The Groupe de musiques vivantes de Lyon (GMVL) welcomes Marcelle Deschênes. The composer will give a concert of her acousmatic works on September 15, 2004 at Lyon’s Théâtre de la Villa Gillet (France).

Both a huge sound installation and a concert in which the nocturnal sounds of nature create a vast symphony, Bernard Fort’s Safari dans le noir (“Safari in the dark”) will be presented September 17 and 18, 2004 in the park of Villa Gillet (Lyon, France). In this acousmatic safari, the listener walks across a wide soundscape with the help of his or her flashlight. The sounds heard, of birds, frogs, insects and mammals, come from many years of night recording in France and Europe.

John Oswald’s latest “time-based chronophotic images and stills” will be exhibited at the Edward Day Gallery in Toronto (ON) from September 9 to October 4, 2004.

This fall, the audio works of Louis Dufort and Nancy Tobin will be featured in two choreographies presented at Agora de la danse (Montréal). Louis Dufort composed the music for Dans le silence des bambous (In the silence of the bamboos) by choreographer Jocelyne Montpetit, presented from October 27 to 30, 2004. As for Nancy Tobin, she created the sound design for Duos pour corps et instruments (Duos for bodies and instruments) by choreographer Danièle Desnoyers, on stage from November 16 to 20, 2004.

Magali Babin will present a ritualized audio performance, Solo #13, at La Chambre blanche (Québec City) on Friday October 1, 2004. Sound amplification and transformation will interact with performative actions by artist Marie-Claude Bouthillier. For the occasion, Bouthillier will read excerpts from novels whose subject is painters. These actions will stress the phenomenological aspect of the diffusion of audio elements in an architectural space.

Do not miss Finnish duo Pan Sonic and Canadian duo Coin Gutter in concert at Richard’s on Richards in Vancouver (BC) on September 23, 2004.