In Ottawa, starting July 11, 2003, Electric Fields (Saw Gallery, Ottawa) will present Epsilon Lab, Helvetica, Arturo Parra, Jean Piché, Monique Jean, and Louis Dufort.

Coin Gutter invites you to listen to the 3 most recent albums from Montréal’s influential No Type label: the Montréal Free box set, the Dontigny and Labrosse duo Télépathie and Coin Gutter’s own All Your Dreams Are Meaningless. Saturday May 24, 2003 at Vancouver’s newest alternative venue, the Placebo Theatre, featuring an 8 channel sound system.

Robert Normandeau is currently working on the stage music for Marguerite Duras’ L’Éden cinéma, directed by Brigitte Haentjens. The play will be presented at Ottawa’s National Center for the Arts on May 13, 2003. It is also scheduled for Montréal’s Festival de théâtre des Amériques (FTA). Normandeau is simultaneously working on the concert version, Éden. The composition was commissioned by the GMEM (Groupe de musique expérimentale de Marseille) and will be premiered on May 12, 2003.

Chants libres will repeat Zack Settel’s “electr’opera” L’enfant des glaces on June 4 & 5, 2003 in Montréal, with Pauline Vaillancourt and Jean Maheux.

“3 visages de la musique électroacoustique” (Three faces of electroacoustic music) is a concert series held at the Chapelle de Boondæl (Brussels) from June 3 to 5, 2003. The June 4 concert features renowned harpsichord player vivie’ vinçent, who will present works by Coulombe Saint-Marcoux, Saariaho and Schaeffer.

A concert featuring three sound performances at Galerie Rad’a (Montréal) May 23, 2003, brings together artists Magali Babin, Christof Migone and François Muon Sagan under the theme “honorable object.”