Many Canadian artists have received distinctions and special mentions in the “digital musics” category at the recent Prix Ars Electronica 2005 competition. John Oswald was awarded a distinction for his plunderphonics. Gilles Gobeil’s composition Ombres, espaces, silences… received a mention. Duo Skoltz_Kolgen also obtained a mention for their performance work Flüux :/ Terminal. Finally, the Artificiel trio were awarded a mention for the project condemned_bulbes.

A show for young audiences Alice is a work for orchestra and invented intruments composed by Yves Daoust and Denis Gougeon. It will be presented on Sunday May 29, 2005 at Théâtre Outremont in Montréal.

Belgian composer Stephan Dunkelman produced the music and sound design for the film incorporated in Wim Vandekeybus’ new show, Puur. The work was premiered in Singapore on May 26, 2005.

A cycle of meetings, titled Les Co-Incidences (The Co-Incidentals), will be held during the Synthèse festival, from June 4 — 12, 2005. Max Mathews, John Chowning and Jean-Claude Risset will talk about the history of computer music on June 6, 7 and 8, 2005. Barry Truax will tackle the sounding space and text-based composition on June 9, 2005.

Two years after Le contrat, an adaptation of Goethe’s Faust, composed in collaboration with René Lussier, Gilles Gobeil unveils his Trilogie d’ondes (Ondes Trilogy), mixed works for ondes Martenot and tape, brilliantly interpreted by Suzanne Binet-Audet. The second DVD-Audio release by the empreintes DIGITALes label, Trilogie d’ondes presents new recordings of Voix blanche (White Voice) and Là où vont les nuages… (Where the Clouds Go…) in addition to La perle et l’oubli (Pearl and Oblivion), inspired by the Gnostic text Hymn of the Pearl.

For the 7th edition of the HTMlles festival, Ondes-Martenot player Suzanne Binet-Audet will give two performances, one on May 19, 2005 alongside Karèya Audet and Michelle Kasprzak at La Centrale (Montréal), and another in solo on May 20, 2005 at the Studio XX (Montréal). Sound artist Chantal Dumas will present HISTOIRes ORALes with Valerie Walker, a project relating women’s relations to technology through their personal experiences, on May 21, 2005 at the Monument-National (Montréal).