On January 31, 2008 Mathew Adkins will be giving a solo concert at the SARC at the Queen’s University Belfast (Northern Ireland, UK). The concert will include Silk to Steel, Aerial, Deepfield available on Mondes inconnus, and the premiere of a new work: rima (2008).

The 7th International Electroacoustic Music Contest of São Paulo (CIMESP 2007) received works of 208 composers from 33 countries! The international jury formed by Christian Calon, Gilles Gobeil, Flô Menezes and João Pedro Oliveira has awarded, amongst others, Liaisons mécaniques by Nicolas Bernier (2nd Prize ex aequo) and honorable mentions were given to 7 works, including those of Elizabeth Anderson, Manuella Blackburn, António Ferreira, Raúl Minsburg, Steingrimur Rohloff, Diana Simpson, Hans Tutschku. Premières traces du Choucas by Francis Dhomont won the Public Prize.

Were also announced the selected works for the upcoming 7th International Biennial for Electroacoustic Music of São Paulo (VII BIMESP 2008) in the fall of 2008. They include: Last Thoughts Before Silence by Mathew Adkins, scènes, rendez-vous by Pete Stollery, Kaleidoscope: Arcade by Peter Batchelor, When I was Wood by Stephan Dunkelman.

Futura 2007, the international festival of acousmatic art, will take place from August 17 au 19, 2007 in Crest (France). This festival’s edition build around Christian Zanési’s work will notably host, Amongst many composers, Mathew Adkins, Patrick Ascione, Darren Copeland, Denis Dufour, Chantal Dumas, Bernard Parmegiani, Laurie Radford, Pete Stollery, Benjamin Thigpen, and Annette Vande Gorne.

The 3rd part of June 18, 2007 radio programme Électrain de nuit — broadcasted on France vivace (Radio France) and hosted by Christian Zanesi and David Jisse — will be dedicated to label empreintes DIGITALes. The music from the most recent releases by Mathew Adkins, Darren Copeland, Marcelle Deschênes, Gilles Gobeil, and Adrian Moore will be on air on Monday morning June 18 from 1 am to 4 am.

Mathew Adkins’s music will travel all over America and Europe, this summer:

• May 19: Noumena (cello, and electronics) will be performed by Iracema de Andrade at Sala Manuel M Ponce of the Palacio de las Bellas Artes in Mexico City (Mexico) as part of the 29th Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez; Cortex will be performed at the IMMArts TechArt20xx Exhibition of the Northerm Illinois University in DeKalb (US);
• May 24: Silk to Steel will be performed at the Surrounded Symposia taking place at the University of Keele (UK);
• July 8: Cortex will be performed again at the Digital Music Research Network Conference at Leeds Metropolitan University (UK);
• August 18: Silent Red will be performed at the Futura 2007 festival in Crest (France.

Not only Martin Bédard will be part of the composers invited at the next Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival FEMF… Mathew Adkins will also present Cortex on April 12, 2007. He will present this musical piece again on April 28 at the Boston Cyberarts Festival.