Gilles Gobeil and Alain Thibault will be at the the centre of the evening “Dedans/dehors” about immersive music. In the second half of the event, the 2 guest composers will discuss about their esthetic, formal and philosophic concerns; Louis Dufort will be the moderator. This lecture will be followed by a concert given by Gilles Gobeil and Alain Thibault. Both who will share the stage with Joël Beauchamp, Pierre-Marc Beaudoin, and Jean-François Blouin. This audio immersive event wil take place on May 14, 2007 at SAT in Montréal (and it’s free…).

In residence at La Ferme du Vinatier — a cultural structure in Lyon (France) incorporated into a hospital — since October 2006, Lionel Marchetti has given recording workshops to hospital staff, visitors and clinic-in patients. The audio material captured during those workshops have sparked off the electroacoustic installation pour un bestiaire végétal… that will be presented in the garden of the hospital throughout June. The opening will take place on June 5, 2007.

During the next Époxy (a music series that presents works based on a relation between a composer and a theorist, mathematician, philosopher, architect or another artist) Magali Babin will present a piece that relates to Sophie Calle’s work, Nicolas Bernier will make reference to the essay The Electronic Revolution by William S Burroughs, and Chantal Dumas will offer a composition based on the two different worlds of John Cage and of Toronto artist Mike Hoolboom. Epoxy 4 will take place on May 23, 2007 at La Sala Rossa, Montréal. You can listen to online audio clips of some of these musicians on Chemin de fer and Étude n^o 3 pour cordes et poulies.

On April 15 the installation Trade Winds, premiered last February, will be presented as part of the LARM — Nordic Sound Art Festival in Stockholm.

Alternate Visions, an “augmented” opera by John Oliver using state-of-the-art technology, will be presented on May 1 — 5, 2007 at Usine C, in Montréal. The music of Chants libres’s 12th production is signed by John Oliver, the libretto by Genni Gunn, and is staged by Pauline Vaillancourt.

The music of past Chants libres productions is available on disc: Yo soy la desintegración, and Ne blâmez jamais les bédouins.

Trio Ars Circa Musicæ (with Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, Nicolas Stephan, and Sébastien Brun) will be releasing its first album on Ora during a short tour in France: first, in Lyon on June 1 and 2, playing with the Grolektif collective; and then in Paris on June 5 in the very hip underground venue Les Voûtes (on des Frigos street).