Composers Paul Dolden and Stéphane Roy each won an Opus Prize in their respective categories. Dolden won in the “Disc of the Year — Musique actuelle, Electroacoustics” category for his recent album Seuil de silences (an expanded and entirely remixed and remastered reissue of The Threshold of Deafening Silence). Roy won in the “Book of the Year” category for his L’analyse des musiques électroacoustiques (“Models and propositions for electroacoustic music analysis”).

Four of empreintes DIGITALes’s 2004 discographic productions are nominated at the Opus Prizes in the category “Disc of the Year — Musique actuelle, Electroacoustics”: Fractures by Christian Bouchard, Le contrat by Gilles Gobeil and René Lussier, Seuil de silences by Paul Dolden and also Migrations by Stéphane Roy.

The Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ) present “In Extremis,” on October 22, 2004. Amongst the works presented at this concert, we find to composition for tape, Beyond the Walls of Jericho by Paul Dolden and Le cauchemar climatisé by Alain Thibault.

For the “Monde parallèle Montréal 45°N//” event, organized by Lille — Cultural Capital of Europe, label empreintes DIGITALes presented a portrait of Montréal’s electroacoustic creation since 1971 through 24 works by 21 Montréal composers: Serge Arcuri, Yves Beaupré, Christian Bouchard, Ned Bouhalassa, Christian Calon, Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux, Yves Daoust, Francis Dhomont, Paul Dolden, Louis Dufort, Gilles Gobeil, Monique Jean, René Lussier, Robert Normandeau, Arturo Parra, Mario Rodrigue, Stéphane Roy, Alain Thibault, Jacques Tremblay, Marc Tremblay, Roxanne Turcotte. Electroacoustic label empreintes DIGITALes, new media and electronic art festivals Elektra and Mutek with the collaboration of the Society for arts and technology (SAT) all teamed up to present the best of Montréal’s electronic music and video.

From November 10 to 17 2003, Paul Dolden will be guest composer at the 13th Festival de Musica Contemporanea in Santiago (Chile). Amongst the works presented will be the premiere of Twilight #2, a new 25-minute mixed work for cello, violin, piano, and tape to be performed by the Trio Fibonacci.

Ten years after the publication of his milestone album, Canadian composer Paul Dolden offers us something more than just a re-issue but a gigantic reconstruction of his work. Indeed, the hundreds of tracks which makes each of the works featured on both Intoxicated by Speed’s two volumes were re-processed, re-mixed and re-mastered with the most recent digital technologies. No comparison is possible with the previous analog mixes! A third album stems from this impressive revamping task, Seuil de silences, featuring previously unreleased compositions and works from the 1990 album The Threshold of Deafening Silence.