Natasha Barrett will be in Malmö (Sweden) on February 24, 2009 to premiere her work Zone 1 in which she plays live-electronics with guitarist Stefan Östersjö and Ensemble Ars Nova.

The series of archive films ”Rendez-vous Ina / Cinémathèque: musique contemporaine” with documentaries and short films on composers of musique concrète and electroacoustics will take place on January 28 to February 13, 2009 at the Cinémathèque québécoise in Montréal. On the first day, at 6pm, a roundtable discussion will bring together Évelyne Gayou from the Ina-GRM, Robert Normandeau, Alain Thibault, and Walter Boudreau.

Radio listeners of the BBC Radio 3 (UK) have had the opportunity to listen to Mathew Adkins’s [60]Project on December 27, 2008 during a programme called Hear and Now which was highlighting the main features of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (HCMF). Radio Grenouille, a radio station in Marseille (France) had also presented Adkins’s work during the programme Génération Bip Hop on January 4, 2009.

Lionel Marchetti’s work Adèle et Hadrien (le livre des vacances) is nominated in the 5th Qwartz Electronic Music Awards in the experimental category. Listen to and vote for the finalists online! Qwartz 5 will take place on April 2 and 3, 2009 [new dates] at Cirque d’hiver Bouglione in Paris (France).

Since February 1995, already more than 12 years ago!, the electrocd.com website offers you the largest selection (over 1200 titles) of electroacoustic recordings in North America! In addition to discs with long audio excerpts (in mp3), you can refer to press reviews, biographies, interviews of composers and complete programme notes of their works. Moreover, our simple and secure online purchase system gives you instant access to the surprisingly rich world of electroacoustic music. www.electrocd.com is a complete and unique reference on the major composers of this form of sound art. We thank you for your visit and encourage you to write back comments and ideas (by using our “Suggestions box” placed at the bottom of each of the 19,000+ pages of our website)!

L’émission radiophonique Délire actuel consacrée aux musiques exigeantes (CFLX-FM, Sherbrooke, Québec) annonce aujourd’hui son palmarès des 30 disques à ne pas manquer en musique expérimentale pour 2008. Cette liste regroupe 30 titres représentant la crème des musiques exigeantes, soit la frange avant-gardiste ou expérimentale de tous les genres musicaux (musique contemporaine, jazz actuel, improvisation libre, avant-rock, électronique, etc.). «Ce que j’appelle musique exigeante recoupe les notions de musique actuelle, expérimentale, d’avant-garde, novatrice, etc., explique François Couture, coréalisateur de l’émission. Évidemment, je n’ai pas tout entendu ce qui s’est fait en 2008, loin de là! Donc, je ne prétends pas présenter LES 30 meilleurs disques de l’année, mais bien MES 30 meilleurs disques! Néanmoins, vu les quelque 550 disques soumis à mon attention cette année, j’espère que les artistes et les étiquettes de disque concernées sauront s’enorgueillir de figurer dans ce Top 30.»

[Au top 15: Jonty Harrison, Environs, empreintes DIGITALes.]