The Happening Festival of New Music and Media 2010 will take place at the Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall of the Rozsa Centre in Calgary (Alberta) on January 25 - 29, 2010. The Sound & Image concert on January 26 features Robert Normandeau who will present three works — Chorus, Jeu de langues (new version), and StrinGDberg — on a multichannel sound diffusion system. At the same concert are programmed videomusics by Bret Battey, Louis Dufort, and Laurie Radford. The New Adventures in Sound Art concert — co-presented by New Works Calgary — on January 28 presents works by David Berezan, Darren Copeland, David Eagle, and Hildegard Westerkamp. The festival also includes conferences and sound installations.

David Berezan’s work Badlands will be presented during the Channel Noise: Electronic Music concert on October 1, 2009 at Georgia Southern University, in Statesboro (USA).

Élektrophonie (France) will present the 8th “Nuit bleue” on July 11, 2009 at Saline Royale in Arc-et-Senans (France). Many works are programmed during the “Nuit acousmatique” concert: Cyclo by David Berezan, Premières traces du Choucas by Francis Dhomont, Champs de fouilles (Excavations) by Martin Bédard, Voix de l’aurore by Ingrid Drese, L’escalier des aveugles by Luc Ferrari, Dancing on the Edge of Silence by Monique Jean and many others. A portrait of Patrick Ascione will also be presented on the same night during the “Cinéma pour l’oreille” concert.

The Keele University (England, UK) will present the Sixth International Conference on Music Since 1900 on July 2 — 5, 2009. Amongst the works programmed to this event, you will hear: Five Panels by Mathew Adkins on July 2, Back To Square One by Pete Stollery and Badlands by David Berezan on July 4.

SARC of Queen’s University Belfast (Northern Ireland, UK) presents a week of “solo” concerts on February 16-20, 2009. The guest composers all have discs on empreintes DIGITALes: Adrian Moore, Jonty Harrison, David Berezan, Pete Stollery, and Denis Smalley.

Annette Vande Gorne is a guest composer for MANTIS 08 in Manchester (UK) on October 31, 2008 to November 2. Also featured are works by Francis Dhomont, David Berezan, Gilles Gobeil, Martin Bédard, João Pedro Oliveira…