Theresa Transistor, Christian Bouchard, Yves Daoust, Louis Dufort, Martin Leclerc, Milliseconde topographie, Éric Rocheleau, and Espaces sonores illimités (ESI) (with 6 improvisers et 1 light designer) will successively seduce the public during the opening night show Spatio lumino. This event is part of the Montréal/Nouvelles musiques festival and will take place on Saturday February 24, 2007 at the Société des arts technologiques, in Montréal.

The Bande à part website, broadcaster — via satellite radio, FM radio, and the web — of emerging and exploratory musics goes “Inside the sound with Louis Dufort” (in French).

The Orford Arts Centre (Québec) announces its 2nd Sound Creation Workshop as part of the International Music Academy. Held from July 2 to 14, 2007 the workshop, directed by Yves Daoust, is open to sound creators of all styles. This year Yves Daoust has invited guest “masters” Alain Savouret, Paul Koonce, Louis Dufort, Alexandre Burton, and “tonmeister” Jean Landry.

Louis Dufort will present his acousmatic work Grain de sable, and John Oliver will present Dust, a mixed work for clarinet and tape performed by François Houle, on December 2, 2006 at a concert prduced by NEXMAP at the Recombinant Media Labs in San Francisco.

Invited by curator Esther Bourdages, seven Canadian artists joined forces with Spanish composer Francisco López for the Montréal Sound Matter / Montréal matière sonore project. Working from a common pool of field recordings from Montréal, Louis Dufort, Steve Heimbecker, A_dontigny, Chantal Dumas, Hélène Prévost, Mathieu Lévesque, and Tomas Phillips created an audio work which will be released as a compilation CD. All together, they have put together a sound installation that will be presented from July 7 to August 27, 2006 at the Darling Foundry (Montréal). To complete the project, a concert featuring all these artists will be held at the Darling Foundry on July 27.

The winners of the 33rd Bourges International Competition of Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art (France) are announced. Cantique #2, by Louis Dufort and Marie Chouinard, received a mention in the category “Trivium — work for multimedia” while their Cantique #3 was selected in the “Trivium — sound installation” category. Composers James Duhamel, Nicolas Bernier, Natasha Barrett, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, Ludger Brümmer, and Roxanne Turcotte had their work selected in other categories.