News Expo Plymouth “mixed” works representative of the “Utopia-Exotica,” on 5–24 June 2007. Institute’s repertoire. The festival Many organizations and performance The Sonic Arts Network and i-DAT featured Mauricio Kagel’s Exotica, venues participated in supporting hosted the 10th annual Expo in Ply- and included works by Magnus Lind- concerts, films, broadcasts, opera, mouth, England, on 22–25 June 2007. berg, Georges Aperghis, Jonathon dance, and a host of symposia and The Expo included installations, per- Harvey, and Gerard Grisey, plus workshops. Composer Jean-Luc formances, exhibitions, happenings, a world premieres of pieces by Stefano Hervé worked with landscape design- large-scale sonic picnic, workshops, Gervasoni and Franck Bedrossian. ers on a sonic garden commissioned Downloaded from http://direct.mit.edu/comj/article-pdf/31/3/7/1854832/comj.2007.31.3.7.pdf by guest on 26 September 2021 presentations, and DJ sets. The Expo Web: www.ircam.fr by the city of Paris. Edgard Varese’s presents works that go beyond the Poème Électronique was presented bounds of traditional venues to en- with the film Virtual Electronic gage in richer ways with the public Poem, a project coordinated by Vin- and the urban landscape. NIME cenzo Lombardo. Karlheinz Stock- Web: www.sonicartsnetwork.org hausen’s Hymnen was performed in The New Interfaces for Musical Ex- the original four-channel and sur- pression (NIME) 2007 conference was rounded by Gérard Fromanger’s held in New York City on 6–10 June, paintings. Other offerings included WOCMAT in Taiwan as part of the New York Electronic film with electronic music from Arts Festival. There was a special fo- Japan, and several world premieres by The International Workshop on cus on Music and Robotics with a composers selected by the Ensemble Computer Music and Audio Technol- keynote speech by Trimpin, a work- Intercontemporain and IRCAM. ogies was hosted by National Chiao shop on Music and Robotics, and a Web: agora.ircam.fr Tung University in Hsinchu, Taiwan, series of concerts by the League of on 24–25 March 2007. Keynote speak- Electronic Musical Urban Robots ers included Miller Puckette, Sever (LEMUR). Tipei, Michael Gurevich, Yoichi Na- Web: itp.nyu.edu/nime/2007 EAR Concert Series in Dublin gashima, Joseph Klein, Rodrigo Sigal, and Kenneth Paoli. There were also The new music collective Electro three concerts featuring works for Acoustic Review (EAR) presented tape, live electronics, video, dance, Sonoimágenes EAR-drum, a concert series of and live instruments with electronics percussion-oriented electroacoustic from all over the world, with a spot- The eighth edition of the Interna- music, 27–31 March 2007 at the Proj- light on student and faculty com- tional Acousmatic and Multimedia ects Arts Center in Dublin, Ireland. posers from Taiwan. Festival, Sonoimágenes, was held on The program included sound sculp- Web: 140.113.35.91/wocmat2007/ 28–31 August 2007 at the National tures and multichannel compositions index_eng.htm University of Lanús and other concert by Fergal Dowling, an evening of halls in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The electronic works by Irish composers, festival is organized around three cat- a program of music from the San egories of presentation—acousmatic Francisco Tape Music Collective, and IRCAM in Monte Carlo work, audiovisual compositions, and music for percussion, ensemble, and live performance—and includes electronics performed by the EAR The Institut de Recherche et Coordi- workshops and presentations. Ensemble. nation Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) Web: www.sonoimagenes Web: www.ear.ie/ hosted a program as part of the Print- .netfirms.com future_events.htm emps des Arts in Monte Carlo, Monaco, on 29 March–1 April. The program included workshops on Musique Lab software applications, a Agora Festival Making New Waves panorama of IRCAM’s tools, a confer- ence on spatialization and gesture IRCAM and the Centre Pompidou The 2007 Making New Waves Festi- capture, and workshop-concerts of in Paris hosted the Agora Festival, val was held in Budapest, Hungary, News 7 Figure 1. David Dunn, composer-in-residence at the 2007 Santa Fe Interna- tional Festival of Electro- acoustic Music. on 15–18 February. This year’s festi- val had the theme “Sound in Space” and featured a live performance of Alvin Lucier’s I am Sitting in a Room. The festival included work- shops on laser instruments, random games, sound basics, Fluxus, and hardware hacking, as well as four Downloaded from http://direct.mit.edu/comj/article-pdf/31/3/7/1854832/comj.2007.31.3.7.pdf by guest on 26 September 2021 days of concerts and lectures. Web: www.makingnewwaves.hu Subtropics 19 The 19th Subtropics Festival was held with events in Miami from 23 Febru- ary–4 March 2007. The festival fea- tured the music of John Cage, and the first-ever visit to Miami by choreog- rapher Merce Cunningham. The mu- sic performances included classics from John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Christian Wolff, as well as new electronic and mixed-media works Tenney Memorial concert was held Mobile Music from David Berman, Eric Lyon, Take- featuring the CSF Electroacoustic En- hisa Kosugi, and many others. Other semble, the CSF Chorus, and guest The Fourth International Mobile events included a Fluxus Day, panel musicians. Music Workshop was held in Amster- discussions, film screenings, and me- Web: sfifem.csf.edu/ dam on 6–8 May 2007. The Work- dia installations. SFIFEM2007_index.html shop was jointly hosted by the Studio Web: www.subtropics.org for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM) and the Waag Society. Paper, poster, and demonstration presenta- Immersive Soundscapes tions covered a range of topics, in- SFIFEM 2007 cluding mobile music systems and The University of Regina hosted The enabling technologies, interface The 11th annual International Festi- Art of Immersive Soundscapes 2 from design, legal issues, user studies, val of Electroacoustic Music was held 9–22 June 2007 in Saskatchewan, ethnographic fieldwork, social impli- 1–3 March 2007 at the College of Canada. A “creative forum” con- cations, art pieces, and other areas Sante Fe (CSF) in New Mexico. David sisted of master classes, collaborative relevant to mobile music. Dunn (see Figure 1), Joan La Barbara, explorations, presentations, and Web: www.mobilemusicworkshop and Diane Thome were the featured artists-in-residence. A “conference .org composers and performers, and gave component” was entitled “IAS2 In- pre-concert talks during the evenings tersections: Soundscapes and Music; dedicated to their works. The festival Soundscapes and Identity,” and in- also included sound installations by cluded keynote presentations by MakingThings Sensor Workshop Sawako and Tara Rodgers and a series Christos Hatzis (University of of radio programs presenting works Toronto) and Barry Truax (Simon MakingThings organized a two-day by Jean-Claude Risset, Francis Fraser University). hands-on workshop 20–22 April 2007 Dhomont, and Luc Ferrari. A James Web: uregina.ca/Soundscape in San Francisco, California, on sen- 8 Computer Music Journal sors, sensor interfaces, and software– instruction. Students learned about conducted using the Cycling ’74’s hardware integration for use in musi- the theory and practice of interfacing Max/MSP/Jitter graphical program- cal performance, dance, video, sound, techniques, resistive and non- ming environment. and art installations. Each day started resistive sensors, and the OpenSound Web: www.sensorworkshop.com/ with lectures and was followed by a Control (OSC) protocol related to the HOME.html series of exercises with one-on-one Make Controller. The workshop was Downloaded from http://direct.mit.edu/comj/article-pdf/31/3/7/1854832/comj.2007.31.3.7.pdf by guest on 26 September 2021 News 9.