Francis Dhomont is one of the guests of honnor at the 2011 RIME in Monaco. He will give a conference and present Phonurgie, and Premières traces du Choucas in concerts May 5 and 6, 2011. On May 9 he will be joined by 3 other pioneers of acousmatics — François Bayle, Beatriz Ferreyra, and Bernard Parmegiani — for a tribute acousmatic concert to Annette Vande Gorne’s work in Brussels (Belgium).

Since yesterday, we have begun upgrading our famous radio module. It is therefore possible you will encounter bugs and other weird things. If this is the case, please let us know using the usual suggestions box!

We are working on bringing our radio to the most recent web standards (also known as HTML5), which, amongst other things, will allow visitors to listen to music on mobile & tablet devices.

This is but one of the many improvements we will be progressively launching in the coming months. —David, webmaster

We have reviewed and improved our shopping cart. We have also moved the payment process to Paypal and its secure site (https). (A Paypal account is not required in order to make a payment.) Let us know what you think!

On March 30, 2011 the 5th and last concert of the Électro-chocs series presented by Conservatoire de musique de Montréal is a carte blanche to Stéphane Roy who will premiere Train d’enfer.

GMVL will devote a whole day to the work of Marcelle Deschênes on March 31, 2011. A morning concert of works by some of Marcelle Deschênes’s ex-students — Alain Thibault, Louis Dufort, Robert Normandeau, Roxanne Turcotte… — followed by a master class in the afternoon and a solo concert in the evening. All of these events take place at Théâtre de la Villa Gillet in Lyon (France).