Michel Chion, one of the fathers of electroacoustic music, will be in Montréal on February 19, 2009 for the festival Montréal/Nouvelles Musiques 2009. He’ll present two premieres — Credo, and Le souffle court — in a concert coproduced by the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ) and Réseaux. He will also give two conferences at the Grande bibliothèque on February 19 and at the Université de Montréal on February 19.

The Futura festival will take place from August 21 to 24, 2008 in Crest (France). Amongst guest composers, let’s point Patrick Ascione, Natasha Barrett, Michel Chion, Pierre Henry, and Lionel Marchetti’s presence. Also, in the Nuit blanche programme (August 23rd) Gilles Gobeil will present his piece Ombres, espaces, silences…, Francis Dhomont will diffuse Signé Dionysos, and Annette Vande Gorne her piece Exil, chant II.

This year, the Futura 06 festival in Crest (France) is compressed into a 3-day event — August 18 — 20, 2006 — and into one 35-hour concert. Amongst the featured composers: Luc Ferrari (homage), Michèle Bokanowski, Michel Chion, Darren Copeland, Matmos, Yann Paranthoën (homage), Elsa Justel, Roxanne Turcotte, and Pierre Henry. Then on August 27, a concert concluding an acousmatic diffusion workshop will feature 15 works by just as many composers, including Francis Dhomont and Marc Tremblay.

“Portraits-polychromes” is a series of books published by the Ina-GRM. The latest release in this collection (Michel Chion) is devoted to composer Michel Chion.

The premiere of the definitive version of L’isle sonante by Michel Chion will be held Sunday December 4, 2005 at the Salle Olivier Messiaen of the Maison de Radio France (Paris).

The first concert of the 27th Multiphonie series, Akousma 1 will be presented in Paris (France) on November 27, 2004 at the Salle Olivier Messiaen of the Maison de Radio France by the Groupe de recherches musicales (Ina-GRM (Groupe de recherches musicales)). This concert will be dedicated to GRM works from the ’70s and will feature works by Guy Reibel, Ivo Malec, Jean Schwarz, François Bayle and also the works Pour en finir avec le pouvoir d’Orphée (1972) by Bernard Parmegiani and Requiem (1973) by Michel Chion.