The Ensemble für Intuitive Musik Weimar will be live at the Diapason Gallery in New York City (USA) on March 17, 2006. The ensemble will perform works by Karlheinz Stockhausen and Hans Tutschku.

Katharine Norman’s book Sounding Art (242 pages + 1 CD) is now available on electrocd.com. The book describes various aspects of sound art, and presents the work of many artists such as Magali Babin, Luc Ferrari, Barry Truax, Francisco López, Hildegard Westerkamp, Francis Dhomont, Merzbow, John Oswald, and Martin Tétreault.

Normandeau will present conferences at Birmingham University on March 15, at Manchester University on March 22, and at Huddersfield University on March 23. Part of the GEMdays concert series, Robert Normandeau will give a concert at Huddersfield University on March 23, 2006, featuring his works Rumeurs (Place de Ransbeck), Palimpseste, Chorus, and StrinGDberg.

Also featured during GEMdays: a concert of audiovisual works by Mathew Adkins, Marcelle Deschênes + Alain Pelletier, and Milliseconde topographie (Nicolas Bernier + Delphine Measroch) on March 25 as well as concerts by Jean Piché on March 27 and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay on March 28, 2006.

Musiques & Recherches will held an “electro-Belgian” concert, a portrait of electroacoustic music in Belgium, on March 24, 2006 at the Petit Théâtre Mercelis in Brussels (Belgium). Featuring, amongst others, works by Ingrid Drese, Annette Vande Gorne and Elizabeth Anderson.

And oh yes, I do like popmusic. People sometimes ask if I do play ‘normal’ music, and I state that all music is normal, but that by some definition I also like regular popmusic. So, yes, I do like The Unireverse, an all Moog trio of Alex Moskos (ex member of the experimental rock band Kubelka), Brian Damage (ex member of Phÿcus) and Michael Caffrey (of Daydream Square and ex member of Beautifuzz), and they are from Canada, in case these band names don’t mean a thing. They play way-out strange covers of popmusic. I did recognize U Feel Love (aka “I Feel Love”), but Tomorrow Never Knows is really something different than the highly respected original. Retro is written all over this release. The Unireverse play four covers in total, besides the two already mentioned, also Transparent Radiation (Red Krayola) and the infamous Brainticket by Brainticket (and perhaps better known as the cover that Nurse With Wound did as Brained By Fallen Masonry). The originals are hidden in there, but The Unireverse stretch things out to incredible length, moving the pieces into different areas, a large space jam. In between they have short compositions of their own making, which are great bridges between the tracks. My favorites are the Donna Summer and Brainticket ones. Prog-rock is written all over, but it has surely a nice twist all around. Excellent stuff to scare off those who sanctify the originals and impress new friends with something entirely ‘new and exciting’. Just simply great, witty and to cherish.

The band Mixel Pixel is known for original visuals during their concerts. This new video by Devin Clark based on drawings by Rob Corradetti, from their album Rainbow Panda, opens a small window to their friendly psychedelic universe.