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Research Teams

Scientific teams will present their projects and research presently underway.

A chance to take a futuristic look at music, to get a glimpse of the latest creative and compositional tools and to discuss issues of musical writing and interpretation, as well as the latest advances in music technology with researchers.

Room Acoustics

• live spatialisation of sound (Spatialisateur)
• virtual acoustics for sound and multimedia installations
• new devices for 3D audio
• tools for interactive 3D audio creations

Instrumental Acoustics

• modified concert instruments
• physical model sound synthesis (Modalys)
• study of acoustics and the modeling of existing instruments

Analysis and Synthesis

• vocal processing for concert and film (SuperVP, AudioSculpt and Diphone Studio)
• content sound description and processing

Sound Design

• virtual sound sources for concert or installations and augmented instruments
• tools and methods for industrial object, public space and multimedia sound design

Musical Preception and Cognition

• perception of musical structures in concert situations (project in conjunction with the composer Roger Reynolds: presentation of the CD-ROM Angel of Death)
• experimental methods for psychoacoustics

Musical Representations

• computer-assisted composition and analysis
• generative and improvised music
• processing and spatialisation

Online Services

• communal space for research and access to sound samples (CUIDADO project)
• home listening and musical archive navigation (Semantic HIFI project)

Real Time Applications

• real-time analysis, processing and synthesis in Max/MSP
• automatic performer following
• gesture recognition and synthesis control (instrumental gests, choreography)

Analysis of musical practices

At the Multimedia library, level +2

• hypermedia music analysis as part of the "Guided listening" project

Mechanics workshop

• presentation of instruments created at Ircam such as the "wah-wah" mute, the clarinet with variable mouthpiece, the artificial mouth for trumpet and the Timée fabrication mould

Free Software and Software Engineering

• free software and Linux music and sound distribution

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