ContinuuCon Electronic Music Conference – Paris-IRCAM Forum

ContinuuCon 2025, the seventh international Haken Continuum Conference, is returning to France in March 26–28. This year’s event will take place in Paris, and will be hosted by the IRCAM Forum. It will be fully integrated in the IRCAM event with a room dedicated to ContinuuCon every morning.

Musicians, sound designers, software developers, and music enthusiasts are invited to explore the world’s most uniquely expressive electronic musical instruments through presentations, performances, and hands-on experiences. As always, ContinuuCon will focus on every instrument that features the Haken Continuum’s internal sound engine the EaganMatrix, including the Continuum Fingerboard, ContinuuMini, EaganMatrix Module for Eurorack, and Expressive E Osmose synthesizer.

A full day will be dedicated to the ContinuuCon on Friday, March 28th, at Studio 5, the largest IRCAM studio. Multiple speakers will showcase and explain various Continuum and EaganMatrix features, with a focus on the latest hardware and software innovations (featuring Lippold Haken, Edmund Eagan, Christophe Duquesne, Grégoire Blanc, Clément Rousillat, Rob Schwimmer, Guillaume Bonneau, Tony Leung, and others). The detailed program is here https://forum.ircam.fr/article/detail/continuucon-2025/

There isn’t a separate ticket for ContinuuCon, but you’ll need to purchase an IRCAM Forum ticket to access the entire event (https://forum.ircam.fr/article/detail/registration-forum-workshops-2025-detail/ ). This ticket provides access to all presentations, workshops, and demonstrations within the IRCAM Forum, including the ContinuuCon. Prices range from €60 to €222, depending on whether you’re a Forum member or not (anyone can become a member, which also gives access to a wide range of IRCAM tools). Note the the ContinuuCon is unfortunaltely not part of the online version of the IRCAM Forum. You can find more practical information (location, access, hotels, etc.) here: https://forum.ircam.fr/…/informations-pratiques…/.

Additionally, we are organizing a ContinuuCon dinner on Thursday evening, March 27th, at Brasserie Dubillot (https://lanouvellegarde.com/fr/brasserie-dubillot/). The dinner will be paid individually (€75, all included), but we will handle the group booking. If you would like to join, please message me or email me at christophe.duquesne@aurigetech.com.

Since 2016, previous Continuum conferences have been held in Asheville, North Carolina, in Palmela, Portugal, France, and in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and this will be the second edition at IRCAM in Paris.

ContinuuCon Electronic Music Conference – Pittsburgh PA

ContinuuCon 2024, the sixth international Haken Continuum Conference, returned to the U.S. on April 26–28. This year’s event took place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Musicians, sound designers, software developers, and music enthusiasts were invited to explore the world’s most uniquely expressive electronic musical instruments through presentations, performances, and hands-on experiences. As always, ContinuuCon focused on every instrument that features the Haken Continuum’s internal sound engine the EaganMatrix, including the Continuum Fingerboard, ContinuuMini, EaganMatrix Module for Eurorack, and Expressive E Osmose synthesizer.

ContinuuCon 2024 began with an evening reception on April 26. Over the next two days, Continuum inventor and EaganMatrix developers Lippold Haken and Edmund Eagan joined other authorities and some of the world’s most skillful Continuum players to share their expertise and technical knowledge.

“The tiny differences matter.”

– Lippold Haken