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.

Electroacoustics will be heard at the 2006 World New Music Days in Stuttgart (Germany). Opening on July 14, 2006 the installation … raumKLANG raum… entgrenzend put together by Sabine Schäfer and Joachim Krebs explores the dimensions of sound, space, time, and movements with their music and works by Ferrari, Minard, Sistermanns, Schafer, and Westerkamp. The “Long Night” organized by DEGEM with music by more than 18 composers (including Tutschku) will start on July 21. Finally, the ZKM organized the Short Cuts: Beauty competititon for works of 3 to 8 minutes in duration. The selected pieces will be presented at the Chillout Lounge at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart starting on July 18.

Katharine Norman’s book Sounding Art (242 pages + 1 CD) is now available on electrocd.com. The book describes various aspects of sound art, and presents the work of many artists such as Magali Babin, Luc Ferrari, Barry Truax, Francisco López, Hildegard Westerkamp, Francis Dhomont, Merzbow, John Oswald, and Martin Tétreault.

On January 19, 2006, at the Petit Théâtre Mercelis in Brussels (Belgium), Musiques & Recherches will present a concert-homage to composer Luc Ferrari, deceased last August. The featured works will be spatialized by Annette Vande Gorne.

The 2005 Silence festival will be held from November 25 to 27, 2005 at the IPS Gorjux auditorium in Bari (Italy). The acousmatic concerts will feature works by Pierre Henry, François Bayle. Luc Ferrari, Bernard Parmegiani, Luciano Berio, Jean-Claude Risset, Beatriz Ferreyra and many others.

Luc Ferrari’s classic Presque rien and Kristoff K.Roll’s Corazón Road will be presented in concert at the Academy Concert Hall in Glasgow (UK) on November 15, 2005.