The 14th international acousmatic festival L’Espace du son will take place from October 17 to 21, 2007 at Théâtre Marni in Brussels. The opening night of the festival will celebrate the Musiques & Recherches’ 25th anniversary, premiering 3 musical works: Voix de l’aurore by Ingrid Drese, Murmures by Robert Normandeau, and Chœur des femmes 2, a movement from the opera Yawar Fiesta by Annette Vande Gorne on a libretto by Werner Lambersy. The day after, October 18, will be dedicated to Christian Calon’s music; October 19, to Jean-François Minjard; October 20, to Bernard Parmegiani; and October 21 to Beatriz Ferreyra and Ana Dall’Ara-Majek.

The Synthèse festival that takes place in Bourges (France) from June 1 to 10, 2007 promises us a great edition. Amongst guest artists, we can find Jon Appleton, Francis Dhomont, Louis Dufort, Denis Dufour, Beatriz Ferreyra, Max Mathews, Barry Truax, and Hans Tutschku. Francis Dhomont will notably present his work Premières traces du Choucas on June 4th and a lecture entitled Hypothèses sur un parcours personnel, the day after, on June 5th.

Sound Junction IV, a concert series held at The University of Sheffield (UK), will feature Adrian Moore, Pete Stollery, and Beatriz Ferreyra on May 27, 2006. A workshop on composition and spatialization will also be given by Stollery and Ferreyra on May 28.

The first Akousma concert of the GRM’s 27th season will be held at 5 pm on Sunday January 8, 2006 at the Salle Olivier Messiaen of the Maison de Radio France (Paris). The concert will feature works by Patrick Ascione, Christian Zanési, Jean-Marc Duchenne, and Beatriz Ferreyra.

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.

Musiques & Recherches presents Patchwork au féminin (A Feminine Patchwork), a concert of acousmatique music dedicated to works composed by women, on November 11, 2005 in Brussels. Natasha Barrett, Marcelle Deschênes, Beatriz Ferreyra, Monique Jean, Elainie Lillios, Roxanne Turcotte and Annette Vande Gorne are amongst the selected composers.