After its presentation last August during Sonoimágenes 2007 festival in Buenos Aires (Argentina), Topographie de la noirceur by Martin Bédard has been selected for the next Electronic Music Midwest 2007 in Kansas City (USA). This event will take place from October 11 to 13, 2007.

More news from the composer: his piece Corps et âme has been selected by the 7th Festival Internacional de Música Electroacústica, Ai-maako 2007 in Santiago (Chile) in October. The Porträtkonzert will be given during the Termine concert series in Weimar (Germany) on October 18. Finally Novars will be heard at the MANTIS: Novars Launch 2007 festival during the concert celebrating the grand opening of the Novars Studio at The University of Manchester (UK) on November 2.

Go see Martin Tétreault in solo and duet with Mike Hansen during the espaceSONO:: audio.lab event presented by Upgrade! Montréal. The performance will take place on Friday September 14, 2007 at SAT in Montréal. Moreover, from September 10 to 23 {nbio:tetreault_ma} will be in artist in residence at SAT. This residence will conclude with a public performance on September 23.

The SLEPPET — the Sound of Norwegian Spring project, part of the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Edvard Grieg’s death, has invited creators in electronic music and sound art to produce works based on the sounds from the Norwegian nature and folk culture, those that have also inspired Grieg. Artists — amongst whom Natasha Barrett — have been invited to tour Western Norway in the Spring 2007 to experience and record its nature and rural culture. The works resulting from this process will become an exhibition from August 31 to September 23, 2007 in Bergen (Norway). Meanwhile follow the evolution of the artists’ work on the Sleppet’s website (link below).

Arturo Parra will be one of FAMEQ’s guest of honor during their 40th congress. This event will take place in Drummondville from November 15 to 17, 2007. He will give a lecture entitled “Musique et musiciens, auteurs et acteurs de l’art interdisciplinaire,” a guitar master class, and a sound perception workshop.

Domino: le passage du Nord-Ouest by Érick d’Orion has been selected by the biennial Trafic’Art, in Chicoutimi(Québec), which theme is climate changes. d’Orion’s piece will be broadcast (constinuously) on 88,9 FM in Chicoutimi from September 18 to 21, 2007. It will also be presented at [Séquence] arts centre in Saguenay.