Hear different mic captures of Grieg’s Solveig’s Song on the Bösendorfer VC280 Enspire PRO.
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Prof. Michael Casey (Dartmouth College) Visits
Composer-neuroscientist-informatician Michael Casey visits the COSMOS Team
COSMOS Concert @ IRCAM Studio 5
This concert has been postponed until further notice due to covid-19. Meanwhile, please enjoy this musical interlude we have prepared. STMS Director Brigitte d’Andrea-Novel has organized a concert for two pianos and other ensembles as an expression of thanks to all the people who have made it possible for COSMOS to be hosted at the […]
The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Turns 42
“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” had its radio premiere on 8 March 1978. It was later adapted into a series of novels, a TV series, video games and a film. See article in the Economist. Meanwhile, here is an excerpt that helps explain the significance of the number 42 and why we were so […]
STMS talk by Prof. Michael Casey: Auditory Stimulus Reconstruction from High-Resolution fMRI
On “Auditory Stimulus Reconstruction from High-Resolution fMRI of Music Perception and Imagery” in Salle Stravinsky, IRCAM, at 11am on Wed, 11 March 2020.
La Pause Ludique
COSMOS team members and colleagues at IRCAM hard at work during the weekly “la pause ludique”. More photos here.
Bösendorfer Disklavier No. 42 Arrives at IRCAM
After too many months and a long story that will one day make it into a comic strip, the ERC COSMOS project piano, a Bösendorfer Disklavier 280VC ENSPIRE Pro, has arrived from Vienna in Paris this morning. The 9-foot, 500 kg grand instrument made a dent in the floor outside Studio 5, quickly patched up […]
Keynote @ WOCMAT in Hsinchu, Taiwan
Opening keynote at WOCMAT Taipei, the International Workshop on Computer Music and Audio Technology, hosted this year by the National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu.
Une affaire de cœur for Bernard Lubat Day @ Complex Systems Institute Paris
Elaine Chew to perform Boulez’s Piano Sonata No.1 and variations based on cardiac arrhythmias, and lecture on where musical structures live at the “Around Bernard Lubat” Day. Lubat and OMax to co-create hybrid improvisation based on the virtual Boulez derived from Chew’s performance.
IRCAM .Research News Elaine Chew Interview
Elaine Chew speaks on joining the STMS Lab at IRCAM, connecting musical structures and cardiac arrhythmias, reconciling research with being a musician, and the place of women in research.