L’Intruse, a work by Michelle Boudreau, will be premiered Monday December 8, 2003 at the Studio du Monument-National (Montréal). For this occasion she will be joined by Claire Marchand, Hornsey and Sara Hanley.

On November 4, 2003, Radio-Canada French radio show Le Navire «Night» will present the concert of Vancouver electronic music duo Coin Gutter recorded last March in Montréal during the Rien à voir (13) event of electroacoustic musics. 100.7 FM in Montréal, 90.9 FM in Vancouver and simultaneously in RealAudio on www.radio-canada.ca.

To celebrate its 10th edition L’Espace du son, the international festival of acousmatic music in Belgium, invited several pairs of composers to confront their distinct musical approaches. Each night, the public will be treated to two styles, two sensibilities that will stress the diversity in acousmatic music. On November 14, 2003, French Bertrand Dubedout and Canadian Sarah Peebles will compare their sonic impressions of the Japanese cities of Nara and Tokyo. November 15, its the gentle and meditative music of Swede Erik Michael Karlsson against the nervous and dynamic work of Philippe Mion. And finally, the 16, time for Elsa Justel’s granular sounds and Ludger Brümmer’s energy modelisation.

Composer Francis Dhomont is invited to the III Encontro Internacional de Música Eletroacústica in Brasilia (Brasil) from November 5 to 10, 2003. The work Reflexos, for trombone and tape, will be premiered. He will also give a lecture: “Questions on intruments and electroacoustics” followed by a roundtable about teaching electroacoustic music.

[Please take note that, due to circumstances still unclear for the artist, this tour has been unfortunately cancelled.] Master samplist Books on Tape will tour with French pioneers of electro-punk, Métal Urbain! Cities of New York, Montréal, Toronto, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Los Angeles will host this unconventional teaming.

The three terrible turntablists Martin Tétreault, Yoshihide Otomo and Philip Jeck will rock the 3rd Göteborg Art Sounds (GAS-Festival) (Sweden) on October 14, 2003. Tétreault and Otomo then moves to North America for concerts in Québec October 28, Montréal October 29 and at famous Tonic (New York City) October 30.