Embark on a musical and vocal voyage through the heart of the multimedia library! You’ll stroll through a tale by Marguerite Duras, interspersed with a short lecture on the underwater sound world of the Calanques. A fictional and documentary immersion.

David, the shark and the 700-million-year-old spring is an original musical creation combining a tale by Marguerite Duras, a stroll through the media library and a short lecture on “biophony”, the study of the underwater sound world in the Calanques of Marseille’s coastline. The story will be set to music by 3 instruments: saxophone, percussion and cello, and an actress-singer. They will invite the public to visit the media library’s story-related sections. This funny and moving tale, taken from Marguerite Duras’s “L’Eté 80”, tells the story of a child, David, and a shark named Ratekétaboum, who takes him in after a shipwreck. David and the shark’s travels take them across the oceans, swimming between islands, rubbing shoulders with other aquatic beings until they meet “the source”, a very old creature made entirely of water. This spring contains the memory of the oceans, emerges from the Atlantic Cistern and, on certain evenings, begins to dance. The spring, like the sea, is the very element of writing. It inspires the temporality of an eternal recommencement caught up in the continuous variation of sensations and colors, which is in keeping with a profoundly musical theme.

The tale will culminate in a surprise: a lecture in sounds and images, given by a researcher-acoustician from the PRISM laboratory in Marseille.