If you have the time and you if you’re in the neighborhood, go check out the excellent Happy New Ears festival for New Music held in Kortijk, Belgium from September 13 through September 28.

The Festival features some of the most important new music composers, sound artists and performers from around the world. 

Happy New Ears have set up a collaboration with  Freesound. For the Omni sound installation for children (and adults alike) several Freesound contributers, myself included, have submitted sound material. Go create and have a good time.

www.happynewears.be

Sleppet – The Sound of Norwegian Spring opened yesterday in Oslo.

It is a commemorative sound art exhibition part of the 100th anniversary of Edvard Griegs death in September 1907 curated by Jørgen Larsson. It runs also as part of the Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival.

Quite a diverse collection of sound works brought together but all of it based on field recordings held in Norway during Spring this year.

Artists are Natasha Barrett, Marc Behrens, Steve Roden,  Bjarne Kvinnsland, Chris Watson and Jana Winderen.

www.sleppet.no

www.ultima.no

www.grieg07.no

The Sonda Project which took place in Autumn 2005 at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona is still online. The project was part of the Zeppelin Festival de Proyectos Sonoros.

Check out my participation and those of other sound artists at the Sonda Project Page