To celebrate the 95th anniversary of the publication of the The Art of Noises manifest by Futurist Luigi Russolo, audio curator and musician Érick d’Orion has prepared 2 evenings of audio art at Salle Multi in Québec City. 10 audio artist will present a new work based on this important text. On September 18, 2008, artists are: Alexis Bellavance, Michel F Côté, Christian Calon, and Hélène Prévost. On September 19: A_dontigny, Nicolas Bernier, Diane Labrosse, the duo Catherine S Massicotte & Éric Normand, and Jocelyn Robert.

Becquerels piece by Érick d’Orion will be presented on June 6, 2008 as part of the Court toujours festival in Poitiers (France). Besides, the collective album Il Buono Il Brutto Il Cattivo: Études is available online on No Type label website: “The universes of Alexis Bellavance, Nicolas Bernier & Érick d’Orion are all radically different from one another […] We’ll leave it up to you to guess which is the good, the bad & the ugly…”

The Montréal High Lights Festival will end its 9th edition with Montréal All-Nighter event on Saturday March 1, 2008. Érick d’Orion’s Solo de musique concrète pour 6 pianos sans pianiste audio installation will be presented for the occasion from 8 pm to 3 am at Oboro, Montréal.

Érick d’Orion is the curator of the Cabaret audio at Mois Multi 2008. The event will take place on February 14 to 16, 2008 at the Café-bistrot L’Abraham-Martin in Québec City. On the programme, the premiere of his piece À l’infinitif on February 15. Also of interest, on February 16, Nicolas Bernier and Simon Trottier will present Objet abandonné en mer.

The sound installation Solo de musique concrète pour 6 pianos sans pianiste by Érick d’Orion will now be presented to Montréalers. The sound space imagined by the artist invites the public to rediscover the piano in a “concrete” perspective, exploring it without the usual intermediaries (scores, musicians). 6 pianos of different eras will react to impulsions given by eccentrics mechanics placed on the structures. On February 23 to March 29, 2008 at Oboro in Montréal.

Pour une poignée de billes by Érick d’Orion will be presented as part of the Projectiles exhibition by Perte de signal at Expression in Saint-Hyacinthe, from September 22 to November 4, 2007. Pour une poignée de billes is composed of 62 audio recordings of marbles thrown on a wood or cardboard floor. The recordings were treated so as to make the source unrecognizable. The piece is a succesive accumulation of sounds that creates an abstract acoustic mass. It can be listened in loop: it has no end nor begining.