The Festival de Radio France et Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon (France) will take place from July 13 to 31, 2009. Coming up:

• July 27: diffusion of Pentes by Denis Smalley;
• July 28: diffusion of Sémaphores by Christian Zanési;
• July 30: diffusion of Pierre Schaeffer’s works Étude pathétique [Étude aux casseroles] and Bilude as well as the premiere of Le travail du rêve by Francis Dhomont.

Gilles Gobeil will be in Dresden (Germany), on June 24 - 25, 2009 to present a conference and a concert at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber. He will perform his works Castalie (8-channel version), and Le miroir triste on June 25.

Francis Dhomont will participate to the 6th Festival di interpretazione della musica acusmatica 2009 that will take place in Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy) on July 9 - 12, 2009. Dhomont will have a “Carte blanche” and will present, amongst others, Lamento (chœur des femmes I) and Combattimento (chœur des femmes II) by Annette Vande Gorne, and extrémités lointaines by Hans Tutschku. Dhomont’s work Premières traces du Choucas will also be presented during the festival.

Élektrophonie (France) will present the 8th “Nuit bleue” on July 11, 2009 at Saline Royale in Arc-et-Senans (France). Many works are programmed during the “Nuit acousmatique” concert: Cyclo by David Berezan, Premières traces du Choucas by Francis Dhomont, Champs de fouilles (Excavations) by Martin Bédard, Voix de l’aurore by Ingrid Drese, L’escalier des aveugles by Luc Ferrari, Dancing on the Edge of Silence by Monique Jean and many others. A portrait of Patrick Ascione will also be presented on the same night during the “Cinéma pour l’oreille” concert.

Gilles Gobeil will participate at the next_generation 3.0 festival which will be held from June 10 — 14, 2009 at ZKM in Karlsruhe (Germany). This festival presents works of more than 20 studios of electroacoustic music situated mainly in Germany. Gobeil, who is in a 2-month residency at ZKM, will represent the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal by presenting a concert on June 14 at the ZKM_Kubus. On the programme: his work Les lointains noirs et rouges as well as works by ex-students of the Conservatoire Pierre-Marc Beaudoin, Jean-François Blouin and Olivier Girouard.

On the programme of the concert featuring six woman musicians on June 7, 2009 at 9 pm at L’envers in Montréal are the duets Magali Babin — Joane Hétu, Anne-F — Hélène Prévost, and solo performances by Myléna Bergeron, and Pascale Trudel.