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 system.
Installed under Ircam's 49-speaker ambisonic diffusion dome, reconstituted in the GMEM Module, the listener is invited to listen to a sound environment with extensive expressive possibilities, reproducing 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.
They make 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, wakes and places specific to oral literature (storytellers, griots, etc.).