GMEM and Oh les beaux jours! festival partnership

Musiques-Fictions
Ircam's ambisonic dome is co-produced with the Oh les beaux jours! festival and GMEM.

Following the Propagations festival, Oh les beaux jours! offers school screenings from Mon. May 19 - Fri. 23, 2025.

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 device.
Installed under Ircam's 49-speaker ambisonic diffusion dome, recreated in the GMEM Module, the listener is invited to a listening experience in which the imagination is stimulated by a sound environment with wide-ranging expressive possibilities, enabling the reproduction of 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.
These Musiques-Fictions contribute to making 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, vigils and places specific to oral literature (storytellers, griots...).

Mon. May 19, 2025 | 09:30 a.m.

Music-Fiction - Un pas de chat sauvage
Marie NDiaye, Gérard Pesson, David Lescot

This Music-Fiction entitled "Un pas de chat sauvage" is inspired by the West Indian artist María Martínez, singer, guitarist and dancer nicknamed the Black Malibran.
Marie NDiaye's story features a university narrator researching this character. Her work is disrupted by the appearance in her life of a singer who may well have something to do with the artist Nadar photographed in his heyday, but also in his decline.

Mon. May 19, 2025 | 6:00 pm

Music-Fiction - L'autre fille
Annie Ernaux, Aurélien Dumont, Daniel Jeanneteau

This Music-Fiction entitled "L'autre fille" is a story by and about Annie Ernaux. It is addressed to her elder sister, who died before she was born, and whose existence she learned of by chance at the age of ten.
The creative and broadcasting device allows us to stage this letter without embodying it, to elicit the author's intimacy through her own voice, her breathing and the imaginary presence of her body.
A solitary and secret word, which will remain unanswered, except for Aurélien Dumont's refined music, in an adaptation by Daniel Jeanneteau and sound design by Augustin Muller.

Wed. May 21, 2025 | 08:45

Music-Fiction - Nostalgia 2175
Anja Hilling, Núria Giménez-Comas, Anne Monfort

This Music-Fiction entitled "Nostalgia 2175" recounts the aftermath of a catastrophe in 2101... The temperature on earth reaches 60 degrees, humans can no longer live without protective clothing, and women can no longer give birth without losing their lives.
While in love with Tashko, whose burned body can no longer be touched, Pagona finds herself pregnant by another man.
This dystopia, a turbulent and violent world, forms the basis of the dialogue between director and translator Anne Montfort and composer Nuria Giménez-Comas.

Wed. May 21, 2025 | 10:20 a.m.

Music-Fiction - Bacchantes
Céline Minard, Olivier Pasquet, Thierry Bédard

This Music-Drama entitled "Bacchantes" is inspired by Céline Minard's funny and explosive novel, which brilliantly revisits the codes of the heist film.
As a typhoon threatens Hong Kong Bay, Jackie Tran's brigade encircles the world's most secure wine cellar, housed in former British army bunkers.
A trio of eccentric female bank robbers have infiltrated the cellar and are holding Mr. Coetzer's impressive stock, estimated at three hundred and fifty million dollars, hostage...

Thu. May 22, 2025 | 10h00

Music-Fiction - Three women disappear
Hélène Frappat, Para One, Nathalie Pivain

This Music-Fiction entitled "Trois femmes disparaissent" plunges the listener into a Hollywood investigation in search of three women, Tipi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and Dakota Johnson: grandmother, daughter and granddaughter.
Three generations in the world of cinema, where successive disappearances, traces and erasure are the order of the day, and where numerous films intersect: "The Birds", "Marnie", "Working Girl", "The Bonfire of the Vanities", "Fifty Shades of Grey".
The pursuit of novelist Hélène Frappat intersects with the music of Para One, sharing a common passion for cinema.

Fri. May 23, 2025 | 2:45pm

Music-Fiction - Bacchantes
Céline Minard, Olivier Pasquet, Thierry Bédard

This Music-Drama entitled "Bacchantes" is inspired by Céline Minard's funny and explosive novel, which brilliantly revisits the codes of the heist film.
As a typhoon threatens Hong Kong Bay, Jackie Tran's brigade encircles the world's most secure wine cellar, housed in former British army bunkers.
A trio of eccentric female bank robbers have infiltrated the cellar and are holding Mr. Coetzer's impressive stock, estimated at three hundred and fifty million dollars, hostage...