The International Musical Research Residency Program, IRCAM, France

August 25, 2010

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Research Scholarship for artists and young professionals wishing to take advantage of a period of residency at IRCAM in order to pursue their music research projects in a stimulating collaborative environment.

Job Description: The music research residency program, the Department for the Coordination of Scientific and Musical Research seeks to reinforce the interaction between the scientific and musical community by appealing to the computer music community at large.

Each year – via online submission – a limited number of candidates is selected by a panel of international experts based on the following criteria: project content; scientific and artistic motivation; quality and innovative character of the project; mastery of the technologies needed for the project; demonstrated ability to manage a collaborative research project.

Each selected candidate will benefit from a residency at IRCAM for a specific period, associated with one or more of the institute’s project teams. The candidate will receive a scholarship of 1200 euros. IRCAM does not cover travel and lodging expenses.

During the research residency, candidates will work in the context of the Research and Development department in order to pursue their work. They will collaborate with members of one or more teams thus enabling them to deepen the musical and technological issues explored through experimentation as well as participate in the intellectual life of the institute.

At the end of their stay, the selected candidates will be asked to document and share the results of their work via written publications and public presentations given to the IRCAM community as well as the international computer music community at large.

2011 Call For Proposals

The musical research residency program is open to all scholars regardless of age or nationality who wish to undertake their musical research using IRCAM’s facilities and research environment.

For 2011, we invite artistic projects on novel and unexplored research ideas within 11 categories listed on the submission system. Projects should clearly address artistic challenges that can be solved/explored using scientific and technological advances.

Applicants are required to submit required documents including detailed project description to the program’s website at http://mrc.ircam.fr/mrc2011 by September 30th 2010 (midnight Paris time). The applicant or project holder should also specify the residency duration, within three (minimum) to six (maximum) months.

A complete application is accompanied by ONE single uploaded Zip archive file in the system. The file has a limit of maximum 100Mb and should contain:

* a detailed CV (1 or 2 pages) in PDF format only (No DOC, RTF or the like);
* a short biography (300 words) in a separate PDF file;
* one page personal motivation letter on musical research (PDF only);
* detailed project description, including state-of-the-art background and references on the topic and clearly justifying its place in a musical research residency (PDF only, maximum 6 pages);
* a work plan including the requested residency duration and preferred period between September 2011 September 2012, and teams, themes or staff who will be involved with the project at Ircam;
* multimedia (audio/video) samples of prior or current works (min. of two), representative of the artistic and research quality of the applicant’s work. The multimedia files should be readable by VLC.

Applications

* Applications can be in French or English.
* We only accept ONLINE submissions. No material/application through mail will be considered.
* Submission system will be closed by midnight (Paris time) of September 30th 2010. No exceptions or extensions.
* Any incomplete and defective application according to the above guidelines will be rejected. Authors are responsible for the application content and its verification.
* Applicants should upload all materials in ONE single Zip file as described above. We discourage providing external links (which might go dead by the time of review) in the application.

An international panel of experts will evaluate all applications and final results will be announced in December 2010. In special cases, a scientific committee organized by IRCAM might interview the candidates.

July 15, 2010: online submission begins
September 30, 2010: online submission closes
December 30, 2010: announcement of results

Further Scholarship Information and Application

Scholarship Tags: France, International, Music