IRCAM
the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics and Music, is one of the world’s largest public research centers dedicated to both musical expression and scientific research. A unique location where artistic sensibilities collide with scientific and technological innovation, Frank Madlener has directed the Institute since 2006, bringing together over 160 people.
IRCAM’s three principal activities – creation, research, transmission – are visible in IRCAM’s Parisian concert season, in productions throughout France and abroad, in a new rendezvous created in June 2012, ManiFeste, that combines an international festival with a multidisciplinary academy.
Pierre Boulez founded IRCAM under the aegis of the Centre Pompidou and the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. Since 1995, the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, IRCAM, and the CNRS have come together to form the mixed STMS research lab (Sciences and Technologies for Music and Sound – UMR 9912), joined in 2010 by the university Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC).