The Reach Collective has been on a one week California Tour (june 1 to 6) thanks to the support of Villa Albertine, UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine and UC Riverside, giving a series of concerts, lectures and workshops. Here are some traces of the tour. CD Tour on Instagram Organization The Ircam REACH collective is […]
Conferences
Improtech@Paris 2025: The Movies
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 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 […]
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 […]
Spatial Awareness and Influence for Co-Creative Agents: Introducing Automated Corpus Spatialization in Somax2
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 […]
A First Implementation of Somax2 Behaviours Using MORFOS Form, Segmentation and Organisation
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 […]








