Place/Dates: IRCAM, Paris France – 7-9 November 2007

Description:

IRCAM Forum Workshops

The IRCAM Forum Workshops is a an event held twice each year for  members of the Forum. Each workshop includes sessions of new features of existing software programs (spatialisation, motion capture, real time interaction …), presentations by industrial representatives (Yamaha, Digidesign …), works by composers using new technologies and practical training sessions.

Objective:

Disseminate the Comedia project and make the Forum members aware of the new possibilities of network performance.

Results:

A presentation was made of the Comedia project and its goals. An example of the possibilities of network performance was illustrated by the “Transatlantic Rehearsal” with the New World Symphony in Miami. This event featured a rehearsal over the network with the conductor Reinbert de Leeuw conducting from Miami two works by the composers Dutilleux and Dalbavie  who were in Paris at IRCAM.

Target group:

Composers, researchers, performers, music teachers.

Number of participants/visitors/audience : 100.