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This short film introduces us to the life and work of electronic/contemporary composer Eliane Radigue.
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In the 1960s, a group of Indian students accidentally invented minimal techno, hoping their synths could cure disease. A new documentary unearths their story.
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7 lectures given by Stockhausen in England in 1972 and 1973, filmed by Allied Artists, London. All lectures were given in English and you can watch them here!
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“Converting hundreds of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach into mathematical networks reveals that they store lots of information and convey it very effectively.”
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Built by the Jesuit priest Jean-Baptiste Delaborde in Paris, France, 1759, the Clavecine Électrique or the ‘Electric Harpsichord’ is one of the earliest documented instruments that used electricity to create musical sound.
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Looking for a free audio analyzer? We've got you covered.
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How could modular synthesizer music be notated? Is it possible or even desirable to attempt to notate music for modular instruments?
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When we listen to music, some neurons hear the notes of a melody, while others anticipate which notes will be next.
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#longread
Hear Professor Bad Trip: Lesson II @ Ircam Friday, Nov 17.
Not familiar with the trilogy Professor Bad Trip: Lesson I, II & III? Nicholas Moroz' article examines Fausto Romitelli's significant and complex work.
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What exactly is "Musique concrète"?
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The longest - and slowest - music composition in existence had a big day on Monday - it changed chord for the first time in two years.
The experimental piece, entitled As Slow as Possible, began in 2001.
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A wonderfully curated collection on the history of electronic music. Dive in!
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From the roar of a crowd to the quiet of a library, sound and silence might seem like polar opposites. However, according to new research, our brains perceive them in the same way. Silence may not be a sound, but scientists say we can truly hear it.
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Psycho Filter, qu'est-ce que c'est?
Fa-fa-fa-fa, fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa, better run, run, run, run, run, run, run and check out the new version of our spectral surface plugin today!
@ircamforum
Infos here: ow.ly/uViG50RjHhE
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This documentary film about experimental classical music in the 1960s focuses on composers such as John Cage, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Cornelius Cardew...
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🎊Winners of the Generative Music Prize🎉
First prize was awarded to Simon Colton during the closing night of IRCAM Forum's 30th birthday celebration.
Read all about it here: ow.ly/Zqbm50R4NOG
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“Music is the universal language of mankind” ow.ly/p4gD30i3Wuy
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Éliane Radigue
"In the '60s she began experimenting with feedback... At the start of the '70s she went deep into analog synthesis, composing the slow, meditative ambient electronic explorations she is best known for..."
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ELAINE RADIGUE: When I was working as an assistant to Pierre Henry in the early ’60s he gave me a pile of tape, and asked me to make a montage using only the attacks of the sounds.
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Alex Ross's memorial to Pierre Boulez, who has been overlooked in many year-end lists of notable deaths ow.ly/XM6K307wFcM
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Happy ENIAC Day!
"70 years ago, six women became the world's first digital computer programmers"
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From Carl Orff to Karlheinz Stockhausen to John Cage: the history of a revolutionary experiments lab for the musical avant-garde
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"... Steve Reich's work has remained a cataclysm of repetition, touting it as harmonic stasis — where the rhythms and timbre in a song grow in complexity and variation, but the harmonies ultimately remain constant."
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Depuis une vingtaine d'années, le chercheur et compositeur italien David Monacchi pose ses micros durant toute une journée, au cœur des forêts équatoriales (de Bornéo, en passant par l'Afrique et l'Amazonie). #FranceMusique #T2G #Ircam
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A musical game from Google.
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Aucun enregistrement n’a été conservé de l’Appel du 18 juin du Général de Gaulle. Grâce à une technologie d’intelligence artificielle, développée par l'@Ircam & Ircam Amplify et en partenariat avec @lemondefr, nous pouvons aujourd’hui l’écouter !
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#Flashback to Friday, July 4, 1986 for this conversation between Morton Feldman and lannis Xenakis
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Mort de Pierre Henry, compositeur français et père de la musique concrète ow.ly/iFKF30doiLv
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Les pouvoirs de stimulation de la mémoire et les effets thérapeutiques de la musique font l’objet d’une fascination renouvelée.
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LEARN WITH IRCAM
Confirm your expertise on Max, a graphical programming program that lets you process, generate, and interact with MIDI data, audio, and video streams, or any other type of data, including sensor data.
May 30 & 31 / online
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Music affects the autonomic nervous system, which regulates all the unconscious bodily processes that keep us alive without us having to think about them – like heartbeat, breathing, digestion.
