Ircam

IRCAM has been since its foundation the largest public research center worldwide dedicated to scientific research in relation to music creation. A unique place of convergence between artistic and technological innovation, the Institute has been directed by Frank Madlener since 2006 and gathers more than 160 collaborators. Associated to Centre Pompidou under the aegis of the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, IRCAM hosts the joint research unit STMS (Science and Technology of Music and Sound) with the support of CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) and UPMC (Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Sorbonne Universités). IRCAM's interdisciplinary research covers a broad spectrum of scientific skills from acoustics (instruments, rooms) to humanities (perception and cognition, musicology) with a center of gravity in digital audio signal processing and computer science (languages, real-time, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, multimedia databases,...) and holds leading positions in most of its research topics.