On March 30, 2007 Ensemble Ars Nova will be performing Crack — Integra’s first commission to Natasha Barrett — during the Connect Festival at Lunds Universitet (Sweden). The composer collaborated to a project with La Kitchen (Paris) to develop the electronic elements that are used in the piece.

New works by each of the University of Sheffield Music Department’s three staff composers — Amongst them Adrian Moore — together with music by Roger Smalley and Jim Ledger of the University of Western Australia (Perth) will travel in UK and Australia. In this concert, Adrian Moore’s three new electroacoustic works 3 Pieces: Horn, 3 Pieces: Piano, and 3 Pieces: Violin, which focuses around the instrumental timbres of a horn trio, will be performed. Previously presented on March 20 and 21 at the Universities of Sheffield and Surrey, the concert is to be repeated at the University of Bristol on March 23, 2007 with accompanying composition workshops.

In April 9 and 22, the Sheffield composers will then be visiting the University of Western Australia for a short residency, during which they will perform the same programme and take part in a series of workshops and seminars.

De continents imaginaires en vastes espaces cosmiques, Mathew Adkins nous invite à visiter mondes parallèles et constellations inconnues. Compositeur, interprète et conférencier de musique électroacoustique, ce Britannique envisage ses créations sous la forme de puzzles et d’images sonores en perpétuelle évolution. Préparez-vous à tester votre imagination!

Stephan Dunkelman and Annette Vande Gorne will respectively present their works When I Was Wood and Lamento (a movement of Yawar Fiesta) on March 23, 2007 in Brussels as part of the next Électro-Belge concert. Just before, Annette Vande Gorne will take part in the Siberfest 2007 (International Festival of Electronic, Computer Music and Digital Art) in Sibiu (Romania) on March 21 and 22. Click on Impalpables and Rhizomes to listen to their work.

Étude n^o 3 pour cordes et poulies, the latest release from the Ekumen label, is a commission to Nicolas Bernier and Jacques Poulin-Denis by the dance company O Vertigo, for Ginette Laurin’s Étude n^o 3 pour cordes et poulies. The premiere of this choreography took place in March 2007 in Montréal and was very well received by the critics and the audience.

Thoroughly concerned with the enormity of space, the work of this composer features a marked visual line, exploring spatial vastness, evoking dimensions in the distance, as seen through a wide lens, focusing on the sheer size of the portrayed. The deep experience of spatial movement pays homage to cinema while the experience of witnessing sound sources within a three-dimensional space is blended with that of orchestras and choirs.