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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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Generative AI
    • 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
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    • 2025 ÉLAN award
    • Spatial Composition Workshop
    • In Situ Polytopes
    • ULYSSES Ensemble
    • Auditors
  • Innovations

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      The STMS Lab

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      Director: Brigitte d'Andréa-Novel
      Deputy Director: Nicolas Misdariis

      The UMR9912 STMS Research Lab, founded in 1995 and hosted by IRCAM, brings together the CNRS, Sorbonne University, the French Ministry of Culture, and IRCAM around the theme of multidisciplinary research on science and technology for music and sound. The lab is connected with the CNRS INS2I (main), INSIS, and INSHS as well as the Sorbonne University engineering school.

      The laboratory is made up of the following 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

      With over a hundred collaborators—researchers, engineers, technicians, and doctoral students—half of which are from IRCAM and the others from the university and the EPST, the STMS is the largest laboratory in the world devoted to research on sciences for music and sound.

      The multidisciplinary research carried out in STMS offers a variety of viewpoints on the complexity of the audio-musical project with comprehensive approaches to modeling, simulation, formal representations and computer languages, human-machine interaction, perception and cognition, an musicology.

      These themes are divided among the lab’s teams in order to address the physical aspects of sound production and propagation more specifically (instrumental acoustics and physical models),  the analysis and synthesis of sound via signal methods, spatial analysis and synthesis of acoustic fields, composition, improvisation and computer-assisted performance, the analysis of creative processes, the neurocognition of emotion or sound design, and, more generally, the question of natural and artificial creativity and its relationships with the body, space, mind, and information.

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