Composer John Young will be in New Zealand in July and August 2006 for the premiere of Arrivederci, a work for ensemble and electroacoustic sounds. The premiere will be presented by the contemporary music ensemble Stroma on July 20, 2006. Young will also give talks at the Victoria University of Wellington and at the University of Canterbury.

During the gardening event Flora, held in Montréal from June 16 to October 9, 2006, the Canadian Music Centre (CMC) and Vlan paysages present Sonarium. It is a garden with “growing” musical loops by composers André Hamel, Diane Labrosse, and Roxanne Turcotte. This avant-garde garden is #38 in Parc des Écluses du Vieux-Port (Old Port), in montréal.

Robert Normandeau and Jean-François Denis presented the closing concert of the “Akusmatisches Wochenende” festival produced by the Studio für elektroakustische Musik (SeaM) in Weimar (Germany) on June 18, 2006. The programme included works by Normandeau, and, spatialized by Denis, short works by Elainie Lillios, Elsa Justel, Elizabeth Hoffman, Natasha Barrett, John Oswald, Yves Daoust, and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay.

Friday June 30, 2006, Antitube will present in the interior courtyard of the Musée de la civilisation (Québec City), the event “La Nuit de l’Aurore,” based on the 1952 melodrama and the real story it was based on. In addition to the presentation of his short experimental film Blockbuster History, Dominic Gagnon will be joined by Érick d’Orion for a audiovisual performance based on the images of the legend of Aurore.

A new work by Robert Normandeau, Palindrome, will be premiered on June 7, 2006 at the Synthèse festival in Bourges (France). Commissioned by the IMEB, the work was composed in their studios in October 2005 and finished at the Technische Universität (TU) in Berlin in 2006. Palindrome’s 8-channel version will be premiered on the new Cybernéphone (an instrument for the interpretation and spatialization of electroacoustic music in concert settings).

Ludger Brümmer, Kevin Austin, Flô Menezes, Francis Dhomont, Lucio Garau, and Jonty Harrison are the guest composers at the 3rd Festival di musica acusmatica, June 23 to 25, 2006 in Cagliari (Sardinia). On June 24, Dhomont will spatialize works by several Québec composers: Noyade en magma by Dominique Bassal, 13’13 pour voix défigurées by Monique Jean and Time Well / La fontaine du temps by Christian Calon, and a work by Brümmer. Voyage-miroir by Dhomont will be presented by another guest composer, Garau. Finally, several other composers from empreintes DIGITALes will also be featured: Gobeil, Moore, Álvarez, Smalley, Tutschku, Fort, Stollery, and Lillios!