The WFAE International Conference on Acoustic Ecology will take place from October 3 to 7, 2011 in Corfu (Greece) with fifty papers and roundtable discussions and 4 concerts. Hildegard Westerkamp, Katharine Norman, and R Murray Schafer are amongst the five keynote speakers. Theodore Lotis will present a paper on soundscapes and sound installation art.

The Foundation Destellos has announced the results of the 4th edition of its electroacoustic composition competition: the first prize was awarded ex æquo to Panayiotis Kokoras for his work Magic and to David Hindmarch for his work Golden Bowls. The Motus Prize has been awarded to Dans le ventre de la machine by Nicolas Bernier, and the Phonos Prize has been awarded to Caída, memoria y restitución by Ezequiel Esquenazi. A Special mention Musiques & Recherches was given to Les lointains noirs et rouges by Gilles Gobeil. Mentions were also awarded to works by Martin Bédard, Pei-Yu Shi, Peiman Khosravi, Lautaro Vieyra, Chester Udell, Andy Dolphin, Charles Nichols, and Sergio Santi.

2011 is a year of transitions for your electroacoustic music shop. Since the launch of the current version of the site on January 1 we have improved the recommendations system in March, further secured the shopping cart with PayPal in April, re-encoded all the audio samples in mp3 and ogg in order to fully meet the HTML5 standard in mid-April and for the new season (winter or summer, depending on your hemisphere) electrocd.com is now mobile with the launch of m.electrocd.com.

We have just completed the version for mobile browsers found in smartphones. The display and navigation are customized for (small) touch interfaces. If you use an iPhone or Android phone or any other advanced digital player, know that you are still and always welcome to electrocd.com.

And we are only at the mid-year point…

Nicolas Bernier and Martin Messier were awarded an honorary mention in the digital musics category at the Prix Ars Electronica 2011 for their project La chambre des machines.

Since yesterday, we have begun upgrading our famous radio module. It is therefore possible you will encounter bugs and other weird things. If this is the case, please let us know using the usual suggestions box!

We are working on bringing our radio to the most recent web standards (also known as HTML5), which, amongst other things, will allow visitors to listen to music on mobile & tablet devices.

This is but one of the many improvements we will be progressively launching in the coming months. —David, webmaster

We have reviewed and improved our shopping cart. We have also moved the payment process to Paypal and its secure site (https). (A Paypal account is not required in order to make a payment.) Let us know what you think!