Acousmatic pieces by Martin Bédard, Robert Normandeau, Mathew Adkins, Laurie Radford, Pete Stollery, plus a videomusic by Pierre Alexandre Tremblay will be presented during the MANTIS South-North Weekend Festival from March 9 to 11, 2007 in Manchester (UK). A total of 21 acousmatic compositions and 6 audiovisual works have been selected amongst the 186 proposals from composers from 32 countries.

Composer Hans Tutschku won the First Prize (Category A) in the Musica Nova 2006 International Electroacoustic Music Competition (Prague, Czech Republic) for his work Rojo. Silent Red by Mathew Adkins was amongst the finalists.

Mathew Adkins will present Silent Red at the Barbican Theatre in Plymouth (UK) for the In The Flesh Festival, to be held from November 17 — 19, 2006. Mathew Adkins will also present Mapping at City University in London (UK) on December 15.

Mathew Adkins and Martin Bédard are amongst the composers featured in the Seoul International Computer Music Festival (SICMF), to be held on November 23 to 26, 2006. Adkins will present his work Silk to Steel on November 24, and Bédard will present Topographie de la noirceur on November 25.

From the mysterious territories of Mapping to the vast cosmic spaces of Deepfield, even with his daily commuting near Birmingham in Melt, Mathew Adkins takes us on many journeys through “unknown worlds” (Mondes inconnus), a DVD-A in stereo and Surround 5.1.

The 6th BIMESP festival — directed by Flô Menezes — took place from June 10 to 17, 2006 at Villa Mariani in São Paulo (Brazil). Some of the concerts presented works from the 4th CIMESP 2001 (International Electroacoustic Music Contest of São Paulo) such as Vol d’Arondes by Francis Dhomont, Serendipities and Synchronicities by Pete Stollery, Rojo by Hans Tutschku, Silk to Steel by Mathew Adkins, and Éden by Robert Normandeau. One concert was dedicated to works from Sweden, including the recent Dreaming in Darkness by Åke Parmerud and works by Skog, Johansson, Hedman, Grahn, Sundin, and Liljekvist.