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Source: Computer Music Journal , Winter, 2005, Vol. 29, No. 4, Visual Music (Winter,
2005), pp. 7-10
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Synthese in Bourges tronic Music Center (CEMC) based attion. Presentations included live per-
the Central Conservatory of Music informance, interactive audiovisual
The Institut International de Beijing hosted MusicAcoustic 2005: work, installations, "homemade" in-
Musique Electroacoustique de Mix on 20-30 October in Beijing, struments and circuitry and more.
Bourges held the 35th annual Syn- China. Chinese composers and aca- One of the pioneers of electronic mu-
these festival 3-12 June 2005 in demics come together once a year to sic, and the father of electronic music
Bourges, France. A diverse series of plan future directions for the develop-in Africa, Halim El-Dabh, performed
concert themes was presented, in- ment of computer music in China andhis works live, participate in work-
cluding International Creative, Musi- to learn from and exchange ideas withshops and other sessions, and particu-
cal Informatics, Sound Poetry their international guests. The confer-larly to encourage young composers
Portugal, Sound Poetry France, Film ence consists of concerts, paper ses- in the region.
Music, Game Music, and Video Art. sions, artist talks, discussion panels, Details can be found at www
An overture project topic, "Future and workshops, and covers a broad .newmusicsa.org.za/unyazi2005.html.
Worlds, Automats, and Machines to range of organized sound, electro-
Project Oneself There" paid homage acoustics (with Chinese and Western
to Jules Verne, and featured continu- instruments), microsound, coding ex-
ous play of over 150 compositions perimentation, and phonography. Prix Ars Electronica
throughout the duration of the festi- Visit the Web site cemc.ccom
val. A cycle de rencontre was run .edu.cn for more information.
The winners of the 2005 Prix Ars
with Max Mathews, John Chowning,
Electronica International Competi-
Jean-Claude Risset, Henri Chopin,
tion for Cyberarts (see Figure 2) have
Barry Truax, and others leading dis-
been announced, and the awards cer-
cussions on diverse topics, including JIEM 2005 in Madrid emony was scheduled for 2 Septem-
electroacoustic music history, anal-
ber 2005. A total of US$ 117,500 was
ysis, and aesthetics. The Centro para la Difusi6n de la awarded to artists in six competitive
The winners of the 32nd Bourges Mtisica Contemporines (CDMC; categories.
International Competition of Electro- Center for the Diffusion of Contem- The winner of the Golden Nicas in
acoustic Music and Sonic Art were
porary Music) in Madrid, Spain, the Digital Musics category was
also announced at the festival. (See hosted XII Jornadas de Informatica y Maryanne Amacher for her work,
the competition's poster in Figure 1.) Electr6nica Musical (JIEM) 2005, a se-
TEO! A sonic sculpture. Ms. Amacher
Prizes were awarded in a variety of cat-ries of workshops and concerts ex-
has been working with sound installa-
egories including abstract works, pro-ploring computers and electronics in
tions since 1967. Her winning project
grammatic works, music with devices music on 27 June-8 July 2005. The was conceived as a sound installation
and/or instruments, electroacoustic concerts included many Spanish and
for the Esplanade des Palacio de Bellas
sound art, works for dance or theater, world premiere performances.
Artes in Mexico City.
sound installations or sound environ-
JIEM information is available at Honorary mention in the Digital
ments, and multimedia. The Magis- cdmc.mcu.es/esp/home3.htm. Musics category went to Haco for
terium prize went to Ake Parmerud
Stereo Bugscope 00; Mike Cooper
for SubString Bridge for guitar and
for Rayon Hula; Nicholas Bussman
electroacoustics. A list of all the win-
and Martin Brandlmayr for Kapital
ners can be found at www.imeb.net/ Electronic Music in South Africa Band 1 2; skoltzkolgen for FPliux:/
CONCOURS/palmares.html. Terminal; Paul DeMarinis for Fire-
The Electronic Music Symposium birds; Gilles Gobeil for Ombres,
and Festival 2005 was organized for espaces, silences; Louis-Philippe
1-4 September 2005 in Johannesburg, Demers for The Mechanized Eccen-
MusicAcoustic 2005: Mix, South Africa, with the goal of creat- tric Series; Scott Arford for TV-IV;
Beijing ing an awareness of the economic and Jens Brand for G-Player; Kateryna
practical importance of the computer Zavoloka for ZAVOLOKA plavyna;
The Electroacoustic Music Association and the role that it plays in music Yoshimitsu Ichiraku for Dora Video;
of China (EMAC) and the China Elec-creation, performance, and educa- and artificiel (Alexandre Burton,

