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 […]
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 […]
Luca Perciballi and Marco Fiorini (IRCAM, REACH) performed on October 10, 2025 at ParmaFrontiere, one of the most prominent Jazz Festivals in Italy. The duo premiered their new project « Hauntology Mirror », a unique dialogue between electric guitar and Somax2. The project explores embodiment, interaction, real-time co-creation and the notion of echos and ghosts, taken from […]
On October 8th 2025 the students of the Somax2 workshop on Music Improvisation with Co-Creative Agents at Conservatorio Puccini in La Spezia (Italy) performed the final restitution concert. Five different pieces using Somax2 were showcased by these young musicians, guided by Alberto Gatti (responsible of the Electronic Music department in the Conservatorio) and Marco Fiorini […]
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 […]
Anaïs del Sordo and Marco Fiorini (IRCAM, REACH) recently toured Japan for a series of workshops and concerts, thanks to an invite from the JFLI (Japanese-French Lab of Informatics), the University of Tokyo and Tokyo Geidai University of the Arts. On September 8, Marco Fiorini gave a presentation at Harada-Kurose-Mukuta Lab in the Research Center […]
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 […]
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 […]
Mercredi16avril L’auditorium – de 17:00 à 18:00Köln Variations par Edouard Ferlet1975 – 2025 : Un hommage au concert mythique de Keith Jarrett Sous la direction artistique d’Edouard FerletQuel est l’étrange sortilège de l’album de piano solo le plus vendu de l’histoire, toutes esthétiques confondues ? Depuis la parution des soixante-six minutes d’improvisation de Keith Jarrett, […]
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 […]
