Starting mid-September, composer Robert Normandeau will stay in Bourges (France) to write a new work comissionned by the IMEB. Following this residency, his most recent work, Palimpseste, will be premiered in Karlsruhe (Germany) on October 21, 2005 at the Theater des Hörens concert at the ZKM. Originally titled ZedKejeM, the work completes the cycle Onomatopées (“Onomatopoeia”), which include the works Éclats de voix (1991), Spleen (1993) and Le renard et la rose (1995). Normandeau will stay in Karlsruhe for two months for studies on real-time music and multiphonic spatialization.