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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…

    • Research Topics
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    • Sound Music Movement Interaction
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    • Analysis of Musical Practices
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    • Sound Workshop
    • The Musical Body
    • Creative Dynamics
    • 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
    • In Ex Machina
    • Jazz Ex Machina
    • Improvise cum machina 1/2
    • Improvise cum machina 2/2
    • Like Sound, Like Flesh
    • Silent Talks
    • Music-Fictions
    • Tablado
    • Musical creation around Outer Space
    • Campo Abierto
    • Musical creation around Dream Work
    • Biotope
    • EROR
    • IDEA
    • Artistic Research Residency
    • Artistic Residencies: The Blog
    • Rendez Vous 20.21
    • Season 2021.22
    • Seasons from 1996 to present
    • ManiFeste-2022
    • ManiFeste festival from 2012 to 2022
    • L’Étincelle, IRCAM’s journal of creation
  • Transmission

    In parallel to its fundamental missions of research and creation, IRCAM is committed to sharing its knowledge and know-how, its technologies with the general public. Cutting-edge research and diffusion of innovations, an international reference for education and the democratization of artistic practices are the driving forces behind the institute’s educational activities.

    • 2022.23 Training Courses
    • Max, Max for Live
    • OpenMusic
    • Modalys
    • TS2 and Partiels
    • Sound spatialization
    • From PureData to audio plugins
    • Sensors, Interfaces, and Interactive Machine Learning
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    • AIMove Master
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    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.

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Sound Music Movement Interaction

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The Sound Music Movement Interaction team (previously known as the Real-Time Musical Interactions team) carries out research and development on interactive systems dedicated to music and performances.
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Our work relates to all aspects of the interactive process, including the capture and multimodal analysis of the gestures and sounds created by musicians, tools for the synchronization and management of interaction, as well as techniques for real-time synthesis and sound processing. These research projects and their associated computer developments are generally carried out within the framework of interdisciplinary projects that include scientists, artists, teachers, and designers and find applications in creative projects, music education, movement learning, or in digital audio industrial fields.

Major Themes

Modeling and Analysis of Sounds and Gestures
This theme covers the theoretical developments concerning the analysis of the sound and gesture flow, or more generally, multi-modal temporal morphologies. This research concerns diverse techniques for audio analysis, the study of the gestures of performing musicians or dancers.

Technologies for Multimodal Interaction
This theme concerns our tools for analysis and multimodal recogntion of movements and sound; tools for synchronization (gesture following, for example) and visualization.

Interactive Sound Synthesis and Processing
This focuses essentially on synthesis and sound processing methods based on recorded sounds or large sound bodies.

Systems for Gesture Capture and Augmented Instruments
This theme focuses on the developments the team has made in terms of gestural interfaces and augmented instruments for music and performances.

Specialist Areas

Interactivity, real-time computer science, human-computer interaction, signal processing, motion capture, modeling sound and gesture, statistical modeling and automatic learning, real-time sound analysis and synthesis.

Website Team

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  • R-IoT : Carte de captation gestuelle à 9 degrés de liberté avec transmission sans fil  © Philippe Barbosa
    R-IoT : Carte de captation gestuelle à 9 degrés de liberté avec transmission sans fil © Philippe Barbosa
  • Raquettes de Tennis connectées  © Philippe Barbosa
    Raquettes de Tennis connectées © Philippe Barbosa
  • MO - Modular Musical Objects  © NoDesign.net
    MO - Modular Musical Objects © NoDesign.net
  • Projet CoSiMa  © Philippe Barbosa
    Projet CoSiMa © Philippe Barbosa
  • Installation Siggraph, 2014  © DR
    Installation Siggraph, 2014 © DR

Collaborations

Atelier des feuillantines, BEK (Norway), CNMAT Berkeley (United States), Cycling’74 (United States), ENSAD, ENSCI, GRAME, HKU (Netherlands), Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, ICK Amsterdam (Netherlands), IEM (Autria), ISIR-CNRS Sorbonne Université, Little Heart Movement, Mogees (United kingdom/Italia), No Design, Motion Bank (Germany), LPP-CNRS université Paris-Descartes, université Pompeu Fabra (Spain), UserStudio, CRI-Paris université Paris-Descartes, Goldsmiths University of London (United kingdom), université de Genève (Switzerland), LIMSI-CNRS université Paris-Sud, LRI-CNRS université Paris-Sud, Orbe.mobi, Plux (Portugal), ReacTable Systems (Spain), UCL (United kingdom), Univers Sons/Ultimate Sound bank, Universidad Carlos III Madrid (Spain), université de Gênes (Italia), université McGill (Canada), ZhDK (Switzerland).


