Musiques & Recherches summer worshops in Ohain (Belgium) will take place from August 31 to September 4, 2008. The final concert will notably propose the spatial diffusion on M&R’s “wide format” acousmonium of Espace / Escape by Francis Dhomont and Figures d’espace by Annette Vande Gorne. The concert will take place, on September 4, at the Grange of the Ferme du Biéreau in Louvain-la-Neuve.

The Futura festival will take place from August 21 to 24, 2008 in Crest (France). Amongst guest composers, let’s point Patrick Ascione, Natasha Barrett, Michel Chion, Pierre Henry, and Lionel Marchetti’s presence. Also, in the Nuit blanche programme (August 23rd) Gilles Gobeil will present his piece Ombres, espaces, silences…, Francis Dhomont will diffuse Signé Dionysos, and Annette Vande Gorne her piece Exil, chant II.

The Rencontres 2008 presented by Phonurgia Nova will take place on July 26 - 28, 2008 at Cinéma le Méjan-Actes Sud in Arles (France). Tree important creative artists will explore the laguages of sound (concrete and imaginary languages): Daniel Deshays, Francis Dhomont, and Goran Vejvoda.

Francis Dhomont will present a portrait-concert, on July 4, 2008, as part of the Komposition Und Musikwissenschaft Im Dialog series taking place at the Universität zu Köln’s Musikwissenschaftliches Institut in Cologne (Germany).

On June 20, 2008 Francis Dhomont will be in Brussels (Belgium) where he will take part in a jury for the Conservatoire royal de Mons’ Competition. Then, on June 21-24, he will be judge at the Musiques & Recherches’ Concours Métamorphoses 2008 in Ohain.

The 2008 Electroacoustic Music Studies Conference (EMS08) “Musique concrète — 60 years later” will take place on June 3-7, 2008 in Paris (France). Amongst the guest speakers:

• June 3: François Bayle at 6 pm
• June 6: Laurie Radford at 12 pm; Mathew Adkins at 2:30 pm
• June 7: Natasha Barrett at 9 am; Francis Dhomont at 3:30 pm; Robert Normandeau and Theodore Lotis at 4:30 pm

Three concerts are also organized on June 6, 7, and 8 at the Salle Olivier Messiaen of the Maison de Radio France.