Désordre, a new work for voice, electric guitar, and tape by Philippe Le Goff, will be premiered on October 8, 2006 during the “Musiques aux centres” concert fo the 29th acousmatic season Multiphonies presented by the Ina-GRM at Salle Olivier Messiaen of Maison de Radio France. The work will be perfromed by Sylvie Deguy and Louis Chretiennot.

Arturo Parra will perform in Vienna (Austria) at the Neue Musik in St Ruprecht series on October 8, 2006. The composer / guitarist will dedicate his concert exclusively to his latest compositions for guitar and vocal expressions. Parra will also be premiering his work Vers la lumière (L’hirondelle). Also, Parra will play with Austrian composer and pianist Katharina Klement at the festival Vals sureño — Lateinamerika in Wien. A meeting of two cultures during three nights of improvised music with musicians from Austria and Latin America. The festival will be held from October 12 to 14, 2006 at the Echoraum contemporary art gallery (Vienna, Austria).

John Oliver’s composition Dust (available on the CD Double Entendre) is a finalist in the Outstanding Classical Composition category of the Western Canadian Music Awards to be held in Winnipeg on October 22, 2006.

Bernard Fort has written the soundtrack for Corps en boîtes, a choreography by Kilina Cremona that will be presented in Lyon (France) at the Amphithéâtre culturel on September 20 and 21, 2006, and at the Maison de la danse on September 28 to 30.

Several artists from Québec will take part in “Waves,” a media art event held at the Arsenals exhibition hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art, in Riga on August 25 to September 17, 2006. Steve Heimbecker, Jean-Pierre Aubé, and Artificiel (Alexandre Burton, Julien Roy, Jimmy Lakatos and Pascale Malaterre) are amongst the selected artists.

Many events will take place to celebrate the 80th anniversary of composer Francis Dhomont. In addtion to the cover article by Rosemary Mountain in the Computer Music Journal 30:3 (From Wire to Computer: Francis Dhomont at 80); Dhomont will also be the focus of the new Francis Dhomont book published by the Ina-GRM.

Four concerts will mark this special birthday. The first two will have the premire of Premières traces du Choucas, a work co-commissionned by Musiques & Recherches (Belgium) and Réseaux (Québec): on October 21 during L’Espace du son, the international acousmatic music festival produced by Musiques & Recherches in Brussels (Belgium); and on November 2 — Dhomont’s birthday — during the concert Ombre et lumière during Akousma (3) concert series presented by Réseaux in Montréal (Québec). Lastly, on November 11, two concerts will be produced by Ina-GRM at Maison de Radio France in Paris (France) with the premire of À propos de K.