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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…

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    • Acoustic and Cognitive Spaces
    • Sound Perception and Design
    • Sound Analysis-Synthesis
    • Sound Music Movement Interaction
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    • Analysis of Musical Practices
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    • Vimala Pons in studio
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    • L'Annonce faite à Marie
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Cursus Program on Composition and Computer Music

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Call for Applications open from June 28 to December 5, 2023
Public composers
(under 37 years old)
Informations and applications on the ULYSSES website

The IRCAM Cursus is a unique computer music training program for young composers. Throughout the year, from October to September of the following year, students will acquire a solid technical autonomy and fluency in several computer programs, oriented towards artistic creation.

Composers will follow courses on IRCAM’s softwares for music composition (Max, OpenMusic, Modalys, TS2, Spat, etc.) in a wide-ranging and productive environment based on exchanges and encounters with researchers, programmers, sound engineers, computer-music designers, and composers working in our labs and studios as well as guest artists, in dialogue with the activities that are at the heart of our institute.

Cursus Syllabus

Led by the composer associated with the Cursus, Pierre Jodlowski, the training also opens the way to an interdisciplinary perspective to composition and features a hands-on approach in studio and collective workshops around image, movement, text and improvisation. Students are encouraged to develop a personal research around these practices, in order to extend their dialogue with other artistic fields. The Cursus is meant to include all practices and approaches that foresee the use of technological medium.

In order to validate the skills acquired throughout the program, during the workshops taking place at the end of each unit, students present their mini projects. These are also meant as preparatory steps towards the production of their final project, which will be presented during the IRCAM season program in September 2024.



Through a partnership with the Conservatoire supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (CNSMDP), the Haute École de musique de Genève (HEM), the Académie supérieure de musique de Strasbourg-HEAR, the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon (CNSMDL) and the Pôle supérieur d’enseignement artistique Paris Boulogne-Billancourt (PSPBB), students enrolled in a Master’s degree in composition in one of these establishments can follow the first year of their degree in IRCAM’s Cursus program.

IRCAM is a partner of the Cité internationale des arts for the residencies of the composers of the Cursus. Candidates selected for the Cursus have the possibility of having a studio at the Cité internationale des arts for the duration of their training, the monthly fees remaining at their expense.

The Cursus in Brief

  • 364 people trained since 1990
  • with 50 nationalities represented
  • 50 public performances of Cursus pieces as part of IRCAM's concert season
  • Since 2016, 37 commissions awarded to composers within 4 years of completing their training

The 30th anniversary of the Cursus and emerging artists

Cursus Educational Team

Simone Conforti, Jean Lochard, Grégoire Lorieux, Sébastien Naves, Johannes Regnier, Claudia Jane Scroccaro
computer-music designers lecturers
Pierre Jodlowski composer associated with the Cursus
Philippe Langlois education department director
Murielle Ducas educational coordination manager

Contact 01 44 78 48 17 | cursus (at) ircam.fr

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  • Simon Kanzler présente son projet du Cursus à l’Ircam, dans le studio 5, avril 2023  © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Murielle Ducas
    Simon Kanzler présente son projet du Cursus à l’Ircam, dans le studio 5, avril 2023 © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Murielle Ducas
  • Pierre Jodlowski et Simon Kanzler, à l’Ircam, dans le studio 5, avril 2023  © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Murielle Ducas
    Pierre Jodlowski et Simon Kanzler, à l’Ircam, dans le studio 5, avril 2023 © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Murielle Ducas
  • Sébastien Naves, Henri Colombat (de gauche à droite) et Hortense Fourrier (alto), à l’Ircam, dans le studio 5, en avril 2023  © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Murielle Ducas
    Sébastien Naves, Henri Colombat (de gauche à droite) et Hortense Fourrier (alto), à l’Ircam, dans le studio 5, en avril 2023 © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Murielle Ducas
  • Claudia Jane Scroccaro, Simon Kanzler et Corentin Marillier (percussions), à l’Ircam, dans le studio 5, en avril 2023  © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Murielle Ducas
    Claudia Jane Scroccaro, Simon Kanzler et Corentin Marillier (percussions), à l’Ircam, dans le studio 5, en avril 2023 © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Murielle Ducas
  • Atelier improvisation et électronique avec les compositrice.eur.s du Cursus et Benjamin de la Fuente, à l’Ircam, dans le studio 5, en février 2023  © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Murielle Ducas
    Atelier improvisation et électronique avec les compositrice.eur.s du Cursus et Benjamin de la Fuente, à l’Ircam, dans le studio 5, en février 2023 © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Murielle Ducas
  • Patch dans le logiciel Max, atelier improvisation et électronique, à l’Ircam, en février 2023  © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Murielle Ducas
    Patch dans le logiciel Max, atelier improvisation et électronique, à l’Ircam, en février 2023 © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Murielle Ducas
  • Anna Arkushyna à l’Ircam, dans le studio 5, en février 2023  © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Murielle Ducas
    Anna Arkushyna à l’Ircam, dans le studio 5, en février 2023 © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Murielle Ducas
  • Atelier improvisation et électronique avec les compositrice.eur.s du Cursus et Benjamin de la Fuente, à l’Ircam, dans le studio 5, en février 2023  © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Murielle Ducas
    Atelier improvisation et électronique avec les compositrice.eur.s du Cursus et Benjamin de la Fuente, à l’Ircam, dans le studio 5, en février 2023 © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Murielle Ducas
  • Concert du Cursus, Victor Virnot  © Hervé Véronèse
    Concert du Cursus, Victor Virnot © Hervé Véronèse
  • Concert du Cursus  © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Déborah Lopatin
    Concert du Cursus © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Déborah Lopatin
  • Concert du Cursus  © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Hervé Véronèse
    Concert du Cursus © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Hervé Véronèse
  • Concert du Cursus  © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Hervé Véronèse
    Concert du Cursus © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Hervé Véronèse
  • Pierre Jodlowski, compositeur associé au Cursus  © Gilles Vidal
    Pierre Jodlowski, compositeur associé au Cursus © Gilles Vidal
  • Philippe Langlois, directeur du département pédagogie  © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Philippe Barbosa
    Philippe Langlois, directeur du département pédagogie © Ircam - Centre Pompidou, photo : Philippe Barbosa

