News

February 2026

REACH : journey to human-machine co-creativity

While the various software programs that he imagined with the Musical Representation team, from OMax to Dicy2, including Somax2, have been used in more than a hundred concerts around the world - and by Gérard Assayag himself, as you will hear during a performance with double bass player Joëlle Léandre and the group Horse Lords on June 16 during ManiFeste -, Gérard Assayag tells us about the major milestones in this innovative research.

Interview

February 2026

Carmine Emanuele Cella, New Director of Artistic Research at IRCAM

In January, IRCAM appointed a new Director of Artistic Research. Succeeding Markus Noisternig, now Deputy Director of the STMS laboratory, Carmine Emanuele Cella appeared a natural choice for the role, combining expertise as both a composer and a mathematician.

Claudia Jane Scroccaro - Pensionnaire de la Villa Médicis (2024-2025)

Interview

February 2026

Interview with Claudia Jane Scroccaro

On the occasion of International Women’s Rights Day on 8 March, we present a series of in-depth interviews with women working at Ircam. Claudia Jane Scroccaro, a composer, music computing designer and teacher within Ircam’s Composition Cursus, shares her journey as a woman wearing multiple hats in a field often regarded as predominantly male. She speaks about her experiences, her observations, and her hopes for the future of musical creation.

Interview

February 2026

Interview with Alice Cohen-Hadria

Alice Cohen-Hadria is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Sorbonne University and a researcher in the Sound Analysis and Synthesis team at the STMS laboratory. With the aim of supporting and recognising women's involvement in research, she decided to join the ranks of the gender equality representatives at Interlab, a group of laboratories that discusses gender equality issues and facilitates the implementation of actions. She shares with us her career path, her commitments and her hopes for the future of scientific research.

Die letzten Tage der Menscheit de Philippe Manoury

Interview

January 2026

Interview with Philippe Manoury: Reinventing Opera

This winter, a composer is working tirelessly on a genre some have declared dead: opera. Die letzten Tage der Menschheit by Philippe Manoury, based on Karl Kraus, will premiere on June 27 at the Cologne Opera. We wanted to learn more about the composer’s approach to reinventing this art form, which is, if not total, at least extremely rich and complex.