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Figure 1. The winners of Figure 2. A poster for the
the International Competi- Ars Electronica festival.
tion of Electroacoustic Mu- Source: Origin (1999) by
sic and Sonic Art were Daniel Lee, used with the
announced at the Synth se kind permission of the
festival in Bourges. artist.

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third event featured Frank Bretschnei-
der and Olaf Bender performing their
Raster-Noton music label brand of
Julien Roy, and stallations, and informative work-
Jimmy experimental, minimal,
Lakatos) for and glitch-
condemned_bulbes. shops and artist talks. fused beat music. The next event in
Winners in all Prix Ars Electronica Detailed information on the pro- the series was Bell Solaris; Twelve
competition categories, and links to gram can be found at www.beams.ca. Metamorphoses in Piano Theater.
their respective Web sites, can be This theatrical expansion of music by
found at www.aec.at/en/prix/ David Rosenboom was conceived and
winners2005.asp. directed by Travis Preston and in-
Music: See Hear Now! cluded an ensemble of performers
who, while wearing multiple video
A performance series investigating cameras and projectors, carry out
Sea of Sound in Edmonton the synaesthetic resonance between choreographed movements.
contemporary music and visual art A three-day series of film and
The third Edmonton Intermedia Arts was presented by the Roy and Edna sound entitled Synaesthesia; Film-
Festival was held 24 June-6 July 2005Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) makers Listen, Composers See, was
in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Pre- and The Museum of Contemporary presented on 14-16 April 2005. The
sented by the Boreal Electroacoustic Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, Califor- event showcased collaborative
Music Society (BEAMS) and The Ed- nia, between February and April 2005. works between avant-garde com-
monton Works Art and Design Festi- Cosey Fanni Tutti and Chris posers, performers, and filmmakers.
val, and curated by veteran EdmontonCarter, members of the group Throb- The programs included a presenta-
electroacoustic composer Shawn bing Gristle, made a rare American tion of the film Entr'acte (1924) by
Pinchbeck, this festival was designed appearance in a presentation of Rene Clair with music by Erik Satie,
to bring together a collection of Chessmachine for the first perfor- works by Stan Brakhage and James
electroacoustic music and sound art mance of the series. The second Tenney, a piece by Phil Niblok with
performances, immersive audio in- event was skoltz_kolgen's Flitux:/ music performed by CalArts musi-

