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French research institute
IRCAM is a French institute dedicated to the research of music and sound, especially in the fields of avant garde and electro-acoustical art music. It is situated next to, and is organisationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The original building, designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, lay almost entirely underground beneath the square and fountain of Place Igor-Stravinsky. The above-ground "Piano tower" was added in 1990 by Renzo Piano alone, and two adjacent buildings, the former Jules Ferry school and the Bains-Douches baths, were converted in 1996. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: IRCAMA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Nouveau portail documentaire pour l ’IrcamInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Rationalizing cultureThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Computer-Assisted Composition at IRCAM: From PatchWork to OpenMusicCited 112 times
- Go sideways: Kaija SaariahoA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Jean-Claude RissetA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Computer-Assisted Composition at IRCAM: From PatchWork to OpenMusic
The Architecture of the IRCAM Musical Workstation
Modernist Discourse, Psychic Forms,and Agency: Aesthetic Subjectivities at IRCAM
"Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco": A Realization at IRCAM
Towards organised listening: some aspects of the ‘Signed Listening’ project, Ircam
Science and Technology of Music and Sound: The IRCAM Roadmap
A view of music at IRCAM
From the Domaine Musical to IRCAM
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
Rationalizing cultureGeorgina Born · 1995- 📕Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique/musiqueIRCAM (Research institute : France) · 1987
- 📕Computer facilities for music at IRCAM, as of October, 1977John Gardner · 1978
- 📕La composition assistée par ordinateurIRCAM (Research institute : France) · 1993
- 📕La recherche à l'IRCAM en 1977Gerald Bennett · 1978
- 📕Lire l'IRCAM · 1996
Musical Thought at IRCAM (Contemporary Music Review, Volume 1, Part 1)Tod Machover · 1984
Cinquante ans de modernite musicaleDeliege · 2003
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