You can hear excerpts from La chambre blanche by Robert Normandeau — and excerpts of music by Bernard Parmegiani and Frances White — in the new film Paranoid Park by the American filmmaker Gus Van Sant. The film director was awarded the Festival de Cannes’s 60th Anniversary Prize, Stephen Frears announced, “for his career, and because he made a lovely film.” Gus Van Sant had previously won the festival’s top prize in 2003 for his film Elephant (which includes music by Hildegard Westerkamp). Should we conclude that great minds think alike…

For his piece À propos de K Francis Dhomont was commissioned by the French State (Music Office) in 2007; the work premiered at Ina-GRM on November 11, 2006. His Forêt profonde (1994-96) was awarded the “Prix de la meilleure création contemporaine électroacoustique” (best contemporary electrocoustic work) of the Prix de Printemps 2007 organized by Sacem. Finally, Francis Dhomont along with Inés Wickmann received a grant to realized a videomusic trilogy (based on the colors red, yellow, and blue).

Steve Heimbecker is one of the contributors of the book edited by Monika Bakke entitled Going aerial. Air, art architecture. The book is published by the Jan van Eyck Academie (The Netherlands).

Theresa Transistor (Christian Bouchard, Christian Calon, Mario Gauthier, Monique Jean) will be at FIMAV on Friday May 18, 2007.

Darren Copeland, Steve Heimbecker, Barry Truax, and Hildegard Westerkamp are Amongst the renowned artists who will take part in The Art of Immersive Soundscapes 2 (AIS2) of the University of Regina (Canada). These creative and theoretical forums will take place from June 9 to 22, 2007. You can listen to Darren Copeland’s repertoire on his electroradio stream.

Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, electroacoustic composer, performer, and improviser will give a lecture at the New York University in New York City (USA) on May 10, 2007. He will speak about the new generation of mixed music composers, their concerns and responsibilities. You can listen to some online audio excerpts of his album Alter ego.