empreintes DIGITALes won’t be turning 20 before January 2010. This won’t stop us in starting to celebrate right now with our 100th disc!

The trans_canada festival at the ZKM in 2005 was centered around 8 new works by as many Canadian composers: Nicolas Bernier, Darren Copeland, Francis Dhomont, Louis Dufort, Gilles Gobeil, Robert Normandeau, Barry Truax, and Hildegard Westerkamp. The trans_canada DVD-Audio finally brings these works together in 24-bit high definition sound in both stereo and Surround 5.1.

The CEC and PeP are taking part in this 100th good news by including a free copy of the recent Cache 2008 CD with the online purchase of our 100th disc (but for a very limited time). The item is automatically added to your shopping cart. [Finished on November 22, 2009.]

Canadian Electroacoustics is prominently featured at Musicacoustica Beijing 2009 festival, October 25 - 31, 2009. Amongst the selected works — most of which are available on empreintes DIGITALes — are StrinGDberg and Palimpseste by Robert Normandeau; Castalie and Les lointains noirs et rouges by Gilles Gobeil; Champs de fouilles (Excavations) by Martin Bédard; Für Dich — For You by Hildegard Westerkamp; Artifacts (I) by Nick Storring; à la cire perdu by Laurie Radford; On a Strange Road by Darren Copeland; and Chalice Well by Barry Truax.

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.

The new radiophonic piece The Other Night, Underwater by Darren Copeland and Andreas Kahre will be on air on Friday May 2, 2008 at midnight — Berlin time (Germany) — on Deutschlandradio Kultur (or on Thursday May 1 at 6 pm in Montréal). Note: the piece will not be archived on-line, so this might be the only chance to hear it!

The audio-video intallation Breath Control by Darren Copeland will be presented from March 5 - 16, 2008 (Wednesday to Sunday) at Gallery 1313 in Toronto (Canada). Opening reception with the artist in attendance is on March 6.

Futura 2007, the international festival of acousmatic art, will take place from August 17 au 19, 2007 in Crest (France). This festival’s edition build around Christian Zanési’s work will notably host, Amongst many composers, Mathew Adkins, Patrick Ascione, Darren Copeland, Denis Dufour, Chantal Dumas, Bernard Parmegiani, Laurie Radford, Pete Stollery, Benjamin Thigpen, and Annette Vande Gorne.