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The winners of the 34th Bourges International Competition of Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art (France) are announced. Ricordiamo Forlì by John Young got the First Prize of the category “Trivium — programme music.” In the same category Liaisons mécaniques by Nicolas Bernier was awarded a mention.

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) invites its visitors to experience its new entrance in a dynamic new way: with sound. Its new main hall is partly filled with the sounds the permanent sound installation A Time to Hear for Here by John Oswald.

Irish composer Roger Doyle has won the prestigious Magisterium Award at the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art Competition in France — one of the most important prizes in the world for electronic music. Of his prize-winning work The Ninth Set Doyle says: “To me the music has a supernatural feeling to it, but I have kept the title neutral, so that you can imagine what it is yourselves.” To know more about him, visit the Roger Doyle’s page.

Robert Normandeau will take part in the Electroacoustic Music Studies Conference in Leicester (UK), from June 12-15, 2007, to present a lecture entitled “La spatialisation timbrale ou le médium, c’est l’espace.” After that, he will go to the Musiques & Recherches studio in Belgium, from June 16 to July 1, to compose a new piece celebrating the 20th anniversary of Rumeurs (Place de Ransbeck). This work was composed in 1987, where Robert Normandeau was the first foreign composer invited to Musiques & Recherches. An audio excerpt of Rumeurs (Place de Ransbeck) is available on the CD Lieux inouïs’s page.