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How much do you know about the University of Toronto's studio's history in electronic music? ow.ly/Ojmz30eX4ql
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372 sq meters might seem like a big space for 1 person but for José Miguel Fernández it’s perfect! He’s fine-tuning a new piece: Sources rayonnantes. We promise when you come to hear it in concert June 17 w/the ensemble Court-circuit there will be chairs! #manifeste23 #Ircam
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Meshuggah est l'un des groupes de musique les plus influents du 21e siècle. Dans cette vidéo, découvrez comment ils utilisent des procédés algorithmiques pour composer !
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Enjoy this 40-minute tutorial organised by @ircamforum on #OpenMusic from one of our specialised instructors: Mikhail Malt.
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Happy Christmas!
We found this for you: Santa playing a modular synth 🎁
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ARTISTIC RESEARCH RESIDENCY
Application deadline: April 1, 2024
IRCAM is launching a call for its artistic research residency program, offering artists the opportunity to collaborate with one or more of our research teams.
Infos: ulysses-network.eu/competiti…
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Enjoy this documentary on the life and work of the composer Iannis Xenakis, whose work reconciles art with science.
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Miller Puckette thinks you should come to our library and check out his (new to our collection) book “Between the Tracks: Musicians on Selected Electronic Music”! 🎶
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...what exactly is “generative” about this music, and how can we get started making our own generative systems?
Generative Music: How, Why, & What's With the Succulents? ow.ly/aiFW50QMjtV
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Enjoy this playlist on the history of artificial sound!
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The ARChive of Contemporary Music, which houses more than 90m songs and is supported by names such as Martin Scorsese, is in need of a new home.
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Le Corbusier came up with the title, saying he wanted to create a "poem in a bottle". Varèse composed the piece with the intention of creating a liberation between sounds and as a result uses noises not usually considered "musical" throughout the piece.
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Did you know we can trace the history of binaural audio back to 1881?
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{video} Computer music 30 years ago. We can't decide what we like more, the software or the hairstyles! #retro ow.ly/Bjmp307FS8D
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Have you ever tried to reverse-engineer a synthesizer's sound chip? This author did!
Read about it here: ow.ly/Pp0Z50Qh1Iv
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Our friends at @Ableton have just published this article on #AI & #music. What do you think?
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Let’s put our PlayStation to work by importing its great Impulse Responses into FabFilter Pro-R 2 and using them in a techno track.
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61 years ago, John Cage and David Tudor visited Japan...
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🤓 Every Wednesday, IRCAM offers 2 classes online: one on composition and another on performance. This week, spend some time with composers Andrea Agostini & Daniele Ghisi and bassist Nicolas Crosse
#learnwithircam #stayhome #wednesdaywisdom #Ircam
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SOMAX2 : NEW ONLINE TUTORIAL
Somax2 is an AI-based musical improvisation and composition application implemented in Max and based on a generative model, the software provides coherent improvisation, while listening & adapting to the musician.
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Explorer l'acoustique de Notre-Dame de Paris en trois dimensions.... ow.ly/p6mJ30dKgY4
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#watch #1995 #Stockhausen #Arditti #Helicopter
Karlheinz Stockhausen & Arditti String Quartet's 1995 film of "Helicopter String Quartet"
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Congrats to @hollyherndon & partner @matdryhurst on the birth of Spawn.
Holly and Mat headlined the 2015 edition of IRCAM LIVE. Don't miss this year's concert on March 5th at the @CentrePompidou. #AI #IA #IrcamLive #Ircam
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8 (petites) choses que vous ne saviez (peut-être) pas sur Xenakis !
#Ircam #ManiFeste22 #Xenakis
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If you've ever thought about developing a synthesizer and a sequencer and editor on the Commodore 64 in BASIC, this is for you!
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If you thought the '80s was just about big phones and haircuts, think again; it was also the start of a music production revolution!
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Pierre Boulez conducted songs by Frank Zappa!?
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Aujourd'hui, Alice Cohen-Hadria soutiendra en anglais sa thèse de doctorat réalisée au sein de l’équipe Analyse et synthèse des sons (STMS - CNRS/Ircam/Sorbonne Université), intitulée "Music and Speech Description Estimation with Deep Learning »
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"Best known as an experimental composer and performer, Cage (1912–92) was also a visual artist who created an extensive body of prints, drawings, and watercolors during the last 20 years of his life."
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30 years ago, Max was born in our studios. Today, it's still a huge part of our lives (and yours!).
Meet IRCAM computer music designer Benjamin Lévy talking about his work with OMax, a program that combines Max & OpenMusic.
#max #omax #ircam #cycling74
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Take an hour and enjoy this fim on Pierre Henry from 2007: The Magic Sun
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"Conçue par un inventeur américain dans les années 1950, la Keaton Music Typewriter était une étonnante machine à clavier circulaire qui permettait de rédiger des partitions de musique."
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[PODCAST]Take half an hour and listen to this interview with John Chowning, the man who the FM synthesis algorithm in 1967.