Research topics and related projects

Corpus-Based Concatenative Synthesis

Database of recorded sounds and a unit selection algorithm

Gesture analysIs and RecognItIon

Study of instrumental gesture and its relationship with both musical writing and the characteristics of the sound signal

The Augmented Instruments

Acoustic instruments that have been fitted with sensors

European and national projects

CoMo-Vox

CoMo-Choeur

CoMo-Vox

CoMo-Choeur

Cosima

Collaborative Situated Media

EFFICAC(e)

Extended Frameworks For 'In-Time' Computer-Aided Composition

Element

Stimulate Movement Learning in Humain-Machine Interactions

Legos

Sensori-motor learning in gesture-based interactive sound systems

MICA

Musical Improvisation and Collective Action

MIM

Enhancing Motion Interaction through Music Performance

Music Bricks

Musical Building Blocks for Digital Makers and Content Creators

RapidMix

Real-time Adaptive Prototyping for Industrial Design of Multimodal Interactive eXpressive technology

Skat-VG

Sketching Audio Technologies using Vocalizations and Gestures



Softwares (design & development)

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MuBu for Max

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MuBu (for “multi-buffer) is a set of modules for real-time multimodal signal processing (audio and movement), automatic learning, and sound synthesis via descriptors. Using the multimodal MuBu container users can store, edit, and visualize different types of temporally synchronized channels.
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Gesture & Sound

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Two max objects that let you follow temporal morphologies based on Markov models. Software modules for gesture-sound interactions The VoiceFollower allows synchronisation of sound and visual processes with pre-recorded voice. The MotionFollower allows synchronisation of sound and visual processes with pre-recorded movement.
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CataRT Standalone

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Concatenative corpus-based synthesis makes use of a database of recorded sounds and an algorithm for the selection of units that makes it possible to choose the segments of the database in order to synthesize by concatenation a musical sequence. The selection is based on the characteristics of the recording that are obtained by an analysis of the …
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Team


Head Researcher : Frederic Bevilacqua
Researchers & Engineers : Antoine Loriette, Benjamin Matuszewski, Diemo Schwarz, Riccardo Borghesi
Doctoral Student : Victor Paredes
Trainee : Sarah Nabi
: Iseline Peyre, Aliénor Golvet, Marion Voillot
: Jean-Philippe Lambert, Bianchi Hoesch Lorenzo

Collaborations

Atelier des feuillantines, BEK (Norway), CNMAT Berkeley (United States), Cycling’74 (United States), ENSAD, ENSCI, GRAME, HKU (Netherlands), Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, ICK Amsterdam (Netherlands), IEM (Autria), ISIR-CNRS Sorbonne Université, Little Heart Movement, Mogees (United kingdom/Italia), No Design, Motion Bank (Germany), LPP-CNRS université Paris-Descartes, université Pompeu Fabra (Spain), UserStudio, CRI-Paris université Paris-Descartes, Goldsmiths University of London (United kingdom), université de Genève (Switzerland), LIMSI-CNRS université Paris-Sud, LRI-CNRS université Paris-Sud, Orbe.mobi, Plux (Portugal), ReacTable Systems (Spain), UCL (United kingdom), Univers Sons/Ultimate Sound bank, Universidad Carlos III Madrid (Spain), université de Gênes (Italia), université McGill (Canada), ZhDK (Switzerland).


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Launch: Post-Master’s Degree in Artificial Intelligence and Movement

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MINES ParisTech, in partnership with the IRCAM (France), the Center for Research and Technology Hellas (Greece), the Idiap Research Institute (Switzerland) and the INREV Paris8 University (France), l…
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01'30 in Stravinsky with Pavlos Antoniadis

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Pavlos Antoniadis will defend his doctoral  carried out  in the Sound  Music Movement Interaction team (STMS - CNRS/IRCAM/Sorbonne Université) last June: " GesTCom: A sensor-bas…
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Orbe is in the running for the 2018 edition of the Innovation Radar Prize

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Launched by the European Commission in 2015, the Innovation Radar Prize competition identifies Europe's top innovators and their innovations found in projects supported by the European H2020 program.…
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