Since 2012, ManiFeste, IRCAM's multidisciplinary festival and academy, a meeting place for creation in Paris, combines music and other disciplines: theater, dance, digital arts, visual arts. Each year, the academy welcomes more than 120 composers and performers from all over the world to benefit from a large-scale artistic and technological environment and a large public audience during final workshop performances. In these uncertain times, IRCAM puts its faith in the future by promoting a new generation of musicians via specialized workshops and master classes. The 2021 edition offers young artists the opportunity to both learn and express their creativity, surrounded by outstanding figures of contemporary music.
This ninth edition is supported by partnerships with major organizations in the fields of culture and higher education: the Centre national de la Danse, the Centre Pompidou, the CENTQUATRE-Paris, the Ensemble intercontemporain—ensemble associated with the academy, Pôle supérieur d'enseignement artistique Aubervilliers – La Courneuve – Seine-Saint-Denis Ile-de-France aka "Pôle Sup'93" and l'École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière.