John Oswald will present a set of compositions for Disklavier (a robotized acoustic piano) at the Western Front in Vancouver (BC) on September 15, 2005. This Disklavier concert is part of the New Forms Festival. Other performing artists at the festival include Tomas Jirku, The Mole, and Deadbeat.

On Sunday August 28, 2005, Hildegard Westerkamp, Barbara Robertson and Barry Taylor will guide the public in a soundwalk at Willow Farm (British-Columbia), on the Sunshine Coast.

The Futura 05 festival in Crest (France) will be held from August 18 — 28, 2005. Amongst the featured activities, the concert Horizons perdus on August 27, 2005 will present works by Alexandre Yterce, Francis Dhomont and Denis Dufour.

Annette Vande Gorne, composer and Musiques & Recherches director, will take part in the 2005 Música Viva festival in Lisbon (Portugal). On September 18 and 19, 2005, she will give master classes on acousmatic composition at the Palácio Marquês de Pombal. On September 21, 2005, at the auditorium of the Centro de Apoio Social de Oeiras, a portrait concert of Vande Gorne will feature the works Fragments de lettre à un habitant du centre (2002), Figures d’espace (2004), Ce qu’a vu le vent d’Est (2003) as well as two movements of Tao, Bois (1986) and Terre (1991). The 2005 Música Viva festival takes place from September 16 to the 24, 2005.

Composer Robert Normandeau will give composition and spatialization workshops at the High Melton University Centre in Doncaster (UK) from July 23 to 28, 2005. The workshops are presented by CoMA (Contemporary Music-making for Amateurs).

Composer Francis Dhomont will teach from July 20 — 22, 2005 in Arles (France), for radio art association Phonurgia Nova’s summer university. On the nights of July 22 and 25, 2005, Dhomont will present listening events to the participants, featuring the compositions Here and There (Dhomont), Les corps éblouis (Calon), Sous le regard d’un soleil noir (Dhomont), Voyage-miroir (Dhomont), Crystal Music (Roy) and Forêt profonde (Dhomont).