Musiques & Recherches presents a concert of new acousmatic works by Patrick Ascione, Régis Renouard Larivière and Annette Vande Gorne on April 28 2006 at the Petit Théâtre Mercelis in Brussels (Belgium).

The first Akousma concert of the GRM’s 27th season will be held at 5 pm on Sunday January 8, 2006 at the Salle Olivier Messiaen of the Maison de Radio France (Paris). The concert will feature works by Patrick Ascione, Christian Zanési, Jean-Marc Duchenne, and Beatriz Ferreyra.

Au fil de l’eau, a concert featuring works produced at the Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio, will be presented aboard the barge Équisonnance on December 10, 2005 in Tournai (Belgium). Patrick Ascione, Stephan Dunkelman, Theodore Lotis, and Annette Vande Gorne are amongst the featured composers.

Élektrophonie presents the 2005 Nuit bleue from July 8 to 10, 2005 at Arc et Senans’ Saline Royale (France). Nuit bleue 2005 is the 4th edition of this festival dedicated to new electroacoustic and electronic music, and is presented in coproduction with the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom) and Musiques & Recherches (Belgium). Every acousmatic composition will be spatialized on acousmonium by Sébastien Chatron, Jonty Harrison, Isabel Pires and Annette Vande Gorne. The night will feature compositions by Pete Stollery, Adrian Moore, Denis Smalley, Stephan Dunkelman, Ingrid Drese, Robert Normandeau, Francis Dhomont, Patrick Ascione, Andrew Lewis, Trevor Wishart, Annette Vande Gorne, Elizabeth Anderson, Theodore Lotis, Roger Cochini, Bernard Fort, Jonty Harrison, John Young, David Berezan et Beatriz Ferreyra, amongst others. The concert will then be repeated integrally in Birmingham (UK) on July 16, 2005.

The 11th L’Espace du son International Acousmatic Festival will be held in Brussels (Belgium) from October 20 to 24, 2004 along with the composition competition finals and the spatialization performance competition. Concerts by guests composers (Patrick Ascione, Bernard Fort, Natasha Barrett, Bernard Parmegiani, François Bayle) will complete the celebration’s offerings.

Paris’ Glaz’Art will host the Futura festival September 24 and 25, 2003. Under the theme “Sound Magicians,” director of Motus acousmonium, Denis Dufour and three performers will take turns at the console of an impressive system of more than 50 loudspeakers. On September 24, a first concert will feature works by De Filippis, Zanési, Teruggi, Schaeffer, Reibel, Normandeau, Fort and Ascione. Ivo Malec, Michel Chion and many other composers are also presented the following day. Finally, late-night concerts will be devoted to masters of the medium Luc Ferrari and Bernard Parmegiani.