The third prize of 500 euros is awarded to Axel Chemla--Romeu-Santos for his achievements in the field of generative music, by an international jury composed of Agoria, Greg Beller, Berrak Nil Boya, Andrea Faroppa, Georg Hajdu, Holly Herndon, Philippe Langlois, Frank Madlener, Miller Puckette and Anna Xambó, at the first edition of the generative music prize, organized by the IRCAM forum.

Genesis v1 - generative version is a first example of no-input generation with neural networks. Instead of relying of data extracted from human practices, genesis rather intends to amplify and overdrive the inner materiality of several neural networks, providing a strange encounter with a self-listening system of four generative agents that have been designed without any external data.