Several artists from Québec will take part in “Waves,” a media art event held at the Arsenals exhibition hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art, in Riga on August 25 to September 17, 2006. Steve Heimbecker, Jean-Pierre Aubé, and Artificiel (Alexandre Burton, Julien Roy, Jimmy Lakatos and Pascale Malaterre) are amongst the selected artists.

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.

New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) presents a series of concerts and in situ installations at Toronto’s Center Island (ON) from July 24 to September 4, 2005. On August 5, 2005, a portrait concert of composer Yves Daoust will be presented at St Andrew-by-the-Lake Church. The featured works, Petite musique sentimentale, L’Extase, Mi bémol, Water Music, and Bruits, will be spatialized by the composer. On August 6, 2005, Daoust will take part in a second concert with Adagio (Jennifer Waring, flute); works Frances White (Parmela Attariwala, viola), Damián Keller, and Charlie Fox along with premieres by “emerging composers” David Ogborn, Lewis Kaye, Parmela Attariwala, and Rose Bolton are also on the programme. On these same days, in situ sound performances by Steve Heimbecker and Neil Cadger will take place prior to the concert.

In Montréal on January 20, 2004, Éditions Artextes launched S:on, Sound in Canadian Contemporary Art, an anthology compiled by Nicole Gingras. Amongst the artists represented on this publication we find Pierre-André Arcand, Georges Azzaria, Steve Heimbecker, Hugh Le Caine, Christof Migone, Hélène Prévost, Jocelyn Robert, R Murray Schafer, Michael Snow, Alexandre St-Onge, Martin Tétreault, and Hildegard Westerkamp.

During the 2003 Mois Multi event, Steve Heimbecker presents his latest interactive installation, “Wind Array Cascade Machine” February 14, 2003 in Québec City’s studio d’essai in the Méduse artistic complex.

During the “Mois Multi” events, musician Michel F Côté and choregrapher Catherine Tardif presents “Soi-même / Priser à deux,” a minimalist duo that delicately blurs the frontier between music and body. The evening also proposes a sonic installation by Jean-Pierre Gauthier, “Piézoom,” and an audio performance by Steve Heimbecker, “What is not Babylone.” A Recto-Verso presentation, held at the Multi hall of Méduse (Québec City), Friday February 22, 2002.