GMEM and Radio Grenouille/Euphonia join forces for the Phonurgia Nova Awards, 29th edition!
International competition for radio and sound creation
1 day of meetings, 3 days of listening, 20 hours of creation, 47 sound proposals that reformulate the art of radio, from intimate journalism to global investigations.
The Phonurgia Nova Awards are an observatory of emerging sound creation.
Once a year, with the help of numerous European partners, they identify and honor authors who explore the real and the imaginary in sound, highlighting exceptional creations of audio storytelling in all its forms.
As in previous editions, the jury will deliberate in public and in the presence of the authors during a 3-day listening marathon, during which all the works (or excerpts) in the 2024 selection will be broadcast, and the prizes and creative residencies will be awarded.
Prior to this, a day of professional meetings for those involved in the creation of sound and radio accessible to all...
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Born in Arles on the premises of Actes Sud, and joined by a whole community of accomplices, the Phonurgia Nova Awards first grew up in the shadow of photography, before making a name for itself. From 2011, the event moved to Paris at the Gaïté Lyrique, then to the BnF, the Ircam, then the Centre Wallonie Bruxelles. In 2024, it comes to Marseille at the invitation of GMEM and Radio Grenouille / Euphonia.
Each edition takes shape in an abundance of boundless creativity that, under the guise of "radio", questions the sounds of the world, the liveliness of speech, the thickness of silences. Each time, it's the promise of embracing the best of contemporary creation. But it's also the privilege of witnessing, live, the work of the jury - made up of critics, essayists and sound practitioners - as it builds up the Palmarès, step by step, through inspiring discussions, nourished by multiple discoveries and shared with the audience. (...).
Marc Jacquin
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47 sound and radio pieces are in the running for the 5 prizes:
Découvertes Pierre Schaeffer
Fiction sonore
Field recording / Paysage sonore
Art sonore
Documentaire "Archives de la parole"
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The nominees
After a lengthy process, the pre-selection committee has chosen 47 creators around whom to build a 5-part Marseillaise edition, which gives pride of place to new talent.
Audacities, explorations, sound art and narrative innovation: from radio to podcast, all the sound forms of the 21st century are present. Broadcast in exceptional listening conditions, they will be compared, commented and enlightened in front of you by the talent of those who defend them: composers, producers, programmers, essayists and critics.
This Marseilles edition marks both the arrival on the scene of a new generation of professionals attracted by the narrative potential of sound, and the stubborn presence of authors with familiar names, whose obstinacy in unfolding the language of radio compels admiration. Eschewing ambient formatting, tackling the shores of "sound film", "acoustic poem" or "phonography of the real", their explorations are part of a poetic vein once the territory of Pierre Schaeffer's studio d'essai, Alain Veinstein's "Nuits magnétiques", in search of a "parole jouant avec le feu" (1) or France Culture's ACR (2).
Both inside and outside the big radio houses, a new generation is seizing on the tools of recording to "take listening further", deepening its power to "unveil" and reshuffle the cards of sound and spoken forms.
(1) Alain Veinstein, interview with Marie Richeux, Le Book Club, May 3, 2024.
(2) France Culture's Atelier de Création Radiophonique, to which this 29th edition pays tribute in its "out of competition" section through the figure of Yann Paranthoën.
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Call for applications
Closed at midnight on July 31, the call for applications received 336 creations and projects from 27 countries, including:
119 creations in Archives de la Parole
27 in "Découvertes Pierre Schaeffer "
38 in Fiction sonore
38 in Paysage sonore
55 in Art Radio.
And 59 applications for 2025 creative residencies at the Avatar Centre studio, Art Zoyd Studios, GMEM - Centre national de création musicale Marseille, Euphonia Marseille and Phonurgia Nova.
GMEM - CNCM
Radio Grenouille / Euphonia
Art Zoyd studio (Valenciennes), Avatar (Québec), Bnf - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris)
GMEM (Friche la Belle de Mai)
41 Jobin Street13003
Marseille
BY RESERVATION
subject to availability
> billetterie@gmem.org
LISTENING SESSIONS
INPUBLIC
Listening days for nominees and jury deliberations
Broadcast of all works in the 2024 selection
Thu. November 14
Venue: GMEM (Module)
10h00 - 12h00
Prix Découvertes Pierre Schaeffer & Coup de cœur du CWB de Paris
14h00 - 18h00
Prix Fiction sonore
20h30 - 22h00
Cartes blanches with international radio players and "out of competition" artist programming
Fri. November 15
GMEM (Module)
09:30 - 12:30
Prix Field recording / Paysage sonore (Musée Réattu - Ville d'Arles)
14:00 - 18:15
Prix Art sonore
20:30 - 22:00
Cartes blanches with international radio players and "out of competition" artist programming.
Sat. November 16
GMEM (Module)
10h00 - 12h15 & 14h00 - 17h30
"Archives de la parole" documentary prize
BY RESERVATION
subject to availability
> billetterie@gmem.org
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Sat. November 16
Location: Friche la Belle de Mai (Restaurant Les grandes Tables)
7:00 pm - 12:00 am
Prize-giving ceremony
Musical and festive closing evening organized by Radio Grenouille
with DJ set by Grenouille residents: OC 69 and Rorre Ecco for a dance between cosmic grooves, Psyche-Folk, Ambient, House, Dub Techno, traditional and New wave music...
FREE ACCESS WITHOUT RESERVATION
MEETINGS
LIVE AND IN PUBLIC
Professional meetings for players in sound and radio creation
designed for both professionals and a wider audience.
Wed. November 13
1:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: GMEM (Module)
BY RESERVATION
subject to availability
> billetterie@gmem.org
Live broadcasts on Radio Grenouille, 88.8 FM, DAB+, webradio & podcast
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3 themes to share at the microphone, live and in public:
Electroacoustic music, eternal youth?
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
From its foundation by Pierre Schaeffer to its current cross-fertilization with all forms of sound expression, injecting spatialization issues into the field of visual arts and regenerating the aesthetic purpose of cold, commercial "sound design", the practice of electroacoustic composition bears witness to an unexpected vitality at the start of the 21st century.
Jules Negrier (GRM)
Alessandro Bosetti (artist/composer)
François Wong (Cité de la musique/prof. electroacoustic class)
Chloé Sanchez (radio documentarist)
Creative scene archives: a medium for sound, a medium for meaning
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Beyond the patrimonialization of sound archives, let's look at some possible typologies and solutions for a conservation that would extend the creative gesture through transmission.
Fabrice Menneteau (BNF)
Nicolas Frize (artist)
Marie-Madeleine Mervant-Roux (researcher)
Production of sound creation: an impossible equation?
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
With one foot in artistic creation and the other in media, sound creation has yet to find an appropriate economic model!
Irène Omelianenko (producer Radio France & co-founder Addor)
Alexandre Plank (radio producer & founder studio Making waves)
Carmelo Iannuzzo (ACSR Brussels)
Benoit Bories (author & founder Faidos Sonore)
Anne-Claire Lainé (Festival Longueur d'ondes)
Radio Grenouille, GMEM and Euphonia
Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles Paris, SACEM, GRM (INA), Phonurgia Nova / Musée Réattu
organizers
Anne Gillot, Léa Minod, Judith Bordas, Alessandro Bosetti, Noémie Fargier, Marc Namblard, Benjamin Abitan, Jean-Loup Graton, Daniel Deshays, Severine Janssen, Juliette Volcler, Simone Douek, Marie-Madeleine Mervant-Roux, Christian Sebille
Jury 2024
