Organized as part of the European REACH project, the Improtech international workshop-festival combines the universal art of improvisation with digital intelligence and AI culture through a series of conferences, interdisciplinary workshops, installations, performances, and concerts. After traveling across three continents and bringing together leading artists and science figures in the field, Improtech returned to Ircam, […]
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Improtech@Paris 2025 Workshops and Documentaries Videos Available
Organized as part of the European REACH project, the Improtech international workshop-festival combines the universal art of improvisation with digital intelligence and AI culture through a series of conferences, interdisciplinary workshops, installations, performances, and concerts. After traveling across three continents and bringing together leading artists and science figures in the field, Improtech returned to Ircam, […]
Improtech@Paris 2025 Lectures Videos Available
Organized as part of the European REACH project, the Improtech international workshop-festival combines the universal art of improvisation with digital intelligence and AI culture through a series of conferences, interdisciplinary workshops, installations, performances, and concerts. After traveling across three continents and bringing together leading artists and science figures in the field, Improtech returned to Ircam, […]
Improtech@Paris 2025 Workshop Festival 2-7 dec 2025
https://improtech.ircam.fr/ikparis Organisé dans le cadre du projet européen REACH, le festival international Improtech@Paris combine l’art universel de l’improvisation et les cultures de l’intelligence numérique à travers une série de conférences, d’ateliers interdisciplinaires, d’installations, de performances et de concerts. Après avoir parcouru trois continents et réuni des figures de proue du domaine, Improtech revient à l’Ircam, l’un de ses fondateurs, pour une […]
Des abysses aux étoiles : récits des confins
FLYER DA2E Plaquette DA2E 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 […]
Somax2 at Machines – Moving – Music Symposium in Oslo
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 […]
Somax2 at ParmaFrontiere Jazz Festival
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 […]
Somax2 workshop at Conservatorio Puccini in La Spezia, Italy
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 […]
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 […]
REACH Japanese Tour
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 […]








