British composer Pete Stollery shares his passion for the ambiguities of listening on Un son peut en cacher un autre (A SOund May Hide Another), the third DVD-Audio released byempreintes DIGITALes.

Pete Stollery has received a commission from the Institut international de musique électroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB). He will compose the new acousmatic work in April and September 2007 in Bourges (France).

The 6th BIMESP festival — directed by Flô Menezes — took place from June 10 to 17, 2006 at Villa Mariani in São Paulo (Brazil). Some of the concerts presented works from the 4th CIMESP 2001 (International Electroacoustic Music Contest of São Paulo) such as Vol d’Arondes by Francis Dhomont, Serendipities and Synchronicities by Pete Stollery, Rojo by Hans Tutschku, Silk to Steel by Mathew Adkins, and Éden by Robert Normandeau. One concert was dedicated to works from Sweden, including the recent Dreaming in Darkness by Åke Parmerud and works by Skog, Johansson, Hedman, Grahn, Sundin, and Liljekvist.

Ludger Brümmer, Kevin Austin, Flô Menezes, Francis Dhomont, Lucio Garau, and Jonty Harrison are the guest composers at the 3rd Festival di musica acusmatica, June 23 to 25, 2006 in Cagliari (Sardinia). On June 24, Dhomont will spatialize works by several Québec composers: Noyade en magma by Dominique Bassal, 13’13 pour voix défigurées by Monique Jean and Time Well / La fontaine du temps by Christian Calon, and a work by Brümmer. Voyage-miroir by Dhomont will be presented by another guest composer, Garau. Finally, several other composers from empreintes DIGITALes will also be featured: Gobeil, Moore, Álvarez, Smalley, Tutschku, Fort, Stollery, and Lillios!

Pete Stollery will be working on a new acousmatic piece in the studios of the GRM in late June 2006. Taking Claude Lelouch’s 1970s classic film C’était un rendez-vous (a 9-minute film of a Mercedes driving in Paris, as seen from its bumper) as a starting point, he will make a new piece using sounds recorded on the same route which the Mercedes took. Stollery is also working on two mixed works: Planar for trumpet for Mark O’Keeffe from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; the second, b3:dz, for organ Richard Turbet.

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.