The Ensemble für Intuitive Musik Weimar will be live at the Diapason Gallery in New York City (USA) on March 17, 2006. The ensemble will perform works by Karlheinz Stockhausen and Hans Tutschku.

Normandeau will present conferences at Birmingham University on March 15, at Manchester University on March 22, and at Huddersfield University on March 23. Part of the GEMdays concert series, Robert Normandeau will give a concert at Huddersfield University on March 23, 2006, featuring his works Rumeurs (Place de Ransbeck), Palimpseste, Chorus, and StrinGDberg.

Also featured during GEMdays: a concert of audiovisual works by Mathew Adkins, Marcelle Deschênes + Alain Pelletier, and Milliseconde topographie (Nicolas Bernier + Delphine Measroch) on March 25 as well as concerts by Jean Piché on March 27 and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay on March 28, 2006.

Musiques & Recherches will held an “electro-Belgian” concert, a portrait of electroacoustic music in Belgium, on March 24, 2006 at the Petit Théâtre Mercelis in Brussels (Belgium). Featuring, amongst others, works by Ingrid Drese, Annette Vande Gorne and Elizabeth Anderson.

French composer Jean-Claude Éloy will visit Montréal (first time since 19727) to give two concerts at the Planetarium on Wednesday March 29 and Thursday March 30, 2006. On the programme: two exceptional works from the ’70s — Shânti and Gaku-no-Michi — in one exceptional venue — the Planetarium — in exceptional listening conditions!

Books on Tape will be touring Canada in support of his latest release on Alien8 Recordings, Dinosaur Dinosaur. Books on Tape will play in Toronto (ON) on March 5, in Charlottetown (PEI) on March 8, in Halifax (NE) on March 9, in Fredricton (NB) on March 10, in Montréal (QC) on March 11, in Toronto (ON) on March 12, in Kingston (ON) on March 13, in Peterborough (ON) on March 14, in Ottawa (ON) on March 15, in London (ON) on March 16, in Brantford (ON) on March 17, and lastly in Hamilton (ON) on March 18, 2006.

Hildegard Westerkamp will give a “carte blanche” concert at the Studio 27 of the Fine Arts Building of the University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB) on March 6, 2006. The concert will feature her works Breaking News, Into the Labyrinth, and Für Dich—For You in addition to other works by Erdem Helvacioglu, Judy Klein, Eliot Britton, and Andrew Czink