The GMEM develops local artistic projects that place the public and the participants at the heart of artistic creation. Developed in collaboration with various partners in the region (social, educational, health), these projects are based on artistic practice, which can take several forms depending on the desired goal: musical practice workshops, writing workshops, ensemble training, interventions by artists or musicians, etc.
At the end of approximately two years, the artistic work carried out gives rise to the original creation of a show presented in public.
Sonord is an artistic project of territory realized between 2020 and 2023, in coproduction with the Nord-AP-HM hospital in the 15th district of Marseille.
At the origin of the project, there were bubbles! Musical bubbles to get inside the hospital, to slip into its corridors, to listen to its sounds and stories, to meet its inhabitants, to provoke exchanges. Through listening, sound recording, dialogue, the collection of testimonies from hospital staff and the recording of machines, a sound corpus of hospital sounds was gradually created.
Sonord is initially an invitation to wander through the corridors of La Friche to discover three singular creations by Raphaële Dupire, Pierre Pulisciano and Sébastien Béranger based on the sound materials accumulated throughout the project. Then, at the end of this journey leading to the Module du GMEM: a collective artistic creation gathering the musicians of Sonord.
DETAIL OF THE WORKS
D'ici là, Histoires dedans le paysage
Raphaële Dupire
Based on the novel Cinq dans tes yeux by Hadrien Bels
DURATION
15 min.
At the North Hospital, at the entrance of the Oncology Department, there are large windows overlooking the bay of Marseille. It is there that I proposed to the patients to install themselves for micro-concerts under headphones. Echoing these shared moments, this micro-concert proposes to be part of the landscape by contemplating, listening and narrating a contemporary text taking place in our daily environment. On this occasion, oud, voices and objects accompany the novel's plot. The sounds of the city and the stage are mixed almost without distinction.
INSTRUMENTARIUM
voice, oud, FM and modular synthesizers, objects
BROADCAST
Quadraphonic or headphone to be defined
DISTRIBUTION
Raphaële Dupire
voices, objects, live electronics
Sarah Procissi
oud and sound processing
Vi(e)revolte
Sébastien Béranger
CREATION 2023
for saxophone and electronics
This piece for saxophone and electronics is built on the sensitive dialogue between the instrumentalist and the mechanical sounds of the hospital. Oscillating between care and alarm, vitality and contemplation, the hospital sound environment is musicalized, transformed, and changes paradigm to become poetic in its exchanges with the saxophone.
DISTRIBUTION
Sébastien Béranger
composition and live electronics
Joël Versavaud
saxophones
Sillonner (extract)
Pierre Pulisciano
DURATION
10min.
Radio play
I was asked to imagine a sound project in the radiotherapy department. After meeting the staff and the patients, I was told that waiting times are sometimes a factor of anxiety and stress during what is called "the patient journey". Based on this observation, I produced a radio play - in the manner of an audioguide - composed solely from sound recordings and collections of testimonies made within the department.
It tells the geographical and medical story, explains each of the roles of the nursing staff and will be made available to patients. Designed to guide, soothe and reassure, it is also a tribute to those who accompany them.
DISTRIBUTION
Pierre Pulisciano
Composition and live electronics
Coproduction
Hôpitaux universitaires de Marseille (AP-HM) - Hôpital Nord and GMEM
Support
Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur ; Direction des Affaires Culturelles Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Agence Régionale de Santé Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur within the framework of the Culture Santé Handicap et Dépendances program ; Département des Bouches-du-Rhône and Sacem within the framework of a partnership with "Les Fabriques à Musique" ; Fonds Musical pour l'Enfance et la Jeunesse ; Cités éducatives and Réseau Canopé
In partnership with the Friche la Belle de Mai
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A student of Emmanuel Nunes, Michaël Levinas, Luis Naón and Michèle Reverdy at the CNSMD in Paris, Sébastien Béranger received training in analysis, composition and new applied technologies. At the same time, he obtained a DEA in Aesthetics and Art Sciences and a PhD in musicology.
