Now directed by Nicolas Bernier, Réseaux presents Akousma (5), Electroacoustic Musics Festival, on December 9 to 13, 2008 at the Monument-National in Montréal. On the main menu? 4 double bills: Pete Stollery / Jacques Poulin-Denis + Martin Messier; Georges Forget / Sébastien Roux; Christian Bouchard / Phroq (Francisco Meirino); Darren Copeland + Andreas Kahre / Robert Normandeau. Plus conferences and workshops.

Robert Normandeau’s Pluies noires (Black Rains), a work co-comissionned by Miso Music (Portugal) and Réseaux (Montréal), by will premiere on September 25, 2008 during the Festival Música Viva in Lisbon (Portugal). The work will also be presented on December 13 during Akousma (5) in Montréal. In Portugal, Robert Normandeau will also present Le renard et la rose along with two more works commissioned by Réseaux: Parcelles 2 by Christian Bouchard, and Ouest (a mouvement from Atlas) by Christian Calon.

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

Theresa Transistor, Christian Bouchard, Yves Daoust, Louis Dufort, Martin Leclerc, Milliseconde topographie, Éric Rocheleau, and Espaces sonores illimités (ESI) (with 6 improvisers et 1 light designer) will successively seduce the public during the opening night show Spatio lumino. This event is part of the Montréal/Nouvelles musiques festival and will take place on Saturday February 24, 2007 at the Société des arts technologiques, in Montréal.

Christian Calon will present the first part — North, commissionned by the Sonic Arts Network — of 5 of his new acousmatic project Atlas for a Portrait Concert to be presented on April 29, 2006 at the Sonic Arts Research Centre (Belfast, Northern Ireland) during the Sonorities Festival 2006. Works by Christian Bouchard and by Martin Bédard will also be presented on April 30.

The 9th Opus Prizes winners were announced yesterday, January 22, 2006, in Montréal. The “Concert of the Year – actuelle and electroacoustic musics” category goes to the Theresa Transistor quartet (Christian Bouchard, Christian Calon, Mario Gauthier, Monique Jean) while the “Disc of the Year — Musique actuelle, Electroacoustics” is Trilogie d’ondes by Gilles Gobeil.