Émergence is a listening event devoted to new writing by students in composition classes at the Pierre Barbizet Conservatory and the Cité de la Musique de Marseille.
Under the pedagogical guidance of four professors—Loïse Bulot, Jean-Luc Gergonne, Térence Meunier, and François Wong—and guest composer Louise Rossiter, the students’ electroacoustic compositions are spatialized across an array of loudspeakers.
This extraordinary installation delivers precise, immersive sound. It creates a listening environment where everyone can find their own rhythm and space: lying down, standing, still, or on the move… outdoors, at the Couvent, or amidst the hustle and bustle of the city.
As a breeding ground for musical creation, Émergence broadens the horizons of tomorrow's music.
Production
GMEM
Partnership
, Pierre Barbizet Conservatory; Cité de la Musique de Marseille
In partnership withLe Couvent
Louise Rossiter
Composer
Louise Rossiter (1986) is an award-winning electroacoustic composer and sound artist based in Leicester, UK.
Her research focuses on anticipation in acousmatic music, silence and music, acoustic ecology, multichannel composition, and spatialization.Her current research, undertaken as part of her PhD, explores how interactions between sound, silence, and the blending of timbres can evoke implications, expectations, and questions. She is currently composing a series of pieces inspired by the work of Fritz Kahn. Kahn revolutionized the field of computer graphics by producing images that represent human anatomy as complex mechanisms. This research project establishes a concrete link between sound, image, and imagination, thereby allowing for an exploration of the notion of expectation.
Louise’s works aim to offer an immersive and, in a certain sense, unpredictable sound experience. Her previous projects have focused on silence, the contrast between real and imaginary places, and enigmatic sounds.
Her works have been presented on the international scene, notably at CIME (Krakow), EMS, the Electronic Music Week (Shanghai), Influx (Musiques et Recherches), L'espace du son, NYCEMF, BEAST, SSSP, the Sound Festival, Soundings..., at Sound Junction, the Forum Wallis, the Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium, the Bologna Conservatory of Music, the Electric Spring Festival, and Electroacoustic Wales.
Louise has also won awards in several international competitions, including the Destellos International Composition Competition (2014), Musica Nova (2010, 2019, 2020, 2021), the Franz Liszt Scholarship (2013), the Shanghai Electronic Music Week (2013), the Forum Wallis (2020), and the Russolo Competition (2020 / 2021).
In 2012, she received first prize at the prestigious international spatialization competition L'espace du son. In 2019, Homo Machina wasselected for inclusion on the CIME 2019 CD. In 2021, Louise received the Russolo Prize for her composition Synapse. She is also the first electroacoustic composer to receive the Russolo Prize since its inception in 1979. Louise Rossiter’s works are available on the Xylem label. —www.louiserossiter.com
Electroacoustic Composition Class at the Pierre Barbizet Conservatory in Marseille
Louis Haon
Composer
Louis Haon, 23, was born in Grenoble. His interest in music, sound design, and particularly electroacoustic music stems from his near-daily practice of computer-assisted music (CAM) since he first installed GarageBand in middle school. After completing a sound engineering program where he became familiar with acousmatic music, he began his graduate studies in electroacoustics at the Pierre Barbizet Conservatory in Marseille.
Antonin Conrazier
Composer
Antonin Conrazier is currently a student in Jean-Luc Gergonne’s electroacoustic music class at the Marseille Conservatory, where he is actively involved. For the past three years, he has also participated in student work presentations at Vidéodrome2.
A composer with a background in sound experimentation and editing, he develops work at the intersection of various aesthetic approaches. He has notably composed techno and jungle pieces for PAC — Provence Art Contemporain, and has more recently turned toward acousmatic music and contemporary classical music.
His works in musique concrète are part of the legacy of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis, and Bernard Parmegiani. His music is characterized by the tension created between contrasting soundscapes, interspersed with progressive shifts and powerful, varied electronic waves. It also draws on the aesthetics of experimental rock and electronic music.