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Pierre Pulisciano has lived and worked in Marseille since 2003. He works in the field of electroacoustic and experimental music. He develops composition and performance work, and creates sound installations.
Raphaële Dupire
Multidisciplinary artist
Raphaële Dupire elaborates her work from the meeting of sound arts and movements... She is a composer and improviser, musician and performer. After studying Philosophy and Performing Arts in Paris X, Raphaële Dupire devoted herself to music and dance. She trained in jazz and improvised music and then followed the Musical Creation and Composition program at the Marseille Conservatory. At the end of this course, she was awarded a residency at the GMEM and a prize from the Sacem. The following year, she was accepted in Perfectionnement at the Conservatoire de Paris with Denis Dufour.
Linking the creation of sound to that of movement, she composes for the performing arts, notably theater and dance, and also practices sound effects. She likes to divert the common uses, to mix the methods and the approaches of the sound.
Also, her projects take multiple forms going of games to be musiced, pieces of concert to musics with the image; they are sometimes pretext to create plastic objects, installations or performances.
His music has been performed in France and abroad in festivals such as Entre cours et jardin, Reevox-GMEM, MP2018, Futura, Chalons dans la rue, Format, In-Sonora, Exhibitronic, Back to the trees, La semaine du son and broadcasted on France Culture, Radiophrenia, Radio Libertaire, Radio Grenouille, NUNC, Faune, Radio Galère...
Sarah Procissi
Composer and oud player
Born in 1991 in Bastia and based in Marseille, Sarah Procissi works both in the register of contemporary and traditional Mediterranean music.
Her pieces are in the lineage of electroacoustic, concrete music and field recording. She likes to create sound landscapes by recording objects, machines, city atmospheres, places... She is interested in the sound characteristics of the material (movement, morphology, timbre) captured by her microphones which she then integrates in a raw or sculpted way via different sound treatments. She performs alone or in collaborative projects (contemporary dance, theater). She works with the Compagnie Humaine (Nice), Resistdance by Silke Z. (Cologne, Germany). Her compositions have been programmed in Europe, South America and North Africa. She has been awarded the IDEX-Jedi UCArts grant (2020), Studio Für Elektroakustische Musik - Weimar (2019), Sacem, etc. Recently, Sarah has been developing a solo project combining oud and modular synthesizer. She is active in two Marseilles-based collectives that promote contemporary composition and traditional music. - sarahprocissi.com
Joël Versavaud
Saxophonist
Born in Creuse, Joël Versavaud has been teaching at the Pierre Barbizet Conservatory in Marseille since 2002. Finalist of the Jean-Marie Londeix International Competition in 1996, he recorded in 2000 the Nine studies for saxophones by Christian Lauba (Maguelone), which brought him the esteem of his peers throughout the world. This was followed by the albums Mai solo in 2006 (Maguelone) and Bach-un souffle continu in 2011 (Skarbo).
As the author of some fifteen works, he has taken part in some 160 creations, from solo to large ensembles, collaborating with 75 different composers.
Mainly a member of the ensemble C Barré, he regularly performs with the ensembles Musicatreize, Télémaque, Ars Nova, the Quatuor Béla, the orchestras of Marseille and Toulon...
Friche la Belle de Mai (the Module)
41 Jobin Street13003
Marseille
RATE
Free admission
Part 1: on the move (RDV in front of Radio Grenouille)
Part 2: at the Module on reservation (with a reduced gauge)
DURATION
1h00 approx.
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Sébastien Béranger
composer and live electronics
Raphaële Dupire
voices, objects, live electronics
Pierre Pulisciano
real-time electronics
Sarah Procissi
oud and sound processing
Joël Versavaud
(ensemble C Barré)
saxophones
PROGRAMME MUSICAL
Raphaële Dupire
D'ici là, Histoires dedans le paysage, 15 min.
pour voix, oud, synthétiseurs FM et modulaire, objets
Sébastien Béranger
Vi(e)revolte
pour saxophone et électronique <CRÉATION>
Pierre Pulisciano
Sillonner
radio play
Sébastien Béranger
Collective piece
semi-open form ad libitum