Abstract
"Music doesn't need a laboratory". With these words, the famous physicist and Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg at the Max Planck Institute rejected Pierre Boulez's project for collaboration between science and music in 1970.
In the first part, my paper will outline the various attempts - both successful and unsuccessful - within Ircam in its early years to organize this famous collaboration between scientists and musicians in order to explore the new possibilities offered to music by emerging technologies, particularly in the field of computer science.
In the second part, I'll look at the different aspects and ways of working that marked my collaboration with Pierre Boulez in the production of his works produced at Ircam - Repons, Dialogue de l'ombre double, Explosante-fixe and Anthèmes 2.
