Books on Tape just released The Business End EP on the American label Greyday and this album just keeps rising on the college charts: after slipping to third place, it is back on top for its 6th week as #1 on Chart Attack’s R pm listing! This week, Earshot! also ranked The Business End EP on top of the electronic listing.

François Bayle has just released La forme de l’esprit est un papillon.

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.

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Down since Tuesday evening November 30, 2004, our website and our emails are again fully operational since December 3, 2004. A server outage caused this interruption. If you have tried to join us by email and your message bounced, you can now write again. We are sorry for all these inconvenients, thank you for your comprehension.