Marco Fiorini (IRCAM, REACH) and Alessandra Bossa (UiA) presented a talk/performance on Somax2 and music improvisation with Co-Creative Agents at the Machines – Moving – Music Symposium on creative responses to AI at The Norwegian Academy of Music (NMH) in Oslo, Norway organised by CreaTeMe and MishMash. They also engaged in a Panel together with […]
Events
Improtech@Paris Workshop Festival 2-7 dec 2025
https://improtech.ircam.fr/ikparis Improtech 2025 Improtech Paris 2025 Workshop – Festival in Paris — December 2 to 7, 2025 Improtech is both a musical festival and an interdisciplinary workshop bringing together actors of research and creation from all over the world fostering musical improvisation in interaction with digital intelligences, in an assumed approach of human-machine co-creativity. After praised editions in New York, Philadelphia, Athens, Uzeste and […]
Des abysses aux étoiles : récits des confins
Colloques, expositions, spectacles arts et sciences à Toulon et à Paris : un concept inédit de spectacle qui nous amène aux confins de nos connaissances. À l’initiative de l‘Institut des Transformations Numériques de Mines Paris – PSL, dans le cadre du projet d‘amorçage PSL – ATIPICC, se construit le projet d‘un spectacle multimédia articulé autour de deux créations […]
REACH Chinese Tour and « Boulez Reloaded » action
Gérard Assayag (ERC REACH) with Elaine Chew (ERC COSMOS project) and percussionist Thierry Miroglio have toured China’s main Music Conservatories from Beijing to Hangzhou to the Shangai Power Station of Art Museum to explain the research behind the project REACH and COSMOS, train the students to use the software tools (Somax2), and give several concerts […]
ICMC 2025 in Boston : A REACH show !
ICMC 2025 has seen an impressive series of Reach related events, such as the opening concert where the Reach Team performed with Somax2, SoVo (Somax2 /+ George Lewis’ Voyager) along legendary musicians Roscoe Mitchell, Steve Lehman and George Lewis. The next day there was an evening concert entirely devoted to Somax2 (see program below), and […]
Osaka Expo 2025 : The Future in Tradition
On June 3rd, the world-class virtuoso Mari Kimura (violin) will be taking part in Osaka Expo 2025 as collaborator of Master Japanese musician, Tamami Tono, together with IRCAM’s Gerard Assayag (Ircam REACH Project) and the AI program Somax2 for a unique concert, among Japan Living National Treasure, during the « Future in Tradition » Festival. Thank you […]
Jazz and Artificial Intelligence THE WONDROUS WORLD OF SOMAX 2
6.4.2025, 12:00 A FASCINATING DIALOGUE BETWEEN MAN AND MACHINE. The leading Paris-based IRCAM Research Institute in collaboration with the Laboratory of Music Acoustics and Technology (LABMAT) of the Department of Music Studies of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens present the Somax 2 system at the Megaron in a concert that takes the audience on […]
Elez-Boulaine : Homage to Pierre Boulez in Portrait Of The Artist In The Age Of AI
ERC COSMOS is pleased to partner with ERC REACH in a demonstration-performance to set the stage for a panel discussion and a performance on AI’s impact on art creation, at the Night of Ideas at the Institut Français du Royaume-Uni (17 Queensberry Place London SW7 2DT)on 6 February at 19h20-20h10 in Les Salons. The event is free and open to the public with registration. […]
L’Homme à la Machine
Projection en avant-première au Forum des images du documentaire France-TV sur l’IA avec une très belle séquence sur Erc ReachSomax2 et Anaïs del Sordo qui chante avec elle même. Diffusé en 4 épisodes sur France 2 en janvier-février. Retrouvez le documentaire sur FranceTV et CanalPlus.
L’Ircam, le lieu de la « co-créativité humain-machine »
France Musique Podcast, Série » Musique et IA », épisode 7/8 https://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/podcasts/musique-maths/musique-et-ia-episode-5-l-ircam-le-lieu-de-la-co-creativite-humain-machine-3422353 L’Ircam, l’Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique/musique, travaille sur l’intelligence artificielle (IA) dans le domaine musical. Musiciens, chercheurs et techniciens travaillent ensemble pour mettre l’IA au service d’une proposition artistique, à rebours de son usage industriel. Dans un des studios de l’Ircam, où vingt-cinq haut-parleurs […]










