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Expo Plymouth

The Sonic Arts Network and i-DAT hosted the 10th annual Expo in Ply-mouth, England, on 22–25 June 2007. The Expo included installations, performances, exhibitions, happenings, a large-scale sonic picnic, workshops, presentations, and DJ sets. The Expo presents works that go beyond the bounds of traditional venues to engage in richer ways with the public and the urban landscape.

Web: www.sonicartsnetwork.org

WOCMAT in Taiwan

The International Workshop on Computer Music and Audio Technologies was hosted by National Chiao Tung University in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on 24–25 March 2007. Keynote speakers included Miller Puckette, Sever Tipei, Michael Gurevich, Yoichi Nagashima, Joseph Klein, Rodrigo Sigal, and Kenneth Paoli. There were also three concerts featuring works for tape, live electronics, video, dance, and live instruments with electronics from all over the world, with a spotlight on student and faculty composers from Taiwan.

Web: 140.113.35.91/wocmat2007/index_eng.htm

IRCAM in Monte Carlo

The Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) hosted a program as part of the Printemps des Arts in Monte Carlo, Monaco, on 29 March–1 April. The program included workshops on Musique Lab software applications, a panorama of IRCAM's tools, a conference on spatialization and gesture capture, and workshop-concerts of "mixed" works representative of the Institute's repertoire. The festival featured Mauricio Kagel's Exotica, and included works by Magnus Lindberg, Georges Aperghis, Jonathon Harvey, and Gerard Grisey, plus world premieres of pieces by Stefano Gervasoni and Franck Bedrossian.

Web: www.ircam.fr

NIME

The New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) 2007 conference was held in New York City on 6–10 June, as part of the New York Electronic Arts Festival. There was a special focus on Music and Robotics with a keynote speech by Trimpin, a workshop on Music and Robotics, and a series of concerts by the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR).

Web: itp.nyu.edu/nime/2007

Sonoimágenes

The eighth edition of the International Acousmatic and Multimedia Festival, Sonoimágenes, was held on 28–31 August 2007 at the National University of Lanús and other concert halls in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The festival is organized around three categories of presentation—acousmatic work, audiovisual compositions, and live performance—and includes workshops and presentations.

Web: www.sonoimagenes.netfirms.com

Agora Festival

IRCAM and the Centre Pompidou in Paris hosted the Agora Festival,

"Utopia-Exotica," on 5–24 June 2007. Many organizations and performance venues participated in supporting concerts, films, broadcasts, opera, dance, and a host of symposia and workshops. Composer Jean-Luc Hervé worked with landscape designers on a sonic garden commissioned by the city of Paris. Edgard Varese's Poème Électronique was presented with the film Virtual Electronic Poem, a project coordinated by Vincenzo Lombardo. Karlheinz Stock-hausen's Hymnen was performed in the original four-channel and surrounded by Gérard Fromanger's paintings. Other offerings included film with electronic music from Japan, and several world premieres by composers selected by the Ensemble Intercontemporain and IRCAM.

Web: agora.ircam.fr

EAR Concert Series in Dublin

The new music collective Electro Acoustic Review (EAR) presented EAR-drum, a concert series of percussion-oriented electroacoustic music, 27–31 March 2007 at the Projects Arts Center in Dublin, Ireland. The program included sound sculptures and multichannel compositions by Fergal Dowling, an evening of electronic works by Irish composers, a program of music from the San Francisco Tape Music Collective, and music for percussion, ensemble, and electronics performed by the EAR Ensemble.

Web: www.ear.ie/future_events.htm

Making New Waves

The 2007 Making New Waves Festival was held in Budapest, Hungary, on 15–18 February. This year's festival had the theme "Sound in Space" and featured a live performance of Alvin Lucier's I am Sitting in a Room. The festival included workshops on laser instruments, random games, sound basics, Fluxus, and hardware hacking, as well as four days of concerts and lectures.

Web: www.makingnewwaves.hu

Subtropics 19

The 19th Subtropics Festival was held with events in Miami from 23 February– 4 March 2007. The festival featured the music of John Cage, and the first-ever...