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Stockholm New Music

The Stockholm New Music festival took place 18–25 February 2006, under the directorship of Magnus Andersson. The theme was "Place and Space," and was concerned with creating a dialogue with other art forms, particularly art and literature. Central to the festival was Janet Cardiff's installation 40 Part Motet, and works by composers Brian Ferneyhough and Luigi Nono.

Web: www.stockholmnewmusic.se.

Itinerarios del Sonido

Itineraries in Sound was a public art project offering citizens and visitors to Madrid, Spain, a novel perspective on the city. Fourteen different artists (including composers, poets, and visual artists) explored the city of Madrid and selected a location as a point of departure for a new sound piece composed specifically for Itineraries. During the period 21 May– 25 September 2005, each piece was installed in a bus stop located at the specific area chosen by the artist. The pieces were available to passers-by who would plug their own headphones in to experience the works. Artists included Luc Ferrari and Trevor Wishart, among others.

The project included a series of lectures, concerts, and round-table discussions led by the artists during their visits, and is documented in CD, DVD, book, and Web form.

Web: www.itinerariosdelsonido.org.

EA Music Days in Greece

Electroacoustic Music Days 2005, the fourth annual gathering of the Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association, was held 28– 30 October 2005, in Rethymno, Greece. The event aims at presenting the modern trends in electroacoustic music in Greece and bringing together Greek composers from around the world. Seminars, presentations, discussions, and concerts of live and interactive sound and video works were scheduled for the event.

Web: www.teicrete.gr/mta/meres05/index_en.htm.

Real-Time Everything: New Directions in Media Software

A one-day symposium on new media software was held at the Watershed Media Centre in Bristol, UK, on 22 June 2005. The event was a collaboration among Watershed, Bath Spa University College, and Sonic Arts Network. The symposium was a practical and artistic exploration of digital media tools that are modular, highly expandable, and configurable, that integrate a variety of sensors and media, and run in real-time. Presentation topics included Max/MSP, SuperCollider, OpenCV, CSound, and the Composers Desktop Project.

Sound to Sense Summer School

The Consortium of the EU-IST Coordinated Action, Sound to Sense, held their first summer school on sound and music in Genova, Italy, 25–29 July 2005. The core theme of the school focuses on the gap between sound and sense, i.e., the separation between low-level physical modeling of sound, on the one hand, and high-level representations and models related to perception, cognition, affect, expression, and gesture, on the other.

Web: www.s2s2.org.

Música Viva Award Winners

The winners of the Música Viva 2005 Sixth Electroacoustic Composition Competition were announced during the Música Viva festival in Lisbon, Portugal, 16–24 September 2005. The prizewinners were Panayiotis Kokoras for Anechoic Pulse, Santiago Díez Fischer for Tynajas, and Pedro dos Santos Faria de Almeida for In Rota. Mentions were also given to Kin Suk-Jun for Kotmun and Rui Miguel Dias for A.S.R. (aka Daedalus XXI). The jurors for the competition were Annette Vande Gorne, Marek Choloniewski, and Miguel Azguime.

The eight-day festival included over 100 works of music, dance, video, and installations in addition to presentations, workshops, and short courses.

Web: www.misomusic.com/ingl/circul/mviva/2005.html.

JTTP 2005 Award Winners

The Jeu de temps (Time Play, or JTTP) is a project of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community for encouraging and promoting young Canadian sound artists. The winners of their annual competition for 2005 are James Duhamel for Le Radeau, Martin Bédard for Topographie de la noirceur, Delphine Measroch for Machin Machine, Samuel Beaudoin for n'importe quoi, and Ivan Elezovic for Almost there. . . . The winning pieces were played on the 27 August 2005 edition of Kalvos and Damian's New Music Bazaar, and are available online at http://sonus.ca.

Web: cec.concordia.ca/jttp/index.htm.

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Robert Moog (1934-2005), in a photo by...