Voyages sonores is a weekend of acousmatic events organized by BEAST and held on March 17 to 19, 2006 at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Centre (Birmingham, UK). The event features guest composers Françoise Barrière and Christian Clozier from IMEB (France), and Robert Normandeau. The Utility of Space by Natasha Barrett, Tangram by Robert Normandeau, and Sorties by Jonty Harrison are amongst the 28 works presented.

For Cultural Exchanges 2006, De Monfort University (Leicester, UK) will present a concert of electroacoustic works by John Young, Christian Calon, Thomas Gardner, and Rick Nance on March 2, 2006 at Trinity House Chapel.

20 000 sons sous les mers [20,000 Sounds Under the Sea] is a Harbour Symphony by Diane Labrosse for 6 boats, one train, moving drums and other instruments. The work will be presented on February 26 and March 5, 2006 near Pointe-à-Callière (Montréal).

A concert-homage to composer Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux will be held on February 16, 2006 at Le petit Medley (Montréal). Five women musicians, amongst them Louise Bessette and Lise Daoust, will present works by Coulombe Saint-Marcoux as well as Québec women composers Nicole Carignan, Sylvie-Anne Ménard, Lorraine Desmarais, Isabelle Panneton, Marie Pelletier, and Rhené Jaque.

Multireedist Lori Freedman presents Girlfriend, a concert with the Contact contemporary music ensemble, at the Music Gallery (Toronto) on March 8, 2006. Featuring new works, such as Freedman’s Brief Candles, and low memory #3 by Monique Jean.

The compositions Le vertige inconnu by Gilles Gobeil, and Pythagoras’s Curtain by John Young are amongst the selected works for a Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama concert, held on February 7, 2006 at the Academy Concert Hall (Glasgow, UK). On February 16, 2006, Young will give a talk about his compositional work at the RSAMD Guinness Room.