Organized as part of the European REACH project, the international workshop-festival Improtech is dedicated to the alliance of the universal art of improvisation and digital intelligence cultures through a series of conferences, interdisciplinary workshops, installations, performances, and concerts. After spanning three continents and gathering major figures in the field, Improtech is setting up at Ircam, one of its founders, for an edition that will focus heavily on space and writing and pay tribute to the American composer George Lewis, an essential reference in musical AI.
For three days, a series of practical presentations, workshops, and performances will be offered to the public by leading figures, researchers, and artists, all explorers of the exchange between digital intelligence and human expertise in the fields of electronic instrument making, interaction and immersive spatialization devices, gestural control, hacking, social networks, haptic interfaces, digital ritualization processes of tradition, audiomusical generativity, and creative AI in general.
Improtech @ Paris 2025 also includes three concerts: on December 2nd, December 3rd, and December 7th
Highlights
This edition of IMPROTECH in Paris will welcome a number of truly exceptional personalities, including celebrated multi-award New-York jazzman Steve Lehman, Joëlle Léandre, the double-bass diva with life time achievement award, celebrated composer, trombonist and Music AI pioneer George Lewis, Bernard Lubat the legendary french multi-instrumentist founder of the Uzeste Festival, contemporary classical composers Lara Morciano, Miles Okazaki guitar virtuoso who worked with Steve Coleman and John Zorn, Nicolas Crosse the extravagant bass player from Ensemble Intercontemporain (EIC), dazzling Colombian Soprano Johanna Vargas, electronic hacker and dancer NSDOS, the great Malagasy zither virtuoso Justin Vali, Composer and computer music designer, legendary dutch sound poet Jaap Blonk, Jose-Miguel Fernandez, Marco Suarez-Cifuentes, exploring the limits of hybrid acoustic/digital composition, sound artist, composer and koto virtuoso Miya Masaoka, Jean-marc Montera, avant-garde guitarist specializing in free improvisation and sound experimentation, Turner Williams Jr the the spirited musician playing the syncretic orient-occident instrument shahibaaja, Gyorgy Kurtag Jr and his vibrant synthesizers, composer Nicolas Brochec exploiting his research on extended techniques recognition with flutist Kamami Koga, Tamami Tono celebrated Shō player, Gagaku and computer music composer, with bugaku dancer Minako Ito and creative coder Atsushi Tadokoro, composer Georges Bloch with legendary Jaap Blonk sound poet and Benny Sluchin former Ensemble Intercontemporain trombonist, Lorenzo Colombo virtuoso percussionist from the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Alberto Gatti the composer exploring audio-tactile vibration devices and space agents, Anaïs del Sordo singer with a spirit of experimentation, creativity and extended sonic exploration, virtuoso violonist and inventor of the Mugic© system Mari Kimura, celebrated composer Sivan Eldar, Electroacoustic composer,performer and designer Pierre Couprie, Thierry Miroglio an essential reference in contemporary percussions and Elaine Chew a prominent pianist and researcher in Music Theranostics.