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June 8, through Sat 2 July 2022,
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Centre Pompidou, Bibliothèque publique d'information, niveau 2 et 3
Access plan -
Free Entry
Follow IRCAM’s festival in different spaces throughout the BPI: Iannis Xenakis, héritage et résonances:
Iannis Xenakis, héritage et résonances
June 8-July 2, level 2
A selection of documents is exhibited on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Greek composer Iannis Xenakis, in connection with the reconstitution of his polytope for the reopening of the Espace de projection, IRCAM's concert hall.
Fifty years ago, Xenakis inaugurated the series of polytopes in Montreal, which was later presented in the Cluny thermal baths in Paris (1972-73), then in Persepolis, as well as at Beaubourg in 1978. It was one of the first multimedia—sound and visual—shows in an immersive experience with spatialized electronic music and a light installation controlled by a computer that triggered the polytope's 1600 flashes, 4 laser projectors, and 400 mirrors and mobile prisms.
Friday, June 24, 7pm, Espace Musique, level 3
Discover Xenakis’ universe during a special evening event at the BPI!
In 1978, the composer and architect Yannis Xenakis was commissioned to create a Polytope for the inauguration of the Centre Pompidou, a new cultural center in the heart of Paris. Diatope was installed on the Place Georges Pompidou until 1979. Xenakis composed a masterpiece of electroacoustic music, The Legend of Er for this monumental structure. On the occasion of Xenakis' centenary, IRCAM and the BPI are organizing a special evening in homage to this work, connecting the history of the Center, of architecture, and of contemporary music.
On the program: meetings with specialists, a presentation of IRCAM archives, a listening session for La Légende d'Er, and the presentation of models freely inspired by Diatope created by architecture students at the École Nationale d'Architecture de Versailles.
This evening can be followed by or associated with a showing of Polytopes in the Espace de Projection at IRCAM at 9pm (reservations suggested).
L’intelligence artificielle en question - literary creation
June 8-July 2, level 2
The collective text Your Head written by the students of the master of literary creation of the University of Cergy on artificial intelligence in response to the work of Alexander Schubert is available.
Who are we talking to when we speak with Cleverbot? With an algorithm? With a consensus, a jumble, a magma, agglutinating all the identities of the Internet users with whom (s)he interacts? What does their obsession with identifying our gender, its grating humor, its propensity to say I love you or to tell us that we are robots, say about the world? And through these exchanges, recorded in the memory of the Net, what is said about us? What would be said about you? Excerpt from Your head (2022).
Musiques-Fictions
Friday, June 17 & Monday, June 27, Atelier 1, level 2
Binaural listening sessions (headphones), to discover IRCAM’s musical and literary collection.
From June 8, Espace Musique, niveau 3
A trouve of digital documentary ressources from IRCAM is now available at the Bibliothèque publique d’information on a specific computer post.