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.
programfrom September to December 2025
from January to May 2026 > below
Tue, January 20, 2026 | 7:00 p.m.
Friche la Belle de Mai (Petit Plateau)
Performance
Protest of the Physical
The lovemusic collective continues its in-depth exploration of the body as a source and vehicle for musical creation. In four scenes, movement, sound, and perception intertwine to offer an embodied experience. The performers' bodies are intrinsically linked to the music and its physical demands, serving as a foil to highlight how movement shapes our listening experience.
lovemusic
collective of performers
Nik Bohnenberger
Annette Schlünz
Bethany Younge
Helmut Oehring
composition
Anne-Hélène Kotoujansky
choreographer
Tue, February 17, 2026 | 7:00 p.m.
Friche la Belle de Mai (Petit Plateau)
Concert
Goebbels / Glass / Radigue
Scottish bagpipe player Erwan Keravec offers a performance that is as astonishing as it is virtuosic, venturing into uncharted musical territory. With two commissions from Heiner Goebbels and Éliane Radigue, in addition to his appropriation of a historic work by Philip Glass—a radical manifesto of repetitive music—the most atypical of Breton pipers continues to push the boundaries of his instrument.
Erwan Keravec
bagpipes
Tue, March 17, 2026 | 7:00 p.m.
Friche la Belle de Mai (Petit Plateau)
Performance
Montagne sauvage
From its most intimate tremors to its deafening whirlwinds, to its abyssal silence, theMontagne sauvage quintet captures the essence of the elemental forces that animate the majestic mountain landscape. Their music, entirely improvised, draws on free jazz, contemporary music, and traditional Anatolian songs, in a lively dialogue between humans and nature.
Pascal Charrier
folk guitar, vocals
Julien Pontvianne
tenor saxophone, clarinet
Ariel Tessier
drums, percussion
Sigrid Aftret
tenor saxophone, flute
Canan Domurcakli
vocals
Sun, March 22, 2026 | 11:00 a.m.
Marseille Opera House (Ernest Reyer Foyer)
Concert
NYX
Discovered in 2019 on France Musique during a concert presented by Anne Montaron, NYX brings together three improvisers who are at the forefront of European experimental music. Drawing on their personal realms of noise, agitation, and frenzy, their performance lies somewhere between a dark tale and improvised music, orchestrated in a disturbing and profound manner.
Sophie Agnel
piano
Angelica Castello
electronics & flutes
Isabelle Duthoit
voice & clarinet
Tue, April 21, 2026 | 7:00 p.m.
Friche la Belle de Mai (Petit Plateau)
Musical theater
Wastories
A musical theater creation initiated by the Brussels-based ensemble HYOID, Wastories is a work commissioned from Austrian composer Eva Reiter and German librettist Hannah Dübgen. Four voices and electronics, along with video by Koen Broos, combine to explore multiple imaginations and territories through the prism of personal stories related to waste and invisible pollution.
Eva Reiter
composition, co-dramaturgy
Hannah Dübgen
libretto, co-dramaturgy
Koen Broos
video
Collectif HYOID
collective of performers
Fabienne Seveillac
concept, artistic coordination
Sun, May 10, 2026 | 11:00 a.m.
Marseille Opera House (Ernest Reyer Foyer)
Concert
Creation 2026
The Parophone
Poetic, playful, and humorous, this concert marks the debut of Parophone, a unique trio bringing together mezzo-soprano, viola, and clarinets. A "three-headed machine" where instruments become voices and voices become instruments... Between sound poetry, theater of timbres, and wordplay.
Laura Muller
mezzo-soprano
Laurent Camatte
viola
Alain Billard
clarinets
ticket prices Full price: €8
Reduced price: €6*
*Young people aged 12-25, students, job seekers, recipients of minimum social benefits, intermittent workers, seniors aged 65 and over — proof required.
Modulations loyalty card: €40*
Limited number of seats
*Gives access to all Modulations performances during the 2025–26 season
Practical information
Latecomers will not be admitted to the theater, as some performances do not allow late entry at the request of the artistic teams.
Ticket office
Online: gmem-cncm.mapado.com
By email: billetterie@gmem.org
On site: on the day of the performance, half an hour before the show, subject to availability.
Ticket office location at La Friche: at the restaurant Les grandes Tables
As part of Modulations
What are Modulations?
These are concerts, performances, regular events...
In other words, a season organized by the GMEM.
Dates for the first semester:
09/16/25 — 10/21 — 11/18 — 12/14 — 12/16
Dates for the second semester:
01/20/26 — 02/17 — 03/17 — 03/22 — 04/21 — 05/10
