Artificiel (Alexandre Burton, Julien Roy) manipulates and contextualizes the sounds and images of guest artist: Martin Tétreault. The concert will take place as part of the Mutek festival taking place from May 28 to June 1, 2008 in Montréal.

The 2008 Electroacoustic Music Studies Conference (EMS08) “Musique concrète — 60 years later” will take place on June 3-7, 2008 in Paris (France). Amongst the guest speakers:

• June 3: François Bayle at 6 pm
• June 6: Laurie Radford at 12 pm; Mathew Adkins at 2:30 pm
• June 7: Natasha Barrett at 9 am; Francis Dhomont at 3:30 pm; Robert Normandeau and Theodore Lotis at 4:30 pm

Three concerts are also organized on June 6, 7, and 8 at the Salle Olivier Messiaen of the Maison de Radio France.

Jean-François Denis is invited to the “Marketing” roundtable discussion on May 23, 2008 during the New Models of Distribution Conference, organized by Soundstreams in Toronto. Recently, on May 9, he was also invited to present the recent activities of the empreintes DIGITALes label at the 2nd International Marketplace of Digital Arts (MIAN), organized by ACREQ in Montréal.

Bernard Fort will present two GMVL workshops on May 31, 2008, of which Paysages les yeux fermés that gives strategies for sound recording, sound exploration, composition, and re-composition of the naturalitic soundscape. These workshops will be given at the CPIE du Haut-Jura in Saint-Lupicin (France).

Foundation Destellos — created in 2007 through the initiative of Elsa Justel — has announced the winners of the 1st Competition of Electroacoustic Composition for Argentine composers. The Destellos Prize was awarded to the work Viscuap by Basilio del Boca. Lo inefable by Maria Cristina Kasem and Psiclos by Nicolás Ordiales received the Motus prize (ex-aequo). The jury for Destellos Prize was made of Christian Clozier (France), Jens Hedman (Sweden), Alejandro Viñao (Argentina), Ingrid Drese (Belgium), and Benjamin Thigpen (USA). The jury for the Motus Prize was composed of Denis Dufour and Thomas Brando (France).

The new sound installation Turbulence Sound Matrix by Steve Heimbecker will be presented every evening of the Elektra 9 festival, prior to the concerts at Usine C, from May 7 to 10, 2008. Steve Heimbecker will also present his 64-channel audio piece Signe composed for the installation.