CIRM

Centre International De Recherche Musicale (CIRM) is a French experimental/electroacoustic music center, established by composer Jean-Etienne Marie in 1968, and based in Nice. Since 2000, the Centre is directed by François Paris. CIRM is a member of the University of Côte d'Azur, and one of the six National Centers for Musical Creation in France. CIRM hosts visiting composers throughout the year at Studios CIRM, who are commissioned to create original pieces for various French and international festivals, and helps them to develop necessary technology and equipment to devise such works. Since 1978, an annual MANCA Festival (Musiques Actuelles Nice-Côte d'Azur) has been organized by the Centre, with many CIRM compositions and inventions presented there. Michel Redolfi, a renowned French experimentalist composer and Underwater Music inventor, served as a director of CIRM and MANCA Festival from 1987 to 1998. He invited his long-time US collaborator Daniel Harris (4), who worked as an audio/video/multimedia designer for Sync Sound in New York at the time, to stay as an artist-in-residence at CIRM in 1989. Harris had developed subaquatic audio mixers and sound systems for Redolfi's Sonic Waters, and also composed a solo piece for bass clarinet with electronic extensions, a Symphony of Extension. In 2006, CIRM started a French-American master's degree in 'electroacoustic composition and new technologies,' in collaboration with Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at UC Berkeley, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, and Nice Music Conservatory. Alternative label entry: Centre International De Recherche Musicale (CIRM)