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Radio // Martin Bédard
Cache 2003 CA+UK
Check-point (2003), 14m12s [excerpt]
Track 1 from Cache 2003 CA+UK
2xCD: CEC-PeP (2004) PEP 008

Artists // Martin Bédard

19 November 2011

The winning works at the Sound in Space Composition Competition (Boston, MA, USA, 2011) are Anagoge by Andrew Babcook (1st prize), Champs de fouilles (Excavations) by Martin Bédard (2nd prize), and A glass is not a glass by Adam Basanta (3rd prize).

  • Visit the Sound in Space Festival event web site — The Art of Electroacoustic Music Interpretation: November 17-19, 2011, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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15 November 2011

The Sound in Space festival will take place at the Fenway Center of the Northwastern University in Boston (USA) on November 17 - 19, 2011. This festival has a competition component with two concerts with the six finalist works — four of which are by Montréal composers: Adam Basanta, Martin Bédard, Simone D’Ambrosio, and Ana Dall’Ara Majek. The festival also presents two portrait concerts — Daniel Teruggi, and Ludger Brümmer — and a few conferences and workshops.

  • Visit the Sound in Space Festival event web site — The Art of Electroacoustic Music Interpretation: November 17-19, 2011, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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15 October 2011

Ai-maako, the 11st Festival Internacional de Música Electroacústica de Chile, will take place on October 14 - 22, 2011 in Santiago and Valdivia (Chile). Works by Francis Dhomont, Federico Schumacher Ratti, Gilles Gobeil, João Pedro Oliveira, Martin Bédard and several others are featured during this 2-city festival.

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18 October 2010

Réseaux presents Akousma (7), Electroacoustic Musics Festival, on October 27 - 30, 2010 at Monument-National in Montréal. 4 evenings with Pauline Oliveros, Alexander Schubert / Sinebag, Mathew Adkins (a concert celebrating the 20th anniversary of empreintes DIGITALes), Mitchell Akiyama, Martin Bédard, Martin Messier, Félix-Antoine Morin, and Nicolas Bernier.

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6 October 2010

Martin Bédard has received an Award of Distinction for his piece Champs de fouilles (Excavations) at the Prix Ars Electronica 2010 in the Digital Musics & Sound Art category.

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18 October 2009

Canadian Electroacoustics is prominently featured at Musicacoustica Beijing 2009 festival, October 25 - 31, 2009. Amongst the selected works — most of which are available on empreintes DIGITALes — are StrinGDberg and Palimpseste by Robert Normandeau; Castalie and Les lointains noirs et rouges by Gilles Gobeil; Champs de fouilles (Excavations) by Martin Bédard; Für Dich — For You by Hildegard Westerkamp; Artifacts (I) by Nick Storing; à la cire perdu by Laurie Radford; On a Strange Road by Darren Copeland; and Chalice Well by Barry Truax.

  • Visit the Musicacoustica Beijing presenter web site — Musicacoustica Beijing 2009 / Interaction: October 25-31, 2009, Beijing, China
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12 September 2009

The World New Music Days organized by the ISCM will take place on Septembre 24 - October 4, 2009 in Visby, Växjö, and Göteborg (Sweden). Amongst the works on the programmes: Rituals by Åke Parmerud on September 28; Champs de fouilles (Excavations) by Martin Bédard and Sub Terra by Natasha Barrett on September 29; and finally Vol de rêve (first movement of Trois songes) by Gilles Gobeil on October 1.

  • Visit the World New Music Days event web site — ISCM 2009 “Listen to the World”: Visby, Växjö, Göteborg: September 24 - October 4, 2009, Sweden
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28 August 2009

The acousmatic and multimedia festival Sonoimágenes will take place on September 2 - 4, 2009 at Lanús’ National University, near Buenos Aires (Argentina). On September 3, Elsa Justel will present her works Débris, Bastet, as well as the videomusic Moure el món. On September 4, Åke Parmerud will present La vie mécanique, Bows, Arcs and The Arrow of Time, and Crystal Counterpoint. The Festival also features À propos de K by Francis Dhomont, Champs de fouilles (Excavations) by Martin Bédard, and a concert by João Pedro Oliveira.

  • Visit the Sonoimágenes presenter web site — Sonoimágenes 2009 / 10: Festival Internacional Acusmático y Multimedial: September 2-4, 2009, Remedios de Escalada, Argentina
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24 July 2009

The 11th Sound Travels festival started on June 14, 2009 in Toronto and will last until October 31. On August 7 Nicolas Bernier will premiere his work Courant.air and will present a 8-channel version of Les arbres. Also on the programme, Champs de fouilles (Excavations) by Martin Bédard. On August 8 there will be a concert with Annette Vande Gorne who will present works on Exils: Ce qu’a vu le vent d’Est, Exil, chant II, Figures d’espace.

  • Visit the Sound Travels 2009 event web site — 11th Festival of Sound Art: Nicolas Bernier, Annette Vande Gorne…: June 14 - October 31, 2009, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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16 June 2009

Élektrophonie (France) will present the 8th “Nuit bleue” on July 11, 2009 at Saline Royale in Arc-et-Senans (France). Many works are programmed during the “Nuit acousmatique” concert: Cyclo by David Berezan, Premières traces du Choucas by Francis Dhomont, Champs de fouilles (Excavations) by Martin Bédard, Voix de l’aurore by Ingrid Drese, L’escalier des aveugles by Luc Ferrari, Dancing on the Edge of Silence by Monique Jean and many others. A portrait of Patrick Ascione will also be presented on the same night during the "Cinéma pour l’oreille" concert.

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Martin Bédard
Quebec City, Québec, 1970
Residence: Montréal, Québec
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