The French premiere of the IMEB commission Back to Square One by Pete Stollery will take place at the 38th Synthèse festival in Bourges (France) on June 5, 2008 in the Grand Théâtre in Bourges (France).

Elsa Justel has been invited by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (Spain) to give a seminar on electroacoustic music analysis and esthetic. This course will be given on June 25-27, 2008.Elsa Justel will also present a portrait-concert (videomusics), at the SGAE’s Sala Mompou.

First solo full-length album from Montréal-based composer Nicolas Bernier (Milliseconde topographie), Les arbres is a collaboration work with visual artist Urban9 who designed images inspired by the music.

Tour de bras has invited Hélène Prévost and Nicolas Bernier for a 3-day artist-in-residence. The composers will present the result of their research on May 31, 2008 as part of the 6th Rencontres de musiques spontanées, May 30 to June 1, 2008 at Paradis in Rimouski (Québec). Moreover, a video mixing (VJ) and Max/MSP audio-video perfomance workshop given by Jean-Ambroise Vesax will precede the concert.

On June 20, 2008 Francis Dhomont will be in Brussels (Belgium) where he will take part in a jury for the Conservatoire royal de Mons’ Competition. Then, on June 21-24, he will be judge at the Musiques & Recherches’ Concours Métamorphoses 2008 in Ohain.

Artificiel (Alexandre Burton, Julien Roy) manipulates and contextualizes the sounds and images of guest artist: Martin Tétreault. The concert will take place as part of the Mutek festival taking place from May 28 to June 1, 2008 in Montréal.