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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.

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    • Chloé Thévenin in studio
    • Oren Boneh in studio
    • Tristan Murail in studio
    • Martin Matalon in studio
    • Sébastien Gaxie in studio
    • Murcof in the studio
    • Vimala Pons in studio
    • Lucie Antunes in studio
    • Deena Abdelwahed in the studio
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    • ManiFeste-2024 Website
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    • L’Étincelle, IRCAM’s journal of creation
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    • Designing Audio Experiences on the Web
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    • Master ATIAM
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Cursus 2020.21

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The 9 young composers from the Cursus class of 2021 presented their final projects as installations, a purely electronic work, a performance with images, spatialisation, found objets….

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Cursus Concert, June 12, 2021 at the CENQUATRE-PARIS

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    Phoenix Eye, Dragon Eye 龙眼,凤眼
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    Solide, amorphe, fragile et transparent
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    QU
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    defiant walks barefoot
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    Rituale Ritorno Ricordo
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    The Perfect anti-object (...a silent agent...)
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    Day was departing

Éqstr_FM

by Alexandru Sima, for electronic, 2021

  1. Éqstr_FM by Alexandru Sima, for electronic, 2021

The 2020.21 Class

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Didem Coskunseven

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Damian Gorandi

Damian Gorandi (Argentine, b. 1991) is currently in the Master’s degree program at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, in Stefano Gervasoni’s class. His creations are born in the feedback of creative processes between in…
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Matteo Gualandi

Matteo Gualandi (Italy, b. 1995) began his composition studies in his native city with Daniele Bravi. In 2015 he began his studies at the Haute École de musique de Genève, in the class of Pascal Dusapin, Michael Jarrell, and Luis Naón. In 2020, he earned…
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Jug Marković

Jug Marković (Serbia, b.1987) approaches music in a deliberately intuitive way. In his compositions he tends to refrain from strict and rigid premeditated concepts and systems and has no extra-musical intentions to his work. He is particularly interested…
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Megumi Okuda

Megumi Okuda (Japan, b. 1993) first studied singing. She then studied composition at the National University of Music in Bucharest with Dan Dediu and Doina Rotaru, and at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar with Michael Obst. In 2017, she was a…
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Clara Olivares

Clara Olivares (France, b. 1993) is a French-Spanish composer. The use of electronics in her compositions is characterized both by a desire to serve a dramaturgical purpose—as seen in her chamber opera Mary (2017) where a soprano interprets several chara…
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Alexandru Sima

Alexandru Sima began by playing the electric guitar and then became interested in classical music, before studying composition at the National University of Music in Bucharest with Doina Rotaru and Dan Dediu and at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm…
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Yang Song

Yang Song (China,b.1985) received her Doctoral degree in composition at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing with Prof. Guoping Jia in 2018, and graduated from Prof. Johannes Schöllhorn’s concert exam master class at the Hochschule für Musik Frei…
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Jon Yu

Jon Yu (Taiwan-United States, b. 1988) is a Taiwanese-American composer whose works explore notions of ritual, utility, and excess. His works have been performed by ensembles such as Mivos Quartet, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Wet Ink Ensemble, AuditivV…
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