Artistic and Cultural Education

1. Replay Culture Heritage

Create a sound work collectively with audio-digital creation tools.

Launched by the European network Ulysses, with the support of Creative Europe, "Replay Culture Heritage" will be carried out from 2021 to 2023. It offers a class of high school students the opportunity to learn about sound creation by discovering and re-appropriating a major work of contemporary music.


Replay, work session with Claudia Jane Scroccaro © IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, photo : Salomé Bazin

Objectives

  • Allow students to discover IRCAM's particularities
  • Give students their first look at the use of digital audio tools for music creation
  • Provide students with the opportunity to discover a contemporary work and understand its compositional challenges
  • Encourage students to work together to create a remake of this work, which will be presented at the end of the program during a national presentation day

The program

Like the other participating countries, IRCAM will select a contemporary musical work. This work will be the starting point of the project.

1. Discovery of the Work
The piece is presented to the students in different forms and contexts. Students will use it to produce a musical work of their own inspired by and related to the work studied, reflecting their conception of the work and what it represents.

2. Collecting “Sound Material”
In order to create their own sound work, students collect sounds that they can later use.

3. Creation of a Sound Work
Using various materials collected, students produce their own sound creations, in reference to and echoing the work they have studied. Their work is presented to the public in the spring.

2021-2022 Project

7 two-hour sessions for secondary school classes are organized at Collège Joliot Curie in Bagneux
Instructor Claudia Jane Scroccaro
Music studied: excerpt of Come out from Fase by Steve Reich, choreography by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, film by Thierry De Mey


Replay, work session with Claudia Jane Scroccaro © IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, photo : Salomé Bazin

Information

Public junior high and high school classes
Number of Sessions 5-10 sessions
Contact 01 44 78 47 70 | info-pedagogie (at) ircam.fr

Supported by the Fondation Fiminco.  This project was implemented within the framework of the ULYSSES Network, co-financed by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.

3. Educational Music-Fictions

Two years ago, Ircam initiated a collection of "Musiques-Fictions": the adaptation of a contemporary text, a musical creation, and IRCAM's expertise in the sound of the future, combined to create a unique literary and sonic experience.


Work session at the Lycée d'enseignement professionnel Lucie Aubrac at Pantin © IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, photo : Salomé Bazin

Objectives

  • Introduction to creative writing, sound and theatrical performance
  • Participation in an artistic work through a collaborative process
  • Discovery of contemporary creation, its challenges and its participants

The Program

Throughout the school year, IRCAM will accompany a high school class in the production of their own Music-Fiction. The project takes the form of a series of two-hour weekly workshops (15 sessions during the year) from September to May, which will provide the students with the opportunity to tackle the notions of writing, performance and reading aloud, composition, mixing and spatialization, and the design of a sound diffusion system.

It is a educational, artistic and collaborative process: the artistic team is also a team that accompanies the students, guides them, puts itself at the disposal of the imagination of the young people who are involved and connected to the writing and composition processes.

1. Writing the Text
Introduction to writing as a creative form with a contemporary author. Various writing exercises are proposed to the students in this vein so that each one can apprehend the issues of point of view, enunciation, sentence construction, rhythm, etc.
Students will create a group text that will be the Music-Fiction story.

2. Setting Text to Voice
After the writing work with the author, the students are divided into half-groups to begin the "interpretation" part of the project.
- Students learn to read the text aloud and how to perform it (intonations, breathing, intentions and voice registers). Work on listening and silence, collective reading (organization of solo and choral scores).
- The voices are recorded and mixed (choice of the spoken and recorded phrases, the chosen intentions, the voice settings that correspond best to the desired final object).

3. The Sonic Composition
The musical composition will be made from sound materials collected by the students (samples of sung voice, field-recordings...) in connection with the recorded text.

4. The Final Presentations
Two final presentations will be held. The first presentation will take place at the school for the other students, parents, and the educational community and the second during IRCAM's festival ManiFeste, at the Centre Pompidou, and in partnership with the BPI.


Work session at the Lycée d'enseignement professionnel Lucie Aubrac at Pantin © IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, photo : Salomé Bazin

2021-2022 Project

14 two-hour sessions with a high school class from the Lycée d'enseignement professionnel Lucie Aubrac in Pantin from September 2021 to June 2022. Artistic and Educational Team:

Nicolas Doutey author
Nathalie Pivain actor, director
Grégoire Lorieux composer
Educational Team at Lycée Lucie Aubrac Natacha Nuckecheddy, French and History/Geography teacher

Information

Public high school classes
Number of Sessions to be defined
Contact 01 44 78 47 70 | emmanuelle.zoll (at) ircam.fr salome.bazin (at) ircam.fr

2. Drawing Music

Intended for elementary school students, this project is an artistic and cultural education program that introduces students to electroacoustic music, based on the writing of electronics and its various forms of representation. Following the tradition of graphic scores, the students have to create their own visual scores after listening to several pieces of electroacoustic music.


Work Session with the students from the Maurice Thorez elementary school © Sebastien Bellanger

Objectives

  • Visit IRCAM and understand its core missions: research, creation, and transmission
  • Discover graphical scores and musical notation for electronics
  • Analyze the sounds of a musical work through a personal plastic and visual expression
  • Learn to listen to music attentively
  • Understand an electroacoustic musical work
  • Attend a live performance by attending a dress rehearsal of a contemporary music concert
  • Participate collectively in the production of a final work, presented to the public at the end of the program

The Program

1. Discover IRCAM and Electronic Music
In this program, a number of activities are planned at IRCAM:
At the beginning of the program students visit the Institute and discover its spaces
At the end of the program, the students attend a concert, a performance, or a sound installation during one of the highlight's of IRCAM's artistic season.

2. Initiation to Musical Listening and Graphical Creations
Between the two visits, workshops are conducted at the school by a professional and instructor from IRCAM, accompanied by the school teachers responsible for the project.

These workshops are an opportunity for students to explore the concept of creating graphic scores from listening to a piece of electroacoustic music, and in doing so, develop their own impressions of both the listening experience and the work.

2021-2022 Project

6 two-hour sessions are organized with a class from the Maurice Thorez elementary school in Bagneux from February to June 2022.
Instructor Claudia Jane Scroccaro

Information

Public older elementary students
Number of Sessions  approximately 5
Contact 01 44 78 47 70 | info-pedagogie (at) ircam.fr

Supported by the Fondation Fiminco