The jury of the biennial competition for acousmatic composition Métamorphoses 2002 has just announced the laureates of this edition. Amongst the awarded composers, Christian Bouchard won the public’s prize for his work Angle mort. Also awarded, Monique Jean for her composition low memory #2 and Robert Normandeau for his more recent work, Chorus. Finally, composers Theodore Lotis and David Berezan were awarded respectively first and second prizes for the Spatialization competition L’Espace du son 2002.

A second collaboration with the CEC and PeP, electrocd.com will include a free copy of the new CD Cache 2002 with any online purchase, while supplies last. The item is automatically added to your shopping cart when you make a purchase on the electrocd.com website. Cache 2002 is the recent compilation produced by the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC). [Finished on January 6, 2003.]

Déluge presents three new 2002 fall releases. First, on Saccacomie, four musicians remix a classic country composition by Rodrigue Frappier. Also, Raphaël Simard aka Le Packageur, proposes his last opus, Rond Rond. Finally, A_dontigny (one half of morceaux_de_machines) offers a mad deconstruction of Québec pop music with On est 7 millions, faut s’sampler!.

Cinéma pour l’oreille has released Consciously Unconscious. Unconsciously Conscious. by Zbigniew Karkowski and Train de nuit (Noord 3-683) by Lionel Marchetti.

The 3rd Biennale de Montréal (September 27 to November 3, 2002) pays tribute to Betty Goodwin, Montréal artist who signs the cover of the CD Les méandres du rêve by Serge Arcuri.

Composer Ned Bouhalassa, who can be heard on the album Aérosol, pens the soundtrack for the Québec feature film Home, directed by Phyllis Katrapani.