technologies

Research at IRCAM – Science and Technologies for Music and Sound STMS Lab (IRCAM, CNRS, UPMC)
The development pole seeks
to adapt the knowledge,
models, and prototypes
produced by the research
teams into software
environments.
The development pole seeks to adapt the knowledge, models, and prototypes
produced by the research teams into software environments. The principle
applications are used to create tools that assist musical creation by putting in
place open and programmable environments, adaptable to a
variety of aesthetic approaches and that allow for the continued
integration of models and their updates. This configurable
design makes it easier to develop simplified versions of the
software programs intended for the general public: Ircam Tools
(for audio professionals), IrcaMax (for live electronic music),
IrcamLab (for a broad range of users). Central to software
development is the design and evaluation of specific humancomputer
interaction interfaces and the permanent integration
of the rapidly evolving technology from the computer industry.
The IRCAM Forum—an IRCAM software user group—encourages
the distribution of the institute’s software programs within an international
community of music and sound professionals (e.g. composers, multimedia and
visual artists, sound engineers and designers, researchers, teachers, etc.) with
an estimated 5,000 users since its beginnings. The IRCAM Forum also provides
companies with licenses for either internal use or distribution purposes. These
licenses can apply to either complete applications (e.g. the Max program, used by
tens of thousands worldwide, is licensed to the company Cycling ‘74 in California) or to
specific functional models (e.g. audio analysis and processing, indexing, spatialization,
synthesis) that are included in commercial environments.
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