La basilique fantôme by Arturo Parra and Stéphane Roy has been selected by the 7th Festival Internacional de Música Electroacústica, Ai-maako 2007 in Santiago (Chile), and will be presented on October 17, 2007. Also note the presence of Åke Parmerud who will present a portrait concert, Francis Dhomont, Beatriz Ferreyra, Elsa Justel, João Pedro Oliveira, Hans Tutschku, and Trevor Wishart Amongst many others…

The choreography Interiors by Laurence Lemieux, for which John Oswald was sound advisor, will be presented as part of the Mainstage Series on October 25 to 27, 2007 at Enwave Theatre in Toronto.

Pour une poignée de billes by Érick d’Orion will be presented as part of the Projectiles exhibition by Perte de signal at Expression in Saint-Hyacinthe, from September 22 to November 4, 2007. Pour une poignée de billes is composed of 62 audio recordings of marbles thrown on a wood or cardboard floor. The recordings were treated so as to make the source unrecognizable. The piece is a succesive accumulation of sounds that creates an abstract acoustic mass. It can be listened in loop: it has no end nor begining.

On the closing event of the Antenne-A festival the Consort contemporain de Québec (CCQ) will combine the music of Steve Reich with the electronic processing of sound artist Érick d’Orion on satyrday October 6 starting at 10pm at salle Multi of Méduse in Québec City.

After its presentation last August during Sonoimágenes 2007 festival in Buenos Aires (Argentina), Topographie de la noirceur by Martin Bédard has been selected for the next Electronic Music Midwest 2007 in Kansas City (USA). This event will take place from October 11 to 13, 2007.

More news from the composer: his piece Corps et âme has been selected by the 7th Festival Internacional de Música Electroacústica, Ai-maako 2007 in Santiago (Chile) in October. The Porträtkonzert will be given during the Termine concert series in Weimar (Germany) on October 18. Finally Novars will be heard at the MANTIS: Novars Launch 2007 festival during the concert celebrating the grand opening of the Novars Studio at The University of Manchester (UK) on November 2.