This May, Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition (HUSEAC) is bringing the multi-dimensional sonic monster, “Hydra,” to Midway Studios in Fort Point (USA) complete with sound-sculpture installations, live-electronic performances and a unique 30-speaker surround environment. On Friday, May 6, 2005 “Hydra” meets Frankenstein: Francis Dhomont’s remarkable Frankenstein Symphony.

Louis Dufort is finishing the opera L’archange, on a libretto by Alexis Nouss, with visual work by Alain Pelletier, and staged by Pauline Vaillancourt. The opera is produced by Chants libres and will be presented at Sation C (Montréal) on April 28, 29, 30 as well as on May 5, 6, 7, 2005. It will also be presented during the Elektra festival on May 12, 13, 14, 2005. With Jean Maheux, Fides Krucker, Émilie Laforest, and Frédéricka Petit-Homme.

Paul Dolden, Ligeti and Yoshimi are Guest Composers at the Borderline Festival, in Malmö (Sweden), on April 25 — 29, 2005. More than twenty works by Dolden are featured in this great retrospective. Furthermore, the last evening will see the premiere of the complete and final version of Entropic Twilights. The previous week, on April 20, 2005, Dolden will give a solo concert at DIEM in Århus (Denmark).

Sound artist Chantal Dumas is the featured artist in the latest issue (#91) of Musicworks magazine, from Toronto (Canada).

Explore your acoustic environment on a guided soundwalk with Hildegard Westerkamp and chris o’connor on April 17 and April 24, 2005. On a soundwalk, we can climb out of our bubbles, emerge from behind our windscreens, walls and windows, computer screens, loudspeakers and headphones and open our ears directly to the environment. Explore various Vancouver environments by ear, and listen to a “place” as if listening to a mysterious new concert performance or sound event.

Composer John Oswald presents the photo-videographic installation instandstillnessence from April 7 to August 14, 2005 at the at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts (Québec).