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Fargo, ND — June 3, 2025 — Composer and sound artist Kyle Vanderburg’s electroacoustic work Creatures from the Black Bassoon has been selected for performance at Supersonique 2025, an international festival of experimental and acousmatic music in Marseille, France. The work will be featured on the festival’s culminating 12-hour concert on Sunday, September 7, presented on a 36-loudspeaker acousmonium.
Chosen from a field of 245 submissions by a jury of twelve through an anonymous review process, Vanderburg’s piece will appear alongside a wide range of electroacoustic works from more than 30 countries. The final program reflects the festival’s mission of curating diverse aesthetics, maintaining gender parity, and highlighting emerging and established voices in sound-based art.
Now in its fourth year, Supersonique has grown into a ten-day celebration of experimental music, technology, and DIY artmaking. Events take place across Marseille, hosted by institutions including the GMEM CNCM, Cité de la Musique de Marseille, and the Conservatoire de Marseille. The festival opens August 31 with a performance by Jonathan Prager and continues with a cycle of conferences, performances, and a marathon day of concerts on September 7.
Vanderburg’s Creatures from the Black Bassoon (2011) is a virtual menagerie of beasts and environments fashioned entirely from processed and unprocessed sounds of the bassoon. Key clicks, reed squeaks and squawks, multiphonics, notes played through various stages of assembly and disassembly, and other traditional and extended techniques are organized by similar properties into species, some appearing to be cute, chirpy, fuzzy critters, while others are vicious predators.
More information about Supersonique 2025 can be found at https://festivalsupersonique.fr/.
More about Kyle Vanderburg: https://kylevanderburg.com