The 2022.23 Class

Selected Composers for Cursus 2022.23

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Masahiro Aogaki

Masahiro Aogaki (Japan, b. 1991) received his Master's degree in composition at the Tokyo University of the Arts, (Tokyo Geidai) studying under Ichiro Nodaïra. In 2017, he was admitted to the Paris Conservatory (Cnsmdp) in Stefano Gervasoni's class, and …
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Anna Arkushyna

Anna Arkushyna (Ukraine, b. 1989) studied composition at the National Academy of Music of Ukraine with Alla Zagaikevych and Eugene Stankovych and at Kunstuniversität Graz with Beat Furrer and Franck Bedrossian. Her works have been performed at festivals …
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Omer Barash

Omer Barash’s (Israel, b. 1995) main compositional interests include the exploration of movement and gesture in music. His work is often inspired by Hebrew texts and traditions and the soundscapes that surround him. Barash’s musical education includes st…
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Henri Colombat

Henri Colombat (France-United States, b. 1997) is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music exploring the various possible links between poetic images and sound. While his sonic approach is rooted in experimental and classical music, his creative …
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Engin Dağlık

Engin Dağlık (Turkey, b. 1987) is a musician who essentially explores the potential of space in his work, by combining different production tools and techniques. He is mostly interested in producing work that aims to recreate and reshape the perception o…
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Andrew Harlan

Andrew Harlan (United States, b. 1995) is a composer, bassist, improviser, and sound designer. His music exists at the intersections of long-form ambient music, experimental club music, dystopian sound design, chamber music, and electroacoustic improvisa…
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Simon Kanzler

Simon Kanzler (Germany, b. 1988) is a composer, laptop improviser, and vibraphonist. He has a diverse musical background both as an improviser—originally on the vibraphone and in recent years primarily on his self-made modular software instrument—and as …
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Jawher Matmati

Jawher Matmati (Tunisia, born 1993) is a composer; he graduated in 2011. with a diploma in Arabic music. He entered the School and University Symphony Orchestra, founded by Hafedh Makni, as a cellist, before becoming its director from 2014 to 2016. In 20…
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Kirsten Milenko

Kirsten Milenko (Australia, b. 1993) is an Australian composer and conductor. Her music creates acoustic and electronic settings of an immersive and beautifully strange nature. She is represented with the Australian Music Centre as an Associate Artist, a…
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Tomislav Oliver

Tomislav Oliver (Croatia, b. 1987) is a composer whose aesthetic draws on interdisciplinary influences such as postmodern literature, linguistics as well as the aesthetic of kinetic art. His works revolve around the idea of heterotopic spaces in which mu…

The 2023.24 Class

Selected Composers for Cursus 2023.24

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Anaïs-Nour Benlachhab

Anaïs-Nour Benlachhab (France, b. 1996) is a composer, performer, and guitarist. She developed her passion for transdisciplinary creation by linking different disciplines such as puppetry, choreography, and theatre mixed with composition. Her Master’s de…
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Imsu Choi

