Each year, the GMEM invites a composer, associated with the program, to present their creative works and the reference works that have shaped their artistic and professional career.

Based on double listening and shared commentary, Écoutes Commentées are special sessions where audiences are invited to discover new music under professional and exceptional conditions.

"In 2008, persistent pain in my right middle finger prevented me from playing as I had before.
My hand sought other paths. It contorted itself, invented detours. The elbow became a musician, then the arm, the shoulder. Little by little, the whole body joined in the game.

This shift was not an aesthetic choice, but a necessity.
Since then, movement has been at the center of my work: each project connects sound and the body as a whole.

This program offers a journey, a gradual transformation.

At first, a piano—a familiar instrument steeped in history.
Then, little by little, something shifts.

The sound material is shaped to create a moving space, populated by layers, stretches, entanglements, pulsations, points, and lines.
The instrument opens up, transforms, extends into other devices.
Acoustics meets electronics.
Sound becomes trace.

From one piece to the next, the same movement emerges: that of an instrument undergoing a metamorphosis, and a body adapting and reinventing its practice. — Alvise Sinivia

"Instead, you have to look at things many times. And each time, change your angle, never looking at them twice from the same angle. Look at them once from above, once from below, once from the side—especially from the side." — Jean Dubuffet

Sessions conducted with:
Félix Pyat Elementary School — 13003 (25 students)
Fraissinet Elementary School — 13005 (21 students)
Parette Mazenode Elementary School — 13011 (22 students)
Cité Scolaire Internationale Jacques Chirac — 13002 (27 students)
Collège L’Estaque — 13016 (25 students)
Collège Jean Giono — 13013 (26 students)
Collège Thiers — 13001 (21 students)