Dear friends! Autumn is here after an extremely hot and pleasant summer (at least here in Sweden) and now it's time again to get back to our jobs and to start to plan for our EBU Art's Birthday 2007. This is the first Ars Acustica Newsletter which will be distributed by email and also via the EBU in Geneva and posted on our EBU website. In this newsletter you will find news and info about ongoing and upcoming Ars Acustica-events within the EBU and its members. The newsletter will of course also contain updated information about our upcoming EBU Art's Birthday 2007. I urge everyone to respect the deadlines for the EBU Art's Birthday and also to send me all the news and info that you have about Ars Acustica activities in your radio-company/country.   

All the best, 

Erik Mikael Karlsson - Swedish Radio Ltd. 

Chairman EBU Ars Acustica 

EBU ART'S BIRTHDAY 2007 - New theme chosen 

Following the voting for a new theme among producers and editors in our EBU Ars Acustica Group - the selected theme for our EBU Art's Birthday 2007 will be "100th Anniversary of Radio". Again, the theme should be seen as a proposal for point of departure for this EBU Ars Acustica Special Evening on Tuesday 17th of January 2007 on the EBU-satellite, but each producer/editor is of course fully free to develop his/her broadcast as he/she wants it in the free framework of the EBU Art's Birthday-concept. Mr. Erik Mikael Karlsson and Mrs. Elisabeth Zimmermann will be the producers responsable for taking care of all uplinking from Europe to satellite-channels RAVEL and VERDI from the Radio Houses in Stockholm and Vienna. All incoming signals are to be sent on ISDN to either Stockholm or Vienna following a schedule that Mr. Erik Mikael Karlsson will distribute in the end of October.   

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DEADLINES FOR EBU ART'S BIRTHDAY 2007 - Important! 

DEADLINE for participation is 13th of October! I want the producers to inform me before the 13th of October about; 

* Preferred broadcasting-time (between which hours you want to broadcast live from you event/concert/party) 

* Preferred duration of broadcast (we will divide the satellite-times after the numer of broadcasting participants but it will most likely be around 30-40 minutes each) 

DEADLINE for providing infomation on each live-event/concert/party (including biographies, program notes, photos, url:s to your websites) is 10th of November!!!!   

send all information to: erik_mikael.karlsson@sr.se   

ARS ACUSTICA NEWS FROM BROADCASTING ORGANISATIONS: 

NEWS FROM SWEDISH RADIO: 

From Producer Erik Mikael Karlsson; 

Monitor on the Swedish Radio http://www.sr.se/p2/monitor will on the 25th of October and 13th of December (21:00-22:00) do two experimental interactive live-broadcasts trying to involve the audience with the possibilitites of sending in mp3:s live during broadcast as well as having musicians/artists in the studio responding to the incoming material as well as having different artists feeding the program with sounds over the internet and do a jam-session over the internet. Monitor is streamed and the programs can be listened to on our website one week after its original broadcast.   

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NEWS FROM CZECH RADIO: 

From Producer Michal Rataj; 

New version of rAdioCUSTICA radioart webspace of the Czech Radio will be run on the 27th of September, including Podcast of all upcomming premiere radioart production and Art´s Birthday Archives, www.rozhlas.cz/radiocustica   

Czech Radio and Slovak Radio will produce 2 hour live broadcast on the November 3, 8pm - 10 pm CET, which will be close up radioart session at the end of our comming week of Czech- Slovak culture. All streams and infos will be available through www.rozhlas.cz/radiocustica  and www.radioart.sk  websites. 

The Czech Radio 5. 1. production Meandres & Sediments and other excerpts of Czech Radio Radioatelier Programme will be presented on the Hoerkunst Festival in Erlangen, November 10 - 12 including sound instalation by czech artist Martin janicek, who belongs to Czech Radio artists circle. 

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NEWS FROM SÜDWESTRUNDFUNK BADEN-BADEN: 

From Producer Hans Burkhard Schlichting; 

The Karl Sczuka Prize for works of radio art 2006 goes to the sound artist Asmus Tietchens. Tietchens, born in Hamburg in 1947, receives the award which is endowed with a prize of 12 500 euros for his sound composition "Trois Dryades" which was first broadcast on 25 March 2006 by the WDR (Studio Akustische Kunst). The Karl Sczuka support grant was not awarded this year. The award ceremony will take place on 21 October as part of the Donaueschingen Festival. The winning work with excerpts from the award ceremony will be broadcast on 26 October at 21.03 on SWR2. Asmus Tietchens previously won the Karl Sczuka Prize in 2003 for his sound composition "Sechs Heidelberger Studien" ("Six Heidelberg Studies").   

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NEWS FROM RTBF (BELGIUM): 

From Producer André Defossez; 

In october (19-22), we will have in Brussels the acousmatic composition and spatialization competitions organized by "Musiques et Recherches", along 

with the 2006 edition of the Festival "L'Espace du Son". If you are interested, I may send you the results of these competitions right after their announcement. 

In my radio programs on MUSIQ3, the two main invited personnalities of this year (Philippe Mion and Jonty Harrison) will be given a "carte blanche" program: Philippe Mion on next monday (22:00 CET), Jonty Harrison on monday 25th, same hour. Here is a link to this program dedicated blog: 

http://m3metissages.blogspot.com   

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NEWS FROM RNE - Radio Clasica (SPAIN): 

From Producer José Iges; 

Two premieres on next (XXII) International Festival of Alicante of two new co-productions with CDMC (Center for Contemporary Music): 

Sept. 26th. : The Snake Project, by Sheila Concari. (Award on XIII   

Radio Art Competition CDMC-RNE Radfio Clásica). Broadcasting in   

Ars Sonora: 1-10-06 

Sept. 28th.: Diario de un compositor (Diary of a Composer), by   

Alberto García Demestres. 

Broadcasting in Ars Sonora: 8-10-06 

Both works have been co-producuced with CDMC (Center for Difussion of   

Contemporary Music) 

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Erik Mikael Karlsson - Producer SR P2 

Chairman EBU Ars Acustica 

Sveriges Radio/Swedish Radio Ltd. 

Postal adress: S-211 01 Malmö, Sweden 

Office: Baltzarsgatan 16, Malmö, Sweden 

Tel: +46 (0) 40 20 55 00 

Tel direct: +46 (0) 40 20 55 32 

Tel mobile: +46 (0)70 32 668 48 

Email: erik_mikael.karlsson@sr.se 

Website: http://www.sr.se/p2/monitor

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