At GMEM - Centre national de création musicale, artists are offered a range of facilities, including composition and rehearsal studios, as well as technical, technological and logistical skills. Each production is the occasion for development and research in computer lutherie. In this way, the GMEM contributes to the evolution of composition assistance tools, as well as signal processing and sound synthesis environments.
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The GMEM - Centre national de création musicale's research and development activities are based on the following projects in the field of technologies for music and sound:

- Interactive, multi-touch performance interfaces, in particular ProGest, a gesture extension device for controlling musical processes. We are developing multi-touch devices (interactive table, touch screen). Our research focuses on the ergonomics of the hardware/software interface and new metaphors for controlling synthesis and spatialization.

- Space and spatialization with HolophonThis project, initiated in 1996, is dedicated to writing space and sound spatialization, in other words, being able to position and set in motion captured, pre-recorded or synthesized sounds on several loudspeakers. One of the project's flagship achievements is the Holo-Edit sound trajectory writing software.

- Microsound synthesis with GMUNAs part of this project, we are developing a sound research environment dedicated to granular/microsound synthesis. The fundamental principle, initiated by the work of physicist Denis Gabor and taken up by numerous composers such as Iannis Xenakis and Curtis Roads, is the accumulation of small sound events to create complex macro structures by emergence. The proposed environment consists of a real-time interface in MaxMSP and a prototype for off-line microsound analysis/synthesis.