CONCERTS
Utopia: Opening
The pioneering spirit of Edgard Varèse, whose poème électronique will be presented with the film "Virtual Electronic Poem", a project coordinated by Professor Vincenzo Lombardo that reconstructs Poème électronique originally imagined by Le Corbusier inspires Agora and surrounds a young composer's musical creation.
![]() | 8:30pm / Centre Pompidou (Grande salle) and IRCAM (Espace de projection) | Wednesday, June 6 |
Exotica
Exotica calls upon sixty percussions from all across the world. The performers, that do not necessarily master the entire catalog of these instruments, make up for this limitation with song.
![]() | 8pm / Musée du quai Branly, Théâtre Claude Levi-Strauss | Thursday, June 7 |
Workshops CNSMD of Paris
Young instrumentalists from the CNSMD of Paris present the IRCAM carried out work at the public, within the framework of master classes around mixed works.
![]() | 6pm-8pm / IRCAM, salle Stravinsky | Friday, June 8 and Wednesday, 20 |
Exotica: Toward the Orient
Maison de Radio France, Salle Olivier Messiaen
Claude Vivier, who studied under Stockhausen for two years, began his journey in music magnetized by Eastern and Balinese music.
![]() | Exotica: Toward the Orient I | Saturday, June 9 |
![]() | Exotica: Toward the Orient II | Saturday, June 9 |
Sketch Books: dance and music
The study concentrates a problem and its solution in a limited time or space. Associating technical prowess, instrumental virtuosity, and compositional genius, the study is found in music like in painting, in architecture like in dance.
![]() | 9pm / Centre Pompidou, Grande salle | Thursday, June 14 |
Space: Lichtung
Lichtung (the clearing) by the Portuguese composer Emmanuel Nunes is presented here in its third finality. Heir to Stockhausen in his conception of a work of art as a living organism, Nunes organizes his grand work through numbers of cycles and groupings.
![]() | 8pm / Cité de la musique, Salle des concerts | Friday, June 15 |
Words of Stefano Gervasoni
The poetics of Stefano Gervasoni spring up shockingly between the resonant and the scarcely uttered. Simplicity becomes ambiguity, the surface composed infinitely of timbres becomes the depth of perception.
![]() | 5pm / IRCAM, Espace de projection | Sunday, June 17 |
Tremplin
A trampoline for new creation in two jumps - the initial sketch worked on with the musicians that preceded the confirmation of the work's creation. These four creations mix with an early work by the now prominent artist, Michael Jarrell.
![]() | 8:30pm / IRCAM, Espace de projection | Friday, June 22 |