#podcast #chowining #rwm
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On the occasion of its move out of Cologne, US photographer Peter Beste visits a key birthplace of electronic composition.
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Karlheinz Stockhausen once said that, in Japan, “everything is art.” The German avant-garde composer was profoundly stirred by his first visit to Japan in 1966.
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Qu’est-ce que la pensée musicale ?
Philippe Manoury fait le point sur cette question dans cette conférence de 2017 au collège de France.
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It was a pleasure to welcome Richie Hawtin at IRCAM last season. His set-up has changed quite a bit form his early days!
A great long read: ow.ly/17MI50SrTE7
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A Remarkable New Study Suggests That Stonehenge Was Built to Amplify Sound During Ancient Ruling-Class Rituals.
The full article in @artnet: ow.ly/e7Qf50ByWCQ
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Alvin Lucier, compositeur américain, est décédé hier à l’âge de 90 ans.
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Electronic music pioneer Alvin Lucier spoke about his life & career ow.ly/cZGH30bYg8P
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"IRCAM, the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music, which was founded in 1977 by the composer Pierre Boulez, seems to have a purpose that at least partially overlaps with GRM. What is the relation between the two institutions?."
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🤓 Every Wednesday, IRCAM offers 2 classes online: one on composition and another on performance. This week, spend some time with Chaya Czernowin & Pierre Strauch
#culturecheznous #learnwithircam #stayhome
#wednesdaywisdom
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DANS 45 MINUTES !
Ce soir ne manquez pas les créations de Philippe Hurel, Daniel D'Adamo et d'Ivan Fedele par le Quatuor Tana dans le cadre du Festival #Manifeste20 au @CentrePompidou
Le concert sera diffusé en direct sur @francemusique à 20h ici : ow.ly/Gma550Bg6he
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What are your thoughts? Is John Cage's 4'33'' music?
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Congratulations Miller Puckette who will be awarded the Biennale di Venezia's Silver Lion today!
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Xenakis révolution : le bâtisseur du son.
Documentaire de Stéphane Guez.
Cent ans après sa naissance, un fascinant portrait du compositeur, Iannis Xenakis, pionnier de l'électro et des spectacles son et lumière.
Disponible sur Arte TV ⤵️
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Some you know, some you don't. We thought you'd like this podcast of works by 35 women in electronic music.
Listen here: ow.ly/nUw750x5Eux
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Le compositeur Steve Reich était à l'honneur du festival Présences de Radio France en février dernier.
Un concert d'avant-première exceptionnel a eu lieu à l'Ircam présentant les pièces de Steve Reich et les créations d'Aaron Einbond et Gabriella Smith.
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💥 22h ce soir sur @francemusique 💥
Franck Bedrossian, Sasha Blondeau et Jean-Louis Giavitto parlent de musique et intelligence artificielle !
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Compositeur non formaliste, Fausto Romitelli ne craignait pas l’hybridation, décloisonnant la frontière entre musique savante et populaire. Distortion, saturation, inspiration du rock psychédélique, harmonie « sale » font partie de son univers musical.
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Are you an artist working on a research project related to sound? Would you to further develop your ideas with IRCAM's scientific teams? If so, apply for our artistic research residency program today!
Deadline: April 1, 2023
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📣 L’Ircam est fier d’annoncer la création d'Ircam Amplify, sa société de commercialisation des innovations audio. 1/2
👉 linkedin.com/company/ircamam…
#Ircam #IrcamAmplify #SoundStudies #SoundDesign #SoundTech
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"Do I really want to generate music in a way that will pose a great threat to the whole music industry?"
Nils Demerlé shares his views on the project "The Call" for which he developed an AI model to generate choirs.
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Deux concerts du japonais Ryoji Ikeda. Au programme : oeuvres pour percussions avec objets dans le premier concert et performance du Quatuor Diotima dans le second !
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Quelle est la différence entre un bruit et un son ? Le bruit a-t-il sa place dans la musique ? Quand le bruit devient-il musical ? Ce sont des questions qui semblent fasciner les compositeurs et théoriciens depuis plusieurs siècles.
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"La musique est l'art qui m'importe le plus ; elle console et désole tout à la fois"
Edgar Morin, né en 1921, est un sociologue et philosophe. Sa vision profonde de notre époque en fait une figure de conscience incontournable.
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It all started around 840 C.E. when a former monk named Aurelian of Réôme created one of the first examples of Western musical notation. This was a basic attempt to create a treatise on music theory called Musica discipline. #graphicscores
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Wondering what you can do with RAVE, our the Realtime Audio Variational autoEncoder?
Here's a great example!
Want more info about RAVE? It's here: github.com/acids-ircam/rave
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