IRCAM LABORATORIES

The issue of live performance and musical creation nourishes the research undertaken at Ircam. Examples of productions and of research will be presented on site by the scientific teams. An opportunity to examine music, to peer into the future of creative and compositional tools, and to talk to the researchers.

RESEARCH TEAMS

Instrumental Acoustics

 Modifications of the traditional instruments
 Sound synthesis by physical modelling
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Room Acoustics

 Concerts and real-time spatial sound processing (Spatialisateur software)
 Virtual acoustics in the context of sound installations or multimedia
 Conception of three-dimensional audio scenes in museography
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Musical Perception and Cognition

 Perception of musical structures during concert (project with composer Roger Reynolds)
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Analysis and Synthesis

 Voice processing for concert and cinema (SuperVP, AudioSculpt and Diphone Studio softwares)
 Multimodal Interfaces (PHASE project)
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Musical Representations

 Computer Aided Composition for concert or sound installations (OpenMusic software)
 Analysis and improvisation in jazz
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Free Software and Software Engineering

 Free software for perfoming arts
 jMax software
 Linux Install-Party (AGNULA and Planet CCRMA distributions)
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Real Time Applications

 Analysis, processing and synthesis in real time with Max/MSP
 Techniques for realtime performer following
 Motion capture and synthesis control
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Sound Design

 Virtual source in the context of concert or installation
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Online Services

 CUIDADO project (Content-based Unified Interfaces and Descriptors
for Audio/music Databases available Online)
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