At the crossroads between music training, chamber music, instrumental and orchestral classes, the sight-reading class gives instrumentalists the essential solfeggio, musical and instrumental reflexes they need when faced with a new score. Once they have grasped the musical theme, they are in a position to give their own interpretation. This apprenticeship also forms the basis of collective playing, through ensemble sight-reading, which requires attentive listening to one's partners. Whether individual or collective, the course emphasises the concepts that are essential to all instrumental playing: intonation, rhythmic precision, nuances, flexibility of tone and the ability to construct a coherent musical phrase from reading.

Open to all Conservatoire students, the introduction to the ondes Martenot enables as many people as possible to learn about this rare instrument. The teaching methods are adapted to the sensibilities and personalities of each student, so that instrumentalists can use the ondes as part of their personal projects.

Created just after the Great War, the Ondes Martenot have left their mark on the history of music in the 20th and 21st centuries. By exploring the instrument's repertoires, putting them into historical perspective and working in depth on technique, this course aims to train wave players of a high technical and musical level, capable of interpreting both the written and future repertoires. The course also includes improvisation as a means of exploring the instrument.

Sound design refers to the creation of sound in all areas where it is necessary to think about sound, imagine it, make it and then integrate it. In this course, students are encouraged to examine all the tools at their disposal to act and create within constraints. A number of creative and production exercises are proposed in this context (radio or audiovisual programme dressings, radio jingles, credits, sound messages for public spaces, sound design for video games, musical design of video game sequences, etc.).

The aim of this subject is to make students aware of the issues involved in the mediation of contemporary repertoires and creation through :

• one or two training workshops ;
• a group mediation project involving all or some of the students on the course.

The outreach project is supervised by a mentor teacher. Various stages are organised throughout the development of the project.