Jocelyn Robert made a selection of videographic works by John Oswald, Éric Gagnon, Bernard Gigounon, Julia Page and Ben Reisman for La lumière immobile, an exhibition at Dazibao gallery (Montréal) from April 28 to June 3, 2006.

The band Mixel Pixel is known for original visuals during their concerts. This new video by Devin Clark based on drawings by Rob Corradetti, from their album Rainbow Panda, opens a small window to their friendly psychedelic universe.

Musique des temps modernes (Modern Times Music) is a new Internet radio entirely dedicated to music from the 20th and 21st centuries. It is probably the first Internet French speaking pay radio focusing only on modern, contempprary, avant-garde and electroacousic music. While French speaking, the programmes are mostly music. The schedule includes a programme for electroacoustics on Saturdays and Sundays from 9 pm to midnight (Montréal time).

Here and There (2003) was recently awarded the first prize at the 5th Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Musicale Elettronica Pierre Schaeffer (Pierre Schaeffer International Computer Music Competition) (Pescara, Italy, 2005).

The Orford Arts Centre (Québec) announces its new Sound Creation Workshop as part of the international Music Academy. Held from June 26 to July 8, 2006 the workshop, directed by Yves Daoust, is open to sound creators of all styles. This summer Yves Daoust has invited guest “teachers” John Oswald, Åke Parmerud, Alexandre Burton, Louis Dufort, and flutist Robert Aitken. There will be a public evening concert on July 6 (Piché, Oswald, Parmerud, Dufort), and a half-concert on July 7.

The 9th Opus Prizes winners were announced yesterday, January 22, 2006, in Montréal. The “Concert of the Year – actuelle and electroacoustic musics” category goes to the Theresa Transistor quartet (Christian Bouchard, Christian Calon, Mario Gauthier, Monique Jean) while the “Disc of the Year — Musique actuelle, Electroacoustics” is Trilogie d’ondes by Gilles Gobeil.