Gilles Gobeil was a member of the jury of the 6th CIMESP 2005, São Paulo (Brazil). While in Brazil he gave a conference and a master class, and presented Ombres, espaces, silences… in concert at the UNASP (Centro Universitário Adventista de São Paulo) on October 31.

Many electrocd.com artists are nominated for the 9th Opus Prizes, awarded since 1996 by the Conseil québécois de la musique. The concert Pulsar *1, unveiling the musics from Puzzles by Robert Normandeau, is nominated for “Concert of the Year – Musique actuelle, Electroacoustics,” as well as the Theresa Transistor quartet (Christian Bouchard, Christian Calon, Mario Gauthier, Monique Jean), presented during the Akousma concert series. Estrapade by morceaux_de_machines, Trilogie d’ondes by Gilles Gobeil, and Puzzles by Robert Normandeau are nominated for “Disc of the Year — Musique actuelle, Electroacoustics.” Finally, Frank Zappa: 10 ans après (Frank Zappa: Ten Years After) directed by Réjean Beaucage, is nominated for “Book of the Year.” Winners will be announced on January 22, 2006.

Au fil de l’eau, a concert featuring works produced at the Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio, will be presented aboard the barge Équisonnance on December 10, 2005 in Tournai (Belgium). Patrick Ascione, Stephan Dunkelman, Theodore Lotis, and Annette Vande Gorne are amongst the featured composers.

At the 6th International Electroacoustic Music Contest of São Paulo (CIMESP 2005, Brazil), David Berezan won the First Prize for Styal and Francis Dhomont won an Honorable Mention for Vol d’Arondes. Mathew Adkins and Robert Normandeau also saw their work selected for the finals. Serendipities and Synchronicities by Pete Stollery and Rojo by Hans Tutschku were selected for concert presentation at the 6th BIMESP (International Biennial for Electroacoustic Music of São Paulo) in 2006.

Robert Normandeau is twice nominated at the 12th “Soirée des masques” (the annual prizes given by the Association québécoise du théâtre) to be broadcasted on December 18, 2005 on ARTV and Radio-Canada Télévision. The jury selected the music composed for the plays La cloche de verre (The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath) and Médée-matériau (Medea Material, Heiner Müller). The composer was nominated in 2003 for Antigone (Sophocles), and won with Malina (Ingeborg Bachmann) in 2002. All of these plays were directed by Brigitte Haentjens.

Last September, composer Francis Dhomont was president of the jury for the 2005 Phonurgia Nova Competition (Arles, France). On October 19, 2005, he was the keynote speaker at the EMS-05 conference in Montréal. On October 27 and 28, 2005, he took part in the festival Klang Raum Illusion: 18 Tage neuer Musik in Weimar (Germany) with Frankenstein Symphony and Vol d’Arondes; the latter spatialized on a 192-loudspeaker orchestra by Hans Tutschku. Dhomont gave a concert in Saint-Étienne (France) on November 5, 2005, a concert and a master class in Århus (Denmark) on November 10, 2005 and another concert in Copenhagen (Denmark) on November 11, 2005.