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.

Acousmatics!anonymous at Sound Junction is 2 evening concerts of hardcore acousmatic sound spatialisation and cutting edge multichannel masterpiece that will take place on May 10 and 11 2007 in the Drama Studio at the University of Sheffield (UK). For the occasion, Adrian Moore will present 3 pieces: Horn (5.1), and Jonty Harrison will present Internal Combustion and Free Fall (both 8 channels). Listen to the music of Harrison and Moore thanks to the Jukebox dedicated to those artists.

Michelle Boudreau will take part to the Festival des musiques de création du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, on May 19, 2007, to present the concert L’ambivalence du feu et de la glace with soprano Marianne Lambert, violonist Antoine Bareil, and percussionnist Ziya Tabassian. This concert notably includes the premiere of En attendant Berté Litice (IV) deuxième rencontre entre les êtres for percussions, and musical pieces recorded on her new album Les roches chantent.

Thanks to Christian Dugas’s participation on drums, Martin Tétreault will present Solo de batterie sur vinyles avec 4 tourne-disques, followed by a short improvisation with Andrew Liles, on May 12, 2007 at Send + Receive Festival in Winnipeg.

Gilles Gobeil and Alain Thibault will be at the the centre of the evening “Dedans/dehors” about immersive music. In the second half of the event, the 2 guest composers will discuss about their esthetic, formal and philosophic concerns; Louis Dufort will be the moderator. This lecture will be followed by a concert given by Gilles Gobeil and Alain Thibault. Both who will share the stage with Joël Beauchamp, Pierre-Marc Beaudoin, and Jean-François Blouin. This audio immersive event wil take place on May 14, 2007 at SAT in Montréal (and it’s free…).

In residence at La Ferme du Vinatier — a cultural structure in Lyon (France) incorporated into a hospital — since October 2006, Lionel Marchetti has given recording workshops to hospital staff, visitors and clinic-in patients. The audio material captured during those workshops have sparked off the electroacoustic installation pour un bestiaire végétal… that will be presented in the garden of the hospital throughout June. The opening will take place on June 5, 2007.