Marcelle Deschênes starts a 3-week tour in Europe with a solo concert presented by Les Acousmonautes at Cité de la musique in Marseille (France) on March 14, 2011. She will then take part in Ars Musica’s Night of Electronic Music in Brussels (Belgium) on March 23. While in residency at GMVL in Lyon (France) from March 24 to April 4 she will perform a solo acousmatic concert presented by Motus at Les Voûtes in Paris (France) on March 29 and a third solo concert preceded by a concert of works by her ex-students both presented by GMVL at Villa Gillet in Lyon in March 31.

BEAST presents Espaces, a six-concert series, on March 4 to 6, 2011 at the Foyle Studio of MAC in Birmingham (England, UK). On the programme: two carte blanche concerts by Kees Tazelaar and Annette Vande Gorne and works by Robert Normandeau, Iannis Xenakis, Francis Dhomont, Stephan Dunkelman, and several others.

The Ars Musica festival presents a Night of Electronic Music with acousmatic, mixed and videomusic works at Espace Senghor in Brussels (Belgium) on March 23, 2011. On the programme are premieres by Annette Vande Gorne and Ingrid Drese, and videomusics by Inés Wickmann / Francis Dhomont and Marcelle Deschênes / Alain Pelletier.

Musiques & Recherches has invited students from the Conservatoire royal de Mons and Alexis Boilley to premiere 15 works celebrating the 65th birthday of Annette Vande Gorne during a concert at the Espace Senghor in Brussels (Belgium) on February 23, 2011. On the programme are works by Gilles Gobeil, Elizabeth Anderson, Robert Normandeau, Isabel Pires, Adrian Moore, Hans Tutschku and several more.

Hildegard Westerkamp is the composer-in-residence at the Shattering the Silence 2011 festival to take place on January 19 - 23, 2011 in Wolfville (Nova Scotia).

Jonty Harrison will be touring Northern California on January 9-12, 2011 with three different solo multichannel concerts. Starting on January 9 at The San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2010, Jonty Harrison will then give a talk and second concert at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University on January 10, and a thrid concert at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at UC Berkeley on January 12. At these concerts he will diffuse works from the following: BEASTory, … et ainsi de suite…, Hot Air, Internal Combustion, Klang, Rock ’n’ Roll, Splintering, Streams, Undertow, and Unsound Objects.