Jean-François Denis is invited to the “Marketing” roundtable discussion on May 23, 2008 during the New Models of Distribution Conference, organized by Soundstreams in Toronto. Recently, on May 9, he was also invited to present the recent activities of the empreintes DIGITALes label at the 2nd International Marketplace of Digital Arts (MIAN), organized by ACREQ in Montréal.

Bernard Fort will present two GMVL workshops on May 31, 2008, of which Paysages les yeux fermés that gives strategies for sound recording, sound exploration, composition, and re-composition of the naturalitic soundscape. These workshops will be given at the CPIE du Haut-Jura in Saint-Lupicin (France).

Foundation Destellos — created in 2007 through the initiative of Elsa Justel — has announced the winners of the 1st Competition of Electroacoustic Composition for Argentine composers. The Destellos Prize was awarded to the work Viscuap by Basilio del Boca. Lo inefable by Maria Cristina Kasem and Psiclos by Nicolás Ordiales received the Motus prize (ex-aequo). The jury for Destellos Prize was made of Christian Clozier (France), Jens Hedman (Sweden), Alejandro Viñao (Argentina), Ingrid Drese (Belgium), and Benjamin Thigpen (USA). The jury for the Motus Prize was composed of Denis Dufour and Thomas Brando (France).

The new sound installation Turbulence Sound Matrix by Steve Heimbecker will be presented every evening of the Elektra 9 festival, prior to the concerts at Usine C, from May 7 to 10, 2008. Steve Heimbecker will also present his 64-channel audio piece Signe composed for the installation.

Sound has Legs, presented on May 1 - June 1, 2008 at SAT in Montréal, is an exhibition that presents sound structures and visual documents pertaining to Sonde, the interdisciplinary group that was active for the most part from 1976 to ’86. In resonance with these archival materials, Nathan McNinch, a young composer from Kingston (Ontario), will unveil his first sound installation (curator Éric Mattson).

On May 6, 2008, Zack Settel will give a course providing an introduction to volumetric arts, and focusing on art forms with electronic audiovisual content. It’s at SAT in Montréal.