The 4th Festival di interpretazione della musica acusmatica will take place at the Auditorium della Facolta’ di Lettere in Cagliari (Sardinia), on June 15 — 17, 2007. João Pedro Oliveira, Dieter Kaufmann, Lucio Garau, Bernard Parmegiani, Hans Tutschku, Bernard Fort will present pieces composed by François Bayle, Marcelle Deschênes, Francis Dhomont, Denis Dufour, Beatriz Ferreyra, Gilles Gobeil, Bernard Fort, Annette Vande Gorne, Ivo Malec, Bernard Parmegiani, Hans Tutschku, Hildegard Westerkamp, Christian Zanesi…

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.

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.

Musiques & Recherches will present a concert that will premiere different electro works on April 27, 2007 at Petit Théâtre Mercelis in Brussels (Belgium). Amongst other titles, Liaisons mécaniques by Nicolas Bernier (commissioned by Musiques & Recherches with the support of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec), the new piece Arenas by Horacio Vaggione, and Distance liquide by Hans Tutschku.

Following a residency at the Technische Universität (TU) in Berlin (Germany) from March 11 to 21, 2007 where he is finishing a new composition, Christian Calon will premiere the third region of Atlas (Est) as part of the 5th International Linux Audio Conference (LAC2007) on March 22 — 25, 2007 in Berlin. For this occasion, the multitrack work has been produced for a spatialisation on very wide WFS (Wave Field Synthesis) surround system on 840 tracks and about 3,000 loudspeakers. Furthermore, Nord (the first region of Atlas) by the same composer and Rituale by Hans Tutschku will be presented in concert respectively on March 23 and March 24, again as part of the concerts organized by Tesla and the Deutsche Akademische Austausch Dienst (DAAD) for LAC2007.

Composer Hans Tutschku won the First Prize (Category A) in the Musica Nova 2006 International Electroacoustic Music Competition (Prague, Czech Republic) for his work Rojo. Silent Red by Mathew Adkins was amongst the finalists.