What is Les Modulations?
Concerts, performances, regular events - in other words, a season organized by GMEM.
Les Modulations invites you to discover sound and musical experiences at close hand with the artists.
When and where?
Every third Tuesday of the month at Friche la Belle de Mai;
one Sunday per quarter at the Opéra de Marseille.
Programming
from September to December 2025 > below
from January to May 2026 > coming soon...
Tue. September 16, 2025 | 7:00 pm
Friche la Belle de Mai (Petit Plateau)
PERFORMANCE
Beirut Birds
Beirut Birds is a sound capsule that interweaves live improvisations, interviews, field recordings and the sounds of objects symbolizing migration. Performed live, it is accompanied by juxtaposed images of urban life in the Lebanese capital and the migration of birds across the Mediterranean. An approach that is both intimate and political.
Nour Sokhon
design, composition, manipulation, live electronics, image projections
Gabriel Haddad
visuals
Tue. October 21, 2025 | 7:00 pm
Friche la Belle de Mai (Petit Plateau)
CONCERT
Auzet, Collignon, Jodlowski, Wendling
Quartet exploring the paths of improvised music, jazz and electronic music. ACJW is the result of an exceptional encounter between four contemporary artists who construct free and spontaneous listening trajectories.
Between live video, written and improvised music, acoustic and electric, a percussion panel is jostled by various electronic instruments and sounds... A daring collaboration.
Roland Auzet
percussion
Médéric Collignon
voice, cornet, saxophone
Pierre Jodlowski
electronics
Wilfried Wendling
live video
Modulations (GMEM) & JEST - Jamais d'Eux Sans Toi (AMI)
An evening of partnership based around two concerts...
Tue. November 18, 2025 | 7:00 pm and 9:00 pm
7:00 pm | Part 1 :
La Prédiction des oscillations
The fruit of a meeting between a composer and a neuroscience researcher, this "unidentified musical and scenic object" weaves scientific discourse on the workings of our brains, contemporary musical creation and original theatrical situations with humor and poetry. A blend of sensibility and knowledge, in joyful spaces of resonance.
Benjamin Dupé
conception, music, dramaturgy and direction, live musical electronics, spoken voice
Daniele Schön
creative associate, cello, spoken voice
Julien Frénois
sound and technical direction
9:00 pm | Part 2 :
PERFORMANCE
Substrate
An inverted ceremony in which the performers break down the music. A guitar is already playing with itself, placed in front of an amp, feeding a drone saturated with its own feedback. The adrenalin of feedback gives way to a swarm of acoustic micro-phenomena... A plunge into a dazed state enhanced by a play of lights and spectral smoke.
Flore & Arandel
design, musical composition, performers
Julien Appert & Julien Dufou
smoke and light design
Sun. December 14, 2025 | 11:00 am
Opéra de Marseille (Foyer Ernest Reyer)
CONCERT
Inflexions
A set of pieces with changing, unpredictable variations. Using a connected ring, the singer manages her relationship with the sound events embedded in the spoken and sung words, integrating a degree of invention and uncertainty into the performance. It's no longer a question of fixed notes, but of sound choreography with multiple states and intensities.
Pascale Criton
composer
Juliet Fraser
soprano
Caroline Delume
guitar
NathalieForget
ondes Martenot
Charlotte Testu
double bass
Monica Gil Gilardo
computer music production
Alexis Baskind
computer music production (Liber)
Tue. December 16, 2024 | 7:00 pm
Friche la Belle de Mai (Petit Plateau)
CONCERT
Affine plan
Carte blanche to Jean-Philippe Gross.
Between quasi-metronomic percussion and intriguing soundscapes, this three-part evening blends repetitive music, drone and electroacoustics. Jean-Philippe Gross develops a physical relationship with sound, playing with ruptures and acoustic phenomena at the crossroads of electronic and instrumental music.
Stéphane Garin
Jeanne Larrouturou
Thore Warland
percussion, composition
Jean-Philippe Gross
electronics, composition
RATES
Full: 8€
Reduced: 6€*
*Young people aged 12-25, students, jobseekers, social security recipients, intermittent workers, seniors aged 65 and over - with proof of age.
Modulations loyalty card: 40€*
Limited number of seats
*Gives access to all Modulations in the 2025-26 season
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Latecomers will not be admitted to the auditorium, as some shows - at the request of the artistic teams - do not tolerate late entries.
TICKETSFROM SEPT. 1. 2025
Online: gmem-cncm.mapado.com
By e-mail: billetterie@gmem.org
On site: on the day of the performance, half an hour before the show, subject to availability.
La Friche box office: Les grandes Tables restaurant
WITHIN THE MODULATIONS
What are the Modulations?
Concerts, performances, regular events...
In other words, a season organized by GMEM.
1st semester dates:
16/09/25 - 15/10 - 18/11 - 14/12 - 16/12
2nd semester dates:
20/01 - 17/02 - 17/03 - 22/03 - 14/04 - 10/05