Ariel Storck
Composer
Born in August 2010 in Aix-en-Provence, Ariel began his musical studies in 2019 in Jean-Pierre Rolland’s organ class at the Conservatory. In 2021, he joined the flexible-schedule program at Mignet Middle School, where he played in the orchestra and chamber music ensembles, and trained specifically in basso continuo, completing Cycle 2.
In July 2024, he participated in the Strasbourg Organ Academy. His discovery of electroacoustic music, during workshops with Pascal Gobin, led him to join Jean-Luc Gergonne’s class at the Marseille Conservatory in 2025.
Also passionate about computer science and open to various forms of expression, he began playing the violin in 2024 and developed an interest in history, cinema, and current events. He also participates in theater and photography workshops.
Vincent Malevolti
Composer
A passionate fan of electronic music and holder of a bachelor’s degree in Performing Arts.
He is currently studying drums at the Cité de la Musique and electroacoustic composition at the Pierre Barbizet Conservatory in Marseille, where he focuses on sound experimentation, seeking to blend his influences with the concepts of this discipline.
Electroacoustic Composition Class at the Cité de la Musique in Marseille
Stefano Arrigoni
Composer
Stefano Arrigoni navigates between operating rooms and uncharted sonic territories. With a background in anesthesiology, he has developed an electroacoustic practice centered on perceptual thresholds and the intermediate states of listening. Through field recordings, synthesis, and spatial diffusion, he explores liminal zones between presence and disappearance.
Louise Barrière
Composer
As a child, Louise Barrière attended Ambroise Thomas Elementary School, named after the 19th-century opera composer. According to some strange post-Bourdieusian theories of divination, this should have sealed her interest in classical music.
Yet her early musical explorations led her toward rougher terrain: she became a guitarist in several post-punk bands. One of them recorded a cover of a Johnny Hallyday song a few days before the singer’s death; the others remained adventures confined largely to the rehearsal space.
At age 30, having become a civil servant, she decided to settle down and now practices electroacoustic composition in collaboration with Zazie Grasset.
Zazie Grasset
Composer
Zazie Grasset comes from the 77, a village split by a road, surrounded by flat fields, with other roads in the distance and airplanes overhead... One day, she falls into a hole—a big hole dug in the garden. It takes a while before anyone finds her; she waits… Zazie has lived in many cities since leaving the 77; now she lives in Marseille. Here, there are holes in the sidewalks; barriers keep Zazie from falling into them. Also, she leaves holes in her sentences, and people wait. What goes on behind the head, says Zazie, is vaster. There are things like that, which pile up but don’t make a story; you have to connect the dots, you stretch a hole and it becomes a tube, and you end up there, among other places.
Romain Vasset
Composer
Romain explores narrative forms, words that create sound, chance, and ambiguous orchestrations.
Shani de Vecchi
Composer
As a musician without boundaries, I explore music across all genres. My electroacoustic practice revolves around sound research centered on my personal experiences and introspective reflections.
Chloé Dréan
Composer
Chloé Dréan is a documentary filmmaker and sound designer. She is interested in how to document, bring to life, or reconstruct spaces through sound. A member of the Marseille-based collectives Copie Carbone and Après l’Averse, she produces audio documentaries and leads workshops on radio production. For her, electroacoustic music represents another approach to sound, complementary to her original practice.
The Convent
52 Rue Levat13003
Marseille
IN THE OPEN AIR
Free admission
(subject to availability)
Bar and food available on site
RUNNING TIME
: approx. 3 hours 30 minutes
ElectroacousticComposition Classat thePierreBarbizetConservatoryin Marseille:
Louis Haon
Antonin Keen-Conrazier
Vincent Malevolti
Ariel Storck
emerging composers
Jean-Luc Gergonne
professor of electroacoustic composition
ElectroacousticComposition Classatthe Cité de la Musique in Marseille:
Stefano Arrigoni
Louise Barrière
Chloé Dréan
Zazie Grasset
Romain Vasset
Shani de Vecchi
Emerging composers
Loïse Bulot
Térence Meunier
François Wong
professors of electroacoustic composition
Louise Rossiter
guest composer