The 5th edition of the Festival di interpretazione della musica acusmatica in Cagliari (Italia) will take place from June 26-29, 2008 at the Università di Cagliari (Facoltà di lettere e filosofia). The opening day will be dedicated to a round-table conference followed by a series of double concert programmes curated respectively by Stéphane Roy and Beatriz Ferreyra; Diego Losa and Leo Kupper; Lucio Garau and Åke Parmerud. Also, the piece Les Territoires secrets by Stéphane Roy will be premiered as part of the Lucio Garau concert (June 29).

La basilique fantôme by Arturo Parra and Stéphane Roy has been selected by the 7th Festival Internacional de Música Electroacústica, Ai-maako 2007 in Santiago (Chile), and will be presented on October 17, 2007. Also note the presence of Åke Parmerud who will present a portrait concert, Francis Dhomont, Beatriz Ferreyra, Elsa Justel, João Pedro Oliveira, Hans Tutschku, and Trevor Wishart Amongst many others…

Sound Travels’ Multichannel Acousmatic Concert — produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) — will take place on August 12, 2006 at St Andrew-by-the-Lake Church. On the programme are works by Benjamin Thigpen, Stéphane Roy, Denis Smalley, John Young, Francisco López, and Sarah Peebles (sho and tape).

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”).

L’analyse des musiques électroacoustiques by Stéphane Roy is nominated for the Conseil québécois de la musique’s 8th Opus Prizes in the category “Book of the Year.” The author, who is a composer, also sees his most recent album, Migrations, nominated in the category “Disc of the Year — Musique actuelle, Electroacoustics” and his article L’utopie, contrée fertile de l’aventure électroacoustique, published in Circuit, musiques contemporaines, nominated for “Article of the Year.”

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.