Elsa Justel has been invited by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (Spain) to give a seminar on electroacoustic music analysis and esthetic. This course will be given on June 25-27, 2008.Elsa Justel will also present a portrait-concert (videomusics), at the SGAE’s Sala Mompou.

Tour de bras has invited Hélène Prévost and Nicolas Bernier for a 3-day artist-in-residence. The composers will present the result of their research on May 31, 2008 as part of the 6th Rencontres de musiques spontanées, May 30 to June 1, 2008 at Paradis in Rimouski (Québec). Moreover, a video mixing (VJ) and Max/MSP audio-video perfomance workshop given by Jean-Ambroise Vesax will precede the concert.

Charles Amirkhanian will take part in the Garden of Memory on June 21, 2008 in Oakland (California, USA). He will present Rippling the Lamp (2006) for violin and tape, and the American premiere of Quince Quinoa (2007) for voice and tape.

Natasha Barrett will premiere Gentle Sediment on June 4, 2008 as part of the 38th Synthèse festival in Bourges (France). Her piece Crack for instrumental ensemble and live electronics will be performed by Ars Nova on June 6 at Birmingham Conservatoire’ Adrian Boult Hall (England, UK).

The Ninth Set (sector 4) (2007 Magisterium Prize) by Roger Doyle will be premiered at the 38th Synthèse festival in Bourges (France) on June 1, 2008 at the Grand Théâtre. Also in this concert will be The Third Set and The Eighth Set (sector 1), all part of his large-scale work Passades.

Synthèse 2008 — 38th Bourges International Electronic Music and Compositions Festival will take place from May 30 to June 8, 2008 in Bourges (France). This year, the festival programme is entitled «between rebellion and revolution». Amongst guest artists of this edition: Mathew Adkins, Javier Álvarez, Natasha Barrett, Nicolas Bernier, Roger Doyle, Ingrid Drese, António Ferreira, Jean-Claude Risset, Pete Stollery, Annette Vande Gorne, and John Young.