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...