Composer and guitar player Arturo Parra will be performing live each night the music he wrote for the stage play Le Retable de l’avarice, de la luxure et de la mort by Ramón María del Valle-Inclán, presented at the Université du Québec à Montréal on December 2 — 11, 2004.

Éric Mattson, artistic director of the Oral label, presents the concert series Transitors et autres circuits (TAC). The next edition will be held on November 26, 2004 at Montréal’s Musée juste pour rire with Diane Labrosse, David Sanson, Mathias Delplanque, Daniel Olson, and Szkieve. The two next events will be featuring works by Nancy Tobin, David Kristian, and i8u on December 15, 2004 and by Ælab, Magali Babin, and Tim Hecker on December 17, 2004, this time at Oboro’s new media laboratory (Montréal).

An important event is shaping up in Québec City (Québec)… Machines 13! A unique concert featuring three groups that define improvised new music: Les Poules (Joane Hétu, Diane Labrosse, Danielle Palardy Roger), Klaxon Gueule (Michel F Côté, Bernard Falaise, Alexandre St-Onge) and morceaux_de_machines (Érick d’Orion, A_dontigny). The concert will be held at Méduse’s Studio d’essai Saturday November 20, 2004 at 8pm.

From November 19 — 21, 2004, Francis Dhomont will be a guest of the Rainy Days 2004 Festival, organized by the Luxemburg’s Institute of musical research. His composition Espace / Escape will be featured along with works by Bernard Parmegiani, François Bayle and Annette Vande Gorne. Then, from November 25 — 28, 2004, he will give two concerts at the Operafonic Festival in Szczecin (Poland). Two video works by Inés Wickmann, with music by Chantale Laplante and Francis Dhomont, will also be presented.

Carte blanche concert by Annette Vande Gorne for the “Images sonores” festival held at Saint-André church (Liege, Belgium) on Sunday October 10, 2004. Featuring works by Leo Kupper, Ingrid Drese, Hans Tutschku and Annette Vande Gorne.

The Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ) present “In Extremis,” on October 22, 2004. Amongst the works presented at this concert, we find to composition for tape, Beyond the Walls of Jericho by Paul Dolden and Le cauchemar climatisé by Alain Thibault.