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…
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
Composer (born 1971)
At the age of 19 Jérôme Combier decided to learn music. While studying musicology at the université de Saint-Denis he also studied guitar, after meeting Hacène Larbi and Emmanuel Nunes at the Conservatoire de Paris he drifted towards composition. During his residency at the Villa Medicis in 2004-05, he met Raphaël Thierry author of the visual installations for the Vies silencieuses series composed for the Cairn ensemble founded by Combier in 1997 and directed since its creation.
In 2008, invited by Ictus, Jérôme Combier, Pierre Nouvel, and Bertrand Couderc imagined a stage adaptation of W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz (premiere 2011 at the festival d’Aix-en-Provence). He wrote Terre et cendres, a one-act opera premired in Lyon in 2012 with the author Atiq Rahimi at the request of the Opéra de Lyon.