The 5th Qwartz Electronic Music Awards took place on April 3, 2009 at Cirque d’hiver Bouglione in Paris (France). Lionel Marchetti has been awarded the Artist Qwartz and won in the experimental category with his work Adèle et Hadrien (le livre des vacances). In the artwork and packaging category, the winner is Skoltz_Kolgen’s video Silent Room. Christian Zanési has been awarded the Special Qwartz.

Hildegard Westerkamp will give a conference on her compositional work related to soundscape studies on April 20, 2009 at the Goldsmiths University of London (UK).

Åke Parmerud and Roger Cochini will each be awarded the Qwartz Hommage Pierre-Schaeffer during the gala of the 5th Qwartz Electronic Music Awards at Cirque d’hiver Bouglione in Paris (France) on April 3, 2009. This prize pays tribute to a composer of electroacoutics. The previous prize winners are Bernard Parmegiani (2006); Henri Pousseur (2007); Beatriz Ferreyra and Jean-Claude Risset (2008).

The 27th International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) will present Sisyphe, a videomusic by Inés Wickmann and Francis Dhomont, on March 21, 2009 at the Cinémathèque québécoise in Montréal.

Paroles égales (Catherine Ego, spoken voice; Arturo Parra, guitar and original music) has presented three premieres on the university radio Javeriana Estéreo in Santafé de Bogotá (Colombia) on March 1, 2009. amongst those pieces, Miguel by Arturo Parra, a work for guitar and tape which was awarded the first prize at the Concurso Nacional de Composición Musical Ciudad de Bogotá in 2008.

The videomusic Orchid by Milliseconde topographie is nominated in the 5th Qwartz Electronic Music Awards in the video category. Qwartz 5 will take place on April 2 and 3, 2009 [new dates] at Cirque d’hiver Bouglione in Paris (France).