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cians, live video by Astra Price and M2K Workshops system projecting a rotating program
Carole Kim with improvised music of works from Diapason's archive.
by Jesse Gilbert and Motoko Honda, The music-to-knowledge (M2K) tools The show's Web presence is at
and more. community continued to expand as www.anthologyfilmarchives.org.
More information is available at the International Music Information
www.calarts.edu/redcat/season/ Retrieval Systems Evaluation Labora-
20042005/mus/synaesthesia.html. tory (IMIRSEL) held conferences in
Europe and the United States. The Cut and Splice
European meeting was held at
Goldsmith College in London on This year's Cut and Splice festival,
MUTEK 2005 15-16 April 2005, and the North "Dots and Lines," was presented by
American workshop was held on 3- Sonic Arts Network and the BBC on
The 2005 MUTEK festival, "Music, 4 June 2005 at the University of Illi- 14 May-3 June 2005. Gallery shows,
Sound and New Technologies," was nois, Urbana-Champaign. The goals of artist talks, and concerts explored the
held from 1-5 June in Montreal, the workshops are to train researchers idea of notation and the relationship
Canada. Over 100 electronica, glitch,and graduate students in the use of between score, image, text, and
rave, techno, noise, and other stylesthe tools, to gather feedback from sound in electronic music and sound
users for the key developers of the
of sonic artists and explorers were in- art. The festival included works by
vited to participate in the festival,system, and to assemble a wish-list Robert Ashley, Kurt Schwitters, Ali-
that included panel discussions in for future components and delegate son Knowles, Trevor Wishart, Mauri-
addition to performance in a variety responsibility for their development. cio Kagel, and others. Yasunao Tone
of venues around the city. Other The M2K system has been attract- presented a premiere of his piece
MUTEK events in 2005 included ing attention in part because of its Paramedia-Centripetal. There is also
a festival in Beijing on 3-12 March,use as a primary software tool in the an online exhibition curated by
music information retrieval contests
and MUTEK.MX in Mexico City on Honar Harger at www.bbc.co.uk/
13-17 April. that are part of MIREX 2005, the Sec- radio3/cutandsplice, which includes
Additional festival information is ond Annual Music Information Re-
interactive sonic Web art from many
at www.mutek.ca. trieval Evaluation Exchange. artists.
For more information on M2K, For more information, visit
visit www.music-ir.org/evaluation/ www.sonicartsnetwork.org.
m2k/index.html.
Spatialization Workshop with
Francois Bayle
Festival Confluencias
Sound Art: Works from the
Frangois Bayle directed a workshop
on Spatialization from 28 May-3 June Diapason Archives The Festival Confluencias-Art
2005 at Plateau Nadine in Brussels, and Technology on the Brink of a
Belgium. The workshop explored the Diapason, a New York venue for Millennium of Madness, was held on
themes of stereophonic screens, poly-multichannel sound installation 3-6 May 2005 in Huelva, Spain. The
phonic whirling, dynamic amplifica- since 2000, organized a show at An- festival included concerts, a work-
tion, articulations, contrasts, and thology Film Archives that ran from shop on digital technologies in sound
other contemporary spatialization 20 May-19 June 2005. The show fea- and image, an open debate on art and
practices using the Arsis-thesis tured a range of artists working in technology, video and film presenta-
equipment, which consists of 42 sound today, including Marina tions, and "Chill Out Electroacus-
speakers over 32 tracks. The work- Rosenfeld, Stephen Vitiello, Eliane tico" at a late-night venue. A series of
shop culminated in a series of three Radigue, and recent Ars Electronica "miniatures" (pieces under 5 minutes
concerts in this unusual architectural winner Tom Hamilton. The Anthol- in length) were presented at the festi-
and acoustic space. ogy's Courthouse Gallery was trans- val, and a prize was awarded to Ed
The workshop Web site is located formed into a listening environmentMartin for his submission, Drift.
at www.nadine.be:3455/e/3054. equipped with a multi-channel sound Further information about the

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festival can be found at www and Theodoros Lotis, each of whom Stephan Dunkelman (Bourges 2004),
.confluencias.org. Apostolos Loufopoulos (SCRIME
prepared a statement of his own artis-
tic position on the interpretation 2003),
of Pascal Baltazar (SCRIME
acousmatic music. 2003), Andrew Lewis (CIMESP 2003),
Details can be downloaded from David Berezan (CIMESP 2003), Eliza-
www.amicidellamusicadicagliari.it/ beth Anderson (Metamorphoses
Festival di Interpretazione della italiano/concerti/t_conceC.htm. 2004), Ondrej Adamek (Metamor-
Musica Acusmatica phoses 2004), Benjamin de La Fuente
(Time 2004), Trevor Wishart (Time
The 2nd Festival of Interpretation of 2004), Claudio Gabrielle (Musica
Acousmatic Music was presented by Cycle Acousmatique Nova 2003), Mario Mary (Pierre
the Amici della Musica di Cagliari in Schaeffer 2003), Annette Vande
Italy onl0-12 May 2005. A series of Cycle Acousmatique presented Inter- Gorne (Pierre Schaeffer 2003), and
six acousmatic music concerts was national Night, a concert of recent Jean-Frangois Laporte (Citta di
presented. Individual concert "ex-winners of international music com- Udine 2004).
ecutors" included Arthur Moya, petitions, on 15 April 2005 in Brus- For more information, see
Trevor Wishart, Lucio Garau, sels, Belgium. Included in the program www.musiques-recherches.be/
were Ambrose Field (Bourges 2003),
Frangois Bayle, Giuseppe Rapisarda, agenda_event.php?lng=fr&id=389.

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