This fall, the audio works of Louis Dufort and Nancy Tobin will be featured in two choreographies presented at Agora de la danse (Montréal). Louis Dufort composed the music for Dans le silence des bambous (In the silence of the bamboos) by choreographer Jocelyne Montpetit, presented from October 27 to 30, 2004. As for Nancy Tobin, she created the sound design for Duos pour corps et instruments (Duos for bodies and instruments) by choreographer Danièle Desnoyers, on stage from November 16 to 20, 2004.

The winning works of the 5th Música Viva Electroacoustic Composition Competition are Dreaming of the Dawn by Adrian Moore and Language by Joshua Goldman. The pieces were presented in concert on September 8, 2004 at Teatro Aberto in Lisbon (Portugal)

Magali Babin will present a ritualized audio performance, Solo #13, at La Chambre blanche (Québec City) on Friday October 1, 2004. Sound amplification and transformation will interact with performative actions by artist Marie-Claude Bouthillier. For the occasion, Bouthillier will read excerpts from novels whose subject is painters. These actions will stress the phenomenological aspect of the diffusion of audio elements in an architectural space.

Winners of the 2004 edition of the composition competition Jeu de temps / Times Play were revealed last week by the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC). They are young composers Ben Wilson, Nicolas Bernier, Mathieu Marcoux, Stefan Smulovitz and Daniel Pruger. And while we are waiting the official release of the compilation Cache 2003 CA+UK, the participants of the upcoming edition were also announced. Compositions by Freida Abtan, Samuel Beaudoin, David Bednarczyk, Nicolas Bernier, Martin Lord, Mathieu Marcoux, Daniel Pruger, Stefan Smulovitz, Nick Storring and Ben Wilson will be featured on Cache 2004.

Vancouver New Music present two soundwalks, guided listening walking tours of Vancouver neighbourhoods, led by composer and sound ecologist Hildegard Westerkamp. In a soundwalk, the listening “audience” moves through a place and the environment “performs.” The walking listener and the environment create a unique piece together that can only occur during the time of the walk. The first soundwalk will be held Sunday September 26, 2004 at 2pm, next one will occur October 3, 2004.

Do not miss Finnish duo Pan Sonic and Canadian duo Coin Gutter in concert at Richard’s on Richards in Vancouver (BC) on September 23, 2004.