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Radio // Christian Calon
Música Maximalista / Maximal Music 10: V CIMESP 2003
Time Well / La fontaine du temps (1999-2002), 22m00s [excerpt]
CD: PANaroma (2004) SPAN 199017216

Artists // Christian Calon

15 October 2010

States of Play is a weekend of immersion in sound organized by BEAST on October 15 to 17, 2010 at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Centre (Birmingham, UK). The 5 concerts feature classic works from the French tradition (music by François Bayle, Bernard Parmegiani, and Les corps éblouis by Christian Calon) and recent music from Birmingham and around the world: 22 works by 22 composers including Jonty Harrison, Annie Mahtani, John Young, Shelly Knotts, Francis Dhomont, Hans Tutschku

  • Visit the States of Play event web site — Classic works from the French tradition & Recent music from Birmingham and around the world: October 15-17, 2010, Birmingham, England, UK
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25 July 2009

The 2009 Futura festival will take place on August, 20 — 23, 2009 in Crest, France. On the programme, works by Otomo Yoshihide, Luc Ferrari, Denis Dufour, Francis Dhomont (Corps et âme), Michel Chion, Michèle Bokanowski, Chantal Dumas, Ivo Malec, Bernard Parmegiani, Christian Zanési, Christian Calon and many others.

  • Visit the Futura presenter web site — Futura 09 / Ferrari, Dufour, Dhomont, Malec, Ikeda, Bokanowski, Favre, Caramelos, Yoshihide…: August 20-23, 2009, Crest, Drôme, France
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10 May 2009

There will be a nocturnal acousmatic concert starting on May 14, 2009 as part of Les musiques festival in Marseille (France). The programme includes Robert Normandeau’s work Palimpseste, Francis Dhomont’s Here and There (available on … et autres utopies), Denis Dufour’s Douze mélodies acousmatiques, Chantal Dumass/t w/t, Michel Chion’s Credo, a work by Christian Calon and many others.

  • Detailed information on the Les musiques event web site — Festival international des musiques d’aujourd'hui: May 6-26, 2009, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
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18 March 2009

Theresa Transistor (Christian Bouchard, Christian Calon, Mario Gauthier, Monique Jean) will participate to the first concert of a series called Je me souviens (2) on April 2, 2009 at La Sala Rossa (Montréal). This series is a tribute to Québec electronic music pionneers. This frist concert is dedicated to István Anhalt.

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26 January 2009

Theresa Transistor (Christian Bouchard, Christian Calon, Mario Gauthier, Monique Jean) will be at the Mois Multi (MM10), a festival of technological arts held in Québec City which takes place from February 12 to March 1, 2009. The quartet will present a work of improvised electroacoustics called Espèces d’espaces on February 12, 2009.

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16 September 2008

Robert Normandeau’s Pluies noires (Black Rains), a work co-comissionned by Miso Music (Portugal) and Réseaux (Montréal), by will premiere on September 25, 2008 during the Festival Música Viva in Lisbon (Portugal). The work will also be presented on December 13 during Akousma (5) in Montréal. In Portugal, Robert Normandeau will also present Le renard et la rose along with two more works commissioned by Réseaux: Parcelles 2 by Christian Bouchard, and Ouest (a mouvement from Atlas) by Christian Calon.

  • Visit the Música Viva 2008 event web site — 14th: Normandeau, Boucahrd, Calon, Oliveira, Azguime…: September 19-27, 2008, Lisbon, Portugal
  • Visit the Akousma (5) event web site — Sollery / Messier + Poulin-Denis; Forget / Roux; Bouchard / Phroq; Copeland + Kahre / Normandeau: December 9-13, 2008, Montréal, Québec
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22 February 2008

The DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) has hosted a number of Canadian electroacoustic composers over the years such as: Robin Minard, Gordon Monahan, Christian Calon, Francis Dhomont, and Robert Normandeau. The DEGEM and ZKM propose a WebRadio programme which features works composed by these past guest artists as well as by the newest Canadian guest, Gilles Gobeil, in Berlin since January 2008. The Programme B is under section “Berichte/Features.”

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1 August 2007

The 14th international acousmatic festival L’espace du son will take place from October 17 to 21, 2007 at Théâtre Marni in Brussels. The opening night of the festival will celebrate the Musiques & Recherches’ 25th anniversary, premiering 3 musical works: Voix de l’aurore by Ingrid Drese, Murmures by Robert Normandeau, and Chœur des femmes 2, a movement from the opera Yawar Fiesta by Annette Vande Gorne on a libretto by Werner Lambersy. The day after, October 18, will be dedicated to Christian Calon’s music; October 19, to Jean-François Minjard; October 20, to Bernard Parmegiani; and October 21 to Beatriz Ferreyra and Ana Dall’Ara-Majek.

  • Visit the L’espace du son presenter web site — L’espace du son 2007 / 14e Festival acousmatique international: Calon, Minjard, Parmegiani, Ferreyra: October 17-21, 2007, Brussels, Belgium
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16 May 2007

Theresa Transistor (Christian Bouchard, Christian Calon, Mario Gauthier, Monique Jean) will be at FIMAV on Friday May 18, 2007.

  • Detailed information on the FIMAV 07 event web site — 24e Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville: May 17-21, 2007, Victoriaville, Québec
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12 March 2007

Following a residency at the Technische Universität (TU) in Berlin (Germany) from March 11 to 21, 2007 where he is finishing a new composition, Christian Calon will premiere the third region of Atlas (Est) as part of the 5th International Linux Audio Conference (LAC2007) on March 22 — 25, 2007 in Berlin. For this occasion, the multitrack work has been produced for a spatialisation on very wide WFS (Wave Field Synthesis) surround system on 840 tracks and about 3,000 loudspeakers. Furthermore, Nord (the first region of Atlas) by the same composer and Rituale by Hans Tutschku will be presented in concert respectively on March 23 and March 24, again as part of the concerts organized by Tesla and the Deutsche Akademische Austausch Dienst (DAAD) for LAC2007.

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Christian Calon
Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France, 1950
Residence: Montréal, Québec
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