Partnership GMEM & festival Oh les beaux jours !

Musiques-Fictions
Ircam's ambisonic dome is co-produced with the Oh les beaux jours! festival and GMEM.

Following on from the Propagations festival, Oh les beaux jours! offers screenings on Sat. May 31 and Sun. June 01, 2025.

Launched in 2020, Ircam's Musiques-Fictions collection offers a unique literary and sound experience, combining a contemporary text with a musical creation, in an immersive broadcasting device.
Installed under Ircam's 49-speaker ambisonic diffusion dome, recreated in the GMEM Module, the listener is invited to a listening experience in which the imagination is stimulated by a sound environment with wide-ranging expressive possibilities, enabling the reproduction of a listening situation close to that of the real world, from the great spectacular stage to the most minute details of intimate discourse.
These Musiques-Fictions contribute to a profound renewal of the genre of radio fiction, of the Hörspiel, by going beyond the simple sound illustration of narrative or dialogue, when the image no longer acts as a screen.
These Musiques-Fictions contribute to making voices and perceptions heard, creating new spaces for collective and intimate listening and resonance, which have been lacking since the disappearance of literary salons, public reading spaces, vigils and places specific to oral literature (storytellers, griots...).

Sat. May 31, 2025 | 11:00 am
Friche la Belle de Mai (Le Module)

Music-Fiction - En voiture!
Olivia Rosenthal, Christian Sebille, Célie Pauthe

We love cars because they give us the freedom to move around, but we hate them because they break us and our lives. The automobile is an ambivalent object, occupying our imaginations whether we like it or not, and polluting our visual and acoustic environment. The car is a source of traumatic memories (crashes and carcasses) or of family vacations. 

From generation to generation, the metamorphoses of these gleaming, metallic bodies have accompanied our advancing years. Cars date. 

Olivia Rosenthal, Christian Sebille and Célie Pauthe decided to tell this story, which is at once intimate, social and generational, from the DS of the 60s to the automated Tesla that will soon rule our journeys. Using the listening device provided by Ircam, they created an immersive universe of voices, rhythms, shocks, sounds and memories of accidents. By weaving together words, noises, ritornellos and other musical effects, they reveal the complexity and richness of what binds us to the car.

Sun. June 1, 2025 | 11:00 am
Friche la Belle de Mai (Le Module)

Music-Fiction - Naissance d'un pont
Maylis de Kerangal, Daniele Ghisi, Jacques Vincey, Emmanuelle Zoll

This Music-Fiction entitled "Naissance d'un pont" (Birth of a Bridge), inspired by the novel of the same name, crosses the destinies of men and women who come to mythical California to help build a gigantic suspension bridge... 

A formidable documentary on this titanic construction site, and a reflection on the collateral effects of globalization and the domestication of great natural spaces.