Annette Vande Gorne will be giving two workshops this summer: the first one, on electroacoustic composition, will take place from August 28 to September 2, 2007, the other one, concerning the spatialized performance of acousmatic music, will take place from September 4 to 9.

Martin Bédard’s Check-point has been selected at the Soundworks competition, which theme is “Borders Sounds-Sounds from the Borders.” It is organized by RadioPapesse (Italy) il collaboration with the Fabbrica Europa 2007 festival.

The 3rd part of June 18, 2007 radio programme Électrain de nuit — broadcasted on France vivace (Radio France) and hosted by Christian Zanesi and David Jisse — will be dedicated to label empreintes DIGITALes. The music from the most recent releases by Mathew Adkins, Darren Copeland, Marcelle Deschênes, Gilles Gobeil, and Adrian Moore will be on air on Monday morning June 18 from 1 am to 4 am.

R(h)umeur collective, a radio work initiated by artist Maki was designed with short pieces (1 min.) realised by composers from all around the world. The 1st part of the piece was broadcasted last March on Radia. The 2nd part, composed thanks to the contribution of 23 artists — of whom Francis Dhomont — will be broadcasted on June 1, 2007 on Radio Grenouille. Note that the programme will be archived.

You can hear excerpts from La chambre blanche by Robert Normandeau — and excerpts of music by Bernard Parmegiani and Frances White — in the new film Paranoid Park by the American filmmaker Gus Van Sant. The film director was awarded the Festival de Cannes’s 60th Anniversary Prize, Stephen Frears announced, “for his career, and because he made a lovely film.” Gus Van Sant had previously won the festival’s top prize in 2003 for his film Elephant (which includes music by Hildegard Westerkamp). Should we conclude that great minds think alike…

For his piece À propos de K Francis Dhomont was commissioned by the French State (Music Office) in 2007; the work premiered at Ina-GRM on November 11, 2006. His Forêt profonde (1994-96) was awarded the “Prix de la meilleure création contemporaine électroacoustique” (best contemporary electrocoustic work) of the Prix de Printemps 2007 organized by Sacem. Finally, Francis Dhomont along with Inés Wickmann received a grant to realized a videomusic trilogy (based on the colors red, yellow, and blue).