The Sound Junction 2009 event will take place on June 5-6, 2009 at the University of Sheffield (UK) with special guest: François Bayle, who will give a concert on June 5. Also scheduled, a premiere by Robert Dow and works by Hans Tutschku, Adrian Moore, Erdem Helvacıoğlu, Christian Zanési, and Peter Batchelor.

The 2008 Electroacoustic Music Studies Conference (EMS08) “Musique concrète — 60 years later” will take place on June 3-7, 2008 in Paris (France). Amongst the guest speakers:

• June 3: François Bayle at 6 pm
• June 6: Laurie Radford at 12 pm; Mathew Adkins at 2:30 pm
• June 7: Natasha Barrett at 9 am; Francis Dhomont at 3:30 pm; Robert Normandeau and Theodore Lotis at 4:30 pm

Three concerts are also organized on June 6, 7, and 8 at the Salle Olivier Messiaen of the Maison de Radio France.

Futura 2007, the international festival of acousmatic art, will take place from August 17 au 19, 2007 in Crest (France). This festival’s edition build around Christian Zanési’s work will notably host, Amongst many composers, Mathew Adkins, Patrick Ascione, Darren Copeland, Denis Dufour, Chantal Dumas, Bernard Parmegiani, Laurie Radford, Pete Stollery, Benjamin Thigpen, and Annette Vande Gorne.

The Festival de Radio France et Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon (France) will take place from July 11 to 28, 2007. Coming up:

• July 24: diffusion of Un autre Printemps and À propos de K by Francis Dhomont, and La roue ferris and Entre-temps by Bernard Parmegiani;
• July 26: diffusion of Spaces of mind by Daniel Teruggi;
• July 27: presentation of Monster 600, a film by Laurent Chanez; music by Christian Zanési and Arnaud Rebotini.

The first Akousma concert of the GRM’s 27th season will be held at 5 pm on Sunday January 8, 2006 at the Salle Olivier Messiaen of the Maison de Radio France (Paris). The concert will feature works by Patrick Ascione, Christian Zanési, Jean-Marc Duchenne, and Beatriz Ferreyra.

Paris’ Glaz’Art will host the Futura festival September 24 and 25, 2003. Under the theme “Sound Magicians,” director of Motus acousmonium, Denis Dufour and three performers will take turns at the console of an impressive system of more than 50 loudspeakers. On September 24, a first concert will feature works by De Filippis, Zanési, Teruggi, Schaeffer, Reibel, Normandeau, Fort and Ascione. Ivo Malec, Michel Chion and many other composers are also presented the following day. Finally, late-night concerts will be devoted to masters of the medium Luc Ferrari and Bernard Parmegiani.