Our online store remains open but we won’t be around much during this holiday season to process your orders… We will be back at our normal speed on January 3, 2008. Happy holidays!

The 4 recent releases that are finalists for Opus Prize (Disc of the Year — Musique actuelle, Electroacoustics) are:

• Alter ego by Pierre Alexandre Tremblay
• … et autres utopies by Francis Dhomont
• Geisteswissenschaften by A_dontigny
• petits Big Bangs by Marcelle Deschênes

The gala will take place on January 27, 2008 at Salle Claude-Champagne of the Université de Montréal.

The sound installation Solo de musique concrète pour 6 pianos sans pianiste by Érick d’Orion will now be presented to Montréalers. The sound space imagined by the artist invites the public to rediscover the piano in a “concrete” perspective, exploring it without the usual intermediaries (scores, musicians). 6 pianos of different eras will react to impulsions given by eccentrics mechanics placed on the structures. On February 23 to March 29, 2008 at Oboro in Montréal.

Magali Babin, artist whose sonorous performances are characterized by a minimalistic approach, is in residence at Studio XX (Montréal) from mid-November 2007 until January 31, 2008. During the residence, she will create a game interface for an interactive performance inspired by Tor (decentralized network that allows anonymous connexion on the Internet); a project to experimenting techniques of surveillance, concepts of simulation and technological hoaxes.

Pete Stollery’s acousmatic piece Still Voices (part of the Gordon Soundscape project) was a finalist at the Sounds Electric ’07 Competition (Ireland), and at Musica Nova 2007 International Electroacoustic Music Competition (Czech Republic).

Arturo Parra will give 2 concerts as part of the Visiones Sonoras festival in Mexico City and Morelia (Mexico), from November 21 to 28, 2007. He will present the complete Parr(A)cousmatique cycle of works (a Latino-American premiere) and will premiere his Aljibe profundo for guitar and vocal expressions. Finally, he will propose a master class, during the festival, about interactions between electroacousticians and instrumental composers.