The Oral label just unveiled two new releases. Firstly, following the success of the 1982 reissue of Monotonprodukt 07 [27y++] by Monoton, the label now releases Monotonprodukt 02 [Blau — 26y++], the previous long unavailable 1980 album. This remastered reissue also contains 3 bonus tracks from the same period. Secondly, one of the two co-monarchs of the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, is launching his album The Wonderful World of Male Intuition. Hausswolff, paranormal electronic interferences specialist, was awarded a mention at the 2002 Prix Ars Electronica.

Finally, the two new releases by the Phthalo label are available on electrocd.com. Consumer vs User is the new CD by Canadian Andrew Duke, and features two collaborations with Massaccesi. On the double 12-inch Axe Murderation Remixes, a work by Daedelus is cut to pieces by Eight Frozen Modules, Libythth, Phthalocyanine, and Venetian Snares.

A new work by Robert Normandeau, Palindrome, will be premiered on June 7, 2006 at the Synthèse festival in Bourges (France). Commissioned by the IMEB, the work was composed in their studios in October 2005 and finished at the Technische Universität (TU) in Berlin in 2006. Palindrome’s 8-channel version will be premiered on the new Cybernéphone (an instrument for the interpretation and spatialization of electroacoustic music in concert settings).

Ludger Brümmer, Kevin Austin, Flô Menezes, Francis Dhomont, Lucio Garau, and Jonty Harrison are the guest composers at the 3rd Festival di musica acusmatica, June 23 to 25, 2006 in Cagliari (Sardinia). On June 24, Dhomont will spatialize works by several Québec composers: Noyade en magma by Dominique Bassal, 13’13 pour voix défigurées by Monique Jean and Time Well / La fontaine du temps by Christian Calon, and a work by Brümmer. Voyage-miroir by Dhomont will be presented by another guest composer, Garau. Finally, several other composers from empreintes DIGITALes will also be featured: Gobeil, Moore, Álvarez, Smalley, Tutschku, Fort, Stollery, and Lillios!

Pete Stollery will be working on a new acousmatic piece in the studios of the GRM in late June 2006. Taking Claude Lelouch’s 1970s classic film C’était un rendez-vous (a 9-minute film of a Mercedes driving in Paris, as seen from its bumper) as a starting point, he will make a new piece using sounds recorded on the same route which the Mercedes took. Stollery is also working on two mixed works: Planar for trumpet for Mark O’Keeffe from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; the second, b3:dz, for organ Richard Turbet.

Oracle, a new work by Wende Bartley, will be premiered on June 10, 2006 at the Ontario College of Arts & Design (Toronto) for the “Power of Space” concert, presented by Contact Contemporary Music and New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA). Works by Barry Truax (Riverrun), Paul Dolden (Below the Walls of Jericho), Michael Gordon, and Iannis Xenakis will also be presented.