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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
    • Sivan Eldar 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
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    • Lucie Antunes in studio
    • Deena Abdelwahed in the studio
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    • L’Étincelle, IRCAM’s journal of creation
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    • ASAP & Partiels
    • Sound spatialization
    • Creation of interactive environments
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The Cultural Outreach Department offers on-site and off-site digital workshops for children and teens, students, and music lovers alike. The aim of these workshops is to enable the younger generation to test innovation, and to introduce them to the main areas of scientific and technological research on sound, conducted in IRCAM's laboratories and studios.

These workshops are aimed primarily at the general public (schoolchildren and individuals, children, teenagers, young adults, and accompanying parents).

These are concrete initiatives designed to integrate and decode technological and cultural changes in society, to shed light on the union of creativity and automation, and to re-appropriate the human-machine relationship.

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Initiate yourself to sound creation!

Snce 2023, IRCAM has been putting together workshops to introduce students to digital technology and sound. These workshops are under development and will be available for booking at the end of 2024 for classes or school groups in the Paris region. More information at action.culturelle (@) ircam.fr.

IRCAM has joined forces with Cube Garges in Garges-lès-Gonesse to develop its workshops. Visit their programme to find out about the workshops offered by IRCAM.

1001 Voices – Make a Bestiorobot

Who is the Bestio-Robot?! How many heads does he have? What's his favorite ice cream flavor? What does his voice sound like? And above all, how does he talk? After all, it's only a robot...

This workshop explores the world of machines that talk and make us talk. From the good old microphone to the latest artificial intelligence technologies, children will be invited to give their voices and invent their Bestio-Robot through writing and listening games, without notebooks or pens!

Words and Sounds

This workshop offers an introduction to the profession of sound designer: learning how to analyze sounds to create the vocal identity of a character. Composing music to heighten suspense in the cinema, illustrating a character in a video game, creating the sounds of a dishwasher or an electric car, guiding the visually impaired along a route... sound design is now present everywhere as part of our daily lives. Creating meaningful sounds means knowing how to listen carefully to them and you can do it without any musical training! This workshop offers sound specialists and non-specialists alike the chance to work together on characterizing the sound of a character and then to create these real sounds using accessible software.

The workshop is designed and run by a facilitator specialized in sound design.

Storytelling with Sound and Movement

CoMo-education is a mobile application that lets children aged 4 and over tell stories with sound and movement. Children are invited to take part in a fun, interactive, and shared experience based on listening, imagination, and body awareness. The stories are brought to life by various soundscapes generated directly by the participants' gestures. The CoMo-education project is the result of collaboration between the Interaction sound music movement team at IRCAM-STMS and the association Premiers cris.

Photo: Marion Voillot, docteure en sciences cognitives et designer avec des enfants.

IRCAM has received sponsorship from Mrs Aline Foriel Destezet for the development of these three workshop


SeineLab

Innovative sound and digital workshops at La Seine Musicale

Since February 2023, IRCAM and La Seine Musicale have teamed up for three years to offer a hands-on approach to the discovery of digital tools and to raise awareness of sound creation; two important societal issues for today's children.

Committed to innovative cultural and social development alongside the Hauts-de-Seine department and the Seine Musicale, IRCAM shares the ambition of making high-quality culture accessible to all. Together with the Cube, IRCAM is an active partner in the establishment of SeineLab, which offers a variety of workshops on sound and digital technology.

SeineLab is a venue to discover emerging artists and works in progress. In addition, SeineLab and its partners organize workshops for young people ( from the age of 6 ) and families on artificial intelligence, sound processing, and sound design. The public will be able to create the sound identity of a character or an object, explore the world of machines by inventing a Bestio-robot, build an unexpected musical instrument, learn about binaural production to create a 3D environment, an immersive soundscape, or a musical piece.

Program and reservation

"1001 voix - Making the bestio-robot"

Children's workshop : 7-12 years old
This workshop explores the world of machines that talk and make us talk.

"Digital lutherie workshop"

Children's workshop : 7-12 years old
In this workshop, you can try your hand at creating your own instruments using your imagination and creativity!

"Architectural sound tour"

School workshop: ages 10 and up
Create your own sound postcard of La Seine Musicale!

« Swirls of voices »

Family workshop : 4-7 years old
Imagine a world where every phrase, every breath becomes a color, a shape, an emotion. Using your own voices, transform live stories to tell your children into sound creations.

« Machinasons »

Children's workshop : 8-12 years old
What if we drew sound? What is the music of colors? What shapes does my voice produce? What if we composed a song with both our eyes and ears?


L'atelier « Lutherie numérique », l'atelier « Field recording - Chasseurs de sons » et l'atelier « Des mots et des sons » © Gwendal Le Flem

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