Why a cooperative?
The DRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Cooperative for Musical Creation was designed in collaboration with artists and cultural organizations in the region. It is coordinated by the GMEM and responds to the challenges set by the Ministry of Culture in its policy of supporting musical creation.
The origins of the cooperative
As part of the redeployment of funds from CIRM (the national center for musical creation in Nice, which ceased operations at the end of 2022) and the "Better Production, Better Distribution" plan, the Ministry of Culture has promoted the networking of production and distribution structures to support musical creation projects in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region and beyond.
The aim is to support new initiatives in the field of musical creation and develop their prospects for dissemination at regional, national (and even international) level. By encouraging pooling and cooperation between partners, the support strategy contributes to enriching their respective artistic and cultural activities as well as their networks.
The Cooperative must contribute to providing artists or ensembles with the technical and financial conditions necessary to conceive, write, produce, and distribute a musical project. It aims to support artists in developing their careers, expanding their distribution network, and strengthening the actions of partners in carrying out their mission. The artist or ensemble must be at the center of the networking project's design.
It is therefore a question of inventing new forms of collaboration that foster fruitful dialogue between partners and artists.
The objectives of the cooperative
The Cooperative aims to involve a group of partners representing the diversity of actors in the field of music creation in the region, with the following objectives:
. Increase the number of broadcast dates and the visibility of each project;
. Promote aesthetic diversity;
. Develop a network of regional actors to better support artists and artistic teams;
. Pool and promote the complementarity of each structure's resources and tools in the service of artists;
. Question the relationship with the territory: the notion of an artist "present" in a territory and with its inhabitants?
Selection of artistic teams and projects supported in 2025
After various meetings and discussions, the partners selected the following artists/artistic teams to begin a long-term collaboration with the cooperative:
Sylvain Rifflet — Work Songs
Iris Kaufmann — Alpages
Julien Grassen Barbe — Adios Toledo!
Matteo Franceschini—NEON
Clara Barbier-Serrano, Gwen Rouger, Julia Sinoimeri—OCCURRENCE
The Harmonics of Neon — Sound Tracks