The sound installation Solo de musique concrète pour 6 pianos sans pianiste by Érick d’Orion will now be presented to Montréalers. The sound space imagined by the artist invites the public to rediscover the piano in a “concrete” perspective, exploring it without the usual intermediaries (scores, musicians). 6 pianos of different eras will react to impulsions given by eccentrics mechanics placed on the structures. On February 23 to March 29, 2008 at Oboro in Montréal.

Magali Babin, artist whose sonorous performances are characterized by a minimalistic approach, is in residence at Studio XX (Montréal) from mid-November 2007 until January 31, 2008. During the residence, she will create a game interface for an interactive performance inspired by Tor (decentralized network that allows anonymous connexion on the Internet); a project to experimenting techniques of surveillance, concepts of simulation and technological hoaxes.

Pete Stollery’s acousmatic piece Still Voices (part of the Gordon Soundscape project) was a finalist at the Sounds Electric ’07 Competition (Ireland), and at Musica Nova 2007 International Electroacoustic Music Competition (Czech Republic).

Arturo Parra will give 2 concerts as part of the Visiones Sonoras festival in Mexico City and Morelia (Mexico), from November 21 to 28, 2007. He will present the complete Parr(A)cousmatique cycle of works (a Latino-American premiere) and will premiere his Aljibe profundo for guitar and vocal expressions. Finally, he will propose a master class, during the festival, about interactions between electroacousticians and instrumental composers.

The Université de Montréal will present a doctorate honorary degree to Francis Dhomont on October 12, 2007 at 4:30 pm. For the occasion, Francis Dhomont has also been invited to give a concert few days before, on October 9 at Salle Claude-Champagne at 7:30 pm.

The 7th International Electroacoustic Music Contest of São Paulo (CIMESP 2007) received works of 208 composers from 33 countries! The international jury formed by Christian Calon, Gilles Gobeil, Flô Menezes and João Pedro Oliveira has awarded, amongst others, Liaisons mécaniques by Nicolas Bernier (2nd Prize ex aequo) and honorable mentions were given to 7 works, including those of Elizabeth Anderson, Manuella Blackburn, António Ferreira, Raúl Minsburg, Steingrimur Rohloff, Diana Simpson, Hans Tutschku. Premières traces du Choucas by Francis Dhomont won the Public Prize.

Were also announced the selected works for the upcoming 7th International Biennial for Electroacoustic Music of São Paulo (VII BIMESP 2008) in the fall of 2008. They include: Last Thoughts Before Silence by Mathew Adkins, scènes, rendez-vous by Pete Stollery, Kaleidoscope: Arcade by Peter Batchelor, When I was Wood by Stephan Dunkelman.