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 2024 > below
from January to May 2025 > coming soon...
Tue. September 17, 2024 | 7:00 pm
Friche la Belle de Mai (Petit Plateau)
PERFORMANCE
Elephant! You shake your sheep
Combining the intensity of distorted bagpipe flows with electronics, Annabelle Playe and Harry Gorski-Brown explore rhythmic tensions and invigorating textures through accumulation, decomposition and sonic immersion. A journey on the limits of bagpipes with the infinite potential of electronics, a powerful composition that explores energy in various forms.
Annabelle Playe
composition, live electronics
Harry Gorski-Brown
composition, bagpipes, live electronics
RimaBen Brahim
lights
Tue. October 15, 2024 | 7:00 pm
Friche la Belle de Mai (Petit Plateau)
PERFORMANCE
Autoreverse
Since 2020, Nina Garcia and Arnaud Rivière have been joining forces around a pile of speakers to build music as immediate as it is incandescent. Uncut attacks, amplified scrap metal, caught feedbacks, provoked chances, inviting melodies, counter-points on the line, backwards and forwards: a high-intensity concert!
Nina Garcia
electric guitar
Arnaud Rivière
prepared mixer, repaired electrophone
Modulations (GMEM) & JEST - Jamais d'Eux Sans Toi (AMI)
An evening of partnership based around two concerts...
Tue. November 19 | 7:00 pm and 9:00 pm
7:00 pm | Part 1 :
Terrae Incognitae
Kamilya Jubran decided to initiate an evolving platform that would allow new sound units to blossom. In this first episode, she invites Floy Krouchi and her bass transformed by electronics, as well as Lebanese artist Youmna Saba and her treated oud, for an exalted crossing of unknown territories.
Kamilya Jubran
voice, prepared oud
Floy Krouchi
augmented bass
Youmna Saba
voice, treated oud
9:00 pm | Part 2 :
CONCERT
Radicants
The Kora, an emblematic instrument of Mandingo culture played by virtuoso Ballaké Sissoko, meets Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch's electronics, radically expanding the instrument's possibilities. An intimate blend of traditional roots and computerized sound projection, Radicants draws from
Ballaké Sissoko
kora
Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch
electronics, artistic direction
Gilles Gentner
lighting designJean-François Domingues
sound and lighting control
Sun. December 8, 2024 | 11:00 am
Opéra de Marseille (Foyer Ernest Reyer)
CONCERT
Hopetown
Hopetown is a collection of imaginary songs, improvised from texts by Claudia Solal, a cosmic, timeless song. "The Solal / Delbecq duo, a first-class performance - a new Pierrot lunaire - of fascinating expressiveness and a unique genre..." All about Jazz
voice
Benoît Delbecq
piano
Tue. December 17, 2024 | 7:00 pm
Friche la Belle de Mai (Petit Plateau)
CONCERT
A Sentimental History of Intervals
Asking the musicians of the Dedalus ensemble about their relationship with intervals, Alessandro Bosetti asked each of them to sing four notes. Based on the resulting harmonic charter, he composed a Histoire sentimentale des intervalles for seven instruments, with microtonal writing and meticulous tuning, exploring a geography of musical pitches.
Alessandro Bosetti
composition
Ensemble Dedalus
composed of
Didier Aschour
guitar
Amélie Berson
flute and keyboard
Cyprien Busolini
viola
Éric Chalan
double bass
Thierry Madiot
bass trombone
Christian Pruvost
trumpet
Deborah Walker
cello
RATES
Full: 8€
Reduced: 6€*
*Young people aged 12-25, students, jobseekers, recipients of minimum social benefits, 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 2024-25 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. 2. 2024
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:
17/09/24 - 15/10 - 19/11 - 8/12 - 17/12
2nd semester dates:
21/01/25- 18/02 - 18/03 - 23/03 - 15/04 - 11/05
