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).

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).

For the third installement of the Volapük concert series, Les Poules (the trio of Danielle Palardy Roger, Diane Labrosse and Joane Hétu) pairs up with three young innovative musicians, i8u, Magali Babin and Myléna Bergeron. The concert will be held at the O Patro Vys hall (Montréal) on April 28, 2005.

Musiques & Recherches invites you to attend an “electro-Belgian” concert on March 18, 2005, at Petit Théâtre Mercelis in Brussels (Belgium). This panorama of electroacoustics in Belgium will feature works by Elizabeth Anderson, Roald Baudoux, Stephan Dunkelman, and Annette Vande Gorne, amongst others.