Kristoff K.Roll has composed the music for the film Walpurgis by filmmaker Frédéric Choffat. The film’s first screening will be on August 7, 2008 at the 61st Locarno International Film Festival (Italy).

The Rencontres 2008 presented by Phonurgia Nova will take place on July 26 - 28, 2008 at Cinéma le Méjan-Actes Sud in Arles (France). Tree important creative artists will explore the laguages of sound (concrete and imaginary languages): Daniel Deshays, Francis Dhomont, and Goran Vejvoda.

Roger Doyle has created the sound design of the live installation Here Lies. It will be presented during the Galway Arts Festival on July 22-24, 2008 (6 to 9 pm) in the Meeting Room of Imperial Hotel in Galway (Ireland).

An article by Gayle Young on Louis Dufort was published in the summer 2008 issue of Musicworks (#101). The author gives an overview of the diversity of Louis Dufort’s artistic forms of expression, and presents the new paths that now inspire the composer.

The 5th edition of the Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC ’08) will take place from July 31 to August 3, 2008 in Berlin (Germany). Starting July 23 concerts will be presented as part of the Inventionen 2008 festival. The joined programme is absolutely outstanding: many artists will be there, such as Martin Bédard, François Bayle, Ivo Malec, Bernard Parmegiani, Jean-Claude Risset, Denis Smalley, Horacio Vaggione, Annette Vande Gorne… Not to be missed:

• July 26: concert by Gilles Gobeil (Trilogie d’ondes) with Suzanne Binet-Audet playing ondes Martenot;
• July 27: concert “60 Jahre Musique Concrète & 50 Jahre GRM”;
• July 31: SMC ’08 opening concert with Gilles Gobeil (premiere of Castalie), Ludger Brümmer, Hans Tutschku et Åke Parmerud.

Robert Normandeau has been invited as an international keynote speaker for the ACMC on July 10-12, 2008 in Sydney (Australia). This year’s conference theme ‘Sound:Space’ aims to encourage discussion of contemporary issues including: performance of electroacoustic music, music and the Internet, Surround sound in recording, composition and performance.