The program is divided into several phases over the course of a school year, with the aim of providing students with keys to listening and understanding, as well as awakening their artistic sensibilities.
The program is adapted to the needs of each school and the approach of each teaching team. The gmem offers students a two-hour workshop, directly in their schools, to discover the production methods involved in musical creation.

Through improvisation and the manipulation of sound objects, participants explore the different worlds of electroacoustic, electronic and experimental music. Using concrete and synthetic sounds, and the misuse of instruments, students are introduced to collective musical creation, and made aware of the importance of listening through electroacoustic technologies (sound transformation in particular).
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The workshops take place in 3 stages, as follows:

1. Theoretical part + Listening - 30 mn
What is a composer?
Since the beginning of the 20th century, what new tools have become available?
How have they modified and evolved their practice (microphones, recorders, etc.)?

Review of different recording and editing technologies, and developments in associated compositional practices (graphic scores, etc.).
Styles specific to the arrival of new technologies: musique concrète and electroacoustic music.

Listening to sound extracts that illustrate these different aesthetics

2.Introduction to technique / practice - 30mn
Review of the various tools available in the workshop: microphones, control surface for modifying sounds, editing software.
Demonstration of basic techniques for recording, modifying and transforming sounds.

3.Creation / Interpretation - 1h
With the students, recordings of different sound materials, in connection with haikus or strips, which will be used to create short sound pieces.
Audio manipulation (editing, transformations, montage...) and production of a short musical piece.

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With Eugène Cas school (13004) - 6 CM1/CM2 classes
and Longchamp secondary school (13001) - 1 6th grade class and 1 5th grade class