In his introductory preamble, Frank Madlener claimed that audiences would experience and hear The World After Covid during the 2021 edition of IRCAM's annual festival. Luckily a late change in French law allowed me to review an eight-day slice of this monde l’apres in person. (Full disclosure: one of my own pieces was performed at the last concert of the festival as part of a workshop with composer Isabel Mundry.)