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.
At the center of societal and economic concerns combining culture and information technologies, the current research at IRCAM is seen by the international research community as a reference for interdisciplinary projects on the sciences and technologies for sound and music, constantly exposed to society’s new needs and uses.
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.
At the center of societal and economic concerns combining culture and information technologies, the current research at IRCAM is seen by the international research community as a reference for interdisciplinary projects on the sciences and technologies for sound and music, constantly exposed to society’s new needs and uses.
Artistic Director (France)
Pascal Keiser develops and manages cross-cutting projects between culture, society and the economy. He has been the co-founder and general coordinator of French Tech Culture from 2013 to 2017, the French government's national culture and digital label. He is co-founder of The European Bridge Accelerator, accompanying young start-ups on culture & technology cross-cutting issues in Avignon. He was the director of Technocité Creative Industries Knowledge Center in Mons from 2007 to 2017.
He also directed the digital program of Mons 2015, European Capital of Culture, and was the artistic curator of the digital museum project as part of the Micro-Folies de La Villette inaugurated in early 2017 in Sevran (Seine-Saint-Denis) - this project is currently under national and international development.
He is a member of the of the European Commission's new H2020 VERTIGO STARTS program steering committee, led by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou with EPFL Lausanne and Fraunhofer.This program aims to create new relationships between artists and the best European and global innovation platforms.
Pascal Keiser is also the founder and president of the Manufacture Collectif Contemporain at the Festival Off d'Avignon and teaches in the Cultural Development Strategy Master's program at the university of the same city. He also lectures at various universities (State University New York) and festivals (SXSW) internationally.