David Berezan at the Happening Festival of New Music and Media, Calgary

Five days of new music and media performance at the University of Calgary
The University of Calgary Department of Music (Calgary, Canada) presents its annual Happening Festival of New Music and Media 2010 from January 25th until 29th. The festival offers five days of sonic discovery highlighting established and emerging new media practices in sound and music. It features lectures, roundtable discussions, sound installations, video screenings, and five concerts featuring new and recent work for old and new instruments, video, multichannel acousmatic art, and telemedia performance.
David Berezan's Nijō (8-channels) is one of the pieces featured in one of the festival concerts:
* NEW ADVENTURES IN SOUND ART *
THURSDAY, January 28, 2010 - 8:00pm
New Works Calgary presents a multichannel sonic art event featuring live audio diffusion of new work by composers David Berezan Darren Copeland, David Eagle and Hildegard Westerkamp.
Berezan is also participating in the first of two round table discussions held Wednesday, January 27 and Thursday, January 28 from 2:00 - 3:30 pm in The Great Hall of the Rozsa Centre, University of Calgary. Wednesday's round table is entitled _The Soundscape in the 21st Century_ and Thursday's round table is _Art and Technology_.
For more info about the *HAPPENING FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSIC AND MEDIA 2010*, click here

PhD student Manuella Blackburn appointed Lecturer in Music Technology at Liverpool Hope University, UK

Manuella's new academic duties will be to assist with the creative development of music technology in the context of the single honors degree programme.
Music/Music Technology courses take place within the faculty of Arts and Humanities at the Cornerstone Campus, along with Drama & Theatre Studies, Fine and Applied Arts, Dance and the BA Creative & Performing Arts. The Faculty offers Masters degrees in The Beatles, Popular Music and Society, Music since 1900, and Creative Practice.
Lecturer in Music Technology (0.5)
Liverpool Hope University
Start date April 2010

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For more about the programme. Click here
Hope's Studio details. Click here

Manuella's personal web. Click here
Manuella's web at NOVARS Research Centre. Click here

Professor Gerald Bennett appointed 'Distinguished Visiting Scholar', NOVARS Reserch Centre; Music Department at Manchester University, UK

This picture if copyright of Gerald Bennett

MUSIC at manchester University is delighted to announce the list on newly appointed 'Distinguished Visiting Scholars' to the Music Department:

Professor Gerald Bennett
Dr Jeffrey Dean
Professor Edward Gregson
Professor Douglas Jarman
Dr Michael Kennedy C.B.E.
Dr Colin Matthews
John Turner

For more about Prof. Bennetts music and publications. Click here

Download Prof. Gerald Bennett keynote speech at NOVARS Launch 07

Gerald Bennett was born in 1942 in New Jersey (USA). He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1964. From 1967 until 1976 he taught at the Basel (Switzerland) Conservatory, from 1969 until 1976 he was Director of the Basel Conservatory. From 1976 until 1981 he was Department Head at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), Paris. In 1981 he took a position as professor of Music Theory and Composition at the Hochschule for Music in Zurich.
In 1983 he was one of the founders, and from 1986 until 1992 Secretary of the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music (ICEM), member organization of the International Music Council of the UNESCO.
In 1985 he founded, with Bruno Spoerri, the Swiss Center for Computer Music.
Since 1993 he has been member of the International Academy of Electroacoustic Music of Bourges.
In 2005 Bennett founded and directed the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology at the Hochschule Musik und Theater, Zurich (today the Zurich University of the Arts). He retired from his teaching and administrative obligations at the Zurich University of the Art in October of 2007. His compositions are published by Edition Modern und Mnémosyne, recordings are published by Wergo and Jecklin, and his writings published by Gallimard, Oxford University Press, Eulenburg, MIT Press, and others. He lives in Muttenz, Switzerland, outside Basel. CVsource

Oliver Carman's 'Memento' broadcast on 'Phonogene'

Oliver Carman's acousmatic piece 'Memento' broadcast on 'Phonogene' on Monday 18th Jan at 2300h 99.1 RadioHDR Rouen, Normandy, France.
The show will also be online at www.myspace.com/phonogene.

NOVARS Composers start populating with their music Berlin's SounCloud Project

Click above to listen to audio excerpts

Today we have started to upload excerpts of original compositions by NOVARS composers at SoundCloud.
OPEN NOVARS'S AUDIO CHANNEL

Who is behind soundcloud? They say: 'We're a few people who moved from Stockholm to Berlin, found some more cool people there and set up a small company to create the best dedicated music site in the world'To learn more about soundcloud, click here