Gilles Gobeil, Jonty Harrison, David Hindmarch, and Elainie Lillios will successively curate an evening concert during the next BEAST series. The event will take place on January 9 — 12, 2008 at the George Cadbury Hall, University of Birmingham (England, UK).

empreintes DIGITALes is releasing the DVD-Audio in “Surround 5.1” by:

• Martin Leclerc (Québec): Horizons du silence
• Jonty Harrison (England, UK): Environs

empreintes DIGITALes is announcing the upcoming release of 5 new discs (including 4 DVD-Audio with “Surround 5.1”) available on pre-order with a 20% discount.

• Elsa Justel (Argentina / France): Mâts (CD-Audio)
• Martin Leclerc (Québec): Horizons du silence
• John Young (New Zealand / England, UK): Lieu-temps
• Jonty Harrison (England, UK): Environs
• Andrew Lewis (Wales, UK): Miroirs obscurs

Some pre-order specials end on November 29, 2007.

As you may know the piece Novars by Francis Dhomont will be presented as part of the MANTIS festival during the concert launch of the University of Manchester’s Studio Novars (UK). But that’s not all! This event also features the works of Martin Bédard, Nicolas Bernier, Ludger Brümmer, Marcelle Deschênes, Gilles Gobeil, Denis Smalley, Hans Tutschku, Hildegard Westerkamp, Trevor Wishart, and David Berezan and Jonty Harrison who will each world premiere a new piece… In short, this event is not to be missed and it takes place from November 2 to 4, 2007.

Acousmatics!anonymous at Sound Junction is 2 evening concerts of hardcore acousmatic sound spatialisation and cutting edge multichannel masterpiece that will take place on May 10 and 11 2007 in the Drama Studio at the University of Sheffield (UK). For the occasion, Adrian Moore will present 3 pieces: Horn (5.1), and Jonty Harrison will present Internal Combustion and Free Fall (both 8 channels). Listen to the music of Harrison and Moore thanks to the Jukebox dedicated to those artists.

The world premiere of ReCycle — Jonty Harrison’s cycle of four 8-channel works including Rock ’n’ Roll, Internal Combustion, Free Fall, and Streams — will take place on May 25, 2007 as part of the BEAST concerts in Birmingham (UK). Furthermore, a piece by Hans Tutschku will be presented on May 26, and Scott Wilson with Jonty Harrison will present an introduction to BEAST’s diffusion research project on May 27.