Imsu Choi (South Korea, b.1991) is a composer and ondist. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in composition from Ewha Woman’s University in South Korea before studying composition in France with Jean-Luc Hervé at the CRR de Boulogne-Billancourt. In 2018, she …
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Eliott Delafosse

Eliott Delafosse (French, b. 1994) is a composer and sound artist. Fascinated by ritual and mysticism, he aims at achieving high intensity and density, that can be expressed through static textures as well as rhythmical loops, in a cathartic approach.
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Pedram Diba

Pedram Diba (Iran, b. 1993) is an Iranian-American composer of acoustic, acousmatic, and mixed music. His music has been showcased in festivals and conferences such as SEAMUS, IRCAM Forum, CIRMMT-ACTOR Symposium, Festival Temporel, NOVA Contemporary Meet…
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Xue Han

Xue Han (China, b.1989) is a composer whose musical imagination is often inspired and nourished by spoken languages and certain linguistic features, body gestures and their musical expressions, theatrical manifestations and sound phenomena that derive fr…
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Agustín Issidoro

Agustín Issidoro (Argentina, b. 1994,) is a composer and jazz drummer. He studied composition at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, where he focused on mixed music and electroacoustic composition. His artistic work reflects on the implications of digitalit…
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Manon Lepauvre

Manon Lepauvre (France, b. 1992) began music by playing the transverse flute, before joining the conservatories of Laval (France) and the 9th arrondissement of Paris. She quickly showed an interest in composition work. In 2012, she joined Marco Suarez’s …
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Giovanni Montiani

Giovanni Montiani (Italy, b. 1988) studied composition at the Florence Conservatory, then at the CRR de Strasbourg with Daniel D’Adamo and Tom Mays. He is currently enrolled in the Master’s degree “Composition and Musical Interpretation” at the Haute Éco…
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Bernat Pont Anglada

Bernat Pont Anglada (Catalonia, b. 1998) is a composer and performer interested in creating new artistic experiences through humor, impact and love. He works with sound, image and narrative to create contemporary experimental pop shows.
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Vincent Portes

Vincent Portes (France, b. 1995) is a composer. His music is strongly influenced by electronic writing, signal processing, micro-editing, and various methods of sound synthesis. The structure of his pieces is based on the exploration of a sound object, w…

Apply to the Cursus Program

Call for applications open from June 28 to December 5, 2023

Applicants

Applicants must be under 37 years old.
There are no applications fees
General Terms and Conditions

Calendar

  • June 28, 2023: Applications can be submitted;
  • December 5, 2023: Application deadline;
  • December 2023-February 2024: Selection process;
  • End of February, 2024: Announcement by email of selection results.

Following the selection:

  • Beginning of March 2024: The candidates selected for the Cursus program have to confirm their enrolment by email;
  • March, 2024: Further details of the Cursus program 2023-2024 and general conditions of the training course will be sent to the participants;
  • March-April, 2024:  After the candidate’s acceptance of the terms and enrolment, a contract will have to be signed between IRCAM and the participant, and a deposit of 600 euros will have to be paid before April 30, 2024.

Application File

Your dossier must include:

  • A copy of valid ID or passport
  • A detailed curriculum vitae
  • The list of professional experiences and awards
  •  A cover letter
  • One or several letters of recommendation 
  • Three recent works, at least one with electronics (score, audio recording, video, etc.)
  •  The URL to download a patch for one of your compositions (Max or any other real-time software) from the platform of your choice. Remember to give a permanent URL that does not require a password.

For non-Francophone applicants: a copy of your TEF exam (level B2) or equivalent diploma or any other document proving an equivalent level of oral comprehension.

Conditions for Applicants and Selected Candidates 

10 places are available
Registration fees: 2,000€ (includes the Premium Individuel membership to the IRCAM Forum for 2 years) 

Applicants selected for the Cursus  program must confirm their participation in writing  and commit to take on any other professional engagements during the program. Classes are held at IRCAM from Monday through Friday, from 10am to 1pm and from 2:30 to 5:30pm. There are two weeks of vacation in December for the holidays.

Scholarships

IRCAM does not give out any scholarships or pay for any travel, but can assist you when looking for financial aid. The Cursus program is considered to be continued professional training.
Contact: cursus (@) ircam.fr

Applicants selected for the Cursus program have the possibility, upon request, to be housed at the Cité internationale des arts de Paris. They will have a studio/room throughout the program. Monthly housing fees are paid by the students.

Furthermore, applicants selected for the Cursus program signed up in the Sacem repertory are eligible for a scholarship. Contact the Sacem directly to request a dossier.

Accessibility

For more information about accessibility, please contact us at cursus ( at ) ircam.fr.

Complaints

For any complaints, please contact IRCAM through our online complaint form.


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