Kenojuak Ashevak, Inuit artist who signs the cover of CD Titakti by Philippe Le Goff, exhibits her work at the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa) until October 20, 2002. Free admission.

Chants libres presents its new creation Pacamambo, an opera for children composed by Zack Settel and Wajdi Mouawad. Pacamambo is an electroacoustic work for voice, percussions and flute. Produced with the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and the festival Les coups de théâtre.

Robert Normandeau won the first prize of the 2002 Freiburg International Sacred Music Composition competition with his newest work, Chorus, commissioned by Réseaux. (This work was also presented at the Tolérance concert of the Rien à voir (12) series in September 2002 in Montréal.)

“… Oeuf Korreckt ensures a nice, pointed, funny and inventive IDM.” (Night Life, Canada) Oeuf Korreckt is featured this month in the free magazine Night Life. Frédérick Blouin speaks about its first album on No Type, the petulant and addictive Podweek.

“595 works by 205 composers from 35 different countries were created between 1970 and 2001 in the IMEB studios.” Thus the Institut de musique électroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB, ex-GMEB) finally announces the production of a 2CD box sets gathering 30 years of creation (1970-2000) in its studios at a rate of one work per year. For example, 1989 is represented by Jeu by Robert Normandeau; 1979 by Barry Truax; 1981 by Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux; and 1986 by Yves Daoust.

John Oswald is the feature story of the 2002 April issue (#219) UK magazine The Wire: “The prince of plunderphonia recalls his battles with the majors for his artistic right to reclaim his sound environment from the noise pollution of pop by recycling it through his plunderphonics system.”