The next San Francisco Tape Music Festival will be held on January 26-28, 2007 at the ODC Theater in San Francisco (USA). Amongst the selected works are Unsound Objects by Jonty Harrison, Topographie de la noirceur by Martin Bédard, scènes, rendez-vous by Pete Stollery, as well as works by James Tenney, György Ligeti, Brian Eno, and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

The 2-day event trans_canada_release at the ZKM is a follow-up of the 2005 festival “trans_canada: Tendenzen in Akusmatik und Soundscapes / Trends in Acousmatics and Soundscapes.”

The evening of December 8, 2006 is dedicated to Gilles Gobeil. He will premiere Entre les deux rives du printemps and present Derrière la porte la plus éloignée…, Nuit cendre, and Le contrat (co-composed with René Lussier).

The December 9 concert is a carte blanche to Robert Normandeau who will will premiere Kuppel, spatialize his works Chorus and Venture, as well as Premières traces du Choucas by Francis Dhomont, Topographie de la noirceur by Martin Bédard, and Machin Machine by Delphine Measroch.

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.

Christian Calon will present the first part — North, commissionned by the Sonic Arts Network — of 5 of his new acousmatic project Atlas for a Portrait Concert to be presented on April 29, 2006 at the Sonic Arts Research Centre (Belfast, Northern Ireland) during the Sonorities Festival 2006. Works by Christian Bouchard and by Martin Bédard will also be presented on April 30.