Francis Dhomont will participate to the 6th Festival di interpretazione della musica acusmatica 2009 that will take place in Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy) on July 9 - 12, 2009. Dhomont will have a “Carte blanche” and will present, amongst others, Lamento (chœur des femmes I) and Combattimento (chœur des femmes II) by Annette Vande Gorne, and extrémités lointaines by Hans Tutschku. Dhomont’s work Premières traces du Choucas will also be presented during the festival.

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.

There will be a nocturnal acousmatic concert starting on May 14, 2009 as part of Les musiques festival in Marseille (France). The programme includes Robert Normandeau’s work Palimpseste, Francis Dhomont’s Here and There (available on … et autres utopies), Denis Dufour’s Douze mélodies acousmatiques, Chantal Dumas’ s/t w/t, Michel Chion’s Credo, a work by Christian Calon and many others.

Point d’écoute will present the concert Con sordino, musiques électroacoustiques feutrées on May 6, 2009 at Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours in Montréal. The programme of this second edition includes works by Francis Dhomont, Christian Bouchard, Pierre-Marc Beaudoin, David Bowie and others.

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.

There will be an acousmatic concert with works by Francis Dhomont, Christian Zanési, Jacques Lejeune, Beatriz Ferreyra, Philippe Mion and Guy Reibel on April 21, 2009 at Le Fil in Saint-Étienne (France).