The compositions Le vertige inconnu by Gilles Gobeil, and Pythagoras’s Curtain by John Young are amongst the selected works for a Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama concert, held on February 7, 2006 at the Academy Concert Hall (Glasgow, UK). On February 16, 2006, Young will give a talk about his compositional work at the RSAMD Guinness Room.

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.

Ce qu’a vu le vent d’Est by Annette Vande Gorne won the 2nd prize at the 4th Pierre Schaeffer Computer Music Competition (Pescara, Italy, 2003). Sju by John Young won the 3rd prize ex-aequo.

John Young and Hans Tutschku were part of the festival Sonoimágenes — Festival acusmático y multimedial — in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in August 2002.

New Zealand born John Young’s interest consist mainly in acousmatic music, particularly to the interactions between natural sounds and their digital counterparts. Whether it is the human breath or the sound of wind, the souvenir of a swing game or the sound of rain, his acoustic images serves as a springboard for more abstract associations and juxtapositions where sonic manipulation access its own realm of sensibility, while keeping a natural resonance, a subtle and human apprehension of the world by sound.