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Composer Elsa Justel was awarded the Prix Ton Bruynèl 2005 for her work Bastet, for solo tape. The jury admired the refined sounds and immense technical command in this work.

Clarinetist François Houle launched a new album on the Earsay label, titled Double Entendre. The CD features compositions for solo clarinet and tape or electronic environments by Paul Dolden, John Oliver, Pierre Boulez, and Giorgio Magnanensi.

We have spent the first fine days of the summer transforming the source code of our website to make it compliant with the latest XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.0 standards. If you encounter any anomalies, please report them to our webmaster.

The winners of the 32nd Bourges International Competition of Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art (France) have been announced. The Magisterium was awarded to composer Åke Parmerud and his work SubString Bridge, for guitar and interactive computer. Mathew Adkins received a mention in the “abstract music” category for Silk to Steel. Pete Stollery’s Vox Magna was also selected in this category. Other pieces were selected in various categories: Ombres, espaces, silences… by Gilles Gobeil, Cold Storage by Janek Schaefer, Piano Piece (for Peter) by Adrian Moore, and Aesthetics of the Machine by Elio Martusciello. Notably, composer Roxanne Turcotte saw two of her works selected, Sons et tintamarre in the “programme music” category and Micro-trottoir in the “work for installation” category.

Many Canadian artists have received distinctions and special mentions in the “digital musics” category at the recent Prix Ars Electronica 2005 competition. John Oswald was awarded a distinction for his plunderphonics. Gilles Gobeil’s composition Ombres, espaces, silences… received a mention. Duo Skoltz_Kolgen also obtained a mention for their performance work Flüux :/ Terminal. Finally, the Artificiel trio were awarded a mention for the project condemned_bulbes.