On November 12, 2012 at the Black Box of the Helsinki Music Centre, the Sibelius Academy produces an acousmatic concert with Switched on by Manuella Blackburn, Rumeurs (Place de Ransbeck) by Robert Normandeau and works by Adam Basanta, Visa Kuoppala, Timothy Cooper, and James Andean.

The winning works at the Sound in Space Composition Competition (Boston, MA, USA, 2011) are Anagoge by Andrew Babcock (1st prize), Champs de fouilles by Martin Bédard (2nd prize), and A glass is not a glass by Adam Basanta (3rd prize).

The Sound in Space festival will take place at the Fenway Center of the Northwastern University in Boston (USA) on November 17 - 19, 2011. This festival has a competition component with two concerts with the six finalist works — four of which are by Montréal composers: Adam Basanta, Martin Bédard, Simone D’Ambrosio, and Ana Dall’Ara-Majek. The festival also presents two portrait concerts — Daniel Teruggi, and Ludger Brümmer — and a few conferences and workshops.

The winning works of the 11th Música Viva Electroacoustic Composition Competition are Auto Harp by Enda Bates, Urban Adagio by Georges Forget, and Public Bodies by Sam Salem. Mentions were awarded to A glass is not a glass by Adam Basanta, El sonido eléctrico cotidiano, inmerso en el ambiente mismo by la sala by concierto by Federico Barabino, and Elemental Chemistry by Erik Nyström.