Supersonique was created in 2022 on the initiative of teachers of electroacoustic composition classes at Marseille's Conservatoire and Cité de la Musique.

For its 4th edition, two major events for the festival:

First, the 2025 edition will take place entirely outside the walls of the Comptoir de la Victorine. It will take place at the GMEM for the acousmonium concerts, as well as at the Cité de la Musique de Marseille and the Conservatoire for the conferences and performances.

Supersonique is expanding considerably and becoming a festival that takes place over ten days and takes place in three stages.

Opening on Sunday, August 31 with an acousmonium concert by performer Jonathan Prager.

This will be followed by a series of conferences and performances bringing together artists and academics around the theme of DIY (Thursday 4 and Friday 5 September).

The final act brings the public together on Sunday September 7 with a 12-hour concert (midday to midnight). More than 81 works are performed on an acousmatic system of 47 loudspeakers.

Supersonique presents works and composers from around the world, representing over 30 nationalities. The program is based on aesthetic diversity, an anonymous selection process for the call for works, and gender-balanced programming.

The pieces are performed on a 47-speaker acousmonium controlled via a spatialization console. 

Note of intent

L'invitation au Départ (1983 - 40 min. 20) by Jacques Lejeune
comprises four sequences and is subdivided into eight sections, but in its general poetic and symbolic form it is divided into two main parts. These express two states of life through the allegory of the passage from shadow to day: the waiting and reverie of matter to the awakening and emergence of dynamic movement and animation of beings in reality. The first is of the order of deployment, of slow flow like unlimited inspiration, like movement on the verge of freezing or suspended momentum. It's a space that organizes itself without abruptness. The second, on the other hand, represents the drawn work of a succession of vivid, motley playlets.

Harbinger (2018 - 16 min. 47) by Eric Broitmann
Harbinger is an acousmatic stereophonic piece whose main musical material comes from prepared electric guitars. The idea is to create with this starting material a tension, a kind of distant call, a signal announcing a future emergency situation. It was written in collaboration with guitarists Damien Broitmann and Valoy.