The Bande à part website, broadcaster — via satellite radio, FM radio, and the web — of emerging and exploratory musics, presents an interview with the two members of morceaux_de_machines, A_dontigny and Érick d’Orion (in French). Listen to some audio clips of their recent release Estrapade online.

American trombonist, composer, programmer, and teacher George Lewis will be in Montréal on April 19, 2007 at the Tanna Schulich Hall of McGill University to give the lecture Living with Creative Machines. He will also perform in concert with clarinnetist Lori Freedman where their improvisations will be analyzed and processed by a computer system of his design.

You can listen to those artists in intercative settings on Daniel Scheidt’s Action / Réaction (audio clips online).

Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, composition teacher at University of Huddersfield (UK), has been invited as a guest lecturer by the Université de Montréal on April 4, 2007 to give a talk on the pragmatic considerations of mixed music.

The videomusic Paysage avec miroir realized by the visual artist Inés Wickmann — for which Ingrid Drese has composed the music — will be presented at Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal as part of the 25th International Festival of Films on Art in March 2007.

Dutch website EARLabs has developped a “DIGGity CLOUD” where visitors can vote for their preferred labels. empreintes DIGITALes is 5th in its first “Top 10” list. We do agree with this, of course, and invite you to visit that “CLOUD” and support your preferred labels!

Asymmetry Music Magazine is a new web magazine directed by Michael Karman. The first “issue” presents an interview with Michèle Bokanowski and reviews of all 30 discs from the Cinéma pour l’oreille series produced by Jérôme Noetinger in 1992-2002. In preparation: interviews with Jon Christopher Nelson and Francis Dhomont (met in Montréal for his 80th anniversary concert) and reviews of empreintes DIGITALes releases…