An important event is shaping up in Québec City (Québec)… Machines 13! A unique concert featuring three groups that define improvised new music: Les Poules (Joane Hétu, Diane Labrosse, Danielle Palardy Roger), Klaxon Gueule (Michel F Côté, Bernard Falaise, Alexandre St-Onge) and morceaux_de_machines (Érick d’Orion, A_dontigny). The concert will be held at Méduse’s Studio d’essai Saturday November 20, 2004 at 8pm.

From November 19 — 21, 2004, Francis Dhomont will be a guest of the Rainy Days 2004 Festival, organized by the Luxemburg’s Institute of musical research. His composition Espace / Escape will be featured along with works by Bernard Parmegiani, François Bayle and Annette Vande Gorne. Then, from November 25 — 28, 2004, he will give two concerts at the Operafonic Festival in Szczecin (Poland). Two video works by Inés Wickmann, with music by Chantale Laplante and Francis Dhomont, will also be presented.

Carte blanche concert by Annette Vande Gorne for the “Images sonores” festival held at Saint-André church (Liege, Belgium) on Sunday October 10, 2004. Featuring works by Leo Kupper, Ingrid Drese, Hans Tutschku and Annette Vande Gorne.

The Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ) present “In Extremis,” on October 22, 2004. Amongst the works presented at this concert, we find to composition for tape, Beyond the Walls of Jericho by Paul Dolden and Le cauchemar climatisé by Alain Thibault.

Composer Michelle Boudreau is a guest of the next New West Electro-Acoustic Music Organization (NWEAMO) Festival. She will present her work Ma magie at the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, in Portland (OR) on October 2, 2004 and also at the Smith Recital Hall, in San Diego (CA) on October 9.

The first concert of the 27th Multiphonie series, Akousma 1 will be presented in Paris (France) on November 27, 2004 at the Salle Olivier Messiaen of the Maison de Radio France by the Groupe de recherches musicales (Ina-GRM (Groupe de recherches musicales)). This concert will be dedicated to GRM works from the ’70s and will feature works by Guy Reibel, Ivo Malec, Jean Schwarz, François Bayle and also the works Pour en finir avec le pouvoir d’Orphée (1972) by Bernard Parmegiani and Requiem (1973) by Michel Chion.