Will IRCAM survive the Pompidou Centre closure?
NewsPlans have been confirmed to shut the Pompidou Centre for five years from 2025 to enable a sorely needed renovation.
Five years without the Pompidou will leave a black hole for tourists on a rainy day, but Paris is not short of art spaces.
The unasked question is what will happen to its satellite IRCAM, the utopian Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique/musique that Pierre Boulez created in 1977. Ircam has never justified its existence. It might now be quietly laid to rest amid the construction hubbub of the Pompidou Centre.
Is it likely to be missed?
Here’s a memento of its early days with Pierre.
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