This first weekend of Soundings… has 4 concerts on October 27 to 29, 2006 at the Reid Concert Hall in Edinburgh (UK). On October 28 Pete Stollery will premiere scènes, rendez-vous, composed at the GRM studios, and spatialize the works … et ainsi de suite… by Jonty Harrison, and Espace / Escape by Francis Dhomont. Natasha Barrett, Gilles Gobeil, Elsa Justel, Denis Smalley, and Annette Vande Gorne are amongst the twenty composers performed.

Réseaux presents Akousma (3), a series of 5 portrait-concerts of Elio Martusciello, saxophone quartet Quasar, Francis Dhomont (for and on his 80th birthday), Ludger Brümmer, and Christian Calon. Are also organized 4 master classes, conferences and sound diffusion workshops. On October 31 to November 4 2006 at the Monument-National in Montréal.

Composer John Young is one of the international guests of Ai-maako 2006, the 6th Santiago International Festival of Electroacoustic Music (Chile). On October 18, 2006 Young will present a concert featuring his works Liquid Sky and Inner and a movement of Christian Calon’s recent work Atlas, along with works by Peter Batchelor, Ambrose Field and from Sonic Postcards composed by British school children as part of a project run by the Sonic Arts Network. On the following day he will also present a talk entitled Figures and Forms: Acousmatic thought in an interactive age.

Composer Pete Stollery will premiere scènes, rendez-vous during the Soundings… festival in Edinburgh (UK) on October 28, 2006. He will also premiere the mixed work for trumpet and tape, Planar at the Institute of Medical Sciences in Aberdeen (UK) on November 12.

A concert of acousmatic music at the Powis Hall of the University of Wales Bangor (UK) on October 26, 2006 will present, works by David Berezan, Natasha Barrett, John Young, and Andrew Lewis, amongst others.

Désordre, a new work for voice, electric guitar, and tape by Philippe Le Goff, will be premiered on October 8, 2006 during the “Musiques aux centres” concert fo the 29th acousmatic season Multiphonies presented by the Ina-GRM at Salle Olivier Messiaen of Maison de Radio France. The work will be perfromed by Sylvie Deguy and Louis Chretiennot.