Against a backdrop of profound change in the cultural industries, this series of meetings and lectures aims to present the ways in which music is produced, distributed and disseminated today, as well as the diversity of possible statutes, regimes and support schemes, so that the most appropriate can be chosen for each project. Through discussions with professionals who are committed to providing practical, concrete information, students explore the various stages involved in setting up a company or association, as well as the difficulties and skills required to get started.

The improvisation/interpretation/composition workshop is a place for guided research where students explore, invent, refine their awareness and the accuracy of their gestures in order to be as close as possible to their expressive intentions and interpretive desires. Improvisation and composition are also times for learning how to look at others, read, identify, name and glimpse the diversity of approaches. In improvisation, whether individual or collective, targeted instructions open up a range of possibilities so that everyone can find their own understanding and imagination. The composition develops a form of writing to make this material legible and sensitive. There are a variety of approaches to composition: a more 'instinctive' structure, manipulation of certain compositional parameters, use of randomness, structures borrowed from other disciplines.