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…
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.
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.
Engaged with societal and economic issues at the intersection of culture and IT, research at Ircam has forged a reputation for itself in the world of international research as an interdisciplinary benchmark in the science and technology of sound and music, constantly attentive to the new needs and uses in society.
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…
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.
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.
Engaged with societal and economic issues at the intersection of culture and IT, research at Ircam has forged a reputation for itself in the world of international research as an interdisciplinary benchmark in the science and technology of sound and music, constantly attentive to the new needs and uses in society.
As part of its research on deep generative models, the work of the ACIDS group in the Musical Representations team at IRCAM is expressed in the design of several cutting-edge AI tools for musical and creative synthesis. The goal is to provide novel tools to model musical creativity and extend sonic possibilities with machine learning approaches. In this context, the team experiment with deep AI models applied to creative materials, aiming to develop artificial creative intelligence. Over the past years, the ACIDS group developed several objects aiming to embed these researches directly as real-time objects usable in MaxMSP and Ableton Live. The team has produced many prototypes of innovative instruments and lightweight embedded deep audio models. The researchers now notably provide the RAVE VST, the nn~ library and the FlowSynth system.
And as part of its research on generative processes, the work of the team is reflected in the design of musical companion software that interacts with composers, musicians, and improvisers. Thanks to artificial listening and synchronization of musical signals, Somax2 and Dicy2 implement intelligent agents capable respectively of learning on the fly or in advance, and of immediate or predefined musical interactions in structured or composed contexts.
In 2022, based on the results of end-of-training evaluations, 100% of trainees in the "Interacting, composing and improvising with generative agents" training course have achieved all or most of their objectives, with a satisfaction rate of 100%.
"I'm very happy to have taken this course. Jérôme and Mikhail explained everything to us in detail, and we were able to take advantage of Ircam's facilities to put our new knowledge into practice and exchange ideas. I can only recommend this course to anyone interested in music production in the digital age, and who also wants to combine it with an acoustic instrument and improvised music practice - there's a lot to discover!"
Swantje, student, Interacting, composing and improvising with generative agents