Spanning an entire school year, the "creation" program aims to provide students at Lycée Frédéric Joliot Curie, specializing in circus arts, with the keys to listening and understanding, while awakening their artistic sensibilities through the production of a musical composition that will be performed at the end of the workshops. It is tailored to the challenges faced by schools and the approaches taken by teaching teams.
The introductory workshops, the first milestone in this journey, allow school audiences to attend a session discovering the tools and languages of contemporary music creation. Accompanied by Nathalie Ong, students are introduced to the world of the sound artist.
The second part, which takes the form of a school trip to the Janots cave in Cassis, aims to collect sounds in situ in order to reflect on and design the beginnings of a sound or musical production, in the presence of sound artist Nathalie Ong.
The third part of the creative process takes place in the GMEM studios and aims to introduce students to studio recording techniques and sound editing and mixing software.
The students' creation will be presented on June 5, 2026, at Archaos — Pôle national Cirque.
Nathalie Ong
Sound artist
Nathalie Ong is a sound artist whose work ranges from radio creation to electroacoustic composition, from recorded media to live performance, writing to improvisation, portraiture to landscape, narration to musicality.
Nathalie trained in sound and radio creation at Phonurgia Nova and in the electroacoustic composition class at the Cité de la Musique in Marseille. She trained in life storytelling with biographer Marie d'Hombres and in literary creation in the Ecopoetics and Creation Master's program at Aix-Marseille University.
In 2017, she participated in the creation of a music festival for young audiences at Le Cri du Port (Marseille). Radio and podcasts became tools for mediation and collective creation.
Since then, she has been writing and composing for the shows of the Micromondes company, founded in 2023.
Lycée Joliot-Curie, Aubagne (13)
4 avenue des Goums13400
Aubagne
Introductory workshop
Fri, November 28, 2025 | 2:00 p.m.
Lycée Joliot-Curie, Aubagne (13)
Sound collection workshop
Mon. January 19, 2026 | 9:00 a.m.
Grotte des Janots, Cassis (13)
Sound recording and mixing workshop
Mon. March 2, 2026 | 9:00 a.m.
Friche la Belle de Mai (GMEM)
Nathalie Ong
artist