The 5th edition of the Présences “électronique” festival will be held at the 104 in Paris (France), on March 13 — 15, 2009. Its highlights: Denis Smalley, Bernard Parmegiani, Denis Dufour, eRikm, Luc Ferrari, and many others!

Arturo Parra will make an integral presentation of his disc Voz on February 28, 2009 at the Escuela de Artes OPRA in Santafé de Bogotá (Colombia).

John Young will present a concert at Fylkingen (Sweden) on February 26, 2009. The programme will include multichannel acousmatic and videomusic by composers from De Montfort University (UK) and the Royal College of Music in Stockholm (Sweden). John Young will present his works Tongue and Smoke and Mirrors and will also present talks at the Royal College in the following days.

The Espace Senghor in Brussels (Belgium) will host the next ÉlectroBelge concert on February 26, 2009. The programme includes 9 premieres and performances by, amongst others, Annette Vande Gorne (Ouverture from Yamar Fiesta), Joris de Laet (Cordes et corps), Ingrid Drese (Plis de la nuit) and Todor Todoroff (Subternus).

Arturo Parra will present works from his disc Voz in Colombian premiere on February 11, 2009 at the Iglesia de Santa Lucia in Chía (Colombia). He will also present two seminars: the first one is on listening sensitivity with, amongst others, musical excerpts from Forêt profonde by Francis Dhomont using listening scores; the other seminar will be is on new playing modes and the interaction between guitar and electroacoustics.

SARC of Queen’s University Belfast (Northern Ireland, UK) presents a week of “solo” concerts on February 16-20, 2009. The guest composers all have discs on empreintes DIGITALes: Adrian Moore, Jonty Harrison, David Berezan, Pete Stollery, and Denis Smalley.