Nicolas Bernier and Martin Messier will be at the transmediale festival in Berlin (Germany) on February 6, 2010 to present their new project La chambre des machines at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

On January 7 - 8, 2010, Francis Dhomont will be the guest at the Universität zu Köln in Germany. On January 7 he will present 2 seminars, one of which accompanied by Inés Wickmann. On January 8, Dhomont will present his works Frankenstein Symphony and Chroniques de la lumière (available on … et autres utopies) in concert.

As part of the Électro-chocs series, Gilles Gobeil will present a concert with the electroacoustic composition class of the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal on December 10, 2009 at the Conservatoire. Gobeil will give a conference at 7pm and will present his works Ombres, espaces, silences…, Le miroir triste (available on Trois songes), Nuit cendre (available on … dans le silence de la nuit…), Les lointains noirs et rouges, and Castalie during the concert at 8pm.

Pierre Alexandre Tremblay will premiere his work Reflets de notre société crépusculaire, which is a GRM commission, on December 6, 2009 at Maison de Radio France, Paris. On December 10, he will participate to the Théorie des cordes, Festival#0 that takes place also in Paris. On December 12, he will play in duet with Robin Fincker at Le Cherche Ardeur in Toulouse (France).

Darren Copeland premieres his work Rights of the Child / Aux droits de l’enfant online on Réseaux’s website from December 1, 2009 to February 28, 2010.

The LOOP 2 festival of acoustic, electroacoustic and mixed contemporary music from Belgium and abroad… will take place on November 26-28, 2009 at Espace Senghor in Brussels. The first evening is a carte blanche to Ingrid Drese who will present her own work and pieces by Elsa Justel, Philippe Mion, Annette Vande Gorne and other composers.