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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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  • Research

    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
    • Musique/Sciences Collection
  • 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
    • "I am in blood" for Sixteen Musicians and Live Electronics
    • Lucie Antunes in studio
    • Deena Abdelwahed in the studio
    • "Transfer" for 10 Musicians and Electronics
    • L'Annonce faite à Marie
    • In Ex Machina
    • Jazz Ex Machina
    • Improvise cum machina 1/2
    • Improvise cum machina 2/2
    • Like Sound, Like Flesh
    • Silent Talks
    • Music-Fictions
    • Artistic Research Residency
    • Artistic Residencies: The Blog
    • Rendez Vous 20.21
    • Season 2022.23
    • Seasons from 1996 to present
    • ManiFeste-2022 Website
    • ManiFeste festival from 2012 to 2022
    • L’Étincelle, IRCAM’s journal of creation
  • Transmission

    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.

    • 2022.23 Training Courses
    • Max, Max for Live
    • OpenMusic
    • Modalys
    • TS2 and Partiels
    • Sound spatialization
    • From PureData to audio plugins
    • Sensors, Interfaces, and Interactive Machine Learning
    • Other training programs
    • Practical Information
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    • Cursus Program on Composition and Computer Music
    • Supersonic Chair
    • Master ATIAM
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    • Artistic and Cultural Education
    • Career Discovery Visit
    • Images of a Work Collection
    • ManiFeste-2022, the Academy
  • Innovations

    At the center of societal and economic concerns combining culture and information technologies, the current research at IRCAM is seen by the international research community as a reference for interdisciplinary projects on the sciences and technologies for sound and music, constantly exposed to society’s new needs and uses.

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The Music Doctorate: Research in Composition is organized in collaboration by Sorbonne Université and IRCAM. It is intended for high-level composers, holders of a Master’s degree (or of an equivalent diploma accompanied with significant experience in composition), proposing in particular projects integrating a technological dimension into the work of composition and wanting to pursue a training program both as composers and researchers. The diploma attests to the competence both as composer (attested by the works produced at the end of studies) and as a researcher via the presentation of a thesis.

The doctoral training is assured by the three establishments; it includes doctoral classes and seminars offered by Sorbonne Université and IRCAM. Diplomas are awarded based on the production of creative work (the program must be in relation with the research project) and the defense of a doctoral thesis before a jury common to the partner establishments.

Research Themes

This doctorate is open to candidates wanting to pursue research in one or more of the following areas:

Musical material, form and meaning: musical categories and parameter, computer aided composition, music/sound/noise, semiotics, themes and expressivity.
Instruments and performers: playing techniques, gesture, performer/composer collaborations, acoustical analysis, augmented instruments, electronic instrument building.
Voice, text, speech: music/text relations, linguistic and phonological/phonetic approaches, semantics and expressivity, speech synthesis and processing, plurality of languages.
Orchestration, instrumentation: treatises and rules (from craftsmanship to formalization), timbre and instrumentation, computer-aided orchestration.
Interactivity: sound installations, mixed music (works for instruments and electronics), improvisation, multimedia.
Sound, space and stage: dramaturgy, scenography, opera, theater, architecture, sound spatialisation.
Methodology and cross-disciplinary aspects: analysis and theory, creative collaboration, documentation of workflows, quantitative and qualitative approaches, perception and cognition, aesthetics and philosophy of art.

A call for applications is published for this program

Applications to this program are open to candidates eager to work as a high-level composer while carrying out research leading to a thesis in the domain of musical creation, while working in a professional setting.

Candidates must hold a French national Master’s degree, or a Master’s-level diploma from the CNSMDP or the CNSMDL, or provide proof of equivalent studies abroad (equivalence provided by the doctoral school), or have proof of validated acquired skills (d'une validation d'acquis universitaire). Candidates must also provide proof of experience as a composer via a dossier of works according to the requirements listed in the call for applications.

Information 01 44 78 48 23 | info-pedagogie (at) ircam.fr

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Karim Haddad

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José Miguel Fernandez

José Miguel Fernández studied music and composition at the University of Chili and at the Laboratory for Musical Research and Production (LIPM) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He then studied composition at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et …
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Alessandro Ratoci

Alessandra Ratoci is a musician, composer, and performer of electronic music; He studied at the Scuola di musica di Fiesole, at the Bologne conservatory, and at the Haute école de musique de genève. He is currently a professor of electronic and computer-…
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Daniele Ghisi

Daniele Ghisi studied composition at the G Donizetti conservatory in Bergmao under S. Gervasoni – and in 2007 received his diploma with honors. From 2008 to 2011 he participated in IRCAM’s Cursus program in composition and computer music, and in 2015 beg…
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Sasha J. Blondeau

Sasha J. Blondeau (1986) is a composer of contemporary mixed instrumental and electroacoustic music. They hold a doctorate in musical composition from the IRCAM-Sorbonne University-CNRS program. They have received commissions from the Philharmonie de …
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