Au fil de l’eau, a concert featuring works produced at the Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio, will be presented aboard the barge Équisonnance on December 10, 2005 in Tournai (Belgium). Patrick Ascione, Stephan Dunkelman, Theodore Lotis, and Annette Vande Gorne are amongst the featured composers.

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.

Annette Vande Gorne, composer and Musiques & Recherches director, will take part in the 2005 Música Viva festival in Lisbon (Portugal). On September 18 and 19, 2005, she will give master classes on acousmatic composition at the Palácio Marquês de Pombal. On September 21, 2005, at the auditorium of the Centro de Apoio Social de Oeiras, a portrait concert of Vande Gorne will feature the works Fragments de lettre à un habitant du centre (2002), Figures d’espace (2004), Ce qu’a vu le vent d’Est (2003) as well as two movements of Tao, Bois (1986) and Terre (1991). The 2005 Música Viva festival takes place from September 16 to the 24, 2005.

Élektrophonie presents the 2005 Nuit bleue from July 8 to 10, 2005 at Arc et Senans’ Saline Royale (France). Nuit bleue 2005 is the 4th edition of this festival dedicated to new electroacoustic and electronic music, and is presented in coproduction with the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom) and Musiques & Recherches (Belgium). Every acousmatic composition will be spatialized on acousmonium by Sébastien Chatron, Jonty Harrison, Isabel Pires and Annette Vande Gorne. The night will feature compositions by Pete Stollery, Adrian Moore, Denis Smalley, Stephan Dunkelman, Ingrid Drese, Robert Normandeau, Francis Dhomont, Patrick Ascione, Andrew Lewis, Trevor Wishart, Annette Vande Gorne, Elizabeth Anderson, Theodore Lotis, Roger Cochini, Bernard Fort, Jonty Harrison, John Young, David Berezan et Beatriz Ferreyra, amongst others. The concert will then be repeated integrally in Birmingham (UK) on July 16, 2005.

From May 20 to 22, 2005, Musiques & Recherches will present three concerts at Brussels’s Petit Théâtre Mercelis (Belgium) that explores the multiple sensibilities of contemporary electroacoustic music. The concert dedicated to mixed works for tape and piano will feature Figures de rhétorique by Robert Normandeau (Belgian premiere), … sofferte onde serene by Luigi Nono, Cadran solaire by Ingrid Drese and Faisceaux by Annette Vande Gorne (Belgian premiere).

Musiques & Recherches invites you to attend an “electro-Belgian” concert on March 18, 2005, at Petit Théâtre Mercelis in Brussels (Belgium). This panorama of electroacoustics in Belgium will feature works by Elizabeth Anderson, Roald Baudoux, Stephan Dunkelman, and Annette Vande Gorne, amongst others.