Élektrophonie (France) will present the 8th “Nuit bleue” on July 11, 2009 at Saline Royale in Arc-et-Senans (France). Many works are programmed during the “Nuit acousmatique” concert: Cyclo by David Berezan, Premières traces du Choucas by Francis Dhomont, Champs de fouilles (Excavations) by Martin Bédard, Voix de l’aurore by Ingrid Drese, L’escalier des aveugles by Luc Ferrari, Dancing on the Edge of Silence by Monique Jean and many others. A portrait of Patrick Ascione will also be presented on the same night during the “Cinéma pour l’oreille” concert.

The JSEM/MSJ Electroacoustic Festival 2009 in Nagoya (Japan) will present the works Still Voices by Pete Stollery and À propos de K by Francis Dhomont on May 9, 2009, and on May 10, Gilles Gobeil’s Castalie and Martin Bédard’s Champs de fouilles (Excavations), amongst many others. This event also includes a symposium with guest speaker Marc Battier.

The City University of New York will present two days of concerts during the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival and Conference (NYCEMF). The event takes place from April 2 to 4, 2009 in New York (USA). The programme includes works by Pete Stollery, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, Mathew Adkins, Adrian Moore, Hans Tutschku, Martin Bédard, Georges Forget, Geof Holbrook and many, many others!

Annette Vande Gorne is a guest composer for MANTIS 08 in Manchester (UK) on October 31, 2008 to November 2. Also featured are works by Francis Dhomont, David Berezan, Gilles Gobeil, Martin Bédard, João Pedro Oliveira…

The 5th edition of the Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC ’08) will take place from July 31 to August 3, 2008 in Berlin (Germany). Starting July 23 concerts will be presented as part of the Inventionen 2008 festival. The joined programme is absolutely outstanding: many artists will be there, such as Martin Bédard, François Bayle, Ivo Malec, Bernard Parmegiani, Jean-Claude Risset, Denis Smalley, Horacio Vaggione, Annette Vande Gorne… Not to be missed:

• July 26: concert by Gilles Gobeil (Trilogie d’ondes) with Suzanne Binet-Audet playing ondes Martenot;
• July 27: concert “60 Jahre Musique Concrète & 50 Jahre GRM”;
• July 31: SMC ’08 opening concert with Gilles Gobeil (premiere of Castalie), Ludger Brümmer, Hans Tutschku et Åke Parmerud.

Good news for Martin Bédard: his piece Topographie de la noirceur has been selected for the Los Angeles Sonic Odyssey 2008, as well as for the 2008 SEAMUS!