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In 1970, Georges Pompidou, President of France, invited Pierre Boulez to create and direct a music research institute in association with the newly forming Centre National d'Art Contemporain. The Centre National d'Art Contemporain became known as the Centre Pompidou, and the music research institute became IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique / Musique).
IRCAM officially opened in 1977. By 1978, its three-floor underground building contained offices, laboratories, recording studios, an anechoic chamber, and the 'Espace de Projection', a black-box concert hall with reconfigurable walls that allowed for different acoustics for different concerts.
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The photo at the left, by Joel Chadabe, shows the main hallway at IRCAM, Paris, 1978.
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