The series of archive films ”Rendez-vous Ina / Cinémathèque: musique contemporaine” with documentaries and short films on composers of musique concrète and electroacoustics will take place on January 28 to February 13, 2009 at the Cinémathèque québécoise in Montréal. On the first day, at 6pm, a roundtable discussion will bring together Évelyne Gayou from the Ina-GRM, Robert Normandeau, Alain Thibault, and Walter Boudreau.

Radio listeners of the BBC Radio 3 (UK) have had the opportunity to listen to Mathew Adkins’s [60]Project on December 27, 2008 during a programme called Hear and Now which was highlighting the main features of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (HCMF). Radio Grenouille, a radio station in Marseille (France) had also presented Adkins’s work during the programme Génération Bip Hop on January 4, 2009.

Lionel Marchetti’s work Adèle et Hadrien (le livre des vacances) is nominated in the 5th Qwartz Electronic Music Awards in the experimental category. Listen to and vote for the finalists online! Qwartz 5 will take place on April 2 and 3, 2009 [new dates] at Cirque d’hiver Bouglione in Paris (France).

Since February 1995, already more than 12 years ago!, the electrocd.com website offers you the largest selection (over 1200 titles) of electroacoustic recordings in North America! In addition to discs with long audio excerpts (in mp3), you can refer to press reviews, biographies, interviews of composers and complete programme notes of their works. Moreover, our simple and secure online purchase system gives you instant access to the surprisingly rich world of electroacoustic music. www.electrocd.com is a complete and unique reference on the major composers of this form of sound art. We thank you for your visit and encourage you to write back comments and ideas (by using our “Suggestions box” placed at the bottom of each of the 19,000+ pages of our website)!

In its most recent edition, focused on electroacoustic music, Swedish magazine Nutida Musik recently published an interview conducted by Andreas Engström in June 2008 in Paris with Jean-François Denis on empreintes DIGITALes.

Louis Dufort’s Matériaux composés and Gilles Gobeil’s Trois songes are both nominated for the Opus Prize in the category “Disc of the Year — Musique actuelle, Electroacoustics.” Gilles Gobeil is also nominated in the category “Concert of the Year — Musique actuelle, Electroacoustics,” for his concert entitled Trois songes presented during the Akousma (4) series produced by Réseaux in December 2007. The 12th Opus Prize Gala will take place on January 25, 2009 at Salle Claude-Champagne, Université de Montréal.