 Musique Actuelle in Québec: Methodological issues and prospects for a genetic analysis 
This article aligns with analytic approaches to the creative process for a stylistic characterization of contemporary Quebec Francophone musique actuelle, with a focus on how this musical stream uses improvisation. Based more specifically on "comprovisationnal" strategies, from which the actualist trio Les Poules developed their album Phénix (2008), our goal is to better understand this creative process. By tracing the successive states of musical elements such as genetic criticism, ethnographic surveys, and research-creation in music, we will observe, especially with modelisations, both consistencies and variations in writing operations between different paradigms which represent Phénix in its initial, composed and performed versions. However, without exhausting issues raised by this type of production, a context generating collaborations between researchers and creators has allowed us to go further in the application of genetic analysis to musical creation, by showing reciprocal influences of the research on creation that cannot be easily ignored.