Throat, a small label run by californian Ven Voisey is now distributed by electrocd.com. Small hand-made albums, each exploring minimal aspects of our sound environment. Like the splendid 60” Somewhere / 60” Somewhere Else, two mini-CD-R gathering twenty 60” sonic snapshots and twenty remixes of them!

Composer Natasha Barrett tops Simon Fraser University’s CJSF experimental chart with her first album, Isostasie. Also on the empreintes DIGITALes label, Requiem by composer Michel Chion is in 3rd position, Michèle Bokanowski’s Cirque is in 11th position and, last but not least, Stephan Dunkelman’s first CD occupies the 31st place.

Nominated for “Album of the year — actuelle, contemporary and electroacoustic music,” Parr(A)cousmatique by guitarist and composer Arturo Parra and Parasites by Diane Labrosse and Martin Tétreault.

A new CD by canadian composer Hildegard Westerkamp will be launched at the Western Front (Vancouver) on November 1, 2002. Developed over a 10-year period, Into India is based on sounds recorded during her travels in India in the 1990’s. Soon available on electrocd.com!

The jury of the biennial competition for acousmatic composition Métamorphoses 2002 has just announced the laureates of this edition. Amongst the awarded composers, Christian Bouchard won the public’s prize for his work Angle mort. Also awarded, Monique Jean for her composition low memory #2 and Robert Normandeau for his more recent work, Chorus. Finally, composers Theodore Lotis and David Berezan were awarded respectively first and second prizes for the Spatialization competition L’Espace du son 2002.

A second collaboration with the CEC and PeP, electrocd.com will include a free copy of the new CD Cache 2002 with any online purchase, while supplies last. The item is automatically added to your shopping cart when you make a purchase on the electrocd.com website. Cache 2002 is the recent compilation produced by the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC). [Finished on January 6, 2003.]