The 2009 Futura festival will take place on August, 20 — 23, 2009 in Crest, France. On the programme, works by Otomo Yoshihide, Luc Ferrari, Denis Dufour, Francis Dhomont (Corps et âme), Michel Chion, Michèle Bokanowski, Chantal Dumas, Ivo Malec, Bernard Parmegiani, Christian Zanési, Christian Calon and many others.

Asymmetry Music Magazine is a new web magazine directed by Michael Karman. The first “issue” presents an interview with Michèle Bokanowski and reviews of all 30 discs from the Cinéma pour l’oreille series produced by Jérôme Noetinger in 1992-2002. In preparation: interviews with Jon Christopher Nelson and Francis Dhomont (met in Montréal for his 80th anniversary concert) and reviews of empreintes DIGITALes releases…

This year, the Futura 06 festival in Crest (France) is compressed into a 3-day event — August 18 — 20, 2006 — and into one 35-hour concert. Amongst the featured composers: Luc Ferrari (homage), Michèle Bokanowski, Michel Chion, Darren Copeland, Matmos, Yann Paranthoën (homage), Elsa Justel, Roxanne Turcotte, and Pierre Henry. Then on August 27, a concert concluding an acousmatic diffusion workshop will feature 15 works by just as many composers, including Francis Dhomont and Marc Tremblay.

The original soundtrack recording from Patrick Bokanowski’s movie L’Ange (“The Angel”) is now available on CD. Composed almost 30 years ago by Michèle Bokanowski, the music links together American minimalism, classic contrapuntal writing, and “musique concrète” while keeping a curious feeling of “archaic pre-sampler.”

Composer Natasha Barrett tops Simon Fraser University’s CJSF experimental chart with her first album, Isostasie. Also on the empreintes DIGITALes label, Requiem by composer Michel Chion is in 3rd position, Michèle Bokanowski’s Cirque is in 11th position and, last but not least, Stephan Dunkelman’s first CD occupies the 31st place.

Cinéma pour l’oreille has just released L’étoile absinthe by Michèle Bokanowski and Dix-sept minutes by Michel Chion.