During the gardening event Flora, held in Montréal from June 16 to October 9, 2006, the Canadian Music Centre (CMC) and Vlan paysages present Sonarium. It is a garden with “growing” musical loops by composers André Hamel, Diane Labrosse, and Roxanne Turcotte. This avant-garde garden is #38 in Parc des Écluses du Vieux-Port (Old Port), in montréal.

Natasha Barrett was awarded the Nordisk Råds Musikkpris (Nordic Council Music Prize) on June 3, 2006 for her work … fetters…. Twelve composers and musicians from Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden were finalists. The jury states that Natasha Barrett “shows a clear consciousness of the capacity of silence to highlight the various interest-moments in the composition, in a shifting interplay between activity and calm, chaos and order. In addition, Barrett demonstrates an impressively skilful grasp of the unique technological potential of the medium.” The prize will be presented to her on November 1 in Copenhagen.

Robert Normandeau and Jean-François Denis presented the closing concert of the “Akusmatisches Wochenende” festival produced by the Studio für elektroakustische Musik (SeaM) in Weimar (Germany) on June 18, 2006. The programme included works by Normandeau, and, spatialized by Denis, short works by Elainie Lillios, Elsa Justel, Elizabeth Hoffman, Natasha Barrett, John Oswald, Yves Daoust, and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay.

Milliseconde topographie, a duo that’s as much at ease in videomusic as it is in aquatic sound installations, unveils a trilogy of limited edition street porters, accompanied by an original soundtrack on CDR. The first two, Poster No 1 and Poster No 2, are now available through electrocd.com.

Friday June 30, 2006, Antitube will present in the interior courtyard of the Musée de la civilisation (Québec City), the event “La Nuit de l’Aurore,” based on the 1952 melodrama and the real story it was based on. In addition to the presentation of his short experimental film Blockbuster History, Dominic Gagnon will be joined by Érick d’Orion for a audiovisual performance based on the images of the legend of Aurore.

The winners of the 33rd Bourges International Competition of Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art (France) are announced. Cantique #2, by Louis Dufort and Marie Chouinard, received a mention in the category “Trivium — work for multimedia” while their Cantique #3 was selected in the “Trivium — sound installation” category. Composers James Duhamel, Nicolas Bernier, Natasha Barrett, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, Ludger Brümmer, and Roxanne Turcotte had their work selected in other categories.