In the dense jungle of research projects taking place at IRCAM, the project Sébastien Gaxie is conducting with the Sound Analysis and Synthesis team is truly one-of-a-kind. While most residencies revolve around sound processing, creation and diffusion or how it …

Composer, sound designer and professor of Electronic Music and researcher at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, Seth Scott has chosen the Sound Analysis-Synthesis team of the STMS lab at IRCAM to conduct his artistic research residency, …

Poésie pour pouvoir, for tape and three orchestral groups, was premiered on October 19, 1958, in Donaueschingen by the Südwestrundfunk orchestra conducted by Hans Rosbaud and Pierre Boulez. The work was inspired by a poem by Henri Michaux, Je rame …

As part of his artistic research residency at IRCAM with the Analysis of Musical Practices team in the STMS lab, New-York resident and German composer Simon Kanzler intends to explore the notions of synchronisation and desyncrhonisation for space recomposition, via …

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As director of research at IRCAM and manager of the Sound Perception & Design team of the STMS lab, Nicolas Misdariis co-directed Claire Richards’ PhD thesis, during which she developed her multimodal harness, and is now supporting Alberto Gatti in …

Opinion column published in Culture et Recherche n°147. Nicolas Obin (Associate Professor, Sorbonne University)
, Pierre Saint-Germier (Research Fellow, CNRS)
, Jean-Louis Giavitto (Research Director, CNRS)
, Frank Madlener (Director, IRCAM)
, Axel Roebel (Research Director, IRCAM), Frédéric Bevilacqua (Research …

Early this year, British composer Emma Margetson started an artistic research residency with the Acoustic and Cognitive Spaces team, to work on an innovative and singular device designed for sound diffusion: IKO. IKO has the shape of an icosahedron, which …

Sounding objects for societal impact

To evoke Pierre Boulez is to acknowledge the many dimensions of his work, each intricately woven together through deep connections and mutual influence. Composer, conductor—by necessity rather than design—founder of institutions, and teacher, he navigated these roles with a singular …