Solo and electronics
Tutors: Sivan Eldar (composer), Augustin Muller & NN (Ircam computer music designers)
Soloists from the Ensemble intercontemporain: Lucas Ounissi (trombone), Valeria Kafelnikov (harp), Renaud Déjardin (cello)
January-May 2026: Online meetings and work sessions
June 15-27, 2026 @Ircam: workshop, rehearsals, concerts
Sonic dramaturgies
Ircam is offering a composition workshop for solo instruments and electronics led by Sivan Eldar, with three musicians from the Ensemble intercontemporain and two Ircam computer music designers.
This workshop will explore the dialogue between, and orchestration of, instrumental and electronic sound in relation to text. Poems by Laura Vazquez, chosen with the participants, will serve as points of departure and as a fil rouge connecting the works of the six selected composers (the poems may be approached in the broadest sense: as inspiration, imagery, sound, or conceptual material). Together with three musicians from the Ensemble intercontemporain and two Ircam computer music designers, participants will create works for solo instrument and electronics, engaging with questions of embodied and disembodied sound, the interplay between semantic and instrumental gesture, spatial dramaturgy, and immersivity within the Ircam Espace de projection.
Organization
January 2026 – Online introduction meeting with all six selected composers, Sivan Eldar, the three soloists from the Ensemble intercontemporain, the computer music designers, and the Ircam teams.
January to May 2026 – Online preparatory work sessions.
Each composer will then have two one-hour individual online meetings with Sivan Eldar and the computer music designers to discuss the project proposed in their application, as well as online and email exchanges with their performers and the Ircam computer music designers.
Applications
Applicants must:
- have been born after January 1, 1994;
- not have participated twice before in another ManiFeste Academy workshop;
- be able to speak and understand English or French.
Application deadline Tuesday, November 18, 2025, midnight CEST
Personalized response by email on Tuesday, December 23, 2025.
Jury
The jury that will select the young composers will include composer Sivan Eldar and musicians from the Ensemble intercontemporain Valeria Kafelnikov (harp), Luca Ounissi (trombone), Renaud Déjardin (cello), and computer music producers Augustin Muller and NN.
Conditions of participation for selected composers
Registration fee: EUR 450
The academy does not cover scholarships, travel, or accommodation. Selected candidates must find accommodation on their own.
Selected composers must, under penalty of cancellation of their participation:
- commit to writing a score that is:
- original,
- between 5 and 7 minutes long,
- and can be rehearsed and performed without the intervention of a conductor.
- participate in a group videoconference meeting with all six participants, the guest composer, and the soloists of the Ensemble intercontemporain in January 2026;
- participate in two individual videoconference meetings with the guest composer between January and March 2026 to present and validate their score project;
- pay their registration fees by Tuesday, January 27, 2026, at the latest;
- send their complete score by Tuesday, April 7, 2026, at the latest, under penalty of cancellation of their participation in the academy;
- prepare in advance the electronic equipment necessary for the realization of their project, in collaboration with the computer music producers at Ircam (online meetings will be organized between March and May 2026);
- send their electronic demo by Tuesday, May 12, 2026, at the latest;
- make any changes to their score requested by the teaching team;
- attend all rehearsals and dedicated meetings for their workshop from Monday, June 15 to Friday, June 27, 2026 (except Sunday).