Réseaux presents Akousma (6), Electroacoustic Musics Festival, on November 18 - 22, 2009 at Monument-National and Conservatoire de musique de Montréal. 5 evenings of immersive concerts where sound will be bursting into shards of all shapes and sizes. On the programme: BJ Nilsen, Theresa Transistor, Paul Dolden, Chantal Dumas, Lionel Marchetti, Érick d’Orion, eRikm, Martin Messier, Olivier Girouard and many others. Plus conferences and workshops.

Pierre Alexandre Tremblay will be performing the premiere of Sandbox#3.n as part of the Kammer Klang 12 at Café Oto (London, UK) on November 24, 2009. On the same evening, he will join the jazz quartet Outhouse and Sarah Nicolls will perform his piano and processing work Un clou, son marteau, et le béton.

Åke Parmerud will visit the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal on November 11, 2009. His presence starts with a conference at 7 pm followed by a concert at 8 pm where four students from the electroacoustic composition course will be diffusing four of his works. The concert will end with his new work Crystal Counterpoint to be diffused by its composer.

On November 13 and 14, 2009 at the Lavoir moderne parisien the Licences festival is celebratings its 10th anniversary and the music of several composers including Ilhan Mimaroglu, Luigi Nono, Jean-Claude Éloy, and Francis Dhomont. Get the complete programme (only in pdf) online. Licences will also be launche a 10th-anniversary boxset with a disc with seven works and all 10 festival programmmes.

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.]