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Editorial by Christian Sebille, Director of GMEM - Centre national de création musicale

To test the new technological revolution that has surreptitiously entered our daily lives, I provided an AI (artificial intelligence) with the following words: "festival - creative music - Marseille - May 2025". The result was an impressive text that I could have used myself, albeit with a few corrections.
I regenerate... a new text appears, then a third! 

Recurring words and syntaxes emerge that speak of creation, novelty, experimentation, inclusion, diversity, Marseille ville monde, richness, eclecticism. But nothing about "why"? 

Why, within a society, provide the conditions for inventing, learning and judging?
Why promote access to the freedom to discover and think? 

Pour-quoi ré-sa ej par-fois - "Recitation n°10" by Georges Aperghis. 

Reading, entering a story or a theater without knowing what you're going to hear, listen to or see, is a bit like playing with destiny, transforming the path you've chosen, escaping from what's automatically given to you.

Why persist in not responding to what the majority want? The flow of what is manufactured responds to the expectations of the majority, who themselves are determined by the flow of what is manufactured.

Opening a book by William Faulkner or Fyodor Dostoyevsky, listening to a quartet by Ludwig van Beethoven, or a concerto by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is an act that opens up access to another world, transforming us into something that will never be the same again. But what an effort!

Encouraging access to creativity is part of this freedom, sometimes frightening, of new worlds that will be our foundations for tomorrow.

In La Pluie d'été, Marguerite Duras has Ernesto say this enigmatic phrase when he escapes from school: "Because at school they teach me things I don't know." 

What does Ernesto escape? From what fear?
From losing what could move him to the point of being transformed?

Could AI have written this text?

Come and discover what you won't hear anywhere else, and take part in this new adventure that you'll compose yourself, by choice.