Four of empreintes DIGITALes’s 2004 discographic productions are nominated at the Opus Prizes in the category “Disc of the Year — Musique actuelle, Electroacoustics”: Fractures by Christian Bouchard, Le contrat by Gilles Gobeil and René Lussier, Seuil de silences by Paul Dolden and also Migrations by Stéphane Roy.

For your convenience, we now accept two new credit cards on our website. In addition to Visa and MasterCard, you can now pay for your purchases with the American Express and Diner’s Club cards.

Down since Tuesday evening November 30, 2004, our website and our emails are again fully operational since December 3, 2004. A server outage caused this interruption. If you have tried to join us by email and your message bounced, you can now write again. We are sorry for all these inconvenients, thank you for your comprehension.

The new releases by Montréal label Alien8 Recordings are now avaiblable: Tim Hecker’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed Radio Amor, Mirages; Tanakh’s new album, Tanakh, based around a unique hand-made instrument constructed from a destroyed piano; the Lesbians on Ecstasy’s hijacking of popular lesbian anthems, Lesbians on Ecstasy and finally, the post-punk and noisy improv petrochemical rock of Les Georges Leningrad and their latest album, Black Eskimo.

The first prize of the Spatialization competition L’Espace du son 2004 was awarded ex-aequo to Adrian Moore and Isabel Pires.

The first prize of the acousmatic composition competition Métamorphoses 2004 was awarded ex-aequo to Elizabeth Anderson for her work Les Forges de l’invisible and to Ondrej Adamek for Cercle des rythmes vitaux.