France and internationally, necessary for production and tours. The artistic direction also coordinates IRCAM’s multidisciplinary festival ManiFeste held every year in June and its academy intended for emerging talents, an academy that brings together a hundred young artists for composition workshops or In Vivo programs. The production team’s logistical and technical skills enable the creation and follow-up of a repertoire of works disseminated and transmitted well beyond the date and venue of their premieres.

    Follow the artists in the studios Discover ManiFeste and its academy


    Education and Cultural Outreach

    This department offers—at IRCAM or elsewhere—an ensemble of rendezvous, cultural outreach programs, professional training courses, and higher-level programs intended for school groups, high school and university students, and music professionals. The primary missions of the department are encouraging meetings between the public and contemporary creation, enabling a young public to fully understand musical innovation through experimentation and creative processes and training professionals in research fields from our labs and studios.

    See our full offer: training and cultural outreach programs

    It also includes the  Resource Center whose the vocation is to compile and diffuse reference corpuses on contemporary music, on art/science/technology relationships, and on musical research. All the institute’s knowledge and creation can be found in the resource center: archives of concerts and conferences, scores, scholarly scientific articles and popular science articles, and more. These resources are available to the public through:   

    • The multimedia libray  (open Tuesday through Friday, from 2 to 5:30pm)
    • Databases found on our specialized website: Resource Center

    The IRCAM Resouce Center


    Le Forum

    IRCAM is committed to artistic research, serving music, visual art, digital, and performing arts creators. They are found in the IRCAM Forum community, a community that touches other professional sectors as well—sound design and engineering, teaching and performance.

    The IRCAM Forum website

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