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 […]
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 […]
Article by Alberto Gatti and Marco Fiorini (equal contribution) has been accepted for the Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC2025) in Graz, Austria. Read the full paper Video demo Abstract: This paper presents a novel methodology for creating dynamic auditory landscapes in co-creative musical interaction through the Somax2 system, introducing a new approach to spatial […]
Article by Joséphine Calandra, Marco Fiorini and Gérard Assayag has been accepted for the Journées de l’Informatique Musicale (JIM2025) in Lyon, France. Read the article Abstract: Somax2 is a multi-agent improvisation software based on a probabilistic recombination model of an audio or MIDI corpus, annotated according to several musical dimensions, and sensitive to influences of the external […]
Article by Marco Fiorini*, Nicolas Brochec*, Joakim Borg and Riccardo Pasini (* equal contribution) has been accepted for the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) Conference in Canberra, Australia. Read the full paper Video demo Abstract: This paper presents two key contributions to the real-time classi- fication of Instrumental Playing Techniques (IPTs) in the context […]
