Simon Fraser University is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. An electroacoustic retrospective concert will be held on November 11, 2005 in the SFU Theatre. A new CD will be launched at the concert with seven works previously unavailable on compact disc, featuring Westerkamp, John Oswald, Barry Truax and others.

Musiques & Recherches presents Patchwork au féminin (A Feminine Patchwork), a concert of acousmatique music dedicated to works composed by women, on November 11, 2005 in Brussels. Natasha Barrett, Marcelle Deschênes, Beatriz Ferreyra, Monique Jean, Elainie Lillios, Roxanne Turcotte and Annette Vande Gorne are amongst the selected composers.

Luc Ferrari’s classic Presque rien and Kristoff K.Roll’s Corazón Road will be presented in concert at the Academy Concert Hall in Glasgow (UK) on November 15, 2005.

Natasha Barrett is giving two concerts soon. Firstly, Where Shadows Do for Bodies Stand, for guitar and computer, will be presented at the Intitute for Digital Arts in Gävle (Sweden) on November 10, 2005. Also, Dr Ox, her improvised electronics duo with cellist Tanja Orning, will be live in Oslo (Norway) on November 26, 2005.

The Vancouver New Music Festival produces Interférence: statique x-statique / static x-static and presents, on Wednesday Octobre 19, 2005, Fred Frith, Jean Derome and Pierre Tanguay. And on Thursday October 20, it’s Diane Labrosse, Jean-Pierre Gauthier and The Unexpected. Then, on Friday October 21, the festival presents Joane Hétu, Magali Babin and Klaxon Gueule. Finally, on Saturday October 22, morceaux_de_machines will be making their first Vancouver appearance at the festival.

Futurist audio art duet morceaux_de_machines is touring the Pacific in October 2005. The duet will perform at the Electrofringe New Media Arts Festival in Newcastle (Australia) on October 1 — 3, 2005, at the Disorientation event in Sydney (Australia) on October 5, 2005, and the 7th Totally Huge New Music Festival in Perth (Australia) on October 6 — 16, 2005. Finally, morceaux_de_machines will play at the Vancouver New Music Festival (BC) on October 22, 2005.