Vancouver is celebrating Barry Truax’s work with two solo concerts on November 14, 2010 — premiering Fire Spirits — presented by Simon Fraser University and the School for the Contemporary Arts at The Fei & Milton Wong Theatre, and on November 19 — premiering excerpts from Enigma, The Life and Death of Alan Turing — presented by Vancouver New Music at the Scotiabank Dance Centre.

The Électro-chocs concert series presented by the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal systematically celebrates the 20 years of empreintes DIGITALes. The first concert of 5 is dedicated to the music by Martin Leclerc and will be presented on November 10, 2010.

Anadliad by Robert Normandeau, commissioned Bangor University, will premiere on November 4, 2010 a a concert presented by Electroacoustic Wales in Bangor (Wales, UK). Two days later, Like Radio, commissioned by Sound and Music, will premiere during the Cut & Splice Festival at Wilton’s Music Hall in London (England, UK). Also on that programme are Radio Music by John Cage, and Kurzwellen by Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Réseaux presents Akousma (7), Electroacoustic Musics Festival, on October 27 - 30, 2010 at Monument-National in Montréal. 4 evenings with Pauline Oliveros, Alexander Schubert / Sinebag, Mathew Adkins (a concert celebrating the 20th anniversary of empreintes DIGITALes), Mitchell Akiyama, Martin Bédard, Martin Messier, Félix-Antoine Morin, and Nicolas Bernier.

The 3rd festival EmuFest will take place from November 14 to 21, 2010 at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome (Italy). While the schedule is not completed at the time of this writing, Les lointains noirs et rouges by Gilles Gobeil, Badlands by David Berezan, and the videomusic by Francis Dhomont and Inés Wickmann will be presented.

States of Play is a weekend of immersion in sound organized by BEAST on October 15 to 17, 2010 at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Centre (Birmingham, UK). The 5 concerts feature classic works from the French tradition (music by François Bayle, Bernard Parmegiani, and Les corps éblouis by Christian Calon) and recent music from Birmingham and around the world: 22 works by 22 composers including Jonty Harrison, Annie Mahtani, John Young, Shelly Knotts, Francis Dhomont, Hans Tutschku…