The IRCAM, Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, was founded in the 1970s by Pierre Boulez. This Paris-based institute is one of the most important European institutes for both science about music and sound and avant garde electro-acoustical art music. It is situated next to and organizationally linked with the Centre Pompidou. The extension of the building has been designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers. The 1970s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1970 and 1979. ... Pierre Boulez (IPA: /pjɛʁ.buˈlɛz/) (born March 26, 1925) is a conductor and composer of classical music. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Electronic art music. ... This article is about the broad genre of classical music in the Western musical tradition. ... The Pompidou Centres famous external skeleton of service pipes. ... Image:Auditorium1. ... Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside (born 23 July 1933) is a British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs. ...

In 1970 president Georges Pompidou asked Boulez to found an institution for the research of music. In 1973 the part underneath Place Igor Stravinsky was finished. 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... The President of France, known officially as the President of the Republic (Président de la République in French), is Frances elected Head of State. ... Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou (July 5, 1911 – April 2, 1974) was President of France from 1969 until his death in 1974. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...

Since its conception, IRCAM has been the birth place for some of the most important concepts for electronic music and audio processing. A very well-known example is the development of the real-time audio processing graphical programming environment called Max/MSP with its successors jMax and Pure data. Alternate meanings: MAX Max is a graphical development environment for music and multimedia developed and maintained by San Francisco-based software company Cycling74. ... jMax is a highly-modular visual programming environment for interactive real-time music. ... pure data program Pure Data (or Pd) is a graphical programming language developed by Miller Puckette in the 1990s for the creation of interactive computer music and multimedia works. ...

Georgina Born wrote her Ph.D. thesis in anthropology about the IRCAM, which was later published under the title Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde. Doctor of Philosophy, or Ph. ... Anthropology (from the Greek word άνθρωπος, human) consists of the study of humankind (see genus Homo). ...

In 1992 Boulez, who then became honorary director, was succeeded by Laurent Bayle. In 2002 the philosopher Bernard Stiegler became the new head of the institute. On January 1st, 2006, Stiegler will become Director of Cultural Development at the Centre Pompidou and will be replaced by Frank Madlener. 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... 2002 (MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Research and development teams

• Instrumental acoustics
• Room acoustics
• Musical perception and cognition
• Sound analysis/Sound synthesis
• Music representations
• Real-time applications
• Free software and software engineering
• Sound design
• Online services

Room acoustics describes how sound behaves in an enclosed space. ... Music cognition is an interdisciplinary field involving such disparate areas as cognitive science, music theory, psychology, musicology, neuroscience, computer science, philosophy, etc. ... The term synthesiser is also used to mean frequency synthesiser, an electronic system found in communications. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Free software, as defined by the Free Software Foundation, is software which can be used, copied, studied, modified and redistributed without restriction. ... Software engineering is the profession that creates and maintains software applications by applying technologies and practices from computer science, project management, engineering, application domains, and other fields. ... Sound design is a technical/conceptually creative field. ...

Pieces Realized at IRCAM

• Pierre Boulez: ...explosante-fixe... for two flutes, midi-flute, electronics and orchestra
• Unsuk Chin: Xi for ensemble and electronics
• Philippe Leroux: M for ensemble and electronics
• Magnus Lindberg: Joy for orchestra and electronics
• Magnus Lindberg: Related Rocks for two pianos, two percussionists, and electronics
• Philippe Manoury: Jupiter for flute and live electronics
• Philippe Manoury: Pluton for piano and live electronics
• Philippe Manoury: En Echo for soprano voice and live electronics

External links

• the official site of the IRCAM
• the history of the IRCAM (in French)