Hildegard Westerkamp is the composer-in-residence at the Shattering the Silence 2011 festival to take place on January 19 - 23, 2011 in Wolfville (Nova Scotia).

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Another very fine record by Nicolas Bernier who, since Les Arbres, never ceases to impress me. courant.air is a mixed electroacoustic work in eight movement for acoustic guitar and tape. Simon Trottier handles guitar duties. The instrument is used sparsely in semi-notated parts that contrast with the mobile and occasionally pretty dense electroacoustic accompaniment. The result is music not too ambient and very engaging. Nice composition skills, elegance, maybe a bit repetitive. courant.air doesn’t have the scope and scale of Les Arbres, but it’s a successful work for sure.

Jonty Harrison will be touring Northern California on January 9-12, 2011 with three different solo multichannel concerts. Starting on January 9 at The San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2010, Jonty Harrison will then give a talk and second concert at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University on January 10, and a thrid concert at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at UC Berkeley on January 12. At these concerts he will diffuse works from the following: BEASTory, … et ainsi de suite…, Hot Air, Internal Combustion, Klang, Rock ’n’ Roll, Splintering, Streams, Undertow, and Unsound Objects.