18 November 2023

17:35 – 18:20

Amphithéâtre Faure

Gilles Maté

Gilles Maté was born in the year of publication of the Meadows report The Limits to Growth, and grew up in a new town in eastern Paris. He studied Culture and Communication at Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle. He is a musician and became a publisher of analog and digital phonograms by co-creating and managing the independent music label ERR REC.

Conference: Is the recorded music industry energy-dependent?

From its recording to its distribution and sale on digital and physical media, recorded music is a mainstay of an energy-intensive music industry with a fairly disastrous carbon footprint. Are solutions emerging? Should environmental issues be sacrificed on the altar of music, or should we urgently question our cultural practices inherited from the 20th century?