The 14th international acousmatic festival L’Espace du son will take place from October 17 to 21, 2007 at Théâtre Marni in Brussels. The opening night of the festival will celebrate the Musiques & Recherches’ 25th anniversary, premiering 3 musical works: Voix de l’aurore by Ingrid Drese, Murmures by Robert Normandeau, and Chœur des femmes 2, a movement from the opera Yawar Fiesta by Annette Vande Gorne on a libretto by Werner Lambersy. The day after, October 18, will be dedicated to Christian Calon’s music; October 19, to Jean-François Minjard; October 20, to Bernard Parmegiani; and October 21 to Beatriz Ferreyra and Ana Dall’Ara-Majek.

Two virtuoso of “musique concrète” and acousmatic works — mentor and former student — will be at the “Binary Cities Event: Montréal, Canada – Avignon, France,” a NEXMAP concert. Francis Dhomont’s performance will include Here and There, Phonurgie, and Moirures (a videomusic realized in collaboration with Inés Wickmann). Louis Dufort will premiere the videomusic Flesh that explores the relationship between sonic and visual morphology. He will also diffuse 2 accousmatic works that examine the notion of movement; one of which, Gen_3, is an homage to Francis Dhomont and Pierre Schaeffer. This event will take place at the Recombinant Media Labs in San Francisco (USA) on December 1, 2007 [and December 2, 2007].

Milliseconde topographie will present its videomusic Treelogy 3: Orchid at Galerie Horace art actuel in Sherbrooke on August 23, 2007, and also during the EXiS 2007 festival in Seoul (South Korea) on August 24-30. Furthermore, Milliseconde topographie will launch a retrospective DVD-V of their videomusic in the fall. The disc will also include a new audio project which combines ancient music instruments (barrel organ, harpsichord, dulcimer) and new technologies.

Música Viva Festival 2007 will take place from September 11 to 23, 2007 in Lisbon (Portugal). Amongst other events, the daily “Deep Listening” will present StrinGDberg by Robert Normandeau (September 18 to 23). On the 19 the “Loudspeakers Orchestra II” will also be an occasion to listen to: A nova música do rei by António Ferreira, and Here and There, Vol d’Arondes, Un autre Printemps, Premières traces du Choucas, Moirures (Inès Wickmann, vidéeo) by Francis Dhomont who will also give a master class.

The Internationales Musikwissenschaftliches Symposion wil dedicate 4 days to François Bayle from October 9 au 12, 2007. For this occasion, «Portraitkonzerte», lectures and a tribute concert will be presented at the Universität zu Köln in Germany.

Futura 2007, the international festival of acousmatic art, will take place from August 17 au 19, 2007 in Crest (France). This festival’s edition build around Christian Zanési’s work will notably host, Amongst many composers, Mathew Adkins, Patrick Ascione, Darren Copeland, Denis Dufour, Chantal Dumas, Bernard Parmegiani, Laurie Radford, Pete Stollery, Benjamin Thigpen, and Annette Vande Gorne.