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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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    • 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
    • Musique/Sciences Collection
  • 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
    • Murcof in the studio
    • Vimala Pons in studio
    • Lucie Antunes in studio
    • Deena Abdelwahed in the studio
    • "I am in blood" for Sixteen Musicians and Live Electronics
    • "Transfer" for 10 Musicians and Electronics
    • L'Annonce faite à Marie
    • In Ex Machina
    • Jazz Ex Machina
    • Improvise cum machina 1/2
    • Improvise cum machina 2/2
    • Like Sound, Like Flesh
    • Silent Talks
    • Music-Fictions
    • Artistic Research Residency
    • Artistic Residencies: The Blog
    • Rendez Vous 23.24
    • Season 2023.24
    • Replay Concerts
    • Seasons from 1996 to present
    • ManiFeste-2023 Website
    • ManiFeste festival from 2012 to 2023
    • L’Étincelle, IRCAM’s journal of creation
  • Transmission

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    • Training Courses
    • Training Courses 2023.24
    • Max, Max for Live
    • OpenMusic
    • Modalys
    • Sound spatialization
    • Designing Audio Experiences on the Web
    • Interact, Compose, Improvise with Generative Agents
    • Other training programs
    • Practical Information
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    • Cursus Program on Composition and Computer Music
    • Master ATIAM
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    • AIMove Master
    • Discover Research at IRCAM
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    • Cultural Mediation
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    • Collaboratory Cine-concert - Percussion and electronics
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Analysis of Musical Practices

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The Analysis of Musical Practices team conducts interdisciplinary research of the world of music from production (composition, improvisation, interpretation) to reception (listening, concert, criticism, scientific and technical discourse) - though the multiple technical objects that constitute it (instruments, recordings, algorithms).
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To this end, the team develops an approach that is simultaneously empirical (by borrowing its tools from the social sciences as well as the cognitive sciences), integrative (by connecting musical objects, practices, and discourses to general theoretical questions), and contextual (by approaching practices as dynamic and socially situated complexities).
The team's work is disseminated through publications and colloquia within the various scientific communities concerned (musicology, history, philosophy, aesthetics, cognitive sciences, sociology, genetic criticism, anthropology, the study of science and technology). It is also the subject of other forms of dissemination: short documentaries, teaching at universities and to the general public, computer developments, conferences-performances, recordings, etc.

Major Themes

  • Analysis of the creative process
  • Musical practices and collective actions
  • History of musical and scientific practices and their interaction
  • Mixed music and electroacoustics
  • Performance studies
  • Avant-garde music history and aesthetic
  • Sound Studies
  • Musicology and Human and Social Sciences
  • Philosophical aesthetics
  • Musical temporality and spatiality of “la conscience morbide”
  • Talking music
  • Instruments of improvisation
  • History of musical acoustics in France
  • Tuning the world

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Collaborations

Centre de recherches sur les arts et le langage (EHESS, CNRS), CEaC/université de Lille-3, Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, Haute école de musique/conservatoire de Genève, Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes (CNRS-ENS Ulm), OICCM/université de Montréal.


Research topics and related projects

Algorithmic Agency

Algorithmic Biases and Aesthetic Injustices in the Age of Digital Platforms

Analyzing Temporal Flexibility in Collective Musical Practices

Instruments of Improvisation

Music & Fun

Interviews, analyses and experiments around the works and practices whose aim is to arouse amusement

Music & Illness

Studying how musical works reflect mental or somatic pathologies

Philosophy and Digital Sound

Tell the music

Sixty six years of composers written works (1950-2020)

Tuning the world

A century of international negotiations around "A"

European and national projects

ACTOR

Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration

Compose (with) Space

DAFNE+

Decentralized platform for fair creative content distribution empowering creators and communities through new digital distribution models based on digital tokens

MICA

Musical Improvisation and Collective Action

RAMHO

Musical Research and Acoustics in France after 1945: An Oral History

Wasabi

Web Audio Semantic Aggregated in the Browser for Indexation


Team


Head Researcher : Clement Canonne
Researchers & Engineers : Pierre Saint-Germier, François-Xavier Féron, Clement Canonne, Laurent Feneyrou, Fanny Gribenski
Associated Researcher.s : Alain Bonardi

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