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...).

Tue. May 20, 2025 | 10h00

Music-Fiction - En voiture!
Olivia Rosenthal, Christian Sebille, Célie Pauthe

We love cars because they give us the freedom to move around, but we hate them because they break us and our lives. The automobile is an ambivalent object, occupying our imaginations whether we like it or not, and polluting our visual and acoustic environment. The car is a source of traumatic memories (crashes and carcasses) or of family vacations. 

From generation to generation, the metamorphoses of these gleaming, metallic bodies have accompanied our advancing years. Cars date. 

Olivia Rosenthal, Christian Sebille and Célie Pauthe decided to tell this story, which is at once intimate, social and generational, from the DS of the 60s to the automated Tesla that will soon rule our journeys. Using the listening device provided by Ircam, they created an immersive universe of voices, rhythms, shocks, sounds and memories of accidents. By weaving together words, noises, ritornellos and other musical effects, they reveal the complexity and richness of what binds us to the car.

Tue. May 20, 2025 | 12:00 noon

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.

Tue. May 27, 2025 | 10h00

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.

Tue. May 27, 2025 | 12:00 noon

Musique-Fiction - Believing in wild animals
Nastassja Martin, Frédéric Pattar, Mathilde Delahaye

This Music-Fiction entitled "Believing in wild beasts" tells the story of how, in 2015, while on an anthropological mission in the farthest reaches of Siberia, Nasstassja Martin, out alone in the forest, is attacked by a bear that tears off half her face. 

Disfigured, she underwent numerous operations in Russia, then in France. 

The researcher tells the story of her reconstruction, both physical and psychological, but goes beyond the story of this traumatic accident to reflect on the encounter between human and non-human worlds at a time when the planet's ecosystems are collapsing.