CALL FOR COMPOSERS:

MUSE-IC PROJECT

MUSE-IC is an inter-disciplinary project between science and music aiming to create musical pieces inspired by recent scientific discoveries. The project is coordinated by Judith Miné-Hattab (biophysicist at the Institut Curie/CNRS), hosted by the Institut Curie and founded by the Paris Sciences and Letters University (PSL). 

The project is a unique opportunity to open a dialogue between composers and scientists. Selected composers, participating to the project, will have the possibility to interact with researchers and to visit their laboratories. The final goal of the project is to organize an event combining popularization of science and a world premiere concert of the compositions in January 2019. 

We are looking for 3 to 5 composers to commission a 10 minutes piece of music (instruments to choose among piano, string quartet, clarinet, harp, percussion or any combination). Compositions will be performed by professional musicians during a live word premiere concert at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, in January 2019. Part of the concert will be dedicated to an honor guest composer. 

Compositions must be inspired by one of the scientific subjects selected by the scientific committee of the project: around 15 attractive and high-quality research studies have been selected from different scientific teams all around the word, in different fields (astrophysics, biology, biophysics, translational cancer research, see list below). 

Composers will be selected by a selection committee, based on the quality of their previous works, and on their interest for the project and the scientific subjects. A commission fee of 2500 euro will be attributed to the selected composers; travels expenses for non-local composers will be reimbursed. 

To receive a description of the scientific subjects, please contact judith.mine@curie.fr 

To apply, please send the following to: judith.mine@curie.fr and m4garance@gmail.com

• a resumé with list of publications
• a recording of 2 previous compositions
• 1 to 3 scientific subjects among the list below that you propose to use as a source of inspiration for a composition
• a cover letter 

Deadline: 30 December 2017

Selection: January 2018

Time dedicated for composing: February 2018 - September 2018:

List of scientific subjects selected for the MUSE-IC project:

Astrophysics:

Gravitational waves: the sound of the Universe
Enrico Barausse et al, Institut d’Atrophysique de Paris, France

The first vibrations of the Universe and the quest for the first galaxy clusters
Hervé Doyle et al, Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, Université Paris-Saclay, France

The transit of an extremely eccentric planet, HD 80606b
Emmanuel Rollinde et al, Institut d’Atrophysique de Paris, France

A quest for sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays
Kumiko Kotera et al, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, France

Physics:

Dew
Daniel Beysens , ESPCI, Paris France How to Control a Random Laser Patrick Sebbah, Institut Langevin, France

Biophysics:

A molecular pas de deux at the rhythm of sound in our ears
Thomas Risler et al, Institut Curie, Paris, France

The periodic and dynamic structure of chromatin
Kirti Prakash et al, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

Building molecular springs for chromosome segregation
Kerry Bloom et al, University of North Carolina, USA

DNA break : a multi-scale dance
Judith Miné-Hattab et al, Columbia University, New York, USA

The lopp extrusion model
Leonid Mirny et al, MIT, Boston, USA

Cell Biology:

The crucial hours that shape you
Carmina Perez-Romero, Nathalie Dostatni, Institut Curie, Paris France

When our cells sleep : quiescence et renaissance
Angela Taddei et al, Institut Curie, Paris, France

Morphogenesis and cell division
Olga Markova et al, Institut Curie, Paris France

Role of the cellular architecture in cancer development
Kristine Schauer et al, Institut Curie, Paris, France

Translational Research:

Boost cancer treatments with tricks: the DBAIT story, from research to patient’s bed
Marie Dutreix et al, Institut Curie, Orsay, France

Continuous electrical neuromodulation of internal globus Pallidus in treatment of abnormal movements in children
Philippe Coubes et al, CHU of Montpellier, France