empreintes DIGITALes won’t be turning 20 before January 2010. This won’t stop us in starting to celebrate right now with our 100th disc!

The trans_canada festival at the ZKM in 2005 was centered around 8 new works by as many Canadian composers: Nicolas Bernier, Darren Copeland, Francis Dhomont, Louis Dufort, Gilles Gobeil, Robert Normandeau, Barry Truax, and Hildegard Westerkamp. The trans_canada DVD-Audio finally brings these works together in 24-bit high definition sound in both stereo and Surround 5.1.

The CEC and PeP are taking part in this 100th good news by including a free copy of the recent Cache 2008 CD with the online purchase of our 100th disc (but for a very limited time). The item is automatically added to your shopping cart. [Finished on November 22, 2009.]

The term acousmatic refers to sounds rendered by unidentifiable sources; applied to music, it describes fantastic pastiches fashioned with natural sounds, distorted samples and more. Get up to speed when Francis Dhomont presents his psychologically probing electronic classics during his first-ever New York performance, at Issue Project Room Fri 30.

CIRMMT is presenting two events with master Francis Dhomont: a diffusion workshop on October 28, 2009 and a concert with the works of his new CD Études pour Kafka on October 29 in the Multi-Media Room of McGill University in Montréal.

The Electronic Music Foundation presents Francis Dhomont’s Brooklyn debut concert on October 30, 2009 in the Issue Project Room of the Old American Can Factory (USA). [The concert was sold out.]

Alexis Bellavance, Nicolas Bernier, and Érick d’Orion will present their *audio | actes* musical performance on November 6, 2009 at Grace Exhibition Space in New York City (USA).

Canadian Electroacoustics is prominently featured at Musicacoustica Beijing 2009 festival, October 25 - 31, 2009. Amongst the selected works — most of which are available on empreintes DIGITALes — are StrinGDberg and Palimpseste by Robert Normandeau; Castalie and Les lointains noirs et rouges by Gilles Gobeil; Champs de fouilles (Excavations) by Martin Bédard; Für Dich — For You by Hildegard Westerkamp; Artifacts (I) by Nick Storring; à la cire perdu by Laurie Radford; On a Strange Road by Darren Copeland; and Chalice Well by Barry